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Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Surnames / First name

Vieira Pereira Daniel

Address

Rua Pedro Alvares Cabral, 119 4ºD P-3030-069 Coimbra, Portugal

Telephones

Phone (Portugal): 00351 271231512

Mobile (Portugal): 00351 914324676

Phone (Japan): 0081 5055345358

E-mails

dvieira@student.dei.uc.pt

lunasea@vodafone.pt

Nationality

Portuguese

Date of birth

4^th April 1979

Gender

Male

Work Experience

Dates

From 1^st September 2007 to 15^th March 2009 (1 year and 6 months)

Occupation or position held

Assistant researcher at LCT - CISUC

Main activities and responsibilities

Research in the topic of QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh networks

Name and address of employer

University of Coimbra (UoC), Faculty of Sciences and Technology

Center for Informatics and Systems of the UoC – Laboratory of Communications and Telematics

Coimbra - Portugal

Website: http://www.cisuc.uc.pt

Type of business or sector

Research and development

Dates

From 15^th October 2006 to 1^st March 2007 (4 months and a half)

Occupation or position held

Part-time lab systems administrator

Main activities and responsibilities

Computer systems administrator

Name and address of employer

University of Coimbra, Faculty of Sciences and Technology

Institute of Systems and Robotics – Automation laboratory

Coimbra - Portugal

Website: http://www.isr.uc.pt

Type of business or sector

Research and development

Education and training

Dates

From 15^th September 2003 to 26^th January 2009

Title of qualification awarded

Bachelor degree in Informatics Engineering

Master degree in Network Communication Engineering

Name and type of organization providing education and training

University of Coimbra, Faculty of Sciences and Technology

Department of Informatics Engineering

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered

Advanced Networking Topics, Programming, Operating and Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Company Management, Information Systems Design/Management

Level in national classification

Bachelor degree in Informatics Engineering (Average of 12/20)

Master degree in Network Communication Engineering (Average of 16/20; Thesis grade of 19/20)

Dates

From 1^st October 1999 to 1^st September 2003

Title of qualification awarded

Electronics Engineering undergraduate student (partial completion)

Name and type of organization providing education and training

University of Coimbra, Faculty of Sciences and Technology

Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered

Mathematics (Calculus, Algebra, Statistics) and classical physics

Electronics (Digital Systems, Logical Programming, Electrical Circuitry, Technical Drawing)

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue

Portuguese

Other language(s)

English, French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese

Self-assessment

Understanding

Speaking

Writing

European level (CEF)

Listening

Reading

Spoken interaction

Spoken production

English

Proficient user

French

Proficient user

Spanish

Proficient user

Italian

Independent user

Basic User

Japanese

Basic User

Social skills and competences

· Team worker, proactive and independent

· Excellent adaptability in multicultural environments, gained through research work experience

· Good communication skills, gained through presentations and international conferences

Organizational skills and competences

· Coordinator charge in the 10th EGTI (Management and Information Technologies Meeting) Website: http://egti.dei.uc.pt

· Quality Management in a software engineering project within a multicultural, 10 element, group

· Member of LaGe (Management Laboratory) at the Department of Informatics Engineering – UoC

Guidance and progress assessment to BSc students in their Management classes activities

Technical skills and competences

Good technical and research documentation skills gained through scientific writing and reviewing

Awards and filiations

· FCT Initiation to Scientific Research scholarship for Masters thesis research and dissertation

· FCT Research scholarship on the topic of QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

· Member of the LCT-Routing group of the Center for Informatics and Systems (CISUC)

· IEEE Student member

Computer skills and competences

Networking:

· Research-level knowledge of networks

· Academic research in the area of QoS Routing protocols and Wireless Mesh Networks

· Excellent network modeling and simulation skills (NS-2, OPnet)

· Encryption, authentication and cryptographic protocols

· Network security (Firewalls, NAT, IDSs) and auditing

Programming:

· C, C++, Java, Perl, Bash scripting, PHP, JSP, XML and some Assembly

· Knowledge of debuggers (GDB) and system profilers (Valgrind, DTrace)

· MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, PL/SQL (programming and administration)

· Multi-threaded, distributed computing and remote invocation API (MPI, RMI) programming

Software engineering and IT management:

· UML, RUP and knowledge of ITIL

Service administration and configuration:

· LDAP, SMB, NFS, CVS and Subversion

· X.509 PKI infrastructures and VPNs (IPSec, PPTP, OpenVPN)

· SMTP, POP3 and IMAP (Postfix/Sendmail, Cyrus, Dovecot), DNS (Bind) and Apache

Operating systems:

· Excellent knowledge of Linux, BSD (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin) and Apple OS X

· Microsoft Windows (NT 4.0 to Vista)

Other skills and competences

Photographic camera repair skills, acquired during summer part-time jobs, between 1995 and 1998

Artistic skills and competences

Knowledge of piano, guitar and music reading learnt in recreational activities

Publications

Pereira, D. Triviño-Cabrera, A. Curado, M. “Analysis of Metrics for Routing Optimization in Wireless Mesh Networks”, FITraMEn 08, Oporto, December 2008

Pereira, D. "QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks", M.Sc. thesis, University of Coimbra, July 2008