UFRGS

Colegio Pastor Dohms

VP, Application Development at UWM

Detroit, Michigan, United States

United Wholesale Mortgage

VP, Application Development

AVP, Application Development

Team Lead

Application Architect

250k visitors each month, disrupting the diamond industry as mentioned in the media (Forbes,TechCrunch, CNBC, USA Today, and NPR).• Responsible for end-to-end execution of the product, including ideation, discovery, plan, experimentation, build, and delivery.• Create the frameworks and methods to deliver the product consistently, drafting documentation and training all engineers.• Manage the roadmap, resource allocation, and schedule. • Provide for all team members coaching, skills assessment and development, and team building.• Responsible for Agile practices in the entire company, providing Agile education presentations for all internal employees.Key Accomplishments:▪ Created a price modeling tool, using Gradient Boosted Decision Trees to analyze 13 attributes of a diamond and calculate its fair value.▪ Designed and implemented a new search mechanism, migrating from MSSQL to Elastic Search, improving search speed from 5 seconds to 3000 milliseconds (17x faster).▪ Developed a quality check tool that analyzes over 30 attributes, providing detailed explanation and recommendations to the users.▪ Developed a bot, using IBM Watson, to guide users during the buying process, providing insights and recommendations based on real-time data.▪ Migrated platform infrastructure from IBM Cloud to Microsoft Azure with zero downtime, improving performance, availability, and reducing hosting costs by 35%.▪ Recruited all developers, trained & mentored the existing team to improve their skills & productivity

Rare Carat

Chief Technology Officer

Responsible for the product: a platform to manage UNFPA projects (a United Nations agency). The project currently is being used in 46 countries globally by over 5,000 users. • Responsible for the end-to-end execution of the product, including ideation, discovery, plan, experimentation, build, and delivery. • Created frameworks and methods to deliver the product consistently, drafting documentation (processes and guidelines) and training all engineers. • Responsible for all infrastructure.• Decision maker for all tools utilized by development and creative departments. Key Accomplishments: ▪ Drafted all technology and development documentation required to respond to United Nations' RFP, winning the bid for the development of the solution. ▪ Established a complete development methodology for the team, transforming how everything was built. ▪ Developed the platform, composed of 3 web portals and a mobile application. Released the first version in 6 months.

Systmapp

A platform to give people the power to share the moments that define life.• Responsible for all steps on the execution of the vision for all products, from strategy, ideation, discovery, experimentation, build, and delivery – always using a user-centered approach. • Led technical architecture, project management, and resource allocation for all projects at Hello Innovation and its affiliates. • Created several frameworks and methods to guarantee a consistent delivery of solutions, used in the development, creative, support, and service departments. • Determined all tools utilized by development and creative departments. • Built several training programs to speed up the onboarding process of new employees. • Led all products and portfolio, planning their roadmap, resource allocation, and schedule, coordinating the activities of all departments, especially development and creative. • Headed the engineering team, consisting of UX and UI Designers, Solution Architects, Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Analysts. • Provided leadership, management, and technical vision to entire engineering team. Key Accomplishments: ▪ Started as a Project Manager, on Nov 2011 promoted to Director of Engineering, then on Aug 2013 promoted to Chief Technology Officer. ▪ Led the development of a website content management and ecommerce that was considered the state-of-art in the industry, being copied by several competitors. ▪ Increased efficiency by 60% through change release cycles. Established development practices and an entire software development lifecycle (moved from waterfall SDLC to Agile). ▪ Designed and launched a platform dedicated for mobile experience, increasing conversation rate by 600%. ▪ Designed and set up application monitoring systems to proactively alert proper staff of production problems. ▪ Led the transition of an ad-hoc startup team in a dysfunctional environment into a cohesive, aligned engineering organization with improved morale.

Hello Innovation

Chief Product Officer

Started as a Software Developer, later promoted to Team Leader. • Led a team of 9 members (Solution Architect, Analyst, Developers and Tester). • Acted as a process developer and writer for the project of obtaining the CMMI Level 3 certification for the Business Unit. • Responsible for all team activities, assignments, and allocation. • Architected and developed the J2EE solutions for all bank safes.• Converted all user requirements into technical documentation. Followed through with all the steps for delivering the requirements to the client, guaranteeing team understanding and client accept. Key Accomplishments: ▪ Won the HP Award for delivering a solution for the stock market years ahead of its time. Was the team leader and driving force for the project’s success. ▪ Led the development of a solution that was used by Brazil’s largest bank and by tens of thousands of users in two thousand branches.

Hewlett-Packard

Technical Consultant

Martim Schnack