Guilherme Motta
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Porto Alegre - State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Toptal member since July 18, 2018
As an IT strategic management MBA graduate with over 19 years of professional experience, Guilherme works with agile software delivery and discovery initiatives. He is capable of working as an engineering manager, agile coach, project manager, iteration manager, sysadmin, and DevOps engineer. Guilherme has worked for startups and Fortune 500 companies in a variety of domains, including technology, finance, healthcare, education, eCommerce, media, and retail.
Project Highlights
Education Highlights
Certification Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Project Management
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Mentorship & Coaching
- Team Leadership
- XP
Work Experience
Agile Project Manager
Toptal
- Facilitated two-week remote workshops to gather product and project requirements.
- Created a plan, updated stakeholders about progress, and delivered the project to production.
- Managed teams of different sizes between two and ten FTEs.
Director of Engineering
Kindbody
- Joined the team as a senior engineering manager and, after eight months was promoted to director of engineering. Managed software engineers, technical product managers, UI/UX designers, and SREs.
- Helped the company bring its development in-house.
- Helped the company grow from having 300 employees to 1,000 and a valuation of $600 million to $1.6 billion.
Agile Coach | Web Technologies Coordinator
Globo
- Built distributed and collocated highly performant Agile teams.
- Worked with three different core areas of the company (big data, videos, and platforms) to deliver its projects.
- Ensured services, products, and platforms adhered to strong requirements around resilience, scalability, and performance.
- Worked with a team responsible for building Mobile SDK's for IDM purposes, building native software for iOS, Android, and TV's and integrating with Facebook and Google as alternatives for login and authentication.
- Contributed to setting team goals and objectives for each quarter and following up with its deliveries.
- Expanded the engineering staff in the Porto Alegre office by 40%.
Enterprise Agile Coach
Sicredi
- Formed agile software development teams and building a plan for rolling out new teams.
- Considered each specific project context and focusing on continuous improvement.
- Worked closely with four large Scrum teams, providing Agile training, shadowing Agile ceremonies, mentoring, and coaching.
- Followed up and provided visibility regarding the Agile maturity.
- Helped the organization evaluate and adapt in order to support the new WoW (sourcing, legal, finance, budgeting, PMO, and other cross areas).
- Facilitated project inceptions maturing and understanding requirements, defining and prioritizing features and their respective MVPs.
- Collaborated with multiple scrum masters, product owners, developers, BAs, QAs, and stakeholders.
- Identified, recruited, and interviewed professionals for agile coach and scrum master positions.
- Worked with teams who had the responsibility to develop mobile (using Kony framework and customizing with native code for Windows Phone, iOS, and Android), web applications and back-office software.
Agile Coach | Engineering Manager
Klarna
- Managed a team of senior Erlang developers that had end-to-end responsibility for a system that took purchases 24/7/365.
- Held accountable for the performance of the team, created and maintained the system and business KPIs, backlog, team happiness, budget, salaries, and individual and team development plans.
- Facilitated Agile team ceremonies, organizational communication and collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to deliver projects such as the launch of Klarna operations in the US.
Senior Consultant | Iteration Manager
ThoughtWorks
- Collaborated on many different projects, providing the right level of quality for the products and services our clients were building.
- Worked with distributed teams in North and South America.
- Gained hands-on experience with iteration management, DevOps and continuous delivery, quality assurance, and BDD (Ruby and Cucumber, Java and JBehave, and C# and SpecFlow).
Quality Assurance Analyst
Zero-Defect
- Contributed to many different roles within the software development lifecycle, like quality assurance and business analysis, reviewing business requirements, and collaborating with stakeholders.
- Executed security assessments and acted as a white hat hacker inside banks in South America and Africa.
- Worked as a software engineer, wrote code, built automated suites of tests, and set up automated pipelines for testing and deployment.
C# Mobile Developer Intern
Mobisol
- Developed mobile apps using the AppForge Crossfire framework, C#, and .NET.
- Worked with extreme programming practices, continuous integration, pair programming, and other recurring activities to learn and grow our team knowledge.
