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Porto Alegre, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

Eldorado Do Sul, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil/Remote

Role: IT Portfolio Manager (2019 - 2020);Activities: Worked on Roadmap planning by coordinating the team to size demands (60+ requests, 60+ people required, ~8M USD dollars funded). Supported annual operational plan providing data to leadership to determine team capacity. Controlled financially (budget and spending) the organization (vendor management, staff augmentation, travels). Facilitated leader’s alignment and communication, organized staff meetings. Controlled compliance issues… Show more Role: IT Portfolio Manager (2019 - 2020);Activities: Worked on Roadmap planning by coordinating the team to size demands (60+ requests, 60+ people required, ~8M USD dollars funded). Supported annual operational plan providing data to leadership to determine team capacity. Controlled financially (budget and spending) the organization (vendor management, staff augmentation, travels). Facilitated leader’s alignment and communication, organized staff meetings. Controlled compliance issues (resources capitalization, TFS work items, mandatory trainings). Managed budget/spending for team trainings. Maintained workforce data. Supported any kind fire of drill request.Main achievements: Implemented a mechanism to control and monitor financially the organization. Show less

Eldorado Do Sul, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil/Remote

Role: IT Project Manager, Scrum Master, Release Coordinator, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Portfolio Manager (2018 - 2019);Activities: During this period of time, my area was starting a transformation by adopting agile methodologies, such as Scrum and nuances of SAFe. So, I worked as IT Project manager in global projects for Oracle Financials (EBS) customization and integration with external systems for some demands, while others were executed in Scrum, which I supported as Scrum Master… Show more Role: IT Project Manager, Scrum Master, Release Coordinator, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Portfolio Manager (2018 - 2019);Activities: During this period of time, my area was starting a transformation by adopting agile methodologies, such as Scrum and nuances of SAFe. So, I worked as IT Project manager in global projects for Oracle Financials (EBS) customization and integration with external systems for some demands, while others were executed in Scrum, which I supported as Scrum Master using TFS to prioritize backlog and manage sprints. Also, worked as RTE, facilitating the aligning among features teams over Scrum of Scrums ceremony, where we could also share good practices, supported teams for better performance, manage conflicts. In a rotation manner, I played the role of release coordinator to orchestrate deployment to production.Part of my time, I played the role of Portfolio Manager, supporting the management team in terms of roadmap and capacity for the year. Main projects and achievements: Interlock projects, R&D projects, infrastructure modernization (cloud) projects. I have managed projects totalizing 10,000+ hours for HR and reaching 12 people at the peak. Fiscal Year 2020 roadmap sizing (60+ requests, 280,000+ hours and 13M+ dollars funded). Show less

Porto Alegre Area, Brazil

Role: IT Test Manager (2017 - 2018);Activities: Worked managing IT testing resources (20+) for a big Brazil retail company. Responsible to manage customer account (estimates, commercial negotiation and agreements, tracking balance), plan resources to allocate to the testing demands accordingly, tracking testing delivery and people management (career, vacation plan, assessment, feedback). Main achievements: Delivered a systematically control of financial aspects.

Porto Alegre Area, Brazil

Role: IT Project Manager (2016 - 2017); Activities: Worked managing agile projects for a governmental organisation. His main duties are plan resources to allocate to the projects accordingly, track the project to keep the speed and not deviate to achieve the sprint goals, monitor project progress based on sprint burn down and project burn up, support team to resolve any impediments, run ceremonies (sprint planning, review and retrospective), attend grooming and daily meetings, follow up on… Show more Role: IT Project Manager (2016 - 2017); Activities: Worked managing agile projects for a governmental organisation. His main duties are plan resources to allocate to the projects accordingly, track the project to keep the speed and not deviate to achieve the sprint goals, monitor project progress based on sprint burn down and project burn up, support team to resolve any impediments, run ceremonies (sprint planning, review and retrospective), attend grooming and daily meetings, follow up on action plans originated on retrospectives, report status to the management team (internally and to the customer), people management (career, vacation plan, assessment, feedback). Main projects and achievements: Managed a project to deliver in a short period a mobile application to the market (one sprint to deliver a MVP and another one to deliver enhancements). Managed migration projects from COBOL to a more current technology. Show less

Porto Alegre Area, Brazil

System Analyst and Test Analyst (2016);Activities: Worked with requirement analysis in a migration project from COBOL to a current technology of governmental organisation. Worked with testing analysis, writing and executing tests in an e-commerce Project of a big Brazil retail company.

