Summary
Alex 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