- Went to the client's site and installed and delivered the solution.
Project History
Agile Almanac Book 2: Programs with Multi and Virtual-Team Environments
Wrote a chapter and contributed to many other sections.
The Agile Almanac - Book 2 has been reviewed by Jeff Sutherland, Scott Ambler, Bas Vodde, and Dean Leffingwell’s co-founder Drew Jemilo and Inbar Oren. They were generous beyond all expectations, helping us get the chapter on their approaches accurate and concise so you can quickly discern which one is the best fit for your needs.
Project Manager - eCommerce UX Review
Led a discovery process to map project objectives, personas, features, and journeys; helped the team deliver a 2-month MVP.
Acted as a facilitator during the discovery phase which we invested 2 weeks of part-time dedication among customer service team, CEO, and our cross-functional software development team.
After approval of the MVP scope and objectives, we delivered the project in 2 months.
Project Manager - Oil and Gas Legacy System Migration
Acted as a technical project manager, helping the team structure QA strategy, DevOps strategy, and delivery.
Acted as a hands-on technical project manager, structuring continuous integration server, deploy, backups in the cloud, managed team recurring meetings (daily standup, tech standup, planning, retrospective, and review).
Project Manager - Integration Between an Acquired Startup With a Large Enterprise
Acted as a project manager, helping the client to map business needs into requirements and helped the team with go live.
Managed an experienced software development team composed of four developers, one QA, and on-demand infrastructure and UX who built restful APIs with a customer-facing front-end and an admin interface for configuration purposes. The client was one of the largest hotel groups in the world.
Project Manager - Information Security Assessment
Led a penetration testing project with an African bank in Angola.
The goal of the project was to validate whether there were no flaws in a new online banking system. The project was so successful that the launch of online banking ended up being postponed. Several high-severity issues were reported.
Agile Alliance Brazil, Board of Directors
Disseminated Agile software development within the Brazilian market.
Acted as a board member of Agile Alliance Brazil. I helped organize and support multiple Agile conferences with hundreds to thousands of attendees and supported community members to learn more about Agile and grow in their careers.
Education
Master of Business Administration Degree in IT Strategic Management
Fundacao Getulio Vargas - Brazil
Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre, Brazil
Certifications
Learning 3.0 Facilitator
Learning 3.0
PSM I
Scrum.org
Scaled Agile Framework® Agilist (SA) Certification Program
Scaled Agile Inc
Management 3.0
Happy Melly
Certified Scrum Professional
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Jira, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, Zoom, Confluence, Slack, Miro, CircleCI, PuTTY, WinSCP, HP Quality Center (QC), Firebase Authentication, BigQuery, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, IBM Rational, Trello, Salesforce, Lean Testing, SonarQube, Google Workspace, Git, TeamCity
Paradigms
DevOps, Agile Project Management, Continuous Delivery (CD), XP, Agile, Scrum, Continuous Integration (CI), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Iterative Delivery, Iterative Development, Planning Poker, Agile Software Development, Agile Delivery, Marketplace Platforms, Requirements Analysis, Kanban, Management, Agile Product Management, Dual Track Agile, Continuous Deployment, Acceptance Testing, Design Thinking, Software Testing, Lean, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), B2C, Change Management, Agile Leadership, Test-driven Development (TDD), Model View Controller (MVC), Release Trains, Testing, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Cross-platform, Waterfall Development, Waterfall Delivery, HIPAA Compliance, Penetration Testing, Team Development
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Kony, Android, iOS, Apple Watch, WordPress, TestLink, Rackspace, Rackspace Cloud, Vercel, Firebase
Industry Expertise
Software, Consumer Products, Logistics, Retail & Wholesale, Entertainment & Leisure, Banking & Finance, Oil & Gas, High-tech Startups, Nonprofits
Other
