Alex Pires
Senior Technical Advisor at Export Development Canada | Exportation et développement Canada - EDC
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Pires is a Senior Technical Advisor with over three decades of experience across semiconductors, telecommunications and infrastructure, now based in Ottawa. He has led large international R&D organizations and multimillion-dollar silicon development programs, including responsibility for global ASIC/FPGA efforts at Nortel and multi-center teams at Zarlink. Equally comfortable as a hands-on IC designer and a strategic manager, he has a proven track record connecting research, product development and commercialization to deliver projects on time, on budget and to spec. Alex has commercial and general management experience building cross-border partnerships and financing structures for large infrastructure and energy projects in Brazil and beyond. Fluent in English and Portuguese with conversational French and Spanish, he brings rare bilingual international market insight alongside deep technical leadership. A pragmatic connector of companies, customers and suppliers, he excels at turning complex technical roadmaps into funded, executable programs.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Ba, Electronic Engineering, Ba, Electronic Engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Github Skills (6)
open-data10
data-repository10
publish10
publisher10
creative-commons9
open-source7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
OpenDataRepository/data-publisher
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
The Open Data Repository's Data Publisher software is a tool for the scientific community to publish and collaborate simply and easily.
Contributions:2 releases, 961 commits, 16 PRs in 7 years 10 months
publishdata-repositorydata-publishercollaborateopen-data
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