rui barata

Part of the team responsible for maintaining and evolving the core card transaction processing platform, using PL/SQL, Java and ksh.

Systems administrator in charge of 20 UNIX systems, each with an Oracle database and Oracle Forms apps; DBA

* Head of a team in charge of the operation of a complex environment consisting of Oracle, Microsoft, MySQL, and Postgresql databases, IIS, apache, tomcat, jboss, weblogic and oc4j application servers, and about 50 different applications. * Responsabilities include: * operations on applications and middleware * IT infrastructure monitoring and availability * application service level (for end users) * middleware service level (for developers and service level managers) * data security

* Development and integration of several finantial applications for investment banking. * Migration of CPP bank's backoffice into BSNP's. * Development and support of BSNP's payment interface to Banco de Portugal, ATM and TARGET payment systems. * Integration of Kondor+ frontoffice application with BSNP's backoffice. * As all of BSNP's backoffice, including accounting, is composed of PL/SQL packages, almost all of my work was done with this language, including integration with frontoffice applications, payment systems, finantial products, reporting, data transfer, etc.

EP is a public company that manages and operates more than 10.000 km of roads in Portugal. DTSU was the road telematics department of EP. It had as main goals the realtime management of traffic, validation of traffic data from other road operators, and production of traffic statistics. It operated its own datacenter, where it ran its own applications and systems. In this context, was responsible for the overall architecture of the IT infrastructure, the SICIT database of traffic statistics, road equipment alarmistics and the DATEX2Toolkit system of registering and exchange of road event data. Also developed SICIT and other applications, using Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle APEX and Google Maps.

* Manager of IT Infrastructure * Management of a yearly infrastructure budget of 1.4M€, acquisitions, contracting and outsourcing. * Support for more than 1000 users in 30 different locations. * Hosting of more than 30 applications in several environments - Oracle Forms (character and web based), Visual Basic, PHP, APS and ASPX, DOTNET, Oracle and SQL Server databases, Windows Terminal Server

ION Trading provides high performance solutions for e-trading and front-office trading systems. ION technology allows institutions to focus on developing proprietary models and business logic without worrying about integration, performance, security and data monitoring issues. Technical lead of a team commited to the maintenance and development of the bespoke in-house financial system.

Dissertation titled "utilization of Genetic Computation methods (EAs) in the generation of meshes with the purpose of solving problems on fluid dynamics". Available (in Portuguese) at http://mestrado.rui.pedro.barata.googlepages.com/index.html

4-year degree in Pure Mathematics

Certified in ITIL Foundation, 90% score