Project Discovery, Project Management, Scrum Coaching, IT, Customer Service Management (CSM), Customer Journey, Mentorship & Coaching, Team Leadership, Structured Facilitation, Quality Assurance (QA), Recruiting, User Stories, Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Agile Coaching, Technical Project Management, Technical Hiring, Hiring Process Development, Hiring, Project Delivery, IT Projects, Project Support, Projects, Sprint Planning, Agile Sprints, Retrospective Techniques, Facilitation, Workshop Facilitation, QA Leadership, Software QA, Manual QA, Test Management, Website QA, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional, PSM-1, Backlog Grooming, User Journey Maps, User Journeys, Agile Transformation, Estimations, Test Planning, Management 3.0, Agile Software Testing, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Software Development Management, Product Owner, Burn-down Charts, Freelancing, Task Management, Project Reporting, Project Tracking, Engineering Management, Project Coordination, Meetings, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Enterprise Project Management, Global Project Management, Discovery Management, Continuous Improvement, Delivery Management, Technical Delivery Management, Technical Program Management, Remote Team Leadership, IT Project Management, eCommerce, Discovery Workshops, Project Consultancy, Mobile Banking, Communication, Quality Control (QC), Scope, Scope of Work (SOW), Scope Management, Time Management, Consulting, IT Consulting, Technical Consulting, Requirements & Specifications, Software Integration, Integration, People Management, Team Management, Teaching, Negotiation, Digital Strategy, Startups, Lean Startups, Remote Work, Distributed Team Management, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Early-stage Startups, Project Planning, Product Discovery, Business Model Canvas, Release Management, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium, Public Speaking, Innovation Management, Staff Management & Development, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Product Ownership, Digital Transformation, Digital Transformation Program Management, Business & Digital Transformation, Organizational Structure, Structure & Organizational Design, System Implementation, Discovery, Management Consulting, Conflict Resolution, Agile Program Management, Resource Allocation, Software Project Management, ChatGPT, Information Security, Risk Management, Fintech, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Web Platforms, Videos, Video Streaming, Business Analysis, Linux Administration, Mobile App Development, Web & Mobile Applications, Requirements, Certified Project Manager, Site Reliability, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Digital, eCommerce Platforms, QA Testing, Automation Anywhere, Automated Testing, Test Automation, Mobile App Testing, Business to Consumer (B2C), Two-sided Marketplaces, Web, Process Design, Digital Project Management, Notion, Social Media Platforms, Stakeholder Management, Business Processes, Project Lifecycle, Vendor Management, Resource Management, Enterprise, Flexibility, Leadership, Acceptance Test-driven Development (ATDD), Erlang, Staffing, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Career Coaching, SLA Management, Extreme Programming, Cross-platform App Development, Quarterly Reporting, Scrumban, Big Data, Machine Learning, Facebook API, Google APIs, Media, Video Processing, Scalability, Web Development, Team Building, Mobile, Mobile/Web Project Management, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Java, Security, Salesforce.com Administration, Ruby, C#.NET, C#, Java 6, QA Automation, Mobile Apps, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Identity & Access Management (IAM), University Teaching, Education, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), Planning, Web Applications, Healthcare Management Systems, Jira Administration, EMR, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Release Train Engineer (RTE), Agile Release Training, Program Increment Planning, Software Development, Software Architecture, System Design, User Experience (UX), Algorithms, Databases, Business Logic, Software Engineering, Calculus, Statistics, Networking, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Scrum@Scale, PMI, Project Management Professional (PMP), Board of Directors, Events, Tech Conferences, Community, Community Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Cross-cultural Management, A/B Testing, Performance Testing, IT Security, Web Security, Business Systems Analysis, Business Process Optimization, Pair Programming, Client Delivery Management, F#, SpecFlow, IT Program Management, Business Requirements, System Requirements, Edtech Design, Work Breakdown Structure, Pinecone, Amazon Athena, ISO 27001, SOC 2, Program Management, Core Banking Systems, Director, Business Transformation Program Management, Business Transformation Project Management, Business Transformation, Learning & Development, Learning Management Systems (LMS), OpenAI, ClickUp, Large Language Models (LLMs), Discord, Product Management, IT Product Management, Process Definition, Process Mapping, Training, Web App Security, Open Source, Online Banking, Networks, IP Networks, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Learning, Coaching, Mentorship, Team Mentoring
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