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Name: Monica Messaggi Kaya (former Monica Messaggi de Souza)

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Country(ies) of citizenship: Italy (EU passport) and Brazil

 

Quick Summary

Most Recent Title:Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) Software Engineer

Experience: 2.5 years in Quality, 14 years in Information Technology/Multimedia

Managed/Coordinated Others: Yes (3 others)

Spoken Languages: English, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish (basic)

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Professional Experience

   March 2009 - Present

Company: Oxford University - OULS - Oxford - England

Position: Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) Software Engineer

Responsibilities: Starting to work with ORA and BRII Projects. Keywords: repositories, RDFs, semantic web, Solr, Fedora, Honeycombe.

 

   July 2005 - February 2009

Company: Oxford Aviation Academy (former OAT) - OATmedia - Oxford - England

Position: Multimedia Designer / Programmer

Responsibilities: Multimedia Designer/Programmer, development of computer based training software for pilots and general public creating graphics and interactive content for the CBT lessons. Project Leader coordinating 2-3 people on development of graphics for CBTs. Responsible for the department webshop maintenance, developed the main company website (http://www.oxfordaviation.net) and was part of the committee of the new web presence for the future website. Responsible for the re-skinning of the www.oaamedia.com website, OAA website and the kick-start of the Parc Aviation website. Creation of products adverts for magazines and newspapers and general programming. Participated of exhibitions of products developed and answered public queries during the events. Technologies used: Adobe Creative Suite software, Actionscript, HTML, XML, RSS, CSS, Javascript, ASP, PHP, MySQL, Ajax, server installation (Apache).

   Dec 2002 - May 2005

Company: Advanced Interconnect Inc. http://www.ai-global.com (a Woodhead Subsidiary) - Franklin - MA - USA

Position: Lead Quality Assurance Technician

Responsibilities: Convert existing ISO standards to ISO9000:2000 and publish them. Responsible for Incoming Inspection of both copper and fiber optic products. Write critical specifications for Incoming Inspection folders. Supervise Quality Control Inspectors. Lead, assign and direct the daily testing activities of Quality Control Inspectors at Incoming Inspection. Train Quality Inspection personnel on the use of various equipment and testing methodologies. Prepared logs and forms to be used in the Quality Inspection department. Member of the Improvement Suggestion System Steering Committee as Quality Representative, Internal Auditor: participating in the successful transition from ISO9002 to ISO9000:2000 before deadline (July 2003). Development of computer programs to speed up the data gathering to help on Quality Metrics Analysis. Responsible for design and implementation of the Global Quality Website (http://www.wdhd.co.uk/quality/).

   2000 to 2002

Company: Ilog Tecnologia Ltda http://www.ilog.com.br/ - Florianopolis - SC - Brazil

Position: System Analyst

Responsibilities: Leading/managing some multimedia projects, system analyst of an e-learning environment developed by the company, multimedia developer and web developer. Websites: http://senaisp.webensino.com.br (multimedia games and simulators, content administrator), http://www.cidadaodigital.com.br/home.html (multimedia games and simulators). Acted as interface between the customer and the development team, gathering requirements and creating solutions. Use of Director, Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, HTML, mySQL, Javascript and PHP programming.

   2000 (Part-time contractor)

Company: Pixx Interactive Ltda - Florianopolis - SC - Brazil

Position: Multimedia Developer

Responsibilities: Creation of interactive CD­ROMs and websites. Working with Authorware, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, HTML and Javascript. Website developed: http://www.mbmolduras.com.br/ (programming, html, part of design)

   1997 to 1999

Company: Teia Multimidia Ltda- Florianopolis - SC - Brazil

Position: Multimidia Developer

Responsibilities: Development of Multimedia CD-ROMs, programming and implementation in-company. Working with Authorware and Director.

   1994 to 1996

Company: UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina) - Brazil

Position: Multimedia Developer

Responsibilities: Development of Multimedia CD-ROMs and Simulators. Working with Authorware and training the group.

 

Between 1996 and 2002 responsible for multimedia training (softwares and techniques) of groups and individuals at least once a year. A couple of groups inside UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina) and general development of CD-ROMs and web-sites as a free-lancer.

 

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Skills

I am an organised, creative, efficient and very adaptive person. Used to motivate groups to socialise and also to collaborate to each other on the work environment. Being a fast­learner, I'm always willing to undertake training to fulfil requirements and to progress in my continuing education. I had a few projects where I could execute management and project control expertise.

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Education

Degree: currently doing PGDip in Software and Systems Security and working towards the MSc in Software Engineering

University: University of Oxford (England)

Grad Date: 2009/10

 

Degree: Bachelor in Computer Science

University: Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil)

Grad Date: 2002

 

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