Miguel Anjo

Curriculum - PDF version (updated august.2007)

Last updated: 21.february.2007

At the moment I'm in Geneva, Switzerland, working as Oracle Database Administrator for CERN, the European Centre for Particle Physics. I got my Computer Engineering graduation in February 2003 from University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Address Switzerland  

Phone Switzerland  

Address Portugal  

Phone Portugal  

E-mail  

Date of Birth  

Origin, Nationality  

Languages  

English  

French  

Spanish  

Education

September 1997 - February 2003
Licenciatura in Computer Engineering (5 years degree)
University of Coimbra (CS-UC), Portugal
Major subjects: databases, programming, software engineering, management, networking.
Diploma Thesis (in MediaTeam Oulu, Finland, research group) title:
Personal Virtual Storage in Context-Aware Systems

September 1993 - July 1997
High School
Escola Secundária de Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal
Technical specialization in sports and information technologies

Interests

Computer Science, Journalism, Radio, Internet, Athletics, Travelling.

Professional Experience

September 2003 - present
European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
DBA at Physics Databases section
Responsible for both LCG (LHCB Computing Grid) and LHCb (experiment) Oracle RAC databases. Oracle RAC databases for Physics work on Linux, use ASM and includes 220 CPUs, 300TB of disk. Responsible for section' web pages, RAC reports and policies.

August 2002 - January 2003
MediaTeam, Oulu, Finland
Researcher
Responsible for architecture, design and implementation of a ubiquitous storage component that combines the user data with information of the context. The implementation was done using Personal Java and MySQL and was developed within a research project of new communication technologies and a context-aware system with pervasive network.

July - September 2001
European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
Summer Student at Databases Group
Supervised by Eric Grancher, was responsible for make performance tests and usability documents about Oracle 9i and Java using native compilation, jdbc, oci and PL/SQL native compilation.

February 2001 - September 2002
Computer Science Department (University Coimbra), Coimbra, Portugal
Webmaster
Responsible for the redesign of the web site and creation of a backoffice system using PHP and mySQL database and integration and development of Computer Science department Information System using J2EE, JSP and Oracle database.

September 2000 - May 2001
Instituto Pedro Nunes, Coimbra, Portugal
Programmer
Programmer for General Fishing Inspectorate (IGP), responsible for update the Oracle database to version 2 of the project and upgrade from Oracle 7.3.3 to Oracle 8.1.7. The objective of the project is to provide a reliable system to manage and track all the fishing resources under responsibility of IGP (inspection missions, boats, fish banks, seaports, judicial proceedings, infractions). It currently evolves a team of about ten persons.

July 1996 onwards
A Telefonia Virtual, Portugal
Editor, Webmaster
Responsible for the idea of the site and creation in HTML and all developments and new features of the websites (now in PHP and MySQL). As editor and journalist for "A Telefonia Virtual" the work includes coverage of conferences, interviews and news writing. A Telefonia Virtual is a group of two web sites. One is a magazine about radio in Portugal (www.telefonia-virtual.com) and the second is a directory in Portuguese of on-line radios from all over the world (www.cibertransistor.com). The sites use HTML, PHP and MySQL database.

Technical Skills

Databases (Oracle, MySQL, SQL, PL/SQL), Programming (Java, C), Web Services (HTML, PHP, SOAP, JSP, Apache), Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris)

References

Dirk Duellmann - CERN - Physics Databases section
          dirk.duellmann@cern.ch
Eric Grancher - CERN - Databases group
          eric.grancher@cern.ch
António Dias Figueiredo - University Coimbra
          adf@dei.uc.pt
Pedro Bizarro - University Coimbra
          bizarro@dei.uc.pt

Extra curricular activities

April 2006 - present
Groupe SIDA Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Volunteer for AIDS prevention

September 2005 - present
Silhouette gym, Geneva, Switzerland
Aerobics instructor

May 2000 - May 2001
Computer Science Department (University Coimbra), Coimbra, Portugal
Board Member of Computer Science Student Representatives

June 2000 - May 2002
Computer Science Department (University Coimbra), Coimbra, Portugal
Management Laboratory (LAGE) Member
LAGE board of directors member (June 2001 - May 2002)
LAGE General Assembly secretary (June 2000 - May 2001)
6th Computer Science Department Cinema Festival coordinator (September 2001 - May 2002)

2000
Bucharest, Romania
Participant on a extreme sports activity from BEST (Board of European Students of Technology)

2001
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Organizer and Media Relations coordinator of the 5th Management and Information Technology Meeting

1999, 2000
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Participant on 3rd and 4th Management and Information Technology Meeting

1998, 1999
Radio University, Coimbra, Portugal
Sound technician and news edition courses

Hobbies

Contemporary Danse, Aerobics, Travel, Journalism