Europass Curriculum Vitae

Europass Curriculum Vitae Personal information First name(s) / Surname(s) Address(es) Al. Padre Álvaro Proença, n-10, 6-B, 1500-475, LISBOA, PORTUGAL Telephone(s) +351 91 811 83 72 Mobile: + 351 96 952 28 28 E-mail Nationality joao.miguel.carreira.almeida@gmail.com PORTUGUESE Date of birth 11 May 1968 Gender Male Work experience Dates Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities 2009-present Founder and Managing Director of youmove company Founded the youmove company focused on providing expert consultancy services and software components for Integrated Mobility solutions (e.g. Public Transport, On-street and off-street Parking, Tolls, Taxis, Car-sharing, Bike-sharing, On-demand Bus, etc) and other City-Services (e.g. schools, libraries, pools, etc), creating new paradigms for citizen mobility tools based on multi-services smart- ID solutions. Special focus is given to the integration of the next generation of technologies, including smart-phones and POS, NFC, EMV contactless, and integration of ticketing with passenger information, in an integrated view for mobility, taking into account the respective players (operators and industrials). Besides the Managing Director function, I also accumulated the role of Senior Consultant, Product Manager, Project Manager and Business Development. Initial activity includes projects and partnerships in several countries, namely: Portugal, Belgium, France, Spain, Brazil, working with Operators and Industrials, on providing both consultancy services and ticketing interoperability software solutions for Mass Transit, Parking, Contactless Payment. Participation on european projects or forums such as UITP IFM Project, OPTIMA (Open Platform for Ticketing in Interoperable Mass transit Applications), Calypso Network Association (CNA). Advisor on the Editorial Board of the Transportes em Revista magazine. Name and address of employer youmove Lda. Lisbon PORTUGAL youmove Lda is focused on expert Consultancy Services and Software Components for Integrated Mobility solutions and other City-Services. Page 1/10 - Curriculum vitae of

Occupation or position held Dates 2003-2009 Founder and Director of the SmartCITIES Transports and Mobility business unit at Link Main activities and responsibilities Founded the SmartCITIES Business Unit, taking the responsibility of Director, integrating 30 professionals, and providing both Consultancy Services and Software Solutions (Hardware Independent), both for Ticketing and Operations Management, for Public Transportation and City Mobility Services, including topics such as interoperable contactless ticketing systems and fare management, multi-modal integration, operations management for road operators, interoperability with parking and city-services, car-sharing, video-surveillance for mobility and congestion management. Besides the Director function, I also accumulated the role of Senior Consultant, Researcher, Product Manager, Project Manager and Business Development, having performed projects with several customers, namely, Transport Operators, in Portugal (Carris, Metropolitano, CP, Transtejo, Soflusa, RL, TST, TCB in Lisbon, TUB Braga, HF Funchal, SMTUC Coimbra) and abroad (STIB Brussels, TPG Geneve, Transdev Spain/Lyon, ISR Israel), Auhorities and Consortiums (AMTL Lisboa, OTLIS Lisboa, ETG/Mobilis Switzerland, ATP Brazil, MOT Israel), and related mobility companies (EMEL and Emparque Lisboa - parking, ATLX Lisboa tourism, Payshop and SIBS Lisboa Payment Acquiring, Nazaré Municipality, CGD Lisboa - Bank). In 2003 I also started the internationalization process of the SmartCITIES business, including activities and projects in/with Portugal, Belgium, Brazil, Israel, France, Germany, Mexico, Mozambique, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, among others, working with Operators, Authorities and Industrials, on providing both consultancy services and ticketing interoperability software solutions for any of them. Participation on european projects or forums such as UITP IFM Project, Calypso Network Association (CNA), Contactless Users Board (CLUB). Advisor on the Editorial Board of the Transportes em Revista magazine. Orientation of University Students on their final course project on IT solutions and services for Public Transportation and Mobility Services, from 3 differente Portuguese Universities. Name and address of employer Link Consulting S.A. Lisbon PORTUGAL Link Consulting is focused on Consulting Services and IT Solutions, with special focus on Mass Transit and City services, Interoperable Ticketing and Fare Collection. Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities Dates 2002-2003 Director of the Systems Integration business unit at Link Took the responsibility of Director of the Systems Integration business unit, with the mission to join together and consolidate three main areas (e-services, Mobile Solutions and Enterprise Application Integration) towards creating a business unit which could integrate Electronic Ticketing and Fare Collection, Smartcard and Contactless Technologies, Payments, Mobile and telematic Solutions and Enterprise Application Integration, with a speciall goal of focusing on Public Transportation and City Services, towards supporting both Ticketing and Operations Management solutions for this specific market segment. Besides the Director function, I also accumulated the role of Senior Consultant, Researcher, Project Manager and Business Development, having performed projects with several customers, namely, Transport Operators, in Portugal (Carris, Metropolitano, Transtejo in Lisbon), Auhorities and Consortiums (OTLIS Lisboa), and related mobility companies (EMEL Lisboa - parking, SIBS Lisboa Payment Acquiring), and other sgment customers on smartcard solutions (e.g. Lawyers Association, National Security Agency, etc). Participation on european projects or forums such as UITP Tr@nsITS, Calypso Network Association (CNA), Contactless Users Board (CLUB). Orientation of University Students on their final course project on IT solutions and services for Public Transportation and Mobility Services, from 3 differente Portuguese Universities.. Page 2/10 - Curriculum vitae of

Name and address of employer Link Consulting S.A. Lisbon PORTUGAL Link Consulting is focused on Consulting Services and IT Solutions, with special focus on Mass Transit and City services, Interoperable Ticketing and Fare Collection Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities Dates 1999-2001 Manager of the e-services area at the Systems Integration business unit at Link In the end of 1998 I joined Link Consulting, as a spin-off of INESC, focused on the Consulting Services and IT Solutions, and initiated the responsibility to Manage the e-services area, a part of the System Integration business unit, with responsabilities on Electronic Ticketing and Fare Collection, Smartcard and Contactless Technologies, Payments. Besides the Manager function, I also accumulated the role of Senior Consultant, Researcher, Project Manager and Business Development, having performed projects with several customers, namely, Transport Operators, in Portugal (Carris, Metropolitano, Transtejo in Lisbon), Auhorities and Consortiums (OTLIS Lisboa), and related mobility companies (EMEL Lisboa - parking, SIBS Lisboa Payment Acquiring), and other segment customers on Payment solutions (e.g. pmelink (SME Marketplace), Clarity Europe, MarketLink (e-commerce Service Provider), BizDirect (Marketplace), BPI Bank, etc) Participation on european projects or forums such as Calypso Network Association (CNA), Contactless Users Board (CLUB). Orientation of University Students on their final course project on IT solutions and services for Public Transportation and Mobility Services, from the Instituto Superior Técnico university. Name and address of employer Link Consulting S.A. Link Consulting is focused on Consulting Services and IT Solutions, with special focus on Mass Transit and City services, Interoperable Ticketing and Fare Collection Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities Dates 1996-1999 Coordinator of the Public Transport and Ticketing area at the Transportation and Post business unit at INESC Technology Transference Centres Coordinator of the Transports, Smartcards, Bank Payment Areas at the Transportation and Post Department at Link. Activities included Technical Development, Technical Coordination, Research and Project Management for customers such as OTLIS (operators consortium), on the implementation of the ICARE and CALYPSO European Projects and URBI2000 local implementation project, and also projects and studies on the implementation of smartcard technologies on different segments such as Parking and Fuel Stations. Participation on european projects or forums such as Calypso Network Association (CNA), Contactless Users Board (CLUB). Orientation of University Students on their final course project on IT solutions and services for Public Transportation and Mobility Services, from the Instituto Superior Técnico university. Assistant Teacher on Introduction to Computers for the Computer Engineering Course at the Universidade Independente (UnI) from 1996 to 1998. Name and address of employer INESC Technology Transference Centres Research & Development, Technology Transference, Commercial Spin-off of Technology based companies Page 3/10 - Curriculum vitae of

Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities Dates 1992-1995 Consultant on Electronic Payment and Ticketing at the Integrated Electronic Systems Centre at INESC R&D and INESC Technology Transference Centres Responsible for the development and certification of Bank Payment solutions, both with magnetic stripe and smartcards (e-purse) for Automatic Vending machines. Orientation of University Students on their final course project on IT solutions and services for Public Transportation and Mobility Services, from the Instituto Superior Técnico university. Assistant Teacher on Microprocessor Architectures for the Electro technical Engineering course at IST, from 1994 to 1995. Teacher at FUNDETEC, RUMOS and EMPTEL, from 1990 to 1995. Name and address of employer INESC R&D and Technology Transference Centres Research & Development, Technology Transference, Teaching and Training Education and training Title of qualification awarded Principal subjects/occupational skills covered Name and type of organisation providing education and training Dates Starting on 2009 MIT-Portugal Transportation Student In 2009, I started the works towards a PhD on Transportation on the MIT-Portugal Program. The Thesis Claim is under definition, but somehow related with the search for models towards that allow the increase of integration and efficiency of urban/suburban mobility services, based on the usage of mobile phone technologies. MIT-Portugal Transportation / Instituto Superior Técnico Title of qualification awarded Principal subjects/occupational skills covered Name and type of organisation providing education and training Dates 1999 MBA (non-formal) In 1999, I also took a Post-graduation Course for executives on Business Administration, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa/NovaForum. Universidade Nova de Lisboa at the NovaForum group Title of qualification awarded Principal subjects/occupational skills covered Dates 1992-1995 MSc From 1992 to 1995 I took my Master of Science on Electrotechnical Engineering and Computers, also at IST-UTL. Started teaching at IST-UTL and some other private institutions, such as FUNDETEC, RUMOS and EMPTEL. Name and type of organisation providing education and training Instituto Superior Técnico from the Lisbon Technical University (IST-UTL) Title of qualification awarded Principal subjects/occupational skills covered Name and type of organisation providing education and training Dates 1986-1991 Engineer My University background started between 1986 and 1991, when I took my Graduation Degree of Electrotechnical Engineering (Computer Systems branch), at IST-UTL (Instituto Superior Técnico), from the Lisbon Technical University, in Portugal. Instituto Superior Técnico from the Lisbon Technical University (IST-UTL) Page 4/10 - Curriculum vitae of

Personal skills and competences Mother tongue(s) Portuguese Other language(s) Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production Portuguese C2 C2 C2 C2 C2 English C2 C2 C2 C2 C2 French B2 B2 B2 B2 B1 Spanish C1 C1 B2 B2 B1 German A1 A1 - - - (*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Technical skills and competences Additional information Special Skills and Expertise of nearly on: Public Transportation and City Mobility services and processes Electronic Ticketing and Fare Collection solutions and standards Contactless and Smartcard technologies and standards Bank Payment technologies and standards Technological and Functional Interoperability and Certification Embedded and Mobile Technologies Additional Training Certification (level C, D under process) in Project Management, by APOGEP Associação Portuguesa de Gestão de Projectos (Portuguese IPMA - Project Management Association) Project Management, by Dr. Nuno Ponces de Carvalho Consulting Problem Solved, by David Franks Windows Architecture for Developers, by Rumos Data Warehousing and Data Mining courses, by Bill Inmon and Gordon Linoff SQL*PLUS, PL/SQL, Developer, Designer 2000 courses, by Oracle Strategic Marketing, Leadership, Negotiation and Project Management courses, by ICL First semester in Goethe Institut English intensive course in International House Various courses on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) within program AICI Most Relevant Projects 2006-2009 Page 5/10 - Curriculum vitae of OTLIS (operators consortium) and Private Sub-urban Bus Operators (including Rodoviária Lisboa, Transportes Sul do Tejo, Vimeca, Lisboa Transportes, etc): Senior Consultant on the assistance towards the project vision, tender and implementation support for the new ticketing (integrated with fleet-management) project 9 private sub-urban bus operators, of the Lisbon Region, including nearly 1.500 buses; Nazaré Municipality: Project Manager and Senior Consultant on the implementation of the Multi-service Interoperable city-card, implementing a full dual-interface, Calypso card; Mobilis CTV / ETG (Switzerland): Project Manager Supporter and Senior Consultant on the integration of the SmartCITIES Embedded Framework to the CFF terminal for interoperability between TL Mifare system and VMCV Calypso system. The project run into a second phase including the interoperability with the French Ourà card (Calypso*), and towards implementing a first Service Centre for Swiss ticketing system. TPG Transports Publiques Genevois (Switzerland): Senior Consultant on system global architecture towards the development on the new Sales Network for the TPG ticketing system.

