Project Manager

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Gilberto Braga

Weston, FL

Cell Phone: 954-***-****

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Senior Project Manager

Skills

Project Manager and Program Management Skills – 14 years of experience in Project Initiation and Feasibility Control, Budget Control, Planning Control, Status Reports, Forecasts, Risks and Issues Management, Engagement of Business and Technical Teams, Project Deliverables Control. Agile and Waterfall Methodologies. Certified Scrum Master and SAFe Practitioner.

BSA Skills – Gathering and documenting Business Requirements, driving JAD sessions in Initiation phase, engagement of technical teams, facilitating discussions and communications between Business and Technologies teams, Deliverables Control, consolidating work objects to compile the Project Charter or Project Report; procuring approvals from Business and Technologies stakeholders.

Technical Skills – COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB, MVS, CSP, Easytrieve, Change Management, MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Visio, Sharepoint, SDLC 2.0, Clarity; Self-Study: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java

Leadership Skills – Time Management skills, ability to work with several projects in very dynamic environment, ability to work across markets and business units, ability to support concurrent activities and interface with people at higher levels; team player, analytical and strategic thinking skills. Tri-lingual, fluent in English and Portuguese, and can speak and read in Spanish.

Professional Experience

AMERICAN EXPRESS USA 1994–2016 (Sep)

Technical Project Manager (2015–2016)

Project/Program Manager (2001–2015)

Lead Programmer Analyst (1994–2001)

Developed several projects following the Agile Methodology as a Scrum Master. Led team with one Technical Leader, two Software Engineers and two Quality Assurance Engineers.

Managed and implemented the migration of the Acquirer data from American Express to Bradesco Bank in Brazil, with more than 4M merchant data and participation of more than 30 teams from American Express. 2

Managed and implemented, concurrently, more than 10 projects to support the migration of the Acquirer functionality to Bradesco Bank in Brazil leading a team of three End-Two-End Project Managers.

Successfully implemented hardware upgrade in 33 banks across the Globe in just one year with teams assigned in Australia, England, USA, Latin America and Phoenix.

Managed and certified Bancolombia, Credomatic of Panama and HSBC Brazil into the American Express infrastructure, leading all the technical aspects of the certification.

Coordinated the migration of the Stratus hardware to GAN hardware, managing and implementing several projects supporting the migration

Proposed and successfully implemented the migration of an ATM vendor in Brazil with an innovated solution.

Have been responsible for the overall Technical Leadership to deliver and enable bank partners to be certified as American Express Independent Operators in Latin America markets, acting also as a Technical Account Manager.

Provided guidance and direction to the development team to ensure compliance with established architectural standards and internal policies.

Managed and controlled the Statement of Work and invoices for department cost center.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

American Express Brazil: System Analyst Supervisor; System Analyst and Programmer

Led a team of four System Analysts implementing projects, including Accounting Interface, Fixed Assets, and Several Acquirer Features. Education

Electronic Engineer Bachelor – Faculdade de Engenharia Sao Paulo – Sao Paulo, Brazil

\Certifications

Scrum Master Certification

Scale Agile Framework Practitioner (SP) Certification

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