PAULO REBELO, csm, csp, msc
Experienced
Project Manager Excel in liaising between business and technical areas to
with 20+ years of achieve project completions. Able to merge customer and
experience user needs with business requirements, budgetary
providing restrictions, to meet project deliverables.
cradle-to-grave
management Excellent ability to implement IT initiatives focused on
over large-scale digital strategy including experience in mobile
applications, e-commerce, and distributed systems. Over
IT than 8 years of experience in managing multiple concurrent
implementations. projects with distributed teams - Argentina, India, EUA,
and Brazil.
Actively contributes to the software development and
project management communities through InfoQ, speaking at
Skills many events in major cities (QCon, Agile Tour, and IBC),
being a member of QCon Program Committee, and reviewer for
Project Lifecycle the Global Scrum Gathering.
Management
Education & Credentials
Software
Development CertIfied scrum master
Lifecycle Scrum Alliance (CSM), 2008
http://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/prebelo
Outstanding
written and CertIfied scrum Professional
verbal Scrum Alliance (CSP), 2010
communication http://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/prebelo
PMBoK, Project, CertIfied Java programmer
Program & Sun Microsystems (SCP), registration number: KA9LAM501D
Portfolio
Management INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS TECNOL GICAS - S o Paulo, Brazil
Master of Science in Computer, 2009
Agile / Lean
Coach (Lean - Universidade de s o Paulo - S o Paulo, Brazil
Kanban, XP, Bachelor of Math, 2000
Scrum, SAFe)
Professional Experience
Agile Project
Manager & wALMART.COM
ScrumMaster Agile Project Manager, 04/2013 - present
Working with 3 different multifunctional teams
Distributed Agile (internal/vendor), over 25 developers and QAs, in order to
& Outsourcing deliver backend solutions for our webstore.
Actively assisting the development team, allowing them to
Continuous build a pipeline for continuous delivery, fostering the
Delivery pair programming, test-driven development, continuous
integration, and refactoring. Always empowering the team
Team Building, to self-organize, providing autonomy.
Mentoring, Proactively work with the Product Owner and stakeholders,
Facilitation, applying good ways of writing a product backlog, make a
Training & real prioritization, creating business value, fostering
Servant ATDD/BDD (when applicable), and INVEST model.
Leadership Conduct tech talks and learning sessions for continuous
improvement of the whole team.
Project Budgeting Facilitate retrospectives, guide Inception phases, lead
& Cost Controls planning sessions, standup meetings, and iteration
showcases.
Quality Assurance Lead team-building activities for better collaboration,
communication, transparency, and promoting an environment
of trust.
Inception, User Remove barriers, mitigating risks, assumptions, issues,
Story Mapping, and then executing action plans.
Release Planning Align expectations, ensuring correct metrics are realized
& Business and reachable, so the project can meet the deadlines.
Model Canvas Key projects/programs:
Financial solutions: a program which is returning
$4M/month, an umbrella of several projects, each one
delivering a specific set of goals and outcomes.
Technology IMS (Inventory Management System): a product whose main
Summary goal is to rebuild the solution based on the old ERP,
specially the features related to freight and inventory.
Software & RDBMS: We are using a graph model system in order to accomplish
that.
MS Project OMS (Order Management System): a reformulated product
(expert), Rally based on Apache ActiveMQ that is supporting the
(expert), integration of all the orders from the webstore.
VersionOne, Jira
(expert), SOLUTIONSIQ - Redmond, WA
Jenkins, Word, ScrumMaster, 01/2013 - 04/2013
Excel, Access, Worked with AT&T on Enterprise Agile Transformations using
PowerPoint, the SAF (Scaled Agile Framework).
SharePoint, Conducted release planning sessions, user story workshops,
Oracle, SQL standup meetings, and iteration showcases. Facilitated
Server, MySQL, retrospectives, identifying and implementing improvements.
DB2 Led team building activities, emphasizing the team
Technologies: collaboration, and communication.
Java SE, Java EE, Defined the business requirements in conjunction with the
C/C++, .NET, stakeholders, aligning the expectations, integrating the
Ruby, PHP, process and people together to the same page, in order to
Assembler, Cobol, always looking for continuous improvement.
JMeter, Rspec, Key project:
Cucumber, myServices: a place where you can manage your account and
Selenium, JUnit products. There are two teams: Definition Team (Product
Systems: Owner, 2 Business Analysts, Information Architect, and
Windows, Unix, ScrumMaster) & Delivery Team (ScrumMaster, Software
Linux, Mac Architect, 2 QAs, and 6 developers). The Definition Team
Technical uses Kanban to manage the creation of Ready stories.
Practices:
Continuous Brivin Corp - Miami, FL
Delivery, Agile Project Manager, 04/2012 - 12/2012
Continuous Planned and implemented four different Agile Distributed
Integration, Pair Teams in India, China, Brazil, and Argentina, as well as
Programming, an Agile Portfolio Management, in order to deliver several
Refactoring, TDD, projects. Results: better organization, saving thousands
BDD, ATDD of dollars, and maximizing the productivity.
Pairing across several teams, enhancing adoption and
effectiveness of Agile ceremonies, as well as technical
Languages practices, including ATDD, TDD, BDD, pair programming,
English refactoring, continuous integration, as well as advancing
Portuguese team proficiency.
Spanish Key projects:
Bank Foreclosure Sales: a remodeled website for finding
the best opportunities in foreclosure homes. Team: 4
Courses developers, 2 SEO analysts, 1 designer, and 1 QA.