2005 Transdev (Tenerife Spain): Senior Consultant and Project Manager Assistant on the consulting and design of the System Information Architecture / Enterprise Architecture to support the contactless ticketing migration plan from the existing ticketing system. CGD (bank): extension of the TUB and OTLIS ticketing systems towards supporting the contatless payment (EMV, Calypso and Mifare) cards and protocols; TUB (Braga bus operator): Project Manager for the implementation of the Embedded Framework for interoperability of the new smartcard supply (simultaneously Mifare and Calypso) for the Braga Transport Services (TUB). Mastercard: development of the business and technical concept for Paypass for Mass Transit, by extension of Link s SmartCITIES new modules to Contactless Payments based on Paypass MChip4 EMV Cards in relation with Mastercard Worldwide. Fertagus: Project Manager on the support for Interoperability, Certification and Technical Support for the Calypso Smartcard interoperable system, for supply of the Personalization System (FrontSIIT) and for the supply of the Integration System (MessIAS), in coordination with other already running operators and SIIT. Metro Sul do Tejo: Project Manager on the support for Interoperability, Certification and Technical Support for the Calypso Smartcard interoperable system, for supply of the Personalization System (FrontSIIT) and for the supply of the Integration System (MessIAS), in coordination with other already running operators and SIIT. OTLIS (operators consortium): following-up 2005 work, worked as Senior Consultant on construction and operacionalization of the OTLIS Business Plan for 2006-2010, based on the management of services based on the Lisbon Service Centre and Clearing House, the SIIT system. Carris (bus), Metropolitano (underground): Project Manager on the support for adaptation, testing, certification and roll-out of the Calypso Smartcard Personalization System (FrontSIIT) and smartcard procurement and certification for Carris and Metro, in coordination with other already running operators. CP (train), BES (portuguese bank): Project Manager on the implementation of the NetStarter internet and mobile phone reloading engine and portal application for reloading smartcards over web browsers and futurly mobile phone. This solution is build around the Link Embedded Framework for interoperability (including Universal API, Application Core, Easy Coupler). EMEL (city parking): Project Manager on the follow-up, Pre-Operation Study, on Business Model definition and Technical Architecture specification, for the operationalization of the LisboaViva and 7 Colinas transportation cards on parking system. This on-going project aims the up-grade of nearly 400 to 1500 parking machines. Horários do Funchal: Project Manager Supporter and Sponsor Assistant on the development on the SiGO v2.0 Bus Operator Operational Management Integrated System for Horários do Funchal, over workflow and EAI middleware platforms, resulting in the new Link s Product SiGO v2.0. SMTUC (Coimbra bus operator): Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager Assistant for the consulting services on the testing and certification of the new smartcard supply (Mifare) for the Coimbra Transport Services (SMTUC). STIB and Other Regions in Belgium: following-up the STIB project, technical work is under development on the generalization of STIB Embedded Framework software modules, to be applied to all the other Transport and Services operators of the other Belgium Regions, together with STIB. OTLIS (operators consortium): Project Manager for the overall SIIT Service Center and Clearing House technical, infrastructure, evolutive maintenance and new modules. Transportes Colectivos do Barreiro: Project Manager on the support for Interoperability, Certification and Technical Support for the Calypso Smartcard interoperable system, for supply of the Personalization System (FrontSIIT) and for the supply of the Integration System (MessIAS), in coordination with other already running operators and SIIT. ATP (Porto Alegre / Brasil): Senior Business and Technology Consultant on the 1) Business Consulting process for ATFC system implementation, and 2) Specification, development, testing, and certification of an Universal API and Embedded Security Agent software modules to be delivered to the ticketing systems integrators for the various transport operators of the ATP Porto Alegre Metropolitan Region interoperabile and multi-service ticketing system. ADALYA (representing of Israely Ministry of Transports): Senior CALYPSO, ATFC and Clearing House Consultant on the definition of the future electronic ticketing nation wide system and clearing house. Page 6/10 - Curriculum vitae of

