Andrea Candian Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Portugal

Gzira, Mt

In my role as Chief Technology Officer at Raketech, I am spearheading the consolidation, harmonisation and modernisation of a large global portfolio of tech assets, ensuring business continuity and scalability while optimising costs. I lead the development and execution of a comprehensive technology strategy, prioritising product performance, scalability, security and time to market, to drive company success.In my executive role, I foster leadership development, and a pragmatic, delivery-focused, culture of collaboration and excellence.

Entrepreneurial consulting and advisory services with a focus on interim and fractional roles, either on short projects, or as a medium-term fractional executive leader supporting business transformations and scale-ups. Product and technology strategy, execution, delivery. Due diligence, assessment, gap-analysis. Transformation, acceleration, scale-up, turnaround.

Lisbon, Portugal , Pt

Berlin, Berlin, De

Great Britain, Gb

Cambridge, Gb

iloomi is a Human-first technology platform illuminating mental health in the workplace. Through our use of data and machine learning, we are creating a new age of workplace well-being, designed to support employees and employers. Our mission is to end mental health inequality.

Carnaxide, Pt

Carnaxide, Pt

Led the Product Development department (90) managing the entire end-to-end lifecycle: User Experience and Industrial Design, Planning (Product Owners and BAs), Research (Computer Vision, AI, biometrics), Hardware and Software Engineering, DevOps and QA.Responsible for recruitment and transformation of the teams, processes, tools and methodologies (Agile, DevOps, QA Automation). Introduced outsourcing and mixed-sourcing models.Focus on establishing the foundation to transition the company from bespoke project delivery to planned product development.

Lead the creation of a new multi-sided online tutoring platform from conception to go-live in 5 months, directing product management, engineering, software architecture, research & development (AI, machine learning, voice analytics, teaching & learning). Aggressively scaled-up and structured the product development team, successfully introducing mixed-sourcing model to support the aggressive lunch timelines.Member of the Executive Leadership Team, leading the company through the next phase of growth after series-A funding.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Focus: Develop the real-time media core platform for Cisco Spark, next generation of Cisco Cloud Collaboration Solution.Scope: Responsible for the execution of multiple programs and product deliverables; directing strategies, organisational changes, processes and methodologies (Agile & DevOps); managing quarterly budgets and optimising spending. Responsible for personnel recruitment and development, team culture, growth, performance management, incentives and rewards. Challenge: To drive transformational culture change leading the transition to Cloud-based Agile software development methodologies and DevOps processes. Team Leadership: Established and mentored a leadership team of managers, scrum masters and technical leaders. Developed a local leadership team, leading the execution of diverse programmes. Team Restructuring: Vastly improved team performance by introducing smaller agile cross-functional teams, empowering and coaching team leaders, and implementing performance management tools. Culture Change: Significantly increased employee engagement and productivity by fostering team collaboration and communication, encouraging individual career growth, and defining team vision.  Process Improvement: Championed adoption of Agile methodologies to enable teams to optimally manage a centralised agile backlog.

London, Gb

Managed and led international cross-functional product development teams to deliver innovative real-time biometric software products using Agile methodologies and leveraging strategic outsourcing.

London, Gb

Clients: National security agencies in Britain and worldwide.Focus: Created product development division from the ground up, scaling the team to 28+, and established product development processes.Architect and Product Owner for NeoFace Watch, leading high performance face recognition software application for real-time video surveillance, offline video face search and high volume photo face search.Scope: Held responsibility for planning, staffing, management, product development and software architecture for software development division. Led the product evolution from MVP to two major production releases. Supervised product design, user-interface design, coding, technical writing, quality assurance, localisation and operations for product execution, development and support.Roadmaps & Software Development: Led long-term product roadmap planning, detailed release planning, and short-term software development planning: planning and prioritising features, user stories, bugs, technical debt. Directed weekly backlog grooming, user interface localisation and programme management, orchestrating all work streams into product releases and customised releases for customer projects.

South Ruislip , London, Gb

Casalmaggiore, Cremona, It

Zaventem, N/A, Be

Verona, Vr, It

Master Of Business Administration (Mba) (Executive), Judge Business School

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Information Technology And Business Management