Agile Project Manager
2018 - PRESENTToptal- Facilitated two-week remote workshops to gather product and project requirements.
- Created a plan, updated stakeholders about progress, and delivered the project to production.
- Managed teams of different sizes between two and ten FTEs.
Agile Coach | Web Technologies Coordinator
2017 - 2018Globo- Built distributed and collocated highly performant Agile teams.
- Worked with three different core areas of the company (big data, videos, and platforms) to deliver its projects.
- Ensured services, products, and platforms adhered to strong requirements around resilience, scalability, and performance.
- Worked with a team responsible for building Mobile SDK's for IDM purposes, building native software for iOS, Android, and TV's and integrating with Facebook and Google as alternatives for login and authentication.
- Contributed to setting team goals and objectives for each quarter and following up with its deliveries.
- Expanded the engineering staff in the Porto Alegre office by 40%.
Enterprise Agile Coach
2015 - 2017Sicredi- Formed agile software development teams and building a plan for rolling out new teams.
- Considered each specific project context and focusing on continuous improvement.
- Worked closely with four large Scrum teams, providing Agile training, shadowing Agile ceremonies, mentoring, and coaching.
- Followed up and provided visibility regarding the Agile maturity.
- Helped the organization evaluate and adapt in order to support the new WoW (sourcing, legal, finance, budgeting, PMO, and other cross areas).
- Facilitated project inceptions maturing and understanding requirements, defining and prioritizing features and their respective MVPs.
- Collaborated with multiple scrum masters, product owners, developers, BAs, QAs, and stakeholders.
- Identified, recruited, and interviewed professionals for agile coach and scrum master positions.
- Worked with teams who had the responsibility to develop mobile (using Kony framework and customizing with native code for Windows Phone, iOS, and Android), web applications and back-office software.
Agile Coach | Engineering Manager
2013 - 2015Klarna- Managed a team of senior Erlang developers that had end-to-end responsibility for a system that took purchases 24/7/365.
- Held accountable for the performance of the team, created and maintained the system and business KPIs, backlog, team happiness, budget, salaries, and individual and team development plans.
- Facilitated Agile team ceremonies, organizational communication and collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to deliver projects such as the launch of Klarna operations in the US.
Senior Consultant | Iteration Manager
2010 - 2013ThoughtWorks- Collaborated on many different projects, providing the right level of quality for the products and services our clients were building.
- Worked with distributed teams in North and South America.
- Gained hands-on experience with iteration management, DevOps and continuous delivery, quality assurance, BDD (Ruby and Cucumber, Java and JBehave, and C# and SpecFlow).
Quality Assurance
2007 - 2010Zero-Defect- Contributed to many different roles within software development, quality assurance and business analysis, writing code, reviewing business requirements, collaborating with stakeholders, building automated suites of tests and setting up automated pipelines for testing and deployment.
- Executed security assessments and acted as a white hat hacker inside banks in South America and Africa.
Intern C# Mobile Developer
2006 - 2007Mobisol- Developed mobile apps using AppForge Crossfire framework, C# and .NET.
Guilherme Motta
Project Manager in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Member since July 3, 2018
As an IT strategic management MBA graduate, Guilherme has demonstrated experience with agile software discovery and delivery initiatives playing a variety of roles: engineering manager, agile coach, project manager, iteration manager, developer, sysadmin, and DevOps engineer. Guilherme has worked for startups and Fortune 500 corporations on a variety of domains, mostly finance, eCommerce, media, and retail.
Guilherme is now available for hire
Project Highlights
- Wrote a chapter and contributed to many other sections.
- Disseminating Agile software development within the Brazilian market.
Expertise
- Agile
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Project Management
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Mentorship & Coaching
- Team Leadership
- XP
Education
- Fundacao Getulio Vargas
- Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul
Select Certifications
- Scaled Agile Inc
- Happy Melly
- Scrum Alliance
Employment
Project History
- Agile Almanac Book 2: Programs with Multi and Virtual-Team EnvironmentsWrote a chapter and contributed to many other sections.
The Agile Almanac - Book 2 has been reviewed by Jeff Sutherland, Scott Ambler, Bas Vodde, and Dean Leffingwell's co-founder Drew Jemilo and Inbar Oren. They were generous beyond all expectations, helping us get the chapter on their approaches accurate and concise so you can quickly discern which one is the best fit for your needs.
- Project Manager - eCommerce UX ReviewLed a discovery process to map project objectives, personas, features, and journeys; helped the team deliver a 2-month MVP.
Acted as a facilitator during the discovery phase which we invested 2 weeks of part-time dedication among customer service team, CEO, and our cross-functional software development team.
After approval of the MVP scope and objectives, we delivered the project in 2 months. - Project Manager - Oil and Gas Legacy System MigrationActed as a technical project manager, helping the team structure QA strategy, DevOps strategy, and delivery.
Acted as a hands-on technical project manager, structuring continuous integration server, deploy, backups in the cloud, managed team recurring meetings (daily standup, tech standup, planning, retrospective, and review).
- Project Manager - Integration Between an Acquired Startup With a Large EnterpriseActed as a project manager, helping the client to map business needs into requirements and helped the team with go live.
Managed an experienced software development team composed of four developers, one QA, and on-demand infrastructure and UX who built restful APIs with a customer-facing front-end and an admin interface for configuration purposes. The client was one of the largest hotel groups in the world.
- Project Manager - Information Security AssessmentLed a penetration testing project with an African bank in Angola.
The goal of the project was to validate there were no flaws on an online banking system. The project was so successful that the launch of the online banking ended up being postponed.
- Agile Alliance Brazil, Board of DirectorsDisseminating Agile software development within the Brazilian market.
Acted as a board member of Agile Alliance Brazil.
Education
- Master of Business Administration Degree in IT Strategic Management2009 - 2013Fundacao Getulio Vargas - Brazil
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems2005 - 2009Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre, Brazil
Certifications
- Learning 3.0 FacilitatorAPRIL 2018 - PRESENTLearning 3.0
- PSM IOCTOBER 2016 - PRESENTScrum.org
- Scaled Agile Framework® Agilist (SA) Certification ProgramAPRIL 2016 - APRIL 2017Scaled Agile Inc
- Management 3.0FEBRUARY 2016 - PRESENTHappy Melly
- Certified Scrum ProfessionalOCTOBER 2014 - PRESENTScrum Alliance
- Certified Scrum MasterOCTOBER 2011 - PRESENTScrum Alliance
