The application was to be developed and rolled out on 5 location (4 factories across the globe and a central deployment on the headquarters) over a period of 12 months. I was responsible for compiling the final requirements , define time lines,  create the technical solution, test plan and discuss it with the vendor. Budget definition and  control were also part of my functions.

The budget for this project was around 500k/euros and the solutions and the project was delivered on time on on budget.  Although i was then working from the business side i designed most of the technical solution and even developed the reporting platform that would centralize the data from several locations.

On the business side i was also the responsible for the long waited alignment between sites on modeling strategies and conventions. On the beginning of the project one of the biggest problems was that although data from the sites was available , each site had its own format and way of model a certain manufacturing operation. For the central planners that was a nightmare. This project solved this issue and allowed greater visibility over the sites performance.

On the second year as project manager i was integrated on the Supply Chain projects group and took care of smaller projects. Within this projects i recall the Diebank Implementation , System Integration of a Silicon Foundry, Reporting Portal,  Engineering Rolling Forecast etc

The last three months on this position i was part of the team that would implement a location production planning and scheduling called Factory Planners. The team was based in Porto and i was responsible for the capacity modeling and data sourcing.

However my main role was to develop a central capacity planning tool that would allow the central departments to create scenarios on product allocation and  investment over the several semi-competing sites in order to find the optimum setup for the Supply Chain model.

The basic struture of the application was a mathematical model of the supply chain , including the diferent locations and broken down to the baswic production steps. The development of this tool gave me great insight both on production modeling and simulation skills as well a great knowledge on short and long term planning methods.

The application was completed with success and it served as a prototype for a new global capacity optimization tool.

The project consisted in replacing their old intranet platform by a dynamic platform that would allow news postings, document archiving, dynamic information over departments and groups, personal advertisements, weather and cultural information etc.

The project consisted of several phases from requirement gathering , specification , database modeling , implementation , test , release and documentation.

The technological platforms used were an Oracle database and IIS. The coding was done using ASP. My past experience with web-applications and PHP was easily translated to this project and my learning of VBscript was quite fast.

Besides maximizing my habilities and understanding of webapplication this project also introduced me to a new area , web crawling and content parsing.

In 2002 there were no such things as feeds. If you needed to include some information from another website you would need to fetch it and parse it to the format you needed. This was the case for the news, weather and cultural content of the intranet portal.

Several crawlers and parsers were designed in VB and were triggeres by a cron job on the server.  The crawlers would collect the webpage html code , and the parser would select and  retrieve the data out of the html page. The data was then stored on the database and presented in the portal.

The project was a success and was graded 17.5/20.  My internship was extended for another six months and i kept working on web-application targeting content management.