Marcos Torres

Profile

Marcos Marado Torres has extensive experience in Systems Engineering, lately more focused on the development of Operating Systems and Hardware. He was for several years the President of ANSOL - the Portuguese Association for Free Software, and has a huge interest and passion for Social Computing areas, like Free Software, Security, Anonimity and Digital Rights.
He is fluent in Portuguese and English.

Professional Experience

• Mason

  Lisbon, PT
  2018 - present

  Devices Engineer

  Manages Mason's Lisbon team.

  • Coordinates the team in Lisbon, and their relation with the Engineering team in Seattle.
  • Is responsible for the integration of the Mason OS Operating System in the entire range of Mason devices.
  • Follows the development life cycle of new devices, from the factory to the final client.

• Convergent Evolution

  Lisbon, PT
  2016 - 2018

  Android and Infrastructure Engineer

  He was an Android and Infrastructure Engineer at Convergent Evolution, being involved in several projects for different clients.

  • Supports Mason's Engineering team on the development of their version of Android, specific for their device range.
  • He was the engineer responsible for maintaining the first generation of WileyFox devices (WileyFox Swift and WileyFox Storm), and involved on the development of a common Android version for all of the brand's devices.
  • He was involved in the architecture and creation of the infrastructure needed for the development of a new OEM.
  • He prepared, for Cyanogen, an Operating System update to BQ Aquaris X5.

• Cyanogen

  Lisbon, PT
  2014 - 2016

  Systems Engineer

  He was a Systems Engineer at Cyanogen, being responsible for the integration and support of Cyanogen OS in several platforms and devices.

  • Implemented the support of the msm8909 and msm8937 architectures on Cyanogen OS.
  • Managed the integration of Cyanogen OS in the devices from msm8909, msm8916 and msm8939 architectures, in particular for BQ Aquaris X5, Wileyfox Swift, Wileyfox Storm and Alcatel Pop Mirage.
  • Worked on the update of several devices to newer versions os Cyanogen OS.

• NOS

  Lisbon, PT
  2005 - 2014

  Services Architect

  Since February 2007 he started working as Services Architect on the IT/IS department of Optimus, now NOS, being the manager of several services and systems, both in their conception and evulution, as well as the infrastructure of services and networks supporting them. His work was mostly focused on the design and coordination of the implementation of the architecture of solutions for several systems and services, being expected from him high levels of autonomy, leadership, coordination with other teams, and decision-making skills.

  • Managed many of the ISP Core services of the company, like the cloud services, AAA, DNS, et cetera.
  • He was responsible for the entire e-mail services to clients, residential (eg.: Clix, Mail.PT, Kanguru) or enterprise.
  • He was the IT manager for Optimus' IPTV service, until its sunset.

  Computer Analyst - Programmer

  He was a Computer Analys, working as a Programmer in the Project Development team of SonaeCom ISP, belonging to the Information Systems division of SonaeCom. He was involved in projects for several SonaeCom business utits: Novis, Clix and Optimus. He dealt mainly with the Perl programming language (Mason, Template Toolkit, SOAP::Lite), Oracle and MySQL databases, and Apache httpd webservers. His work was mostly focused on the development of Information Systems, from their core to the presentation layers, and in the development of services connecting to those systems.

  • Developed new Internet and Phone service offers for Clix.
  • Developed the cloud storage product for Novis.
  • Designed and developed the communication system between the ISP's main Information System and other systems that might need to talk with it.

• MagicBrain - Internet Services Provider

  Coimbra, PT
  2005

  Computer Systems Analyst

  Worked on MagicBrain - Internet Services Provider as a Computer Systems Analyst, accumulating Project Management, Systems Administration, Network Administration, Database Administration and Programmer (standalone and web-based software) duties. As a programmer, he worked mostly with PHP, MySQL and Apache. As a Systems Administrator, he worked mostly with GNU/Linux systems, specially Debian, Mandrake and Fedora. Having done his degree internship on this company, he wrote about different Software Engineering paradigms, and when to apply them, speaking of UML, RUP, PERT/CPM networks, Gantt charts, CMM, SPICE, and giving a special focus to Agile Software Development.

  • Developed Paul & Stricker, Lda.'s Information System.
  • Participated on the development of Aardvark: an AJAX framework in PHP.
  • Colaborated in the development of Help Center Live, a web-based helpdesk support chat system.

• UniOne

  Coimbra, PT
  2003 - 2004

  Computer Systems Analyst

  Worked as a Computer Systems Analyst on Unione, acting in several roles, like Team Leader, Project Manager, Database and Systems Administrator and Programmer. As a Programmer, he dealt mostly with PHP, MySQL and Apache. As a Systems Administrator, he managed GNU/Linux (Mandrake) and Microsoft Windows systems.

  • Managed the IT team of the company.
  • Defined the technical architecture and infrastructure to be used by the group of companies located in UniOne's premises.
  • Designed UniOne's Information System.

Academic Curriculum

• Informatics Engineering

  University of Coimbra's Department of Informatics Engineering, PT
  1999 - 2005

  Concluded the five years Degree in Informatics Engineering at the University of Coimbra.

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References and more information available on request.

Lisbon, Portugal, 14 of August 2021