2004 STIB/MIVB (Brussels Operators): Senior CALYPSO Consultant on the Specification, development, testing, and certification of an Universal API and Embedded Security Agent Embedded Framework software modules to be delivered to the Calypso ticketing systems integrators for the various transport operators of the Brussels Metropolitan Area, initiated by STIB. ISR (Israel Railways): Senior ATFC and CALYPSO Consultant and Project Manager Assistant on the Creation of RFP (tender) for the several subsystems identified in ISR towards the implementation of the Calypso contactless ticketing. CP-USGL (train): Senior ATFC and CALYPSO Consultant and Project Manager Supporter on the Evaluation of the proposals for the contactless ticketing tender for the several subsystems identified in CP-USGL. EMEL (city parking): Promoter and Coordinator on the specification, development, testing, and certification of a contactless smartcard reloading, validation and collection hardware and software module (using Universal API, ApplicationCore, EasyCoupler) for EMEL parking equipments. Both proprietary and standard operating systems were used. This system is compatible with LisboaViva and 7 Colinas transportation cards. The on-going project aims the up-grade of nearly 400 to 1500 parking machines. This system will be fully interoperable with LisboaViva and 7 Colinas transportation cards and based on the SmartCITIES Contactless Electronic Ticketing Open Embedded Framework. Payshop (payment acceptance operator): Project Manager on the Specification, integration, testing, and certification of a contactless (LisboaViva and 7 Colinas ) smartcard reloading service for the Payshop Embedded POS (using Universal API, ApplicationCore, EasyCoupler), within the Payshop Point-of-Sale network (about 360 POS), which running an embedded operating system. This system is fully interoperable with LisboaViva and 7 Colinas transportation cards and based on the SmartCITIES Contactless Electronic Ticketing Open Embedded Framework. AMTL (Lisbon Region Transports Metropolitan Authority): development of a study on Recommendation on an Implementation Plan for the Ticketing Systems supporting the renewal of the Fare Model (in collaboration with TIS.pt) and Preliminary Plan for the Implementation of the Private Bus Operators Ticketing Systems. This work was presented on a official session by the Portuguese Minister of Transports on February 2005. STIB/MIVB (Brussels Operators): Senior Consultant for the Brussels Underground and Bus Operator STIB/MIVB, in partnership with MTA French consultancy company, towards the upgrade and implementation on the new open contactless ticketing system. Transtejo/Soflusa: Project Manager on the support for Interoperability, Certification and Technical Support for the Calypso Smartcard interoperable system, for supply of the Personalization System (FrontSIIT) and for the supply of the Integration System (MessIAS), in coordination with other already running operators and SIIT. OTLIS/SIBS (operators consortium/bank ATM manager): Project Manager on the specification, implementation, testing, development and certification of a Calypso contactless smartcard (LisboaViva) reloading system on the Portuguese ATM network operated by SIBS. Integration of this reloading channel with the Lisbon Clearing House, the SIIT system. ATLx (Lisbon Tourism): Sponsor and Senior Consultant on the new multi-service LisboaCard Tourist contactless system project, including Specification, development, testing, and certification of a contactless (new Tourist LisboaCard ) reloading system (Universal API, ApplicationCore, EasyCoupler, in which the SAM s are centrally located), within the Turismo Lisboa POS network (about 15 distributed stores). Standard equipment and operating system was used. This system is fully interoperable with LisboaViva and 7 Colinas transportation cards and based on the SmartCITIES Contactless Electronic Ticketing Open Embedded Framework. OTLIS (operators consortium): Project Manager on the extension of the API, Application Core and EasyCoupler for support of internet/distributed architecture for reloading, including central SAM server, remote thin-client and transaction router. OTLIS (operators consortium): Project Manager on the Specification, development, testing, and certification of a high level business level API (ApplicationCore) which implements a set of business rules, common to all ticketing applications (e.g. at the level of loading, validation, inspection/control). ISR (Israel Railways): Senior ATFC and CALYPSO Consultant and Project Manager Supporter on the consulting and design of the System Information Architecture / Enterprise Architecture to support the contactless ticketing Calypso migration plan from the existing Page 7/10 - Curriculum vitae of

