Carlos Pinto

Category:Portugal
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==== I'm a researcher in International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, now I'm working on a project called EcoSystemData an integrated repository of data for ICES (ecosystemdata.ices.dk). EcoSystemData stores several large datasets such as Biological Community, Contaminants and Biological effects, Hydrographic and Fish Trawl Survey. The main goal of EcoSystemData is to work as an aggregation and data delivery service where different types of data can coexist and interact for multiple purposes, e.g. large ecosystem management decision support tools and fisheries management. The system has a dedicated web application with GIS interface developed in OpenLayers. ====
 Dates: April 2007 - actually Employer: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) H. C. Andersens Boulevard 44-46 DK-1553 Copenhagen V, Denmark Sector: Intergovernmental organisation, Research Position held: Database System Analyst Main activities and responsibilities: Database programmer at ICES with the initial T.O.R. of creating a database for the environmental data,available, at the time, in text files. This task was completed and exceeded by designing and developing EcoSystemData, an integrated repository of data for ICES (http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk). EcoSystemData stores several large datasets such as Biological Community, Contaminants and Biological effects, Hydrographic and Fish Trawl Survey. The main goal of EcoSystemData is to work as an aggregation and data delivery service where different types of data can coexist and interact for multiple purposes, e.g. large ecosystem management decision support tools and fisheries management. The system has a dedicated web application with GIS interface developed in OpenLayers. During the time in ICES, among other responsibilities I was responsible for the compilation and analysis of the VMS data to the following ICES working groups: WGDEEP, WGDEC and WGECO. ICES. 
 Dates: March 2004 - March 2007 Employer: University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas - 8000 Faro Sector: Public sector, Research Position held: Database Programmer and Software Developer Main activities and responsibilities: Database and computer programmer at the University of Algarve (research projects Geopesca - http://w3.ualg.pt/~madias/Geopesca), As a database programmer I had the responsibility to create, organize, program and manipulate a large MySQL database with the landings (1995-2004) and VMS data (1998-2004) provided by the National Directorate-General for Fisheries and Aquaculture, for the Portuguese bottom trawl fleets. As a computer programmer I was the responsible for the actual version (2.0) of GeoCrust software. Geocrust 2.0 software is a dedicated GIS application developed entirely by programming (Visual Basic and MapObjects) to monitor the Portuguese trawl fisheries (GIS combining VMS, landings and logbooks data). Web developer of a website dedicated for the dissemination of geo-referenced data on fishing effort and landings per unit effort, by species, provided by the Geocrust 2.0 software (use of Java, PHP, XML and Geotools), for fisheries research, administrative and industry purposes. Organization and preparation of fisheries data for scientific analysis (link project). 
Dates: September of 2003 – March of 2004 Employer: University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas - 8000 Faro Sector: Public sector, Research Position held: Database Programmer and Web Developer Main activities and responsibilities: Database Programmer to analyze the problem, create, program, organize and manipulate a database (Microsoft Access) to meet the analytical and research needs of the project (Programa Mínimo). The database had to be accessible to users in all the country so It was created a back office via internet to insert, modify and analyze data. (http://w3.ualg.pt/~madias/progmin/index1.html).
Dates: September of 2000 – July of 2002 Employer: University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas - 8000 Faro Sector: Public sector, Research Position held: Database Programmer and Software Developer Main activities and responsibilities: Working for the project GeoCrust (EC-DGXIV study contract, w3.ualg.pt/~madias/geocrust) where it was created GeoCrust 1.0 (software description), a dedicated GIS developed by programming (Visual Basic and MapObjects) to monitor the Portuguese crustacean trawl fishery (GIS combining VMS, landings and logbooks data). Organization and preparation of fisheries data for analysis and other project uses. 
Dates: July of 1999 – September of 2000 Employer: Fundation for the development of University of Algarve – Universidade do Algarve, Campus da Penha – 8000 Faro Sector: Public sector, development Position held: Web developer Main activities and responsibilities: Web Page programmer (Asp, Java Script) and web master (IIS, Apache), to develop the site of RTA (Algarve Tourism, www.rtalgarve.pt).