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Project Manager Engineer

Location:
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Salary:
90K/year
Posted:
September 29, 2015

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Fernando Mocellin

Email: acrwib@r.postjobfree.com Mobile: +55-51-966***** Porto Alegre – Brazil

http://br.linkedin.com/pub/fernando-mocellin-csm%C2%AE/9/38b/622

Project Manager and Scrum Master

Project Manager focused on deliverables and value, who undertakes complex assignments, meets tight deadlines and deliver superior quality on Research and Development market. Possesses practical knowledge in Agile Methodologies, PMI and Software Quality Assurance. Applies strong computer science knowledge and analytical skills to define project plans and product vision. Fluent in English and Portuguese.

Core competences include:

Project Management Program Reports Stakeholders Management Agile Software Development Forecasting Process Improvement Software Quality Measures Team Leadership

Professional Experience

Hewlett Packard – Research and Development – 2011 - Present

Project Manager

Acts as the primary interface between project's stakeholders and project team to address project issues and decisions;

Obtains agreement on changes to the project scope, evaluating and negotiating the impacts to the project resources, cost, schedule and commitments;

Creates, keeps up-to-date and communicates the project plan and related artifacts, such as project’s schedule;

Makes sure the project team and the project’s stakeholders are timely communicated about project commitments, scope, accomplishments, changes, issues, risks and other project’s relevant aspects;

Tracks the project execution based on the project planning work products;

Makes sure the project’s deliverables have the quality level requested by the internal customer and they address the quality standards established by the organization;

Coordinates the key checkpoint reviews

Identifies and monitors project risks, executing the necessary mitigation and contingence actions;

Manages project’s issues, escalating those need upper management support;

Takes actions to keep the project team highly motivated and committed to achieve the project goals;

Communicates the project status regularly to the organization’s management and to the internal customer and other stakeholder as appropriate;

Collects and analyzes project measures, according to the organization’s and internal customer’s definitions;

Takes corrective actions when the project performance deviates from the project plan;

Main achievements: reduced 50% of the time on shipments of HW prototypes from USA to Brazil; reduced +300% the quantity of issues backlog, from 53 (August/2011) to lower than 15 on products launched nowadays; improved 20% of customer satisfaction survey from 78% to +95% in overall, considering items like: project predictability, product quality, development lifecycle productivity and maturity;

Scrum Master

Act as Scrum master for 1-2 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.

Facilitate Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.

Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed.

Ensure cross-team coordination.

Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing.

Work with other scrum masters in the team to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams.

Protect the team from interruptions and distractions.

Main achievements: Continuous team velocity improvement, 10% YoY; Strong follow up on project quality keeping issues average during project lifecycle lower than 15 issues; +65% of time reduction for Sprint Retrospective and Planning, from 3 days to 1 day;

Hewlett Packard – Research and Development – 2004 – 2011

Software Engineer

Leads defect review meetings;

Reviews the specification and design of the software modules making sure they are testable, complete and up-to-date;

Assigns and track testing activities following up test team;

Provides guidance for high level integration and product usage;

Coordinates cross communication between test and development teams on issue addressing and product refinement;

Guarantees consistent defect reporting and review prior to development addressing;

Acts as technical reference to the test team;

Drives implementation of organizational best practices;

Coaches testers in technical aspects of the project;

Conducts prioritization/classification of issue fixing together with Technical Leads;

Ensures adherence to organizational standard test process and related tools, taking corrective actions to address non-compliances;

Collects measures related to test process, such as defects and generate reports about product quality status;

Education

Graduate in Systems Analysis at State Catholic University (PUCRS)

Started on June/2000 and finished on January/2007

Program and Project Management Specialization (ESPM RS)

Started on January/2010 and finished on June/2011

English proficiency



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