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Claudio Costa

Currently pursuing Masters on Informatics Engineering and Computing at University of Porto.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Skills: Business, C/C++, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, French, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, PHP, Portuguese, Software Engineering, Spanish, SQL, Web Development
Groups: CEdUP
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Generation Europe (www.generation-europe.eu.com)
Position: National Ambassador – Portugal
Time period: October 2008 - Present

Employer: ESN-Portugal – Erasmus Student Network Portugal (www.esnportugal.org)
Position: National Representative – Portugal
Time period: February 2008 - Present

Employer: Netlog NV (Gent, Belgium) | www.netlog.com
Position: Community Manager - Portugal
Time period: February 2007 - July 2008
Description: User support and helpdesk: trouble tickets answering and user abuse moderation.

Employer: IT Sector (Porto, Portugal) | www.itsector.pt
Position: Project Manager
Time period: February 2007 - June 2007
Description: Creation and management of a fictitious micro-enterprise (www.plasticina.pt.vu; 6 employees)
for the development of an application for mobile devices (PDA), to be used in a construction
management system.
The tasks of the Project Manager were to manage the development team and the project itself,
assure the communication with the customer (IT Sector) and the university’s coordinator.
Technologies used: Windows Mobile SDK 5.0, ASP.NET 2003, SQL Server CE.
This project was developed under the supervision of a teacher from the curricular course of
“Project Management Laboratory”.

Employer: ESN-Porto – Erasmus Student Network Porto (www.esnporto.org)
Position: Local Section President
Time period: August 2006 - August 2007

Employer: JuniFEUP (Porto, Portugal) | www.junifeup.pt
Position: Director of the Image and Communication Department; Web Developer
Time period: April 2006 - July 2007
Description: Direction of the Department: implementation of the Marketing strategies, creation of
promotional material and company’s portfolio; event organization and coordination.
Website development for FEP Junior Consulting, with a backoffice management module. Design
and implementation of the MySQL database, coding and implementation of the website (PHP,
CodeIgniter).

Employer: JuniFEUP – Junior Enterprise of FEUP (www.junifeup.pt)
Position: Director of the Image and Communication Department
Time period: April 2006 - July 2007

Employer: Portuguese Youth Institute (IPJ)
Position: Volunteer
Time period: December 2001 - November 2004
Description: OTL project – Free Time Occupation project, from the Portuguese Youth
Institute (IPJ), between 2002 and 2004: summer camp with a group of
people with deficiency

INFORMATION

Sports: Tennis, Football, Swimming, Cycling
Hobbies: Fractals, Radio, Music, Cinema, Egyptology, Astronomy
Memberships: Member of several student organizations:
• BEST – Board of European Students of Technology (www.best.eu.org)
• Engenharia Rádio – Faculty’s Radio (http://radio.aefeup.pt)
• ESN – Erasmus Student Network (www.esn.org)
• JuniFEUP – Junior Enterprise of FEUP (www.junifeup.pt);
• TEUP – Tuna de Engenharia da UPorto / Faculty student’s traditional music group
Awards: Academic award from Camilo Castelo Branco high school – best graduate
student on the technologic course of Informatics of 2002/2003 (17 out of
20); Finalist of the XVIII Portuguese Mathematics Olympiad, A category
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