William Milner

Consultant & Entrepeneur

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About me

With over 7 years of international experience across semiconductor factories, aircraft assembly lines and IT systems, I have seen firsthand how the power of collective intelligence enables us to achieve extraordinary feats. I’ve built expertise in LEAN methodologies, helping companies streamline operations, reduce waste, and maximize value for the customer. I am constantly amazed by what humanity can achieve when we combine our expertise, creativity, and technology.

My passion lies in using this combination of science, technology, and human collaboration to solve complex challenges, create economic value, and drive progress. Whether optimizing manufacturing processes or integrating advanced technologies like AI and data analytics, my goal is always to unlock new levels of efficiency and innovation. I believe that by working together—leveraging the best of our technical skills and human ingenuity—we can build more resilient, sustainable, and impactful industries.

Together with my engineering background, I've gathered advanced analytics skills (Python, SQL, Advanced Statistics and ML) and cloud computing knowledge (AWS + GCP certifications) through 500+ hours of self-learning and post-graduate studies.

I aspire to establish my own small farm in the future, with a strong belief in the transformative potential of rural areas, a vision I intend to actualize through a project named "Nowhere Desk."

My endeavours have taken me to work in Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, South Korea and the USA. Additionally, I spent a gap year in Brazil.

I feel at home in the Ocean. I kitesurf, (scuba)dive and swim on a regular basis.

Career

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03/2024 - Present
Business Relationship Manager - IT & Cloud
Airbus
Lisbon, Portugal

I manage the deployment of Software, IT and Cloud infrastructure solutions that enable Airbus' partners around the Globe. Serving as the key interface between business stakeholders, suppliers, and IT infrastructure teams, I ensure integration of technology solutions with business objectives.

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2021 - Present
Co-Founder
Nowhere Desk
Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal

Nowhere Desk started out with the simple idea of creating a nice coworking space in the countryside. The idea grew to a more broad concept of community building

With the economic and demographic context of Portugal in mind, at Nowhere Desk we believe that part of the solution for the current housing crisis coupled with the climate paradigm, is to build vibrant communities in otherwise abandoned rural areas.

At this stage we are building our first hub in a small village in Northend Portugal.

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2021 - 2023
International Project Coordinator
ASML
Eindhoven, Netherlands
+ Taiwan, USA, S.Korea

Managing various stakeholders, processes and materials for multi-million projects around the world at ASML's customers' sites (mainly in the USA, Taiwan and South Korea. My tasks included:

•Process deployment and optimization with LEAN principles

•Training local teams so that operations could be less reliant on fly-in engineers

•Setting up data measurement systems for operational KPIs

•Setting up data dashboards for KPI review and Business Analytics

•Risk management and mitigation

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2018 - 2021
System Integration Engineer
ASML
Eindhoven, Netherlands
+ Taiwan, USA, S.Korea

As a System Integration Engineer, I travelled to ASML's customers chip manufacturing sites to perform techincal assessments on EUV systems so that they could be commissioned into production. I worked 12 hour shifts inside these fabs, mainly troubleshooting both software and hardware related issues. My tasks could go from reading endless error codes to calibrating hyper sensitive optical sensors or adjusting robot arms.

I developped the capacity of absorving big ammounts of technical information and processing them to knowledge that I could use to get through my tasks and make sure these systems would be delivered with the highest quality standards and on time.

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Jan - Jul 2018
Product Feasibility Analyst
Bosch Thermotechnik
Giessen, Germany

(Master Thesis Internship) I worked at Bosch Thermotechnik for 6 months. The main goal was to assess the feasibility of hybrid heat pumps (electric heat pumps assisted by gas boilers) as products in the german market.

On the thechnical side, I had to physically orchestrate a simulation system that could measure various performance indicators of these systems. As this generated massive ammounts of data, it was followed by a thorough analysis. This was where I became excited about the power of data, as I took valueable insights from it.

It also entailed a macro economic analysis of the energetic and political paradigm given that electricity and gas prices as well as government incentives to decrease the gas consumption would be important variables to assess this product's feasibility.

Education

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2023
Data Science Bootcamp
Le Wagon
Remote

•A 26-week intensive boot camp with live and on- demand lectures, and a final 4-week group project.

•I was responsible for the backend of an App that detects ingredients in a picture and returns recipes to cook them (project-cook on my git repository)

•Advanced Statistics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and MLOps with GCP

Data Science & AI Course

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2013 - 2018
MSc Mechanical Engineering
Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal

•Specialization in Thermodynamics, Energy Management Systems, Industrial Automation. •Semester abroad in the Czech Republic and Master at Bosch, Germany

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2016
MSc Mechanical Engineering - ERASMUS+
Technická univerzita v Liberci
Liberec, Czech Republic

A semester studying in the north of Czech Republic. An enriching experience that lead to unhealthy ammounts of beer.

Portfolio

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Project Cook

Graduation project for the Data Science course. Take a picture of what you have in your fridge, and it generates a list of possible recipes. I wrote and compiled the .py modules with the data processing and AI models. I deployed the project on GCP using Docker and Cloud Run. The project is now offline.

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This Website

I designed this website from scratch with HTML, CSS (+ Bootstrap). It is deployed on amazon S3, and distributed globally with CloudFront. It uses a custom DNS with AWS Route 53. The counter data is updated and fed with API Gateway, Lambda and store in DynamoDB.

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Agritech Project (ongoing)

A project in a very incipient stage. Our goal is to generate value through Data Science and AI that can serve small farmers. As for now, we are developing a model that can make yield predictions accross the globe, for any crop.