2003 magnetic system in Israel Railways. Evaluation of the currently installed equipment and evaluation (technically and economically) of the possible scenarios for the migration to a Calypso contactless system. Analysis and evaluation of the relevant issues concerning the Israel National Calypso DataModel Interoperability and transport environment. OTLIS (operators consortium) / AMTL (Lisbon Region Transport Authority): Project Manager on the Specification of a new version of the Data Models for the Lisboa Viva smartcard and the 7 Colinas smart-ticket, towards the implementation of the new Fare Model by the Lisbon Region Transport Authority. CP-USGL (train), Transtejo/Soflusa (boats): Project Manager on the support for implementation, testing, certification and roll-out of the CP and Transtejo Calypso Smartcard Personalization System (FrontSIIT) and smartcard procurement and certification (towards second and third supply). CP-USGL: Senior ATFC and CALYPSO Consultant and Project Manager Assistant on the consulting and design of the System Information Architecture / Enterprise Architecture to support the contactless ticketing Calypso migration plan from the existing magnetic system, and creation of RFP (tender documents) for the several subsystems identified in CP-USGL, and interoperable with OTLIS and all Lisbon region operators. Metropolitano de Lisboa (underground), Carris (urban bus), OTLIS (operators consortium), CP-USGL (train) - Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager Assistant (except CP) consulting on the implementation, testing and certification of the Lisbon Calypso contactless ticketing systems implementation and new smartcard supply certification. OTLIS (operators consortium): Project Manager and Architect on the Architecture, specification and development of the new modules for the Lisbon SIIT (Sistema de Informação Intermodal de Transportes - Transport Intermodal Information System). Carris: Project Manager on the development on the SIMIP real-time passenger information system, based on SMS and Web multi-channel. Metropolitano de Lisboa (underground), Carris (urban bus), OTLIS (operators consortium): Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager Assistant, consulting on the implementation, testing and certification of the Lisbon Calypso contactless ticketing systems implementation. OTLIS (operators consortium): Project Manager and Architect on the project of architecture, specification and development of the Lisbon Global Coordination System Service Center ( Clearing House ) - SIIT (Sistema de Informação Intermodal de Transportes, Transport Intermodal Information System), including modules for: Card and Customer Management, List Management, Card Personalization, Revenue Clearing (based on the validation and selling transactions from different operators), Transport Contracts Creation and Definition, Calypso Security Modules Management and Embedded Security Agent. The system follows the best practices and standard on smartcard and transportation sectors namely: CALYPSO, ISO- 14443, ENV-1545, ISO-14904, Transmodel, Fastest. OTLIS (operators consortium): Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager on the Specification, testing and certification of the Calypso Security Modules and pre-definition of the SAM and Security Management System and Embedded Security Agent (ASE) used within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML) Universal API. OTLIS (operators consortium): Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager Universal API extension for the 7 Colinas contactless smart-ticket support, extension of the framework to support several readers and source-code portability for several terminal operating systems. OTLIS (operators consortium): Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager on the Data Model Specification for the disposable and re-loadable 7 Colinas contactless smart-ticket for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Carris: Project Manager Supporter and Sponsor Assistant on the development on the PROSSIGO Operational Management Integrated System for Carris, over workflow and EAI middleware platforms. 