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Lisbon, Portugal

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As part of Advanced Technology Services global division, the Head of portfolio strategy has the accountability to shape and drive the creation of a coherent Hybrid IT portfolio which meets the needs of the global customers, across all geographies Fujitsu is represented (Europe, Americas and APAC).Shaping our portfolio to address customers challenges and its adoption in the areas of Cloud, Security and Connected Edge by collaborating with the regional portfolio stakeholders, regional business owners and leading the analyst relationship.The role includes:• Create and maintain portfolio vision, strategy and roadmap• Drive portfolio product owners and product managers to deliver against portfolio roadmap• Collaborate with customers, analysts, regions and other portfolio areas to drive strategy and grow Fujitsubusiness• Support M&A

Jp

Being at the heart of Fujitsu's strategic drive towards a truly globalised portfolio of services offering in Cloud, Application modernization, CyberSecurity and Connectivity areas, by ensuring that our customer-facing teams are provided with the portfolio of service offerings which they need to be able to delight our customers, ultimately contributing to Fujitsu’s success.

Jp

Acting as a CoE, enabling a team of subject matter experts, portfolio and sales consultants in defining and delivering an innovative digital services portfolio across Western Europe.Trusted advisors delivering extensive expertise internally and to customer facing business lines, providing design principles and portfolio artefacts that enable countries to sell, build and deliver costumer solutions for the digital business areas: Application and Multi Cloud Services (Azure, AWS), Infrastructure modernisation & automation (IaC, DevOps, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes), Enterprise Cyber Security, and Data analytics / AI; across all industries.Working in close cooperation with global teams, ensuring standardisation, alignment and global adoption I've also add the chance to act as Head of Digital Portfolio (Cloud, Security, Data & AI) and Product owner for Application and Multi-cloud services for Western Europe, responsible for:- Regularly assess country go-to-market portfolio needs and adoption- Define the product roadmap for Cloud-based services in alignment with several stakeholders, such as country responsible and global portfolio leading team- Prioritisation of epics based on business value and its discussion in PI planning- Maintain a healthy product backlog prioritised according to business needs and refine epics into user stories with the core squad- Lead the development of portfolio accelerators and local adaptations, to provide cloud services relevant for Wester Europe countries- Support the sales and delivery enablement of new portfolio items - Manage relationship with Cloud Vendors through the Solution Architects, Sales, pre-sales and delivery organisation- Refinement of acceptance and enablement process for portfolio adoption

London, Gb

Vodafone mentoring program harnesses the knowledge and experience of business leaders from Vodafone to help prospective entrepreneurs develop their ideas, adding value to the company during the process

London, Gb

Fostering Vodafone digital tech comm transformation, trough the adoption of telco network cloud (NFV/SDN), by managing the Vodafone NFVi service and product lines, accountable for the design, build and operation of standardized Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVi) on data centers across Europe. Driving transformation, improving delivery, security, cost-control, elasticity, agility and stability of NFVi trough the adoption of multi-cloud/hybrid enterprise cloud framework (On-prem, AWS, Azure, GCP) and technologies like software defined storage (VSAN), software defined networking (SDN), Mobile edge computing (MEC), hyper-convergent infrastructure (HCI), containers and kubernetes.Introducing automation, software defined infrastructure, artificial/cognitive intelligence and machine learning as crucial capabilities to run this environment as a ubiquitous cloud.Operating according to Agile/DevOps framework, our team, ensures markets business alignment and prioritization trough the NFVi product owner, where the kanban lead and squad members ensure the design, build and support of the NFV infrastructure.Major achievements:• Operating model setup & 20 FTE on-boarding with no turnover;• In-sourcing of external activities to internal team (<60% cost);• Productivity efficiency gain of 25% (<80% delivery time, >40% deliverable)• Reduction of critical incidents to 0, and >20% stability improved (MTTR,#incidents)

London, Gb

Building Vodafone network of the future, enabling the telco digitalization program, trough network virtualization and cloudification, by managing the virtual team accountable to engineer, design and deploy NFV and SDN across Europe.Major achievements:• NFV/SDN business case approval at group CTO level;• NFV-I practice setup and operating model definition;• Vendor selection and modular architecture definition, serving different market requirements (design once, deliver many);• Program/Project approval at local markets CTO level;• Deliver NFV/SDN foundation in 14 countries, and on-boarding of network functions, supporting live services;• CAPEX & OPEX savings;• Digital Telco strategy preparation (NFV/SDN/Orchestration)

London, Gb

London, Gb

Driving OSS Infrastructure strategy and its execution across South Europe by leading a multicultural and geographic dispersed team in a pragmatic but innovative spirit.Accountable and responsible for the architecture and deploy of an access control solution in South Europe, based on Citrix (serving +2.000 users, including vendors and Vodafone employees in Europe).Driving Cloud and Virtualisation strategy, deploy and adoption on the OSS space, contributing for a lower TCO and improved TTM.

London, Gb

Manages a multicultural team responsible for the regional vision, strategy and delivery on the following OSS areas:- Infrastructure and private cloud (Virtualization, IaaS, AaaS) - Customer experience solutions- Network performance solutions

London, Gb

• Manages an highly motivated team which mission is to ensure:- An optimized infrastructure capable of delivering OSS solutions (private cloud)- An efficient operation an maintenance of Vodafone Portugal network through the engineering, planning, implementation and support of OSS systems and enablers;-Network activation, abstracting network complexity from business provisioning layers;-Regulatory legal obligations and OSS security compliance• Leads the Vodafone Global ‘N&SM - Ericsson Roadmap and Requirements’ group responsible for supporting Ericsson to deliver the necessary OSS functionalities for an efficient network management and to share best-practices among Vodafone subsidiaries.• To lead multi-team projects on the customer experience and security areas, has been the most rewarding experience during last year. It allowed a deep understand of other company areas and business needs, contributing to end customer satisfaction.• BigData analytics as a way to leverage new revenue streams, reduce churn and support operational excellency under the radar

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Support of Ericsson products for their customers in the Benelux (Libertel, KPN, Telfort, KPN Orange,and Tango). Problem solving, software rollouts, corrections, troubleshooting, performance tuning,special projects and market adaptations.

Harare, Harare, Zw

Administration of GSM network planning tools and development of internal tools to improve network planning implementation.

Responsible for the systems supporting a Portugal Telecom project in the area of documentation workflow.

Leadership, Leadership In Digital

Advanced Program In Entrepreneurship And Innovation Management (Paegi)

Pcf - Accounting And Finance For Non-Financial Managers

Master, Computer Science