With over 20 years of experience in IT strategy, architecture, and data solutions, I am a Principal Architect at Microsoft.I am passionate about designing and delivering digital solutions that incorporate innovative and fit-for-purpose technology, and that enable business transformation across various industries, such as retail, energy, health and wellness, fashion, and sports. I have extensive expertise in data and AI, supply chain, customer journey and experience, security, and people empowerment.

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As an IT Director at Sonae MC, a leading company in Portugal with vast international presence, my team of over 20 senior architects led the strategic development of our technological landscape. We defined and implemented a forward-thinking blueprint, focusing on key areas such as data, AI, cloud and security. This involved orchestrating our architecture and security areas to align with the company's service strategy and the advent of new technologies.I spearheaded the IT Architecture Transformational Program and was a member of the digital PMO, I played a pivotal role in integrating project management with IT strategy. My responsibilities also included advising on research and training priorities, ensuring our team's continuous development and alignment with industry trends.

For the role, I led and managed the IT Strategy and Architecture services. I designed and developed the enterprise's architecture to achieve its vision and mission. I enabled the interoperability of different IT components by overseeing the integration architecture and security. I met and exceeded IT and business objectives by devising and executing IT strategy. I ensured attainment of high satisfaction levels of clients by administering implementation of best practices for the provision of top-notch customer service.

Responsible for leading the Solution Architecture and Design team.A retail business architecture with more than 400 solutions with a hybrid cloud / on prem infrastructure and a robust enterprise integration layer fostering API’s and event processing.

I orchestrated all facets of creation and support of IT e-Commerce B2C solutions. I delivered provided operational direction to development and roll out of major e-commerce platforms, order management systems, marketplace, and CRM in Portugal, such as continente.pt, worten.pt, and zippy.pt. An excerpt from my tenure includes the following:• Managed +100 people on multi-million commerce platforms implementations on cloud.

I navigated commercial activities and consultancy project implementations while ensuring seamless operations. I established and maintained a strong partnership with the Carnegie Mellon SW Engineering Institute that resulted in accomplishing business sustainability and continuous growth. During the tenure, I proved myself successful in:• Enhancing the agility of process of software development of 10+ top organizations within Portugal.

Responsible for managing the development and support of the retail instore technologies on the major Portuguese retailer. Defined and managed the implementation of custom a new point of sale solution. Involved in several innovation awards for POS systems, self-checkout implementation and store process optimization.