PHP Developer
Resume:
Mr. Miguel Ruah
PHP Developer, Analyst and Client Handler
Full Name Jose Miguel Bentes Ruah
Address Rua Cesario Verde 188
Portugal
Email **********@*****.***
Mobile +351-***-***-***
Skype lobovermelho
Nationality Portuguese
Born Lisbon, Portugal
Is allowed to work anywhere in the E.U.
Summary, Skills and Key Tools
Studied in Israel and worked in Portugal, Israel, Spain and Brazil since
1987.
Managed and/or participated in projects related to Banking, Mobile
Telephony, CSM, POS, Stock Management, Sales, Accounting, Event Organizing
and other MIS areas in general. In some of these projects, managed a
development team while taking care of training, problem solving, sales and
consulting.
Speak, read, write and translate fluently 5 idioms as Mother-language:
Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and Hebrew.
Create sites and web platforms from scratch (ex. Home Banking), with front
and back-ends, back-office and login areas. For the last 10 years, have
been using PHP and MySQL on the server side and HTML, Javascript and CSS on
the client side. Recently, also started using with jQuery, Web Services,
SOAP, REST, Ajax and HTTP Requests, APIs, XML and JSON, MVC.
Am also comfortable with e-Commerce, payment APIs with net-exchangers (ex.
Paypal) as well as user-friendly and interactive platforms (ex. Home
Banking, real-time simulators, etc), all applications developed are cross-
browser compatible, including iOS and Android.
Have also worked with PowerBuilder, Clipper, Cobol, C++ and other
languages. Feel comfortable with Windows but have also worked in Unix and
Tuxedo. Am familiar with image processing (GIMP + CorelDraw), video editing
and production and synchronizing subtitles.
Together with another partner, created a Bank Credit consolidation Company
in Portugal. Foreseeing the financial crash in 2008, we closed this Company
slightly before that.
Currently, my main job is PHP development, but prefer working within or
managing a team.
Communicate easily, whether in trainings, presentations or meetings.
Following is a summary of my main current capacities:
Identification and analysis of client's missed opportunities;
Global view of the client's departments and a good awareness of the
information flow and bottle-necks;
Creation of good relations among the elements of the teams manage and good
motivation to give their best;
Creation of good professional relations and their spacial management (those
above and below in the hierarchy, within or outside my Company);
Launching new web companies (e-commerce, platforms, etc);
Website creation with back and front-ends, back-offices and login areas;
Newsletter creation and automatic sending, also with automatic response
management (bounced emails, remove requests, etc);
Production of trainings and presentations in Powerpoint or video;
Sub-titles translation, production and insertion in videos (synch);
Translation and retro-version, written or consecutive;
Employment History
Role Web and e-Commerce Consultant, analyst and developer
Company Freelancer
Dates March 2003 to present
Location Lisbon, Portugal
Tools Used PHP, MySQL, HTML, Javascript, CSS
Development of several sites and platforms (please see below for more
details), using PHP and MySQL on the server side and HTML, CSS and
Javascript on the Client side.
All systems are cross-browser, iOS and Android-compatible, Google-friendly
and SEO semi-optimized.
Some aspects covered / included:
capacity to create formatted HTML newsletters, with bulk-list sending and
management, automatic management of bounced emails and remove requests;
login area allowing most typical home-banking transactions (deposits,
transfers, withdrawals and investments);
sale of tables and stands in a Fair, with real-time preview of the space
available in the rooms and online sale of tables, stands and tickets with
Credit Cards or Paypal;
modern, user-friendly and Google-friendly development;
HTTP Requests used;
Back-Office systems allowing full content management and user-friendly
configuration;
Following is a list of sites and platforms developed, with a short
description of its nature and functions available:
dancingfire.org (April 2013)
Multilingual site describing an organic project. All the content is
editable via the Back-Office, including the images.
utween.com (April 2012)
Multilingual portal for a social network that allows searching for people
according to unusual parameters (place of birth, age, religion, gender,
profession, etc). Profiles managed via the login area, with the ability of
real-time chatting or sending internal mail.
mercadonativo.org (August 2011)
Multilingual handicraft portal that allows the registration of both buyers
and artists. Capacity to sell articles in a controlled way (as described
above). In order to rate the artists as to their speed and seriousness, the
portal keeps an automatic statistic of successful sales and client
testimonials. Payments through Credit Cards and net-exchangers.
encontroxamanismo.com (June 2011)
Multilingual portal dedicated to support a yearly shamanic gathering.
Online sale of tables and stands, with real-time preview of spaces
available in the room. Payments via Credit Cards or Paypal. Online ticket
sale for the lectures, courses and workshops. Event description, lecturer
profile and event schedule updated via Back-Office. Newsletter editing and
bulk-sending also via the Back-Office, with a very easy management of new
email registration, bounced emails and hourly sending capacity limitations
control.
hakagifts.com (February 2011)
Online handicraft shop. Posting expenses are calculated automatically in
the Back-Office depending on article dimensions and weight. Capacity to
deal with 3 different prices profit rates depending if sale is in auctions,
fairs or online. Photo gallery for each article, with the possibility to
create a price matrix depending on size, color and quantity of articles.
Back-Office also includes the possibility of adding special discounts and
promotions, together with the maintenance of a holiday table with exact
dates for the moving religious holidays. These promotions have start and
end date, so that the system returns to normal functioning with no need for
human intervention. Special landing pages can be created outside the normal
page flow in order to support mail and ad campaigns with special links.
escolade4x.com (January 2011)
Forex school, with a video gallery in the education section, a Course
schedule and a photo gallery showing past Courses and meetings.
rpcash.com (September 2010)
Bank Credit consolidation company that later evolved to a basic financial
education school. Was one of the Shareholders for several years. In
parallel, worked here as a Bank Credit consultant and was also Bank
Barclay's promoter. Was also in charge of the content management.
fogodavida.com (May 2010)
Shamanic site, allowing the management of event description and schedule.
