Andre Ahlert

Leads delivery of software projects for the firm's international client accounts, owning scope, schedule, and budget, and acts as Product Owner on client engagements. Portfolio of 15+ projects ($18M+) for US, European, and Brazilian clients at 96% on-time delivery; shipped 6 MVPs; cut scope creep by 38%; raised CSAT from 3.8 to 4.7; prototypes demos and tooling with Claude Code.

Established and led the company's first PMO, governing 320+ industrial manufacturing accounts and 40+ concurrent implementation projects (~70% of services revenue). Drove billable utilization from ~65% to ~80% and cut implementation cycles from ~9 to ~6 months for a team of 12 consultants; ~95% client retention; created MGPL hybrid delivery framework; member of the Product Governance Committee.

Turnaround specialist recovering high-risk enterprise accounts facing cancellation or adoption crises. Spearheaded high-complexity ERP replacements and legacy migrations (SAP S/4HANA, TOTVS); managed multi-plant rollouts for clients of 500 to 1,400 employees across five Brazilian states; expanded 200-hour scopes into 400+ hour strategic projects; moved delivery to a fully remote model in 2020.

Ran multiple concurrent ERP implementation and evolution projects for manufacturing clients across Brazil, each with its own sponsor, contract model, and calendar. Introduced Scrum and Kanban into waterfall-oriented teams; built the portfolio risk and issue management routine; negotiated scope, timeline, and commercial adjustments with plant executives; mentored analysts and junior PMs.

Assisted Senior PMs on large-scale enterprise rollouts while leading mid-size ERP implementations end-to-end: scope, schedule, budget, and go-live readiness. Managed change requests and scope negotiation with sponsors; coordinated consultants and developers across finance, production, inventory, and fiscal workstreams; weekly steering committee reporting; coordinated UAT and end-user training.

Ran technical deployments and rollouts of proprietary industrial ERP systems (Fabril System and Forwood) for manufacturing and metalworking clients. Owned end-to-end data migration and ETL for go-lives; advanced database provisioning and configuration for shop-floor workflows; on-site hypercare during go-lives and first fiscal closes, keeping downtime under 5%; trained key users.

Developed and maintained core internal ERP modules (Quality Assurance, Shop-floor, Commercial Management) in Delphi 6 and Firebird SQL for an agro-industrial company. Worked across application code, legacy database queries, stored procedures, and report layouts; third-level production support; integrations with client systems; turned plant user requirements into technical specifications.

Postgraduate specialization (lato sensu) in marketing management: market research and consumer behaviour, segmentation, targeting and positioning, product and pricing strategy, distribution channels, integrated marketing communication, digital marketing and performance metrics, brand management, sales management and CRM. Supports value proposition, positioning and go-to-market decisions.

Graduate business program (MBA) in project management built on the PMI/PMBOK framework: scope, schedule and cost management, risk and quality, procurement and contracts, stakeholder engagement, project governance and PMO models, portfolio prioritization, and financial evaluation of investments (NPV, IRR, payback). Foundation of my work leading portfolios, PMOs and multi-vendor delivery programs.

Postgraduate specialization (lato sensu) in engineering management, bridging technical operations and business administration: production and operations planning, process mapping and continuous improvement, quality management, industrial costing and engineering economics, maintenance and asset management, supply chain and logistics, and management of technical teams (Lean, Six Sigma fundamentals).

Undergraduate degree in information systems/science covering the software and data lifecycle: programming logic and algorithms, data structures, databases and SQL, systems analysis and design, software engineering, networks, infrastructure, operating systems, information security, and business/ERP systems. Technical base for running ERP and software delivery programs close to engineering teams.