PMP Preparatory - E-commerce platform: a new e-commerce platform with ease
4th Edition of integration, faster maintainability, new user-friendly
(Simplilearn) design, and improved aspects of SEO. Team: 4 developers, 2
Estimating, SEO analysts, 1 Sysadmin, and 1 QA.
Planning &
Contracting for ABRIL DIGITAL - S o Paulo, Brazil
Scrum Projects Agile Project Manager, 2009 - 2012
with Alexandre Hired to help establishing an Agile culture, conducting
Magno coaching, mentoring and learning sessions for promoting
Management 3.0 continuous innovation (tech talks, open spaces, devops,
with Jurgen and so on). Furthermore, delivered many different projects
Appelo and products to various customers throughout Abril.
Running Lean with Responsible for two verticals: mobile (ios, android,
Ash Maurya mobile sites) & internet product management. Accountable
for the technology budget, and reporting to CTO.
Certified Managed project teams across organizations, and several
ScrumMaster with outsourced partners to support the development of
Boris Gloger products.
Business Model Guided teams through inception, story mapping, planning,
Canvas product grooming, reviews, retrospective, and daily
Project meetings.
Management based Actively paired with Product Owners, development teams,
on PMBoK with and other business stakeholders, in order to discover and
Roque Rabechini design great products.
Team Building Facilitated product vision and strategic roadmap, creating
(Grupo & Cia.) an agile portfolio management.
360 Evaluation Paired collaboratively across several teams, enhancing
(UOL) adoption of technical practices, including ATDD, TDD, BDD,
Interview by pair programming, refactoring, continuous integration,
Competencies continuous delivery, as well as advancing team
(UOL) proficiency.
Advanced Ruby on Key projects/programs:
Rails (Caelum) ViajeAqui: Under Abril's umbrela, one of the biggest media
Advanced Java players in Brazil, ViajeAqui project is a travel & tourism
(University of portal with curated content and user reviews. It was a
Miami) Ruby/Rails project with MongoDB. Team: 8 developers, 3
JavaScript QAs, 2 Business Analysts, 2 Information Architect, and 2
(University of web designers.
Miami) Alexandria (new Digital Platform): Alexandria is Abril's
C++ for C program for its CMS, Authentication and Authorization,
Programmers Social Network, Search ongoing projects. Team: 20
developers, 3 ScrumMasters, 4 QAs, 3 Product Owners, 2
Information Architects, 2 Software Architects.
SMS Publisher: Tool for web content publishing and
management of SMS channels, unifying and integrating with
operators. Team: 4 developers, 1 Software Architect, 1 QA,
1 Product Owner, 1 Sysadmin.
Product Support & Sustenance for over 30 products,
including editorial websites, e-commerce websites, and
mobile apps & sites. Team: 8 developers, 2 Software
Architects, and 2 QAs. We used Kanban to manage the whole
workflow.
UOL - S o Paulo, Brazil
ScrumMaster, 2008 - 2008
Led projects for Online Marketing and Sponsored Links
Departments: new Sponsored Links Platform, an assessment
tool for email marketing and web analysis for the company,
as well as conducting projects related to the product that
tracks all measurements from the campaign and ads in
online advertising, gauging the return on investment on
each product. Results: we have got several new clients
with the new platform and we could support where the
investment may go in each product.
Key projects:
New Sponsored Links Platform: new platform for UOL
Sponsored Links with new features, new infrastructure, new
layout and new software architecture. Team: 6 developers,
1 QA, 1 Information Architect, 1 Web Design, and 1 Product
Owner.
ROI Meter: measure and get better return of investment of
several products from UOL, tracking the user, integration
with SAP, and generating executive's reports. Team: 3
developers, and 1 QA.
Sodexo - S o Paulo, Brazil
Software Development Coordinator, 2006 - 2008
Managed the Internet department of Sodexo. We worked with
9 internal and 20+ external developers, and consultants.
Results: Restructured the development area, new process
and enterprise architecture, reaching delivery targets
consistent with the strategic alignment of business and
higher quality products developed.
Main projects: New e-commerce platform for large and
medium companies, integration of new processes of file
transfer via secure channel (EDI), a new channel for
customer retention through the methodology "Clients for
Life", a new tracking system of applications, new system
of tracking customers through a monitoring tool, framing
of web applications to serve the company's new brand, and
renovation of the entire systems to a new innovative
technology platform.
Scopus - S o Paulo, Brazil
Lead Software Architect, 2001 - 2005
Responsible for creating architectural designs around the
Java platform, leading and coordinating the technical
activities and artifacts during the lifecycle of the
project, inspiring, motivating, coaching and practicing
his colleagues, with the aim of the intelligent use of
industry best practices.
Ita - S o Paulo, Brazil
Sr. Software Engineer, 2000 - 2001
As Technical Leader and Software Engineer, worked on
different projects using ASP, Visual Basic, C/C++,
Java/JSP, and JavaScript/HTML/CSS.
Comet Inc. - Miami, FL / S o Paulo, Brazil
Sr. Programmer, 1997 - 1999
Programmer working on various software development
projects, mostly involving Java: Workflow System
Outsourcing for Bradesco, new website in WebObjects for
Americanas.com, and an e-commerce system for Visa.
Trainer of a basic/advanced Java training to the whole
company.
Leader in the development of a workflow system in Phoenix
(AZ), United States, based on Java and WebObjects
Application Server.
Bradesco - S o Paulo, Brazil
Programmer, 1992 - 1997
Development of systems using Assembler/360 and Cobol
languages, on the MVS environment, accessing DB2 and IMS
databases.
Developed dozens of applications using C/C++, Java, and
JavaScript/HTML/CSS.