Leading the teams of business analysts / product owners and project managers responsible for the digital transformation of Sonae MC Health Wellness & Beauty (HWB) business areas, including Well's, GoNatural, Dr. Well's, KeepWells, and Yes!Diet brands.Coordination of +100 IT/process project portfolios (2M€/year), with a payback ~6 months and ROI of +5x, addressing Digital, E-commerce, In-Store, Insurance, Health, Data, Mobile, Customer Management, and M&A among other topics… Show more Leading the teams of business analysts / product owners and project managers responsible for the digital transformation of Sonae MC Health Wellness & Beauty (HWB) business areas, including Well's, GoNatural, Dr. Well's, KeepWells, and Yes!Diet brands.Coordination of +100 IT/process project portfolios (2M€/year), with a payback ~6 months and ROI of +5x, addressing Digital, E-commerce, In-Store, Insurance, Health, Data, Mobile, Customer Management, and M&A among other topics. RPresence at the HWB Executive Board meeting, representing the IT area.Promote business evolution, by launching and managing IT digital transformational projects and process improvement activities. Business Partners see the big picture, imagine a better one, and make the connections that turn complex problems into elegant solutions. Show less

As the leader of cross-functional teams comprising product owners, business analysts, and project managers, I spearhead the digital transformation initiatives for Sonae MC's Commercial and Health & Wellness business areas. This encompasses a range of renowned brands such as Continente, Well's, GoNatural, Dr. Well's, Note!, Zu, Meu Super, HomeStory, Washy, and Bagga, in addition to the Sonae MC B2B International business.I oversee the coordination of a substantial portfolio of 200+ IT… Show more As the leader of cross-functional teams comprising product owners, business analysts, and project managers, I spearhead the digital transformation initiatives for Sonae MC's Commercial and Health & Wellness business areas. This encompasses a range of renowned brands such as Continente, Well's, GoNatural, Dr. Well's, Note!, Zu, Meu Super, HomeStory, Washy, and Bagga, in addition to the Sonae MC B2B International business.I oversee the coordination of a substantial portfolio of 200+ IT and process projects, with an annual budget of ~4 million euros. These projects encompass diverse domains, including Digital, Price, Promotion, E-commerce, Store, Assortment, Product, Quality, Health, Negotiation, BI, Mobile, Customer, and M&A, among other areas.I was entrusted with representing the IT department in the weekly Commercial Board meetings, where I provide updates and insights to drive informed decision-making.My primary objective is to foster business evolution by initiating and managing IT digital transformation projects and process improvement endeavors. By envisioning the bigger picture, I facilitate the creation of innovative solutions that address complex challenges faced by our organization's stakeholders. Show less

WIRED Europe’s 100 hottest startups, sqill is an early-stage VC-backed (+2M€) portuguese startup, on a mission to democratize innovative and on-brand content creation for social media.Used by major companies worldwide in different sectors (e.g. sports; media; retail) to create better content in less time.Winner of the biggest european entrepreneurship competition in 2020 (+10k startups), in the technology category, member of Startup Lisboa, and accelerated by Demium.

Web hosting and domain registration services, with hundreds of worldwide clients on 4 different continents.International Hosting Company - www.ttechpt.comPortuguese Hosting Company - www.beetweb.comAngolan Hosting Company - www.internetangola.com

Acting as the Head of IT and Digital Transformation for Wells's, Dr.Wells, GoNatural, Yes!Diet and Skinerie brands while launching this new strategic business area at Sonae MC.

Business development, business requirement analysis and project management at Sonae MC.Challenge business to improve, leveraging their capabilities through a continuous transformational processes laid in technology.Ensure project value impact through high quality specifications, while being accountable for value delivery through coordination with all involved stakeholders. Consistently manage business demand by defining opportunities, identifying and prioritizing initiatives… Show more Business development, business requirement analysis and project management at Sonae MC.Challenge business to improve, leveraging their capabilities through a continuous transformational processes laid in technology.Ensure project value impact through high quality specifications, while being accountable for value delivery through coordination with all involved stakeholders. Consistently manage business demand by defining opportunities, identifying and prioritizing initiatives based on added value, and proactively managing available capacity. Show less

Multiple consulting project management as well as teams' coordination, client relationship management and business development, including:• Assessment, documentation and testing of key controls activities and risks associated with IT management processes, in accordance with the COBIT framework, ITIL and SOX. Maturity level assessment and definition of risk mitigation and IT process improvement strategies.• Development of Business Continuity Plans, including the business critical… Show more Multiple consulting project management as well as teams' coordination, client relationship management and business development, including:• Assessment, documentation and testing of key controls activities and risks associated with IT management processes, in accordance with the COBIT framework, ITIL and SOX. Maturity level assessment and definition of risk mitigation and IT process improvement strategies.• Development of Business Continuity Plans, including the business critical processes identification, and business and IT recovery strategies definition, regarding people, infrastructures and IT systems.• IT infrastructure sourcing strategy definition (datacentre, communication, end-user) and suppliers assessment. RFP documentation, including SLA, functional and technical requirements definition.• Development of a SSIS data warehouse solution in order to support Basel II requirements, including technical and functional requirements identification and documentation, architecture redefinition, data quality assurance and unitary and functional testing.• Development of strategic IT audit plans and methodologies, as well as IT audit programs and checklists, for both application and IT general controls. Training facilitator.• Assessment of the IT component and its related costs, in the context of Due Diligence/ M&A services.• Data loss and misuse of customer data risk review.• Documentation, assessment and test of application and IT general controls (ITGC audit).• Development of software solutions for financial audit support (CAAT - Computer Audit Assisted Techniques) and massive data analysis/substantive testing, using MS SQL and MS Fox Pro.• Training facilitator on topics such as COBIT 5, IT Governance, IT Internal Control, Application and IT General controls. Show less

GRE (Schools' Relationship Group) objective was to promote the Computer Science BSc and MSc of Instituto Superior Técnico on high schools and technological events.

CameraPhone project at the Intelligent MultiModal Interfaces Group (IMMI), which developed a software solution to allow tetraplegic individuals to control their mobile phone, computer or house devices only with the use of their phone’s camera.Scientific research in the areas of Mobility, Multimodal Interfaces and Image Processing.

SINFO (www.sinfo.ist.utl.pt) stands for Semana Informática do Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST). It is an Computer Science Exposition event with several conferences and technological knowledge sharing activities on different IT subjects.