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FÁBIO  SILVA
Phd Student

About Me

Since June 2016, I am a full-time PhD research student, under the supervision of Dr Gabriel-Miro Muntean, with the Performance Engineering Laboratory and School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU).

My research is focused on AR/VR (Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality) communications performance and it is funded by the NEWTON project (European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 688503).

Education

  • 2019
    2016

    DCU - Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.

    PhD – Electronic Engineering.

  • 2016
    2014

    CEETEPS – Centro “Paula Souza”, São Paulo, Brazil.

    Professional Master In Management and Technology in Production Systems.

  • 2010
    2008

    ITA – Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São Paulo, Brazil.

    Postgraduate Course in Software Engineering.

  • 2004
    2004

    BSP – Business School São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

    Postgraduate Course in Management.

  • 2002
    2000

    FGV – Fundação Getúlio Vargas / Ohio University, Ohio, USA.

    Postgraduate Course in E-business / International Executive MBA.

  • 1998
    1992

    FATEC – Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

    Graduate Course in Computer Sciences (Data Processing Technology).

Scholarships

2016 - 2019
Scholarship
DCU - Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Scholarship granted by Newton 2020 project, funded by the EU under the Horizon 2020 ICT-2015.
1992 - 1998
Scholarship
FATEC – Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Scholarship granted by a publicly funded university (Fatec / UNESP - São Paulo State University).

Professional Experiences

2016 - 2017
PhD Researcher
CEU – Universidad San Pablo, Madrid, Spain.
Allocated at Universidad San Pablo for the Newton 2020 project, funded by the EU under the Horizon 2020 ICT-2015. Research focused on distributed and scalable e-learning hardware and software infrastructure, objects with IP, Internet of things and machine learning.
2005 - 2016
Co-Founder and IT Senior Specialist/Project Manager.
Intuitive Future Inf. S/C Ltda.
A private company specialized in IT solutions and IT consulting.
Specialist in integration processes and critical systems, coordination and development of EDI projects and systems integration in various areas (financial, logistics, etc). Developer of solutions and system architectures on the Java platform. Project management, development, and quality control in migration and integration of heterogeneous systems (webservices and SOA) and web and mobile development technologies).
2012 - 2014
Senior IT Consultant.
Accesstage Tecnologia Direcionada.
AccesStage S/A is a company focusing the EDI market and part of a joint venture between a Mitsubishi Corporation and INTEC (Asian leading industry). Responsible for migrating Grixco´s customers and solutions to the Accesstage platform after an acquisition process.
2004 - 2014
Start-up Co-Founder and IT/Project Manager.
Grixco Soluções Informática Ltda.
A venture capital company investing in the development of EDI trading solutions and customer transactional integration through Web services and message systems.
Main responsible for projects of integration processes involving SOAP, SOA, Message (IBM MQ), Application Servers (BEA, Websphere), Web-based invoicing (São Paulo City Hall) and open-source platform (Apache/Tomcat, Jboss, Hibernate, Struts, Quartz, Eclipse and others).
2001 - 2003
IT Associate Manager.
Mitsubishi/Accesstage.
AccesStage S/A is a company focusing the EDI market and part of a joint venture between a Mitsubishi Corporation and INTEC (Asian leading industry).
Responsible for team coordination and systems development of back-office systems (internal operational and controlling of web-based systems) and a main interconnecting system for customers involved in Web-based solution for electronic data interchange (around 2,500 customers) – using ORACLE, Java (J2SE / J2EE / Servlet / JSP / JavaScript / Struts), application servers (Jboss) and IBM Message Queue, Perl and Shell Script for Unix platform.
2001
IT consultant specialized in heterogeneous systems integration.
Clicon.
A dot.com company focusing web-based business solutions for the construction industry. Responsible for the development of a supporting structure for customers and product/catalogues control for the company portal.
2001
IT consultant specialized in heterogeneous systems integration.
Maxlog.
A dot.com company focusing the transportation and logistics community. Leader analyst for automation applications for transports systems within portal structure (SUN / Linux platform, using ORACLE, IBM MQueue and JAVA).
1993 - 2000
Start-up Co-Founder, IT Manager and Customer Service Manager.
Working Systems Informática Ltda.
A start-up company specialized in multimedia and web solutions. Responsible for all processes of project development and the coordination of multidisciplinary teams. Main consultant in a joint-venture between a Brazilian company and a leading American company in the trade fair services industry, based in Wellesley, MA, USA.

