Ricardo Cabrita Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Pt

Luxembourg

• I coordinate three Risk Area teams (RAY, Credit Metrics, and RiMA) to fulfill both business and IT requirements, focusing on the delivery and support of three Credit Risk products.• My responsibilities start from setting up annual Business Cases from a strategic standpoint which includes engaging Business and IT (Managed Services, Providers) until the streamline of the delivery of Credit Risk applications engaging all relevant stakeholders. • I coordinate cross-functional teams making challenges happening with a self-driven attitude and focus on results. Overseeing Business Analysts, Product Owners, Developers, External Consultants is a daily job I take to meet business requirements.• Agile and DevOps best-practices are part of environment that I take part contributing, guiding teams on their adoption/enhancement.• The solutions provided to the business are implemented using OutSystems, DataStage, Python, Java, JavaScript, React and Oracle. I contribute to Data Model Design, Development scenarios, Infrastructure, and Architectural to ensure business and IT alignment.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

• I encountered the challenging objective of transitioning IT departments from basic IT support functions to offering fully integrated services to various business units, including HR, Business Development, Finance, and Delivery, which evolved into a delivery of a PaaS (Product as a Service) solution.• Alongside with the delivery responsibility of applications and services, I held responsibility for IT - Development, Security, and Operations - where I worked with the team to define objectives, metrics, and conducted evaluations for the 15 team members who provided services to financial institutions.• Implemented Agile methodologies and restructured the teams to embrace a DevOps approach, facilitating the delivery of a web solution from conception to support. This encompassed integrating financial management information spanning hiring, project management, and accounting data. The core technologies utilized for the delivered solution were based on .Net C# with MVC for backend development, React for the frontend, and SQL/MySQL for database management. I played a pivotal role in solution design, task coordination, and ensuring alignment with end-users.

Lisbon, Portugal

• This challenge underscored my experience in collaborating with multicultural and hybrid Agile teams, necessitating exceptional management, coordination, and customer engagement skills. Working with teams from the UK, South Africa, India, Benelux, France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal provided me with the opportunity to deliver solutions to various customer countries while working across different parts of the world.• My primary responsibilities were centered around developing and supporting technical solutions for business operations within the insurance market. A referenced challenged identified was to deliver a cost-reduction program (with a payback period of 2 years), which encompassed a series of projects in Robotic Process Automation for France, the Netherlands, and Germany, utilizing both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. The main technologies employed were Blue Prism and Alteryx.• I coordinated the Brexit IT project, focusing on adapting infrastructure and application systems to comply with legal changes, with an investment of £650K. This project entailed significant impacts on network segregation, reporting adjustments, server configurations, and access modifications.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Responsible for the delivery of all projects (25) in the Security Transformation Program. The main objective of the program was related to IT and Information vulnerability risks reduction in a multinational insurance company – Examples: Web Application Firewall, Source Code Review, Mobile security, Software Development Life Cycle, SW/HW Hardening, NFS Security, etc...My major responsibilities were:• Defining and validating the program scope, schedule and costs;• Accommodating available budget to guarantee program objectives;• Managing different team and suppliers to meet on-time, on-budget and on-value program objectives;• Managing Risk Performance Indicators for Security Transformation Program.

Worked with Crédito Agrícola Serviços and AXA Insurance.• I have coordinated several IT projects related with lending with main reference to bank guarantee and all the loan process and credit risk which was developed in .NET C#, SQL-Server and MainFrame in a Waterfall approach;• Migrated an outdated client-server solution available in all 500 bank branches to a modern client-server solution to deal with financial transactions, loans, debts, in C#, SQL-Server using Agile (2011 where I started to adapt it).• Implemented a transversal security program, to the organization, where several solutions have been delivered such as ciphered communications, secured password management, IAM adoption, deployment secure processes, etc…• As a team Manager, I was coordinating a team of 8 Project Managers, have implemented the PMO for the company with 300 resources with improved business goals orientation, progress metrics adopted, transversal project risk management and multi-year roadmap implementation.

Management projects with more than 20 people in a matricial organization.Financial projects being delivered under the cost reduction program.Customer's worldwide projects.Bringing the good PM methods and delivering using PRINCE2 methodology.

Manager of the Solutions Delivery Department responsible for fixed-price and near-shore projects. Main responsibilities in Projects:• Requirements identification, project planning and proposals elaboration;• Risk analysis and quality control;• Kick-off, monitoring and controlling the projects, managing stakeholders and reporting;• Closing projects obtaining customer’s approvals.Project coordination is based on PMBoK (PMI) methodology.

C#, XML/XSD and Php Developer participating in several European projects, namely:AP-DIS: Used UML for Data Models diagrams and generate SQL and XML (XSD) databases/files. C# technology was used to interact between the data importing/exporting from different sources. Web-site developed in php.Smart-fm: C# classes developed based on XSD data model structure. Marshal and Unmarshal mechanisms implemented to communicate among different data models. Project related to furniture web-services solutions.

Msc, Computer Science

C# Development within Multimedia solutions.

Prince2, Foundation And Practitioner

Pmp, Project Management

Activities and Societies: PMP Certified. (PMP/PMI) Post-Graduation Degree in Project Management - – The Project Management Professional.

5 Years Degree, Electronic And Computers Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of University Musical Group. From March 1999 to November 2005 University Assistant Digital Systems I.