2005 - Present, R&D Project Manager (Information technologies security)

R&D Project Manager; assistant to the European Commission on Research & Development:

• R&D Project Manager within FP6 and Eureka projects, coordinating R&D work among European companies and universities, in the field of information security, mobile communications security and public safety, among others.
• Technical supervision of research and innovation projects.
• Expert consultant for the European Commission on R&D workshops and consultation events.
• Program Committee member, Mobile multimedia/image processing for military and security applications, SPIE Defense & Security Symposium (link), April 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA.
• Program Committee member, 2nd Ambient Intelligence Developments Conference (link), September 2007, Sophia-Antipolis, France.

2001 - 2005, Consultant / Freelance / Project Manager

Several responsibilities as Project Manager, technical lead, sales engineer and information security consultant, acting on two fields:

• Business solutions built on open source software: Project management, custom solution design, technical and economic proposal preparation.
• Information security consulting: Technical and organizational advising on information security management for insurance and telecommunications clients.

1998 - 2001, Hardware / Software Engineer

Responsible of design and development tasks for communications security protection products, in companies developing:

• Frame Relay and IP encryptors.
• Microprocessors for cryptographic operations.
• Control centers for management of security policies on multiple network devices.

Titles

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA, USA):
  • 1996-1998, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. PDF of my Master's Thesis.
  • 1991-1996, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
• ISC2:
  
  • 2004, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• ISACA:
  • 2005, Passed the exam of Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)