Luís M Sequeira
I have started my professional life as a junior researcher at the national lab where the Internet "started" in Portugal. Not unsurprisingly, after a team work that launched Portugal's first web site in 1993 (and probably the first web-based intranet), I co-founded Portugal's first commercial Internet Service Provider (Esoterica).
The next step was launching an Application Service Provider (YASP), at a time where Software-as-a-Service was still in its infancy. During that time, and in a period of about one year, I co-designed three different data centres to support tens of thousands of users, participated in the process of designing software and overseeing teams of developers (in-house and outsourced), as well as managing all related issues of a company in my new role as member of the Board.
I developed (and deployed) business plans, organised the marketing, provided overseeing on the F&A, and helped with sales, as well as deployed the necessary IT infrastructure. I launched another two (non-IT) small start-ups as well.
After the dot-com crash, I returned to IT management and consulting with several small companies as an independent free-lancer (like Full IT for example). In 2007, I co-launched another start-up (Beta Technologies) to develop 3D presences on the Internet for companies and organisations, using virtual worlds. The work at Beta Technologies led me to get back in touch with the academic world, as most of the customers were educators and researchers in search for novel ways to present education material and to do training and simulation. The close work with UTAD, U. Évora and U. Aveiro led me to finish a Mastership thesis based on my experience with virtual world technology.
I'm currently doing a PhD as a grant student of the Portuguese Fundation for Science and Technology, researching virtual worlds, virtual archaeology, artificial intelligence (genetic algorithms and swarms), and programming tools. The focus of the thesis is on how to get non-programmers (historians and archaeologists) to simulate human behaviour using intelligent agents in a 3D recreation of a heritage site using virtual world technologies.
If you need my PGP key to either confirm my email signature and/or to send me encrypted email, the fingerprint is: 2257 A52D 703A C6E4 8F4E 2466 56A1 A8FE 82E8 160F
Supervisors: Eduardo Solteiro Pires and Leonel Caseiro Morgado
Phone: 936771490
Address: Praceta 1º de Dezembro, 7 - 1º Esqº
2675-430 Odivelas
Portugal
The next step was launching an Application Service Provider (YASP), at a time where Software-as-a-Service was still in its infancy. During that time, and in a period of about one year, I co-designed three different data centres to support tens of thousands of users, participated in the process of designing software and overseeing teams of developers (in-house and outsourced), as well as managing all related issues of a company in my new role as member of the Board.
I developed (and deployed) business plans, organised the marketing, provided overseeing on the F&A, and helped with sales, as well as deployed the necessary IT infrastructure. I launched another two (non-IT) small start-ups as well.
After the dot-com crash, I returned to IT management and consulting with several small companies as an independent free-lancer (like Full IT for example). In 2007, I co-launched another start-up (Beta Technologies) to develop 3D presences on the Internet for companies and organisations, using virtual worlds. The work at Beta Technologies led me to get back in touch with the academic world, as most of the customers were educators and researchers in search for novel ways to present education material and to do training and simulation. The close work with UTAD, U. Évora and U. Aveiro led me to finish a Mastership thesis based on my experience with virtual world technology.
I'm currently doing a PhD as a grant student of the Portuguese Fundation for Science and Technology, researching virtual worlds, virtual archaeology, artificial intelligence (genetic algorithms and swarms), and programming tools. The focus of the thesis is on how to get non-programmers (historians and archaeologists) to simulate human behaviour using intelligent agents in a 3D recreation of a heritage site using virtual world technologies.
If you need my PGP key to either confirm my email signature and/or to send me encrypted email, the fingerprint is: 2257 A52D 703A C6E4 8F4E 2466 56A1 A8FE 82E8 160F
Supervisors: Eduardo Solteiro Pires and Leonel Caseiro Morgado
Phone: 936771490
Address: Praceta 1º de Dezembro, 7 - 1º Esqº
2675-430 Odivelas
Portugal
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