Annex 1: detail of Internships and Professional Experience

 (More recent first)

·    Self-employed since June 1991.

·   Tutor work since 2008: starting with the subjects she studied in the undergraduate course, new related subjects have been added, thus increasing the scope of the subjects she teaches each semester.

·    IT consulting and support, programming, training, and tutoring. Her work consists of the following:

§  Analysis of technological needs (information technology, communications, electricity) based on the knowledge of the activities developed or to be developed by each entity.

§  Advice of the best solutions in equipment, programs, and services, to meet technological needs.

§  Establish all contacts with suppliers of equipment, programs, and services, thus ensuring the defence of customers' interests and a competent technical relationship with suppliers.

§  Installation, configuration and maintenance of equipment and programs.

§  Sometimes, in situations there are no programs available on the market to address the needs, she makes the necessary programs (Annex 4: software programs developed since 1991, in Windows environment).

§  Support users in clarifying doubts and solving usage problems (Annex 3: some software, hardware, and services in which she has experience).

§  Elaborating materials and teaching: study the subjects, plan the course, prepare the supporting material according to the needs of the recipients and, teach.

·    SGO Formação Lda.: sporadic collaboration in 1989. She taught MS-DOS and WordStar.

·    SGO Informática, Lda.: 02/12/1988 to 31/05/1991. The function exerted consisted of support customers in the pre-sale and after-sale phases. She worked as a consultant in planning and selecting the informatic solutions (hardware and software), she participated in the installation, she elaborated and taught custom professional training, she solved doubts/problems of use whenever customers requested it, at the level of software  and  hardware. The geographical coverage was all over the country and therefore she provided services to clients from Porto to Loulé (city hall). She taught several clients such as CTT, Luso-German Chamber of Commerce, among many others.

§  She installed Novell NetWare networks (hardware and software) and XENIX/UNIX operating systems, as well as the necessary application software. 

§  She has successfully advised several clients regarding the best hardware/software solutions for the various situations presented to her.

§  She programmed in BASIC, dBASE III Plus and Clipper in MS-DOS and NetWare network.

§  She had contact with the OS/2 operating system.

§  She developed documentation and taught courses at Novell's NetWare network OS and SCO's XENIX/UNIX System V.

·    Tempo Real, Lda.: 11/01/1988 to 30/11/1988. The function exerted consisted of developing and teaching custom courses of MS-DOS, WordStar, Lotus 123, Novell Netware. Steps included: Read the manuals in English and test the programs; Plan the course; Elaborate the teacher's manual, the slides, the students’ manual, the manual of exercises and the solutions; Teach.

·    Internship, during the academic years of 1986/87 and 1987/88, at INESC (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas Computadores). In the projects:

·    Operating System Support Processor using the Assembler of processors 8031 and 8051, integrated in the Project SMD (Distributed Modular Systems), which was at the base of the ELENA (Office Automation) network, installed in CTT stations.

   ·     Multibus II, also integrated in the SMD project.