Site accepts testimonials, moderated via email (each time a new testimonial
is saved, an automatic email is sent to the webmaster with publish/delete
links).
sao-sebastiao.org (September 2009)
New-age site, similar to the previous.
houseofcircles.com (August 2008)
Multilingual site that promotes savings programs, with a login area similar
to a home-banking portal. Real-time simulator, anti-hacking system that
maintains a list of black-listed IPs and emails in order to avoid unwanted
bot visits. Real-time verification of emails, usernames and passwords upon
registration (including syntax validation, duplication check and domain
existence).
pedrasdeleitor.com (March 2006)
Multilingual artist site, showing photo galleries of articles and
exhibitions. Hot-news area maintained via Back-Office.
lobovermelho.org (October 2004)
First version of fogodavida.com, now offline.
Role Development Team Leader, Consultant (as an expat)
Company Amdocs
Dates September 1997 - September 2001
Location Sao Paulo and Portalegre, Brazil
Tools Used PowerBuilder, Windows, Unix, Tuxedo
Contract Permanent, Full-Time
In 1998, mobile telephony licenses became available for private companies
in Brazil. BCP, a big company based in Sao Paulo, hired Amdocs to prepare
and support the necessary structure (human and hardware, but excluding the
antennas) and reach 1 million clients within the first year. Amdocs
gathered a team of about 20 elements and sent them as "ex-pats" to Sao
Paulo for 4 years.
Within this context, assumed analyst and programming functions as well as
training the client's team and managing half of the local "ex-pats" team,
remaining in charge of all the PC area (POS, CSM, and the interface with
Unix via Tuxedo).
It was almost a military project because we couldn't be more than 1 hour
away from the client's site and we worked up to 12 hours a day with no
weekend rest.
Given the experience acquired along this project, after a year was
transferred to South Brazil to be responsible for Amdocs' delegation with a
new client.
Simultaneously, also acted as an internal international consultant for
Amdocs' new projects in South America and the United States.
Worked with PowerBuilder, Windows, Unix, Tuxedo and SQL.
Analyzed, programmed, managed software and manuals versions, trained the
client, investigated and solved bugs.
Role Senior Partner, Analyst, Development Team Leader, Sales,
Consultant
Company Mega-Matica Ltd
Dates February 1990 - February 1992
Location Lisbon, Portugal
Tools Used Clipper
Contract Permanent, Full-Time
One of the main clients was Dragapor, a national wedging Company. Although
it was a private Company, the main shareholders were public entities and so
it needed to maintain both a private and a public book-keeping.
Data was created in the Purchasing Department as stock and continued its
flow to the Maintenance Department and from there to Sales and Accounting.
Our main challenge was to make the system so user-friendly that both
workers and office employees could work comfortably with it.
Another challenge was the data flow: back then, Novell networks required
very expensive permanent (but very unreliable) telephone lines and so the
data flowed between the departments in diskettes, separated by packages in
case the data was lost and needed to be resent.
Together with that, Mega-Matica developed one of he first image processing
and video production departments totally equipped with micro-computers.
Besides being the Senior partner, acted as the development team leader in
Clipper, Analyst, Sales, trained the client, investigated and solved bugs.
Role Analyst and programmer in Clipper
Company Arthur Andersen & Co
Dates September 1988 - December 1989
Location Lisbon, Portugal
Tools Used Clipper
Contract Permanent, Full-Time
Development of the first micro-computer application in the Banks in
Portugal.
Bank Mello requested from Arthur Andersen & Co the development of an
application in micro-computers to simulate in real-time the value of Bank
Bond packs that were pay different interests at different periods of time.
After approval, this application should be migrated to the Bank's
mainframes and made available through the terminals in every Branch.
After testing the application, the Bank decided to acquire more micro-
computers and installed one in each of the Agencies.
Developed, analyzed and trained the client. Wrote the application manuals.
Role Analyst and programmer in Clipper
Company Computerland
Dates November 1986 - June 1987
Location Lisbon, Portugal
Tools Used Clipper
Contract Permanent, Full-Time
Programmed a core code library in Clipper while also working in Sales.
Managed and created the code for the following projects:
Alliance Fran aise de Lisbonne (Secretary and Library Management);
Medical Visits Management (Jansen Pharmaceutical);
Medical Visits Management (Infar);
Worked with Clipper. Analyzed, programmed, visited the client, acquired new
contracts, trained the client's users, wrote and maintained the manuals,
investigated and solved bugs.
Education History
Institution Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology
Location Lisbon, Portugal
Dates January 1980 - August 1987
Institution Pedro Nunes High School
Location Lisbon, Portugal
Dates September 1971 - June 1977
Institution Charles Lepierre French School
Location Lisbon, Portugal
Dates September 1965 - June 1971
Languages
English Write, read, understand, speak, translate as mother language
French Write, read, understand, speak, translate as mother language
Hebrew Write, read, understand, speak, translate as mother language
Portuguese Write, read, understand, speak, translate as mother language
Spanish Write, read, understand, speak, translate as mother language
Other Skills
Driving Drives cars since 1980
License
Translation Consecutive and written translation from and to any of the 5
languages above
Video Basic video production and editing, with subtitle insertion
(synch).
MS-Office Very comfortable with Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Open-Office Very comfortable with Writer, Calc and Impress
Image Creates and processes images from scratch using GIMP and
CorelDraw
Sweat-Lodge Authorized performer of sweat-lodges since 2002
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