
Florence Garcia
@florencegarcia
Technical Program Manager at Octafy LAD, leading Renault’s SAP S/4HANA data migration and post-migration governance.
What I'm looking for
At Octafy LAD, I’m acting as a Senior Consultant on Renault’s SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration. I’m leading data migration planning, test cycles, and validation, while shaping the post-migration master data governance model.
At Tata Consultancy Services, I led Copel’s application modernization across 50+ enterprise Java applications, coordinating workstreams for REST integration via Denodo on GCP. I also coordinated Allianz US releases in ServiceNow and authored user stories and process flows for PwC US API ETL delivery.
My work has also included coaching Scrum teams at GSK and J&J, supporting Agile transformation at ExxonMobil, and managing IT and operations programs across other organizations. I hold PMP®, CSM®, SAFe® Agilist, CSPO®, and ITIL® credentials, along with an Executive MBA from George Washington University.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Acting as a Senior Consultant through Octafy on an engagement for Renault, leading critical data workstreams for the SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration program.
Data Migration (SAP S/4HANA): Spearheading the data migration strategy, with a specific focus on planning, executing, and validating test cycles (mocks), ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and consistency of information migrated from the lega
Led application modernization program for Copel ( Energy & Utilities Industry) replacing legacy JPA/Hibernate database access with standardized REST integration via Denodo on GCP, across 50+ enterprise Java applications (DCS/FRW). Coordinated parallel workstreams covering AlloyDB migration, WildFly 23 deployment, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Cloud Run provisioning, and Terraform infrastructure. Resolve
Working as Scrum Master and BA For GSK and J&J implementing end-to-end life cycle development strategies and managed defect triage in Jira and Azure DevOps, achieving on-time delivery across 3 consecutive program increments.
Onboarded and coached newly formed Scrum teams at GSK and J&J; improved sprint predictability and velocity by 25%+ within 2 quarters via structured backlog refinement, scrum c
Led Agile transformation for one of the world's largest energy companies, coaching 5+ cross-functional product teams and senior leadership on SAFe and Scrum adoption focused in Data Engineering, Swonflake, Apache, Data Lakehouse, Databricks.
Aligned 5 teams across 2 value streams to a shared delivery cadence, reducing program-level blockers by 40% through structured PI planning and impediment res
Coached Scrum teams at Bradesco (BA/SM/Agile Coach) in banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) with real estate financing solutions, credit card processing platform, and other squads, through full delivery cycles, resolving impediments and driving continuous improvement via KPI dashboards.
Implementation os Scrum Framework improveing delivery ~35% to 65%+ over 2 quarters through capacity-
Led QA team of 6 developing automated test suites for the Bradesco PIX real-time payments platform using HP ALM, Jira, and Azure DevOps, managing test planning, preparing test strategy, scenarios and cases. Perform functional, integration and regression testing reporting using Trello.
Coached Scrum teams at Mastercard (BA/SM — SAFe/PI Planning) through full delivery cycles, resolving impediments and driving continuous improvement via KPI dashboards.
Improved sprint completion rate from ~65% to 90%+ over 3 quarters through capacity-based planning and retrospective action tracking using CA Agile Central (Rally) for Mastercard lifecycle management and PI planning within SAFe metho
Managed LATAM IT operations — service desk N1/N2, infrastructure, applications, security, SOX compliance, and multiple service providers (WMS, TMS, ERP, IoT, Intranet), access control, energy facilities keeping high availability and Service Desk SLA.
Drove continuous improvement in team KPIs, achieving 70% backlog reduction, increasing on-time processing SLA in 78% consistently across Help Desk
Oversaw Shared Service Center (SSC) operations across accounts payable, master data, and provisioning for all US chemical plants using SAP (MM/PP/QM/FI/CO). Drove continuous improvement in team KPIs, achieving 98%+ on-time processing SLA using Salesforce platform consistently across a 40-person operations team.
Led projects focused on financial compliance and credit strategy, ensuring alignment with regulatory and compliance requirements. Coordinated architects, developers, DBAs, and QA testers to ensure issue resolution and clear reporting on critical project details.
Managing PM team and coordinating teams remotly across the country delivering telecommunications and IT services. Also responsible for a local field support team to implement and sustain IT infra, IP, ATM network, optical fiber and SDH radios for clients as HSBC, ITAU, GVT. Also dealing with stakeholders reporting to high level management team. Applying PMI methodologies proactively balancing scop
Lead Startup implementation project manager for Sykes’ new facilities in Brazil providing over 600 seats managing over $1M+ budget including a new datacenter: network (CISCO), servers (HP, IBM), PABX (Avaya), telephony (Embratel, Global Crossing, GVT), and SAP also bringing new B2B global clients as Kodak, Sony, Trend Micro, Volvo and GVT.
Managing Service Desk (N1 and N2) to support Sykes operati
Analysing requirements, designing and implementing IT solutions using best practices methodologies PMI®, ITIL®, COBIT®, eTOM®, and Six Sigma. Focused in BPO, increasing KPIs in 25% for BUs and customer satisfaction to 90% by using process transformation seeking synergy and cost reduction.
Also working as technical pre-sales and customer focus creating and delivering technical product presentations
Responsible for RFP responses, pricing, business proposals, contracts and negotiation with clients and suppliers.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
UFU - Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
UNICURITIBA
Bachelor of Laws
CertiProf
Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional
Mar 2018
Scrum.org
Scrum Master Certified (SMC)
Feb 2018
Ordem Dos Advogados Do Brasil
OAB
Apr 2014
UNICURITIBA
Bachelor's Degree, Law
2008 - 2013
The George Washington University
Executive MBA, Project Management
2005 - 2007
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)
Master, Eletronic Engineering
1998 - 2001
UFU - Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Bachelor's Degree, ENGINEERING
1993 - 1998
Project Management Institute
PMI - Project Management Certification
Feb 2011
IT Partners Consultoria & Treinamento
ITIL® Foundation v3
Jan 2007
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