1999-2002 Metropolitano de Lisboa (underground), Carris (urban bus), OTLIS (operators consortium): Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager Assistant, consulting on the Lisbon Calypso contactless ticketing systems implementation. OTLIS (operators consortium): Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager on the Specification, development, testing, and certification of an Universal API to be delivered to the Page 8/10 - Curriculum vitae of

Calypso ticketing systems integrators for the various transport operators of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML), for access to the LisboaViva card. OTLIS (operators consortium): Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager on the Data Model Specification of the LisboaViva card for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (to be supported on Calypso cards). Metropolitano de Lisboa (underground), Carris (urban bus), OTLIS (operators consortium): Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager Assistant on the creation of RFP (tender), evaluation of ticketing and fare collection systems proposals, and technical consultancy, towards the generalization process of the Calypso contactless card in transportation. OTLIS (operators consortium): Senior Technical Consultant and Project Manager Assistant on the specification of the first draft DataModel for the URBI contactless smartcard for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LisboaViva ancestral). OTLIS (operators consortium) 1999-2000: Technical and Project Manager of URBI2000 project, including specification, development, purchasing/production, installation, testing and maintenance of a multimodal transportation contactless ticketing system for the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, with internet, smartcards and contactless technologies. This pilot project was developed as an extension of the ICARE and CALYPSO European projects. The project resulted in: 1) embedded exploitation and validation software in transport vehicles and rail/metro platform gates, 2) central system for the set-up, data analysis and revenue compensation, 3) card personalization system using a SIBS interface, 4) transporting tickets loading system in contact and contactless cards and in internet (e.g. home-pc and Banking Kiosk), integrating several payment methods. OTLIS (operators consortium) - 1998-2000: Technical and Project Manager of CALYPSO project (integration with multiple services and finance operators), for the Transportation Operators of the Lisbon Region (OTLIS), together with French, German, Italian and Belgium partners. Integration of the contactless pass contactless smartcard with PMB (Portuguese electronic purse smartcard) together with SIBS (Portuguese interbank company), Innovatron, Gemplus. Development of smartcard personalization systems, ATM and Internet card reloading and revenue clearing systems. EMEL (city parking) - 1999: Technical and Project Manager on the study of an automatic payment solution based on smartcards and contactless technologies for the EMEL parking system. OTLIS (operators consortium) - 1996-1998: Technical and Project Manager of ICARE (contactless smartcard technologies integration in public transport services), for the Transportation Operators of the Lisbon Region Consortium (OTLIS), together with French, German and Italian partners (e.g. RATP, Innovatron). Publications and Presentations 2008_Author of The new technologies and Social Inclusion, Transportes em Revista, July 2008, Lisbon, Portugal. 2008_Co-author on Cartes 2008 Conference, on the theme Generic Contactless Ticketing Validator by Software, November 2008, Paris, France 2008_Speaker on Local andregional Government Solutions Forum Conference, on the theme RF Smartcards for City Multi-services, April 2008, Porto, Portugal 2007_Speaker on RFID Outlook On RFID The next Step on the Internet of Things European Commission Conference, on the theme RF Interoperable Portable Contracts - Making daily life easier for Citizens, November 2007, Lisboa, Portugal 2007_Speaker on 24th Contactless Users Board (C.L.U.B.) Conference, on the theme Cards for Municipality Multi-services - Motivations, Challenges, Opportunities and Technical Approach for PT Operators Driven process, March 2007, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. 