FiberWork's main resource is its highly qualified personnel who are very competent in their own fields - a select team of PhD professionals, researchers and technically high skilled engineers with proven professional merits in optical fiber technology, optical communication systems, optoelectronics, electronics, instrumentation, software, marketing, business and administration.

Motivation, initiative, dedication and entrepreneurship are also skills of its people. Some of these professionals have been hired through grants and sponsorships from scientific councils (Fapesp and CNPq) and special government programs.

Management Team

Dr. Sérgio Barcelos, PhD, CTO

Dr. Sérgio Barcelos is an Electronics Engineer specialized in Optical Fiber Communications. He is the founder and technical director of FiberWork Optical Communications Ltd. Before that, he was with the Dept. of Communications at the Faculty of Electrical and Computing Engineering of the State University of Campinas, Unicamp, Brazil. His PhD degree in optical fiber communications was obtained at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom and his Master degree in coherent optical communications was obtained at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Unicamp, Brazil.

Previously, he worked for Elebra Telecom (currently Alcatel-Brazil), CPqD-Telebras as a R&D Engineer. His degree in Electronics Engineering was obtained at the Aeronautics Institute of Technology, ITA, Brazil.

He has got over 40 publications in international technical journals and conferences, 2 international patents and a British award for invention in fiber optics ("Metrology for World Class Manufacturing Award").

"He has got over 40 publications in international technical journals and conferences, 2 international patents and a British award for invention in fiber optics"

Dr. Barcelos is the coordinator of the work group on optical network elements of the Brazilian National Association for Technical Standarts (COBEI-ABNT). He is member of the IEEE-LEOS (Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers, Laser and Electro-Optics Society), IEEE-COMSOC (IEEE Communications Society), OSA (Optical Society of America), SPIE (Society of Optical Engineers) and SCTE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers), having been the founder and president of the 'Southampton Student Chapter of OSA'.

Dr. Barcelos' expertise covers the following subjects: DWDM optical networking, impairments in optical communications, chromatic dispersion and dispersion compensation techniques, Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD), fiber non-linearities, optical losses, fiber amplification technologies, optical components, sub-systems and systems, fiber metrology, fiber network field diagnosis, fiber plant supervision, availability and reliability of fiber optic networks, optical protection technologies, FTTx, SDH/SONET, HFC/CATV networks, fiber LAN technologies, GBitEthernet and CWDM etc.

In summary, Dr. Barcelos links a profound and broad R&D background with strong experience in the real world applications of optical communication technology as well as entrepreneurial skills.

Management Team

Elso L. Rigon, CEO

Graduated at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), with Masters in physics and applied optical communications, Elso is the CEO of FiberWork Optical Communications. He has a great knowhow in research and technological development in the area of optical fiber communications, optical metrology, photonic crystals, DWDM, FTTH, limitations of optical networks, optical transmission of 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps optical communications, diffractive optics, nano-structures, holography, microlitografia and photonics in general.

Other than this, he received theoretical and practical training in FTTH technology at NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation) in Osaka, Japan, organized by Japan International Cooperation Agency. He is a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and was founder and the first vice president of the OSA-Unicamp. Nowadays he is also the co-founder and CEO of iTech - Institute for Photonic Innovations. He has already published over 17 technical articles which had their patents registered in over 5 countries.

" he had an important participation in FiberWork´s international projects held in places such as U.S., Turkey, Spain, Mexico and Brazil"

In FiberWork he also collaborates with the coordination of technology development projects with FAPESP / PIPE (Program for Innovation in Small Enterprises) and CNPq / PDNTM Program (Dissemination of New Technologies in Microelectronics), focusing on technological development of innovative products. Because of his wide knowledge in theoretical and experimental optics he had an important participation in FiberWork´s international projects held in places such as U.S., Turkey, Spain, Mexico and Brazil.

Kunio Oyama, Business Development Manager

Kunio Oyama joined FiberWork in May 2007. He brought an extensive experience in product development of optical communications and vast knowledge in telecommunications. He graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (1980) and has a MBA from Fundação Getulio Vargas.

Along his career, he gained great experience with the development of products and solutions for the optical communication market and got involved in the design and deployment of optical networks and hybrid (fiber-coax). Previously, he had worked at innovative companies like Garcia Enterprises / MPB Communications (Canada), INPE (National Institute for Space Research), NEC Brazil and NEC Japan. He has a great know-how of PMI recommendations for project management and has international working experience: he spent 3 years working abroad at NEC Japan to develop new products for optical communications. He is also a collaborator of the Institute for Photonic Innovations – iTech.

"At FiberWork he is responsible for the alignment of requirements and technical specifications of products under development according to real market needs."

At FiberWork he is responsible for the alignment of requirements and technical specifications of products under development according to real market needs. There he studies and implements innovations demanded by the market, monitors and guides the development team, manages the prospection of potential customers and partners, establishes strategic partnerships to enable the practical testing of equipment and coordinates the implementation of practical tests at selected customers and strategic partners.