Luis Guilherme Simas da Silva

Context:
IT and software delivery firm serving State of Hawaii agencies and the University of Hawaii. Primary client contact on every engagement I run. I own scope, schedule, budget and risk on a $5M portfolio of 6 concurrent engagements across four client organisations, all under state procurement vehicles: formal change control, fiscal-year budget discipline and weekly reporting to agency leader

Context:
The Department of Human Services runs SNAP, child care subsidy and benefits investigations for the State of Hawaii. I supported the program manager across a portfolio of concurrent M&O and project workstreams, owning day-to-day delivery on most of them: requirements, roadmap, blockers, dependencies and vendor coordination. Teams were cross-functional by default - product managers, busines

Achievements:
- Led the design, planning and delivery of a new React/Ruby application for Mosaico, an LMS used by schools across 4 continents, from concept through launch.
- Drove the performance work that followed the launch, restructuring page requests and the database schema to reduce load times and improve platform stability.

Context:
Mosaico lets parents, coordinators and teachers follow pro

Achievements:
- Led discovery, design and UX research for a full website rebuild, from user research through launch.
- Owned product roadmap and backlog prioritization for a platform serving 400+ schools, reporting directly to the Head of Product.

Context:
Edify is an EdTech that helps schools in Brazil become bilingual, reaching 400+ schools with pedagogical support through coding, e-books, proj

Product Owner for the Electrolux LATAM squad (design, frontend and backend) at a VTEX partner building integrated e-commerce and marketplace platforms.
Owned backlog prioritization, story and epic definition, and iteration planning across the three disciplines.

Achievements:
- Managed a team of 6 direct and 20 indirect reports across education delivery, volunteer programs and operations.
- Implemented organization-wide project controls, including an evaluation method that measured program strengths and gaps and fed the following year's planning cycle.
- Migrated the organization onto Google Workspace for Nonprofits, planning the data migration and tool i

Achievements:
- Ran the M&A workstream that migrated fund administration systems from Deutsche Bank into Apex Fund Services after the acquisition, building and administering the project's RAID log and triggering mitigation before contingency events fired.
- Kept business and technical stakeholders aligned across internal teams and external counterparts throughout the transition, by running a singl

- Developed a deep knowledge of product features and benefits, effectively informing and assisting customers. As a result, I was assigned as the store denim ambassador.
- Led team sales performance by consistently being among Ireland top five best individual results.
- Trained and motivated three new team members to improve sales performance and customer service standards.

- Performed client relationship management activities between sellers, buyers, and the company, following the entire process through its commercial and legal procedures until closing the sale.
- Developed negotiation and stakeholder management skills through real-world and high-pressure situations.

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Full-time programme in Ireland's leading business school

Modules:
• Project Management Lifecycle
• Business Strategy
• Projects and Organisational Dynamics
• Project Scope and Feasibility Evaluation
• Procurement and Contract Management
• Project Management Tools and Techniques
• Project Risk Management
• Major Report (Consultancy Project)