Porto Alegre Area, Brazil

Activities: Worked as IT Project Manager in implementation/customization SAP projects. Used ASAP methodology. Elaborated schedules allocating resources and negotiating with customer all deliverables dates. Tracked the plan execution, risks and address issues. Reported status to customer. Managed change requests, estimating with the team and interfacing with sales team to budget the customer. Managed billing events to the customer depending on Project phases. Aligned Project closure resolving… Show more Activities: Worked as IT Project Manager in implementation/customization SAP projects. Used ASAP methodology. Elaborated schedules allocating resources and negotiating with customer all deliverables dates. Tracked the plan execution, risks and address issues. Reported status to customer. Managed change requests, estimating with the team and interfacing with sales team to budget the customer. Managed billing events to the customer depending on Project phases. Aligned Project closure resolving any pending item.Main projects and achievements: Managed multi projects of “SPED contábil e fiscal” (Brazil legal reports). Managed integration Project among SAP ECC and Ariba. Show less

Porto Alegre Area, Brazil

Role: IT Project Manager (2013 – 2015);Activities: Worked as IT Project manager in global projects (US, Europe, Japan, India e Latin America).Main projects and achievements: 2013 – 2014: Managed projects related to Dell services applications. Supporting processes related to customer relationship management and its integration with other areas, mainly on automatic support for customer with special warranty.Achievements: Managed interlock projects related to customer… Show more Role: IT Project Manager (2013 – 2015);Activities: Worked as IT Project manager in global projects (US, Europe, Japan, India e Latin America).Main projects and achievements: 2013 – 2014: Managed projects related to Dell services applications. Supporting processes related to customer relationship management and its integration with other areas, mainly on automatic support for customer with special warranty.Achievements: Managed interlock projects related to customer support. Increased the relationship with this external area (automatic support), being responsible for centralizing and aligning all requests, where was possible to plan in a better manner all deliveries for interlock projects during fiscal year 2013. 2014 – 2015: Managed projects related to Dell services applications (customer relationship). Also managed a project for Dell Global Command Center in a scope of upgrading an application version, with challenges of acquiring new servers’ machines, aligning expectations with third party vendor for a visual application which monitors dispatches for customer plotted over Google maps. Managed Disaster Recovery (DR) projects reaching 20 class 1 applications being switched over to DR infrastructure and test execution being done at same time with more than 30 people engaged to the exercise. Show less

Porto Alegre Area, Brazil

Role: Sotware Test Lead (2006 – 2013); Activities: Worked as Test Lead in global projects (US, India). Used good practices of CMMI level 3 and Microsoft Solution Framework. Used Mercury Quality Center tool. Developed estimates, test strategies/plans, tracked team activities, managed testing environments, assessed test automation possibilities, alignment of interlock testing.Main projects and achievements: 2006 – 2008: Worked in projects related to logistics applications… Show more Role: Sotware Test Lead (2006 – 2013); Activities: Worked as Test Lead in global projects (US, India). Used good practices of CMMI level 3 and Microsoft Solution Framework. Used Mercury Quality Center tool. Developed estimates, test strategies/plans, tracked team activities, managed testing environments, assessed test automation possibilities, alignment of interlock testing.Main projects and achievements: 2006 – 2008: Worked in projects related to logistics applications. Supporting order management and warranty services processes, decision on the best carrier and SLA to deliver customer order.Achievements: coordination of user acceptance testing with users (travel to US); planning and coordination of post-installation testing in production with users spread geographically in different locations (remote with US users); 2008 – 2013: Worked in projects related to finance area with Oracle Financials. Leaded Oracle patches projects, enhancements projects, integration with other applications, strategic. Projects were based on business processes improvements of accounts payables, projects costs, fixed assets and general ledger.Achievements: coordination of big project related to finance integration of a big services company acquired by Dell. Team has reached 17 people in the peak, being 5 months of test execution, more than 25k hours of testing activities, more than 100 change requests incorporated into the scope, almost 1k defects reported. Two travels to US were made to execute tests together with users in preliminary phases and during testing execution phase of the project. Show less

Porto Alegre Area, Brazil

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Gestão De Projetos

Bachelor, Computer Science