2006_Co-author of Article Ticketing Systems on the improvement of Urban Mobility, Março 2006, Revista Mobilidade, Angola. 2006_Speaker on Contactless Users Board (C.L.U.B.) Electronic Ticketing Systems Conference, on the theme Business related aspects of electronic Ticketing systems - Contactless technology in the Lisbon Region (building a multi-services and multi-supplier environment), October 2006, Romania. 2006_Speaker on Contactless Users Board (C.L.U.B.) Technical Meeting, on the Transports Intermodal Information System (SIIT) in Lisbon, The Open Approach, Reloading ATM, Payshop and Internet July 2006 2004_Speaker on the TRENDSETTER conference on Efficient Public Transport Intermodality on the following subjects: 1) Transports Intermodal Information System (SIIT) in Lisbon and on Lisbon and Porto faremodel integration on behalf of OTLIS, Lille, October Page 9/10 - Curriculum vitae of

2004 2004_Moderator Assistant on the 3rd Transportes em Revista Conference and author of the Session C article on the Transportes em Revista magazine, Lisbon, June 2004 2004_Co-Speaker in 11th Informatics Week Conference of the Instituto Superior Técnico with the theme Mobile Marketing and Ticketing the LisboaViva case, Lisbon, March 2004 2003_Member of the "Calypso Network Association" as independent consultant towards a coordinated approach aiming to consolidate Calypso interoperable reference specifications, define certification tools and methods, and exchange and consolidate specifications with ITSO and IOPTA. 2003_Member of the "Workshop e-authentication" (CEN/ISSS), towards a co-ordinated approach towards the functionality of electronic cardholder Identification, Authentication and Digital signature mechanisms in the European Union. 2003_Speaker in 10th Informatics Week Conference of the Instituto Superior Técnico with the theme LisboaViva Architecture The Citizen s mobility assured by a distributed multiservices architecture, based on contactless smartcards, Lisbon, March 2003 2002-2003_Expert Consultant invited to work on the Public Transports International Union - UITP, TransITS project (Tr@nsITS). 2002_Lecturer in Interoperability and Intermodal Tools section of the 14th International Conference of CLUB (Contact Less Users Board), Lisbon, October 2002 2002_Became Founder Member of the Editorial Board of the magazine Transportes em Revista (i.e. Public Transports Magazine). 2002_Joint author of the presentation An Intelligent Ticketing System as the basis for a new Customer Approach, with Dra Regina Ferreira Metropolitano de Lisboa, UITP, Bologna, February 2002 2001_Lecturer for the Seminar net Tur 2001 on the subject Electronic Payment Methods, IIR, Lisbon, Sheraton Hotel, May 2001 2000_ Internet Business-to-Business in the Calypso Project, A. Cunha, R. Pereira, J. Almeida, Eighteenth IASTED International Conference, APPLIED INFORMATICS - AI'2000, February 14th-17th, 2000 1999_Speaker for the Seminar Computer activities, safety threats and information system protection ID and access cards, Instituto da Defesa Nacional, Lisbon, December 1999. 1998_Discussion leader for the Ticketing Session in the International Conference of CLUB, Rimini, October 1998. 1998_ESIS (European Survey on Information Society) European Award for the CALYPSO project and its relevance in promoting the Information Society 1998_ Hands free Data Collection System Demonstrator, A. Cunha, J. Almeida, ICARE Deliverable D06.2, INESC, March 14th, 1998. 1996_Discussion leader for the Ticketing Session in the 3rd International Conference of CLUB (Contact Less Users Board), with worldwide Transportation Operators, Konstanz, October 25th, 1996 1996_ Hands free Data Collection System - Operational Specification, A. Cunha, J. Almeida, F. Jesus, ICARE Deliverable D06.1, INESC, October 19th, 1996 1995_Masters Thesis: Specification and Evaluation of Material Architecture for Network Hubs, J. Almeida, IST, 1995 1992_ Specification of a MBII/Transputers Interface, F. Jesus, J. Almeida, HAMLET Document INE13006, 1992 1992_ NFS Server on ELENA Stations, J. Almeida, A. Azevedo, Sistemas Operativos Distribuídos (Distributed Operating Systems), IST, 1992 1991_ ATM- SAR Sub-layer Type 3, J. Almeida, J. Sousa, End of Studies Final Project, IST, 1991 Page 10/10 - Curriculum vitae of