Project Manager Management

Luís Berger

Software & Hardware Delivery Manager/People Manager/Project Management

+351-********* - ****.******@****.** / LinkedIn Profile Lisbon/PORTUGAL SUMMARY

People Management with 10+ years’ experience leading up to 30 global direct reports and managing projects (over €1M revenue).

Extensive Telecom Industry knowledge (including high speed design) working with global teams.

3 years’ experience working as an Operational Director during in SME in Portugal.

Product Management and Hardware Development experience (7 years’)

4 with 4+ years of experience in Microelectronics within Europeans Partners

Electronics Lecturer during 3 years in University in Portugal PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007 – 2024 NOKIA Portugal

Delivery Manager/People Management (2013 – 2024)

Managing the Software and Service teams for delivering Operations Support Systems products.

Leading multicultural and interdisciplinary teams (EMEA, US, India) up to 30 people (Developers, Testers, System Integrators, Architects, Team Leaders etc.)

Working with 40+ large Telco clients in Europe and up to 100 worldwide.

Leading Performance management/ review activities. Project Manager Head (2007 – 2012)

Managing specific software customization projects (EMEA, NAM, LAT and APAC regions)

Coordinating a cross-organization project management team (15 project managers)

Liasing with Customer Teams to ensure the project delivery. 2001 – 2006 SIEMENS Portugal

Project Manager (2004 – 2006)

Defining the plan to meet the target objectives, schedule, cost, and quality criteria.

Negotiating with all the teams involved (R&D, Support, Product etc.) and suppliers

Risk/crisis management and mitigation.

Project budgeting and cost control. (1 years’ global project duration, with over €1M of revenue)

Achievement: 4 Innovation and Strategic Awards

R&D Director (2001 – 2003)

Managing all the Hardware Development and System Test Areas (over 80 Engineers)

Establishing and overseeing recruitment processes. Setting-up a new local Hardware team.

Defining the Business Policies for the different scope areas.

Collaborating with cross functional teams.

1992 – 2000 TECMIC (Portugal)

Operational Director (1998 – 2000)

Managing the daily company operations, leading the development, production and customer care teams

Interfacing with key stakeholders for implementing procedures and policies within the company

Budget and planning definition within the different projects Unit Product Owner for Semiconductor Business (1996 – 1998)

Prospecting new customers and assessing competitors

Project leader – Leading projects that contribute to the business

Managing the Design tools and selecting the suppliers Technical Manager in Electronics/Microelectronics (1994 – 1995)

Technical responsible for products in Telecom, Industrial Control, and Storing Data Systems

Impact Analysis, Feature Screening Decision, Estimations Reviewer, and Coacher Business Owner for European Projects (1992 – 1993)

Marketing on promoting the adoption of micro-electronics technologies

Organization of Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Trade Shows, Trainings, Technologic Visits

Interacting with Government, Industry, University and Media key players

Participation in the Juri Committee for proving funding to Open Microprocessor Projects 1989 – 1992 INESC (Portugal)

Junior Researcher

Designing high-definition video components, together with European Siemens & Philips partners Summer – Winter 1988 Fraunhofer- Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS - Erlangen (Germany) Internship

Designing a data compression for high-quality music signals, base to the MP3 format invention EDUCATION

1988 Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal)

Electro-technical and Computers Engineer - Telecommunications and Electronics Branch LANGUAGE

Portuguese (Native), English (Fluent), French and Spanish (Intermediate level), German (Basic) EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

1997 – 1999 Universidade Lusófona Portugal

Professor

2017 – Present SOS children's villages Portugal

Vice-President (Volunteer)

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