Luis Alveirinho, aged 52, is Director of Network Planning and Implementation of Portugal Telecom, responsible for the planning, implementation and strategic development of the fixed and mobile networks, since May 2008 and Member of the Board of PT Inovação (R&D company of the PT Group).
Luis Alveirinho joined PT in 1983 and has worked in the areas of Networks and Systems, namely in the areas of management, planning, engineering and strategic development of networks and systems.
From 1999 to 2002 he was Director of Engineering and Network Planning, responsible for the technical development of all the network platforms and systems in PT. From 1996 to 1999 he was Director of Network Management and Operational Support Systems at PT, responsible for the implementation and management of all Network Management platforms used in the wireline business of PT.
As a representative of PT, he was “Technical Delegate” at the ETSI NA4 standardisation group and member of several European projects within the RACE programme - Research and Development on Advanced Communications in Europe - from 1990 to 1994.
Luis Alveirinho holds a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering and a Master of Sciences (MSc) degree in Telecommunications and Computer Science from the Lisbon Technical University.