Technical Project Manager and Scrum Master
2021 - 2022AB-InBev- Joined as a technical project manager of a team of five people. The team grew to 15 people, and I helped organize the team into smaller teams. Became scrum master of two squads.
- Helped define the workflow and ways of working, such as sprint duration, ceremonies, and release plans. Implemented the practice of scrum retrospectives and proper sprint planning and backlog grooming.
- Managed the relationship with internal and external stakeholders to align expectations, scope, and timelines. Supported product managers in writing proper user stories and prioritizing them.
- Released the product MVP ten months after joining the project, narrowing the scope to what was mandatory. Coordinated subsequent releases of the app.
- Involved in the hiring process of other project managers and team members.
- Conducted regular one-on-one meetings with each team member and managed to revert two turnovers of great engineers. Managed conflicts between team members.
Agile Project Manager | Product Owner | Scrum Master
2020 - 2021Freelance (Toptal Clients)- Started the project as a product owner and business analyst and led the project's discovery phase. Identified the user stories, prioritized the backlog, and scoped the MVP.
- Helped the client define the technology stack to use and select the developers to implement the project.
- Led the development team in a scrum master role facilitating Agile ceremonies such as backlog grooming, daily standup, sprint planning, and sprint review. Served as manual QA for the project.
IT Manager
2017 - 2021Super Câmbio- Oversaw and was in charge of the software development team and the relationship with the third-party developers' managers.
- Built the technical team and managed them using Agile methodologies.
- Conducted the product discovery phase. Created the user stories and defined the minimum viable product (MVP).
- Educated the clients about backlog prioritization and the constantly changing nature of a software project.
- Designed and implemented the entire system architecture using AWS, assuring high availability and automatic scalability.
Assistant Professor | Researcher
2003 - 2019Feevale University- Ideated and coordinated a postgraduate course in digital business management.
- Served as a software engineer experimental lab (LabEx) coordinator, managing the team and overseeing the project backlog. The lab was an education project in partnership with HP, in which a software house was simulated.
- Lectured in a graduate course for software testing and quality assurance.
- Worked as an assistant professor in IT-related undergraduate courses for 16 years teaching databases, software engineering, project management, and cloud computing (in English).
Co-founder | Director
2009 - 2017Ionatec- Led the process of Ionatec’s accreditation as an Amazon Solution Provider in the Amazon Partner Network (APN).
- Designed and implemented cloud computing web-based systems architectures for several customers using AWS. Some of the results achieved were cost reductions, high availability, and on-demand automatic scalability.
- Trained IT professionals in cloud computing and AWS in Porto Alegre, Curitiba, and São Paulo (2012 to 2015).
- Acted as the product owner in several products conducting the process discovery phase and MVP definition.
- Served as a scrum master for the development teams, encouraging them to follow Agile principles and practices.