Pedro Morais

Senior Product Manager

Elsevier | SciBite

Apr 2023 - Current (3 years 7 months)

SciBite’s data-first, semantic analytics software is designed for those who want to innovate and get more from their data. Built by scientists for scientists, SciBite believes data fuels discovery and is leading the way with its pioneering infrastructure that combines the latest in machine learning with an ontology-led approach to unlock the value of scientific content.

Product Manager

Elsevier | SciBite

Sep 2022 - Apr 2023 (8 months)

Content Platform Capability Manager (Product Owner)

Wiley

Apr 2020 - Aug 2022 (2 years 5 months)

Senior Product Manager, Digital Resources

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Mar 2017 - Mar 2020 (3 years 1 month)

Digital Publishing Analyst

Oxford University Press

Sep 2015 - Mar 2017 (1 year 7 months)

Solutions Architect

Atypon

Mar 2014 - Sep 2015 (1 year 7 months)

As a member of the Solution Architecture team, I was responsible for designing and implementing technology solutions on a number of scholarly publisher websites, including Taylor & Francis eBooks, Informa Healthcare and The Lancet. These range from new individual features to complete websites. Working within agile and waterfall project management workflows, my responsibilities included:
• Interacting with clients’ various constituencies to interpret and evaluate business requirements, and propose technology solutions.
• Identifying the need/opportunity for platform extension with new features and functionality and bring it to the attention of product management
• Working in cross-functional internal teams (engineering, qualit

Account Manager

Atypon

Apr 2013 - Mar 2014 (1 year)

As a member of the Client Services team, I was responsible for managing a number of academic and scholarly publishers hosted on Atypon’s Literatum platform, including Taylor & Francis, Edinburgh University Press and Elsevier. This involved:
• Building a comprehensive knowledge of the customers’ platforms and using that knowledge to help them get the most out of our products
• Owning the relationship with customers, properly setting their expectations, and ensuring that their needs were met in a timely manner
• Working with software engineers and solution architects to achieve the successful launch and operation of advanced content websites and to implement new features
• Working with vendors and third party partners (e.g

Digital Project Editor / Product Development Manager

Cengage

Sep 2011 - Apr 2013 (1 year 8 months)

As part of the Library Reference team, my responsibilities included:
• Developing, tracking and driving forward the editorial stages of a number of electronic resources and projects, ensuring LR content and products are produced on time, to budget and to specification
• Carrying out research for the LR publishers for future projects
• Briefing, managing and overseeing freelancers, suppliers, copyright holders and partner organisations, copy-editing and proofreading as required
• Day to day management of both internal resources and outsourced content acquisition and development activities for LR publishing programmes
• Deputising for the LR publishers as appropriate; attending and presenting at business meetings with

Independent language consultant

PM

Mar 2011 - Sep 2011 (7 months)

Working on a number of projects, from translation and copy-editing to a 7-month computational linguistics project for Lionbridge.

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Editor

National Strategies

Oct 2010 - Feb 2011 (5 months)

Overseeing and carrying-out editorial tasks for web, print and e-learning products, applying best practice standards in the production of Annual Plan products, including:
• Checking submitted content against quality standards and project scope
• Application of the writing and style guide, copyright and image consent permissions
• Ensuring content is applicable for its intended delivery channel (eg. web or print)
• Briefing and commissioning of external staff
• Effective and efficient asset and content management
• Application of metadata
• Day to day running and maintenance of the NS website
• Identifying and resolving issues in production

Language Specialist

Hogarth

Nov 2009 - Oct 2010 (1 year)

Translating, proofreading and producing copy for a number of client accounts, including:
• Nike - TV adverts
• Pfizer - brochures and marketing materials
• Nokia - video editing software and website content
• Ford - TV adverts and website content

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Researcher

ILTEC - Institute for Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, Lisbon

May 2007 - Oct 2009 (2 years 6 months)

Member of the 'Discourse and Literacy' Research Group Duties included:
• Research into written language development of primary school children
• Transcribing and tagging a corpus of oral conversations
• Research into a functional description of forms of address and power negotiation
• Collecting, tagging and analysing data sets
• Setting up and maintaining the institute's local network and server computer

Project Manager

Lionbridge

Oct 2006 - Apr 2007 (7 months)

Responsibilities included:
• Managing client accounts such as: Oracle, LG, Nikon, Huawei, Samsung
• Overseeing all stages of a project, from scheduling and production to final delivery
• Recruiting and assessing new translators
• Managing a team of translators, reviewers, QA leads and DTP professionals
• Liaising with clients and international offices
• Identifying opportunities for optimising processes and workflow
• Providing training for new project managers
• Ensuring all deadlines and our standard for quality were met

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Copy Editor & Proofreader

am edições | antónio alves martins

Jan 2005 - Sep 2006 (1 year 9 months)

Inspecting galley proofs and correcting layout of text and graphics for printing Proofreading, style editing and fact checking of:
• Exhibition catalogues for museums and galleries - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
• Art catalogues
• Company reports - Portugal Telecom
• Newsletters - Luso-American Foundation

Translator & Language Specialist

Lionbridge

Jan 2002 - Jan 2005 (3 years 1 month)

Services provided included:
• Testing of product support pages and interfaces
• Software localization - Oracle, IBM, Microsoft
• Translation and editing of:
• medical brochures and materials - NHS Direct, GM Medical, Nobel Biocare
• operating manuals and interfaces for electronic devices - Nokia, Samsung, HP
• promotional materials for video games and game consoles - Xbox, N-Gage

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