DEVSCOPE - Key Persons
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- Software Developer
- Software Developer, and Carolina Trigo, Project Manager
Software developer Ana Russo had a similar perception during childhood. "Boys played on consoles, and were more exposed to technology while girls played with dolls, something they were supposed to enjoy." Despite that, Ana feels "Things are more balanced nowadays. Kids are so constantly exposed to tech it looks natural to them. Over the years, an interest regarding technology has grown among both genres."
"During graduation, I had the opportunity to learn from female teachers who were excellent on both a personal and a professional level." Ana Russo points out. "I still regard them as an example. They are smart, competent women whose work is regarded by both teachers and students. Great examples such as these should be publicized in order to show that women are leaders and influencers in IT as well."
The current downward trend in women choosing IT as a career path may be in part attributed to the lack of perception that tech is so much more than just typing commands on a computer. Teachers, especially those who teach at a high school level, play a vital role in discovering their students' strengths and exploring them. If teachers don't show students how huge is the range of what they can do in IT, they'll hardly pursue a career in the field.
"During graduation, I had the opportunity to learn from female teachers who were excellent on both a personal and a professional level."
This move could certainly push more women to pursue STEM-related fields the same way they did with now female-dominated fields such as law and health. People choose careers based on their strengths and since school grades show us that girls do not fare worse than boys in math and science, educational guidance may indeed be to blame. The fact that Estonia and Romania lead the European race for gender parity in IT (with 29,6% and 28,9% of women in the workforce, respectively), can easily be explained by the tradition in studying STEM these countries inherited from the old Eastern Bloc, when all students, regardless of genre, were heavily encouraged to pursue applied mathematics and sciences.
There's still plenty of road to travel but, hopefully, education will eventually even-out the field and contribute to a bigger balance between genres in IT.
Daniela Oliveira, Project Manager, disagrees though. "I don't believe there's any stigma surrounding women working in IT or any fears about pursuing a career in it. Sure, there's a huge gap between genres but the same can be said about other areas such as health and education, where the disparity is even greater than in IT; but unlike IT, the percentage of women in these areas is much larger than men." Tássia Lisboa, a BI Solutions Consultant with 10+ years' experience, stands with her and feels like the lack of women in IT "is simply a matter of preference. Women tend to favor professions outside hard sciences."
Job Titles:
- Senior Software Engineer, DevScope S.a
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- HR Manager
- Human Resources Manager
"As developers, and problem solvers, we depend extensively from peers. Not only publicly through google, stackoverflow, technet, msdn, but also by the network of colleagues we can reach and discuss about any issue. Our life would be immensely harder if no one published about that bug, workaround or link we need every day. Our team reflects that sharing spirit and I'm proud our people is discovering that all those seeds we plant are giving back at us good things too. Thank you João for believing."
Pedro Sousa will be in Cambridge on September 8th for SQLSaturday
We are quite pleased to announce that our very own Pedro Sousa, IT Systems Engineer, has been presented the 2018-2019 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the Microsoft Azure community.
Pedro Sousa has been with DevScope for over 4 and a half years and this Microsoft MVP award is a well-deserved and long-time coming recognition of his 20+ years of experience managing Microsoft-based corporate infrastructures. The MVP award makes him part of a selected group of professionals who, through sheer effort and relentless dedication to the community, are among the very best on the planet working on the Azure platform for cloud computing.
"I'm so, so proud! Thank you DevScope for allowing me to pursue this achievement and to do so many community events to spread the knowledge!"
Job Titles:
- Corporate Vice President, Customer and Partner Advocacy, Microsoft Corporation"
Besides being an exceptional technical professional, he is also one of the most active BizTalk community members, writing regularly in his blog, and a moderator on the MSDN BizTalk Server Forums, author on the TechNet Wiki, Code Gallery and CodePlex. Contributes to several communities, including BizTalk Brazil Community, NetPonto Community, BiztalkAdminsBlogging Community, Programar Magazine. For a full report he even writes is own post every year: Sandro Pereira 2013 in review.
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- CEO in an Interview at Económico TV ( Portuguese )
In his role, Rui Paupério will direct strategy and operations for DevScope business.
Rui Paupério brings more than 15 years experience in IT management and consulting.
He started his career with CPCis S.A. later Indra Sistemas S.A., where he held a variety of roles in Consulting & Services business units.
Job Titles:
- Manager
- Senior Architect
- Business Intelligence Manager
Rui Romano, DevScope's Business Intelligence Manager and Microsoft Data Platform MVP, was in Dublin for the Data & BI Summit where he delivered a session titled "Power BI Tips & Tricks from the trenches". This session made the rounds on social media, and we decided to share it with our blog's audience as well.
