Rafael Lopes Email & Phone Number

São Paulo, Sp, Br

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

Global Head of Digital Transformation Program Management Office (2021-Present)Head of Digital Transformation for Latin America (2019-Present) Reporting to the Chief Digital Officer• Internal management of the global Digital Hub, including support for strategy definition, OPEx and CAPEx budgeting, team development and resource allocation. • Management of the entire innovation funnel process and the entire global portfolio of digital transformation projects, from the point of view of cost, time, return on investment and relevance to the market, before and after implementation.• Interface with digital and commercial project managers to holistically plan the execution of the entire program: identifying key tasks, resources, risks, ensuring that project plans are created and tracked, on time and on budget.• Ensuring clear communication within cross-functional, global and often complex teams, often involving external suppliers. • Responsible for communicating the evolution of the digital project portfolio to key stakeholders, including C-Level, functional leaders and project teams.• Training of Digital project teams in the preparation of innovation funnel meetings and best practices in project execution.Highlights:- Building an IoT platform in the cloud: Management of the IoT platform development program, using Azure solutions, with backend in Microsoft .Net framework and front end in react.js.- Digitalization of the salesperson's journey in the cloud: Simultaneous project management for the development of the entire salesperson's journey, from the Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, through analysis of the customer's return on investment, price approval and automatic proposal generation, to the complete integration of customer onboarding in the SAP ERP. - Digitalization of the operations journey in the cloud: Simultaneous project management for the development of the entire operations journey connecting the IoT platform to SAP.

• Development of new products and solutions for Digital Transformation, Industrial IT, Industry 4.0, Production Process Optimization and IoT. Project management in Production Process Optimization. Highlights:- Application Development Project at Siemens Germany: development of a system for a specific industrial maintenance task. Acting as Product Owner and Project Manager, mapping out all the business processes required for implementation. Development of all software requirements and architecture for Android and iOS applications, using Siemens' proprietary IoT platform.- Digitization of Industry in Peru: analysis of the level of automation of the entire industrial park of a client in Peru, with mapping of the control system, IoT system and manufacturing management systems. Development of a digitalization roadmap in the light of Industry 4.0, with potential benefits of around USD 15 million over 3 years.- Implementation of artificial intelligence in a paper industry in Brazil: implementation of an artificial intelligence system based on neural networks to manage the control of part of the pulp production process.

Rio De Janeiro, Rj, Br

• Management of the team and all software development / implementation projects.• Management of the entire IT and AT infrastructure.• Management of projects related to operations or automation/optimization of business processes. Mapping, optimization and automation of all internal processes.Highlights:- Implementation of the Sankhya ERP system: end-to-end management of the implementation of the Sankhya ERP, with the following modules: products, billing, finance, accounting, production, dashboards. Management of the team setting up business operations in the system, configuring business flows and the Microsoft SQL database. Database hosted on AWS.- Implementation of e-commerce (yenzah.com.br): Management of the implementation of the company's e-commerce, based on Magento technology, hosted on AWS. Managing the development of the interface between e-commerce and ERP (Sankhya). Managing the development of a blog (cabelo.com.br), which contributed to 1,000,000 visits per month, resulting in e-commerce sales of approximately R$2 million in 2018.- Implementation of a sales management app: Management of the development of a web app for iOS and Android, with the following functionalities: order picking, stock checking, agenda management, customer accounts receivable management, sales assistant location management, based on car telemetry. In 2018, the app managed more than R$10 million in orders.- Portfolio management of innovation projects: creation and implementation of an innovation funnel and portfolio management process, starting with the ideation process through design thinking, up to the management of return on investment through dashboards generated in Power BI.

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Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Bedford, Ma, Us

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Masters, Engineering

Bachelor, Engineering

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management