Vasco Gonçalves is a Sr. Consultant and Trainer in Information Technology & Computing. He founded SDNC (Smart Digital & Networks Consulting) sàrl in 2016. He has been in International Conferences where he gave a keynote talk about smart cities, more specifically EVA Smart City, in Moscow, Russia.
Short Biography:
He has double nationality (Luxembourger and Portuguese). He speaks 5 languages at full proficiency (English, French, German, Portuguese and Luxembourgish) and speaks 2 languages at limited proficiency (Spanish and Italian).
He is passionate about Smart Cities by having read science-fiction cartoons and books since he was four to five years of age. As an early teenager, he discovered his ability to learn independently scientific books. Later, he discovered Jacque Fresco and his futuristic practical designs, and especially about his Venus project.
He studied through schooling and independently (via books), fine-mechanics, electro-mechanics and (micro-)electronics, called mechatronics. Later he went to the Open University to study Information Technology and Computing to complement what he studied independently and academically.
His final project was a theoretical research on Internet connectivity via a high-speed train’s catenary. He did a practical model to make his findings flawless – uninterrupted for 3 months.
He took some courses about Smart Cities at the Open University. The course material was known to him, but through the international forum exchanges with other mature and young students his knowledge was extremely enriched.
He worked in early robotics for a company, called Omicron S.A. Luxembourg. He participated in the engineering of a full automated warehouse, and participated in devising a prototype for the construction of a fully automated robotized carrier for the Airbus industries (Airbus’ Production Facility at Hamburg Finkenwerder, Germany), among other projects.
Later, he joined an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company based in London, UK. The subsidiary in Luxembourg was staffed by 10 highly specialized engineers with himself as a deputy director.
Thereafter, he became a freelance in ICT and a few years later an expert in Smart Buildings and did training to young and old alike in ICT at a governmental facility (Continuous Vocational Education Training).
He decided to cease his freelance career to go back to school, mainly about the management and the administration of companies, and marketing, at the Luxembourg School for Commerce.
He created SDNC sàrl for the continuation of his freelancing and more specifically in Smart Cities because he saw a completely wrong approach regarding the technology used in the so-called Smart Cities. That’s the reason why he published some articles on the social networks, LinkedIn and beBee (where many PhD students are using his articles for their theses) and he offered his expertise and experience in Smart Buildings and Cities to any country, where Russia was the first one to manifest interest.
Due to major contentions among politicians and corporate CEOs, he decided to archive the project until further notice.
You may find more information on LinkedIn.
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