Roberto Nunes

Current

CTO at Samba Ventures
Owner at Gigasoft Ltda

Past

Director - SWAT Brazil at Naspers
CIO (Chief Information Office) at iMusica
IT Manager at iMusica

Systems Engineer at RealNetworks
Senior Software Engineer and Internet and Network Administrator at O Globo

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Education

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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Industry

Internet

Roberto Nunes’s Summary

IT Executive who combines in-depth technical knowledge, innovation and creativity with infrastructure and operations experience to build world-class, internet companies and e-commerce applications; to transforms ideas into reality.

Roberto Nunes’s Specialties:

Internet, IT Management, Research and Development, Solution Architect, Strategic Planning, Web 2.0, e-Bussines, e-Commerce, Business Inteligence, Digital Media, Information Security, Project Management, Digital Distribuition, Software Development.

Roberto Nunes’s Experience

CTO

Samba Ventures

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2009 — Present (1 year )

Samba Ventures is a internet incubator. A holding company, with focus on developing internet projects. It is a 100% Brazilian venture, but intends to act worldwide. Our main goal is to develop and deploy B2C products and services. The first major project is Help Saude (http://www.helpsaude.com) the most powerfull and feature rich search engine for health professionals in Brazil.
Owner

Gigasoft Ltda

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)

Major partner in this consulting and development group. We are a group of IT experts able to provide consulting, and share our expertise in e-comerce, e-bussines, software development, digital media, IT management and Internet solutions.
Director - SWAT Brazil

Naspers

(Internet industry)

July 2008 — January 2009 (7 months)

Head of the SWAT Team in Brazil. The SWAT (Strategic Worldwide Applications and Technologies) Team is a R&D group answering directly to the group CIO.

Provided technology vision and leadership in development and implementation of technology and research initiatives, infra-structure and operations.

Performed Technical Due Diligence in possible new investments companies. Adviced and evaluated under technical perspective this possible investments. Provided detailed report on company technology assets compared to market standards.

Encouraged technical synergies between group company and facilitated technical exchange and shared expertise.

Researched and created completely new products that can, latter, evolve as a full companies.
CIO (Chief Information Office)

iMusica

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

March 2004 — July 2008 (4 years 5 months)

Head of technology initiatives and corporate IT. Strategic planning, including business and technology solutions, answering directly to the shareholders board. Performed as solution architect for advanced solutions.

Builded a phonetic search engine for e-commerce sites, still unique in LA, enabling users to found items with spelling errors.

Builded in-house a full platform for dual delivery media distribution that saved more than US$2 million and allowed iMusica to expand business to mobile content. This made possible the deal that allowed the expansion of iMusica to all Latin America. It more than doubled iMusica´s value and had a big impact on ideasnet shares.

Implemented all e-commerce related operations: CRM, rights distribution, payment reports, monitoring, infrastructure, security, fraud and intrusion detection, 24x7 support, integration with content producers, distributors and retailers, transforming this startup company; now evaluated at US$100 million.
IT Manager

iMusica

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

August 2000 — March 2004 (3 years 8 months)

Created, developed and deployed all technological infra-structure for this startup Internet company. Builded the needed infra-structure, created and implement solutions. Hired and managed an expert development team.Worked with music executives and copyright experts, advising and driving the company technology platforms and partnerships.
Systems Engineer

RealNetworks

(Public Company; Internet industry)

October 1999 — July 2000 (10 months)

Technical coordination and implementation of multimedia projects with streaming media for the Latin America region. Technical solutions for networks and media broadcast. Consulting and software development to Realnetworks clients.
Senior Software Engineer and Internet and Network Administrator

O Globo

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

January 1996 — October 1999 (3 years 10 months)

Technical responsible for o Globo Internet site. Including Hardware, Software, Security and Sofware Development

Roberto Nunes’s Education

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Pos , Information Tecnology, Networks, OS , 1993 — 1995

I also worked as teacher and software engineer in various research projects that generated various publications. Research projects in Internet, information retrival, graphical interface design, search engines, web robots, microcircuit design verification, and computer aided design.

Activities and Societies:

teacher, COPPE and NCE research team
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

graduation , Information Tecnology , 1989 — 1993

I also worked as a junior software engineer in various research projects that generated various publications. Including fields like internet, web, computer aided learning, hypertext, information retrival, human interface design.

Activities and Societies:

NCE research team

Additional Information

Roberto Nunes’s Interests:

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