DANIEL PEDROZO

danpedrozo@gmail.com / https://br.linkedin.com/in/danielpedrozo / (+55 21) 99624-9824, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

SUMMARY

Qualified and skilled professional with more than 11 years of experience in IT within the industries of Oil & Gas, Mining, IT services, Financial Market, Telecom and Agribusiness.

Strong experience in project management by leading multiple complex projects/initiatives for multinational and large corporations. Strong analytical skills to treat and manage complex issues and risks. Experience in Industries best Practices (COBIT, PMI, ITIL), Processes Development, Evangelization, Transformation Adoption, Application Lifecycle Management, IT Infrastructure, Cloud Computing and Software Engineering.

Successful experience in people management of various groups from different cultures and backgrounds. High capacity to prioritize and act on critical subjects. Experience in leading strategic and tactical initiatives focusing on innovation, cost reduction, time to market improvement and collaboration. Hands-on professional with ability to negotiate to peers, articulate the company’s vision and strategy to superiors, subordinates and internal/external stakeholders. Experience in international assignments and training abroad. Fluent in spoken and written English and Portuguese.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

IT Program manager at VALE (www.vale.com)

May/2014 — until this moment

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

-           Global Cloud Adoption program leader

Responsible for leading the Global Cloud Adoption program at Vale, driving accountability across areas and report progress to senior managers of the board. Acting as a change agent to ensure that barriers to entry are removed for innovation adoption while proactively identifying and mitigating key risks to the portfolio.

Accountable for the program's governance (controls) and management (Scope, time, cost, QA, risk, communication, integration) leading over 25 direct members in the team. Acting as subject matter expert and ultimate owner for enterprise Cloud Adoption strategy focusing on Managed Services Cloud models, PaaS, IaaS and SaaS, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Application Readiness and Governance.

Main achievements and challenges:

·                       Development of artefacts and frameworks to support the program`s Governance and Transformation:

o  Cloud maturity heatmap

o  Vendor onboarding framework: Validation of vendor`s offerings, Cloud maturity and adherence to the company`s expectations

o  Workload Cloud readiness: Business cases, Application assessment, Decision making

o  Cloud Manage Services model

o  Cloud foundation blueprint

o  Workload migration machinery framework

·                       Set of seminars and trainings to enhance internal capacitation

·                       Evangelism

·                       Development of Cloud foundation in AWS and Azure

·                       Automation: Development of API for time elasticity enabling cost reduction and paradigm breaking

·                       Participation on the full Cloud migration of the company`s Coal business unit (Australia)

·                       Experience in AWS, Azure and SoftLayer

·                       Achievement of ˜35% on savings and ˜50% on time to market

IT Project manager at VALE (www.vale.com)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.                                                                                                                                               Aug/2011 – May/2014

Project Manager responsible for leading Global strategic and tactical initiatives and IT transformation projects. Responsible to organize and manage the quality control of projects’ activities, planning, create detail project schedules, identify roles and responsibilities, risk management, leading on time and on budget. Coordination of problem solving evaluations and discussion of alternative solutions. Responsible for managing over 15 direct and indirect members in the team at each initiative.

IT Program manager at Oi Telecom (www.oi.com.br)

Sep/2010 — Aug/2011

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Project leader responsible for multifunction projects and programs of high complexity and large dimensions with multiple areas and resources. Responsible to organize and manage the quality control of projects’ activities, planning, create detail project schedules, identify roles and responsibilities, risk management, leading on time and on budget. Coordination of problem solving evaluations and discussion of alternative solutions. Most of the portfolio focused on telecom offerings and solutions and finally acted the leader of the infrastructure Carve In program for environments standardization. Responsible for managing over 20 members in the team between direct and indirect in most initiatives.

IT Senior Analyst at CZARNIKOW Group (www.czarnikow.com)

Mar/2008 — Mar/2010

Sao Paulo, Brazil / London, UK.

Project manager and infrastructure architect for new IT solutions focused on financial market and agribusiness. Project leader responsible for company’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution. Development of project plans and system modeling. Development of BI solutions for managing company’s market accounts and support on the decision-making. Implementation of Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) plans. Development of internal standards, procedures, documentation and IT governance. Elaboration and application of internal trainings. Experience in collaboration strategy using SharePoint.

System Process Analyst at IBM (www.ibm.com)

Jan/2006 — Nov/2007

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Responsible for developing a global innovation tool for Leasing Contracts for IBM Global Finance. Responsible for annual’s systems auditing. Head Analyst responsible for testing and validating new Business Rules. Head and Responsible of the web portal for IBM customer’s Credit Request. Responsible for performing training of new technologies and systems usability.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS