Personal Data
Name: Joel Silva
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Date of birth: 25. Oct. 1976
Marital Status: married
Children: 2
Native Language: Portuguese
Foreign Languages: English (spoken and written), German (spoken and written), French (3 years in High-School)
Work experience in: Atlanta (USA), Vienna (Austria), Lisbon (Portugal)
Professional positions
Aug 2009 – Present, SOFTWARE & WEB DEVELOPER / CONSULTING
Self-employed, Vienna, Austria
- System analysis, design and technical specifications.
- Currently finishing an ASP.NET/SQL Server 2008 CMS/Web Gallery application.
- Developed MBFramework, a PHP/MySQL/Smarty web development framework.
December 2008 – July 2009, SYSTEM DEVELOPER / TEAM LEAD
Alexander Gallo Holdings, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Responsible for upgrading and maintaining a crucial PHP/MySQL/MS Access based Barcode system which supports one of the company’s main business areas
- Developing rich PHP/ExtJS applications targeting the company’s nationwide used Intranet
- Active participation in development policies
- Support and guidance to team members
February 2007 – Dec 2008, SOFTWARE & WEB DEVELOPER / CONSULTING
Self-employed, Vienna, Austria
- System analysis, design and technical specifications.
- Responsible for the redesign and development of a social networking web application for the Austrian and German markets which aims to attract more than 1 million German speaking users within 4 years.
- Designed and developed a business critical web application for an international investments firm.
- Participated in the development of a timesheet and time recording software.
March 2002 – March 2007, WEB DEVELOPER
Dr. Maté GmbH, Vienna, Austria
- Started as a PHP developer and progressed to make design and integration decisions reporting directly to managers. The website www.netdoktor.at is the number one independent healthcare platform in Austria.
- Initiated the use of test driven development and unit testing as part of the development strategy.
- Had the initiative and developed a quality assurance web application that worked at a functional testing level, leading to faster error detection/reporting and less customer support calls.
- Development of web applications using PHP/MySql for the healthcare industry.
September 2002 – October 2004, WEB DEVELOPER
[kju:]-Digitale Medien, Vienna, Austria
- Developed and maintained websites using customized content management systems.
- Used classic ASP, .Net Framework including ASP.NET, C#, MS Access, SQL Server 2000, PHP and MySQL.
September 2000 – May 2001, PROGRAMMER/ANALYST
Rumos Outsourcing, Lisbon, Portugal
- Developed a large scale multimedia website using NCompass Resolution, classic ASP and SQL Server
September 1999 – July 2000, IT ALL-ROUNDER / TEACHER
Law Faculty – Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal
- Responsible for the faculty’s computer network.
- Webmaster for FDUNL and Jurist Portugal – the first non-English filial of Jurist, the Legal Education Network.
- Taught MS Word 2000, MS Access, Internet usage and creation of static websites and Procite to Law students.
- Provided technical support to the faculty staff.
SELF INITIATIVES
- Development of an award winning component for handling SQL Server, Access and MySQL operations using C#.
- Design and development using PHP/MySQL of a highly dynamic and scalable application framework based on MVC pattern.
- Development of a Content Management System and a Web Tracking System using .Net with MySQL.