Languages

Portuguese (native Brazilian Portuguese)
English (EC Washington / DCU English)
Spanish (Instituto Cervantes)
Italian (Istituto Italiano di Cultura)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES, ETC.

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Student member.
Digital Senses Community, IEEE (virtual reality, augmented reality and human augmentation).
IEEE – Standards Association (virtual reality, augmented reality and human augmentation).
IEEE – Collabratec (Digital Senses, IEEE 5G).
VESA – Video Electronics Standards Association (Interest Group Focused on Emergent Virtual and Augmented Reality Markets) –NDA (non-disclosure agreement) being evaluated by DCU.
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force (tracking MpTcp RFCs and Transport Support for Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications).
SBC - Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (Brazilian Computer Society).
AMEO - Associação da Medula Ossea (Bone Marrow Foundation/Donor).
Clube Irmãos de Sangue (Club Blood Brothers – Blood Donor).

Hobbies

Movies
Fitness
Foreign language learning
Reading
Cooking
Traveling

Publications and Presentations

IJM&P
2016
IJM&P - Independent Journal of Management & Production
March 2016 – IJM&P Magazine. São Paulo, Brazil. Author/co-author:
  • THE MATURITY LEVEL OF IT MANAGEMENT TO SUPPORT INNOVATION WITHIN R&D CENTERS IN BRAZIL
INCOM
2015
INCOM 2015 - 15TH IFAC/IEEE/IFIP/IFORS Symposium - Information Control Problems in Manufacturing.
May 2015 - INCOM 2015. Ottawa – Canada.
Author/co-author:
  • STRENGTHENING OF OPEN INNOVATION MODEL: USING STARTUPS AND TECHNOLOGY PARKS.
POMS
2015
POMS 26th Annual Conference.
May 2015 - POMS Production and Operations Management Society. Washington, DC – USA.
Author/co-author:
  • The Maturity Level of IT Management to Support Innovation within R&D Centers in Brazil.
  • Why Technology-Based Startups Fail? An IT Management Approach.
  • Strengthening of Open Innovation Model: Using Startups and Technology Parks.
  • The Risk Management in Software Development Using Agile Methods.
POMS
2015
POMS 26th Annual Conference.
May 2015 - POMS Production and Operations Management Society. Washington, DC – USA.
Session Chair for the following papers/presentations:
  • Servitization and Enterprization: A Systematic Literature Review.
  • How a Lean Six Sigma Program in a Carrier Enterprise IT Service Can Improve Productivity and Reduce Costs.
  • Discovering Bayesian Networks Using Process Mining: An Application in Manufacturing”.
  • A methodology for Planning, Choosing and Implementing BPM solutions.
APDR
2014
21st. APDR Workshop - Strategies, Infrastructure and Entrepreneur Networks for Regional Development.
November 2014 - APDR - Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional. Oeiras – Portugal.
Author/co-author:
  • Startups as Ways to Strengthen the Open Innovation Model of an R&D Department in a Chinese Multinational in Brazil.
  • A Case of a Program for the Application of the Lean Six Sigma Methodology in a Company Providing IT Services for Improving Productivity and Reducing Costs.
Workshop CEETEPS
2014
IX Post-graduation and Research Workshop.
October 2014 - Centro “Paula Souza” do Governo de São Paulo. São Paulo – Brazil.
Author/co-author:
  • Startups and Cloud Computing: The Viabilization of a More Dynamic Model.