My resumé / CV
Certified Professional Coach, Professional Scrum Product Owner II, Scrum
Master and Business Analyst. 14-year career in the software industry as a
product manager, software team lead, UX designer, and educational content
creator. Managed a design system for a multinational company. Increased team
output and stakeholder engagement by 100% in 5 months through Scrum.
My mission is to help build digital products serve customers while benefitting
the business through outcome-based product management and discovery, and agile
practices.
Career & Experience
Devoteam Creative Tech
Product Lead and Change Manager, 2021–Today
Leading product teams to serve their clients’ customers. Managing customers and
stakeholders, outcome-based roadmaps and product backlogs, eliciting
requirements from subject matter experts and customers through discovery and
experimentation, implementing Scrum, and ensuring a product vision with all
parties is shared.
BNP Paribas
Scrum Master and Agile transformation consultant, 2022
Observed a remote Scrum team’s practices and interactions around agile
principles and values, and their implementation of Scrum, on a high risk
financial product. Performed a diagnosis of their current position. Provided a
transformation plan that would include both the team and the organization
towards higher quality of change response, more efficiency and better response
to risk.
Underwriters Laboratories
Product Owner, Project Manager, Product Developer, User
Experience Designer, Ruby and Javascript Developer — 2016–2021
- Managed a project for an internal design system. Planned, executed and
monitored several aspects of that activity: stakeholders, schedule, delivery,
scope, procurement, communications. Implemented the design system’s technical
libraries. Proposed and implemented Scrum in the team, which increased team
throughput and stakeholder involvement by 100%.
- Led a team of 5, participated in the product development committee, designed
and implemented a full platform rework of GoodGuide.com. Improved application
performance by 70%.
- Led a team of 5 and implemented a distributed business intelligence web
application for the company.
BOLD International
Software Engineer, Technical Specialist and Advisor,
Award-winning Trainer, 2016–Today
- Founded «Project: BOLD University», an effort to bridge the gap between
academia and industry.
- Engaged in meaningful conversations with top universities in Portugal, so as
to create opportunities for synergies between them and the company, with
special attention to students and their expectations towards the workplace.
- Ran seminars in some of these universities regarding miscellaneous topics of
software development, interpersonal and communication skills, and personal
development.
- Trained fellow colleagues in specific topics of software development.
Envato (Tuts+)
Educator and Video Content Creator — 2012–2016
- Produced, recorded and edited 50+ video educational courses over 100+ hours,
in Ruby, Javascript and other topics in software development, for all levels
of difficulty, from various study perspectives. Exploring libraries through
examples and practical applications were the keystone of my approach.
IUZ Technologies
Interaction Designer, Frontend Developer — 2010–2012
- Designed websites and applications for various projects in the public
healthcare and retail sectors.
Goweb
PHP Developer — 2010
- Developed applications for clients in the retail industry.
Weebiz
Frontend Developer, Designer — 2009
- Redesigned and implemented the frontend of Weebiz.com.
Education & Training
Most of my education and skill set has been attained from autonomous learning,
experimentation and professional experience.
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Degree in Computer Science Engineering — 2004–2009
Center for Coaching Certification
Scrum.org
IIBA
- Certified trainer by IEFP, I.P., #F668590/2018
Interaction Design Foundation
- User Experience: The Beginner’s Guide, 2019
- Design Thinking: The Beginner’s Guide, 2019
- Become a UX Designer from Scratch, 2019
Conferences attended
- RubyConf Portugal
- dotRuby
- Ruby Norte
- Barcamp PT
Skills
Hard skills
- Scrum
- User experience
- Application design
- JavaScript
- Ruby
- Linux
- Git
- HTML
- SCSS
Soft skills
- Product development and management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Project management
- Training and education
- Office productivity tools
- Remote technical team setup
Languages
- Portuguese
- English
- Spanish
References
José has been a key member of our team at Envato Tuts+ for several years. In
the time that I’ve worked with him I’ve come to rely greatly on his
comprehensive knowledge of the Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails
framework. José leads our coverage of the Ruby ecosystem, using his judgment
and connections to the community to plan and produce relevant, cutting-edge
content.
It has been a pleasure to work with José. I’ve found him to be diligent,
conscientious, and reliable. His own competence has made my job much
easier. His skill as a Ruby developer, moreover, continues to amaze me.
— Adam Brown, Content Producer at Tuts+
José is the colleague every company dreams of: very professional, high values
of quality and excellence. Dedicated and entrepreneurial, he always seeks the
best opportunities, readily showing initiative and value propositions that
elevate his company’s status. José is not only a strong recommendation of
mine, I consider him to be a “must have” to any innovative, daring company.
— Elsa Soares, Human Resources Specialist, former colleague
The course was very efficient in presenting agile methods and how product
development is done. Everything that was presented in class can be applied in
the day to day work. The highlight for me was the exercises; hands-on learning
is always very positive. 5/5
— Vanessa Campoy, Student in the “Product management in agile environments”
course
Well, I had the pleasure to know a lot of people with different visions and
approach, José was really amazing, he put us thinking and doing with our hands
and brain! 4.5/5
— Pedro Sousa, Student in the “Product management in agile environments”
course