We are happy to confirm that in our team, we have a new Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP): Rui Romano, awarded as Data Platform MVP for his contributions to offline and online Microsoft-related technical communities.
Most Valuable Professional is an annual award given to outstanding members of Microsoft's technical communities.
Job Titles:
- EAI Specialist, DevScope S.a
Sandro Pereira attended the MVP Global Summit
Sandro Pereira attended the MVP Global Summit in Seattle, WA where nearly 1.500 MVP's from all across the world representing some 90 different countries got together and had the opportunity to get connected and build relationships with Microsoft people.
Sandro Pereira has been awarded as a Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) . The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise, and will to help others.
"[…]By sharing their knowledge and experiences, and providing objective feedback, they help people solve problems and discover new capabilities every day. MVPs are technology's best and brightest, and we are honored to welcome Sandro as one of them."
Sandro Pereira has been awarded MVP for the fourth time
Sandro Pereira has been awarded again Microsoft Integration Most Valuable Professional (MVP). This will be his fourth consecutive year in the MVP program.
"With fewer than 5,000 awardees worldwide, Microsoft MVPs represent a highly select group of experts. MVPs share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others. They represent the diversity of today's technical communities. MVPs are present in over 90 countries, spanning more than 30 languages, and over 70 Microsoft technologies. MVPs share a passion for technology, a willingness to help others, and a commitment to community. These are the qualities that make MVPs exceptional community leaders. MVPs' efforts enhance people's lives and contribute to our industry's success in many ways. By sharing their knowledge and experiences, and providing objective feedback, they help people solve problems and discover new capabilities every day. MVPs are technology's best and brightest, and we are honored to welcome Sandro as one of them.
… Sandro joins an exceptional group of individuals from around the world who have demonstrated a willingness to reach out, share their technical expertise with others and help individuals maximize their use of technology."
Sandro Pereira is an exceptional technical professional and one of the most active BizTalk community member, in addition to writing regularly in his blog, he is an active member and moderator on the MSDN BizTalk Server Forums, TechNet Wiki author, Code Gallery and CodePlex contributor, member of BizTalk Brazil Community, NetPonto Community, BiztalkAdminsBlogging Community, Programar Magazine author and a public speaker. Here are some of his statistics:
Sandro Pereira BizTalk Blog: In 2012, there were 99 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 268 posts. The blog was viewed about 170,000 times!
Top BizTalk Technet Contributor: Last year he began to write articles in Microsoft TechNet Wiki;
Last week, Sandro Pereira, held a presentation at the Bouvet BizTalk Innovation Event (26 - 27 September) - the best BizTalk event organized in Norway this year.
The first day was filled with presentations by 6 speakers (Four BizTalk MVP's together with two distinguished community members). He presented a session focused on the new integration features in Windows Azure Service Bus (BizTalk as PaaS).
The second day was an hands on labs, each speaker had his own room and hourly time slots, where the attendees could come in and had the opportunity to meet, discuss their issues, ask questions or share their experience with the guest speakers.
We are very proud our colleague Sandro Pereira is part of the team behind de BizTalk Innovation Event Series - it is the third event in Europe - and we look forward to share all this experiences in futures events, and with ours customers and partners.
Sandro Pereira attended the 2012 MVP Global Summit in Redmond, where nearly 1500 MVP's from 72 countries sat down with 664 Microsoft team members. They participated in over 800 deep dive technical sessions, getting access to new and upcoming products and technologies. This content was the largest ever at an MVP Global Summit!
Sandro Pereira is back as MVP
Microsoft has been recognizing Sandro Pereira's work for quite some time and just announced the renewal of his MVP for the 7th consecutive time.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community and Sandro was distinguished by his public contributions in the Integration (BizTalk) and Cloud (Microsoft Azure) space.
DevScope is very proud to have in it's staff an exceptional professional, that started his journey in 2011 as BizTalk MVP and, since then, has continuously delivered presentations all over Europe about Enterprise Integration competencies (BizTalk Server, API Management, App Services, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, SharePoint Integration, PowerApps and Flow).
Sandro can be reached in his many channels: blog, twitter, book, wiki, foruns, whitepapers and public-speaking events.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group
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- Business Analyst
- Project Manager
Susana Silva, Project Manager & Business Analyst, builds on Joana's theory. "The number of girls from my generation who owned a computer or video game console was very small - I was the only one in my neighborhood! Games weren't designed for girls because girls weren't supposed to play them. Culturally, women didn't spend hours in Arcade rooms or in front of a TV screen playing on consoles."