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Flavio Alexandre Amorim de Paula Av. Guilherme de Almeida, 470/107
Recreio, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
Home phone 55 (21) 34399020
Mobile 55 (21) 91670298
flavioctc@yahoo.com

Main Objective

Project Manager

Qualification highlights

I am a distinguished senior-level Information Technology professional with +10 years of experience as a Consultant, with extensive knowledge in Project Management, and a large background and expertise within Financial Performance Management, Business Intelligence and CRM projects.

Strong skills in information systems modelling, development and implementation, focused in Data warehousing and BI applications using relational (OLTP and ROLAP) and multidimensional databases (MOLAP).

Solid background at some of Brazil´s top 500 companies including distinct segments as heavy industry, retail, transportation, insurance, internet, public sector, Pharmaceutical, and others, managing teams from 1 to 15 professionals.

Education
  • MBA
    Enterprise Management, Fundação Getúlio Vargas(FGV-RJ) – Apr.2007-Sep.2008
  • Bachelor´s degree
    Information Technology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica(PUC-RJ) Aug.1989-Nov.1994
  • Professional certificates

IBM COGNOS 8 BI Metadata model developer – May 2009

Oracle CRM On Demand Certified Implementation Specialist – July 2010

    •  Other relevant courses
      Management Principles, EPGA,  RJMar.1996-Dec.1996

PMP Exam Prep, Dinsmore Associates, RJ – Oct.2005

IBM Cognos 9 Performance management – Xcelerator & advisor(TM1 & executive viewer) – Mar. 2010

 

Languages
 Proficiency in writing, reading and speaking English (IELTS general training grade 8/9) and intermediate Spanish
Professional Experience
 Present: 

Senior Consultant S.I. & T. – Focus on BI / EPM / CRM at ACCENTURE – http://www.accenture.com

Past:

Senior Project Leader – BI / FPM / CRM at Triscal – http://www.triscal.com.br

Skills and activities:

Pre-sales : RFI / RFP / RFQ responding, POC preparation and Presentation, Product demos

Project Management: Project planning and control, Team selection, Scope, Time and Task definitions, Resources and Cost estimation, Risk management

Project Lead: Functional interviews, Requirements definition, Gap Analysis, Data Modeling, Process mapping and specification, Technical team support, Quality Assurance Testing, Go-live Implementation

Training: End-users training, Technical staff training

FPM Projects:

Customer: Itaú Bank – http://www.itau.com.br

Project Goals: The implementation project  scope included the design and deploying of a complete budgeting, planning and forecasting system for the credit area, and it was split into two phases. The first phase focused at the Operational Margin Model , and was delivered in three and a half months. The second phase will focus at the Costing model, reports, workflows, access controls and other features, and is scheduled to end after 5 months.

Customer: General Electric (GE Lighting) – http://www.gelighting.com/br/home/solutions.htm

Project Goals: Deliver an integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analytics system to 6 Latin American plants and offices; Using Oracle Financial Analyzer, the system collects detailed information from distinct areas, calculates operational indicators and rolls up data to the General Ledger level, in a timely and reliable process, reducing the planning cycle and providing to the FP&A area a complete view of the business plans and estimates, compared to actuals data extracted and loaded from the ERP.

Customer: TAM Airlines – http://www.tam.com.br

Project Goals: Implementation of a budgeting, forecasting and what-if analysis system for the commercial team in Brazil, focused on travel agencies sales and commissions, using Oracle Express database and Oracle Financial analyzer tool. Based on the model designed, users could analyze different scenarios to choose which one fitted best for each partner in deal management, helping to maximize revenue and reduce costs.

Customer: Allergan Pharmaceuticals – http://www.allergan.com.br

Project Goals: Design and develop a budgeting and forecasting system using Oracle Financial Analyzer for Allergan Brazil Eye Products Division, that allowed detailed product sales and production costs information to be input, reviewed and submitted by the division users for the finance team, who could analyze different versions based on assumptions, and approve or reject the the plans and estimates for the upcoming periods.

Customer: Romi Industrial – http://www.romi.com.br/inicio.0.html?&L=2

Project Goals: Integrate Oracle ERP R.11 E-business Suite GL information with Oracle Financial Analyzer, for budgeting and planning purposes, providing the financial controller a tool that allowed comparison between actuals and target goals, and also what-if simulations.

CRM Projects:

Customer: L`Oreal Brasil – http://www.loreal.com.br/

Project Goals: Oracle CRM On Demand Project – Implementation of Oracle CRM On Demand R.16 over existing French implementation of Siebel system 7, plus design and development of a customized and tailor-made solution for local needs, based on a SAAS architecture. Managed the Business requirements definition, GAP Analysis, customizations specification, application setup, users training and go-live support.

BI Projects:

Customer: Icatu Hartford – http://www.icatu-hartford.com.br/

Project Goals: Took over poor performing project from other consultancy company, and developed improvement proposals for existing DW system; New BI modules design, development and deployment, current system administration and users community support, using OWB as ETL Tool and Cognos 8 suite as metadata and front-end tools.

Customer: Schlumberger – http://www.slb.com/contact_us/geographical/lam/brz.aspx

Project Goals: Deliver a Local Payroll BI solution for customer operations in Rio de Janeiro offices and Macae drilling plants and platforms. Oracle database 10g, Warehouse Builder ETL tool and Discoverer Plus and Web viewer were the technologies used .

Customer: Daimler Mercedes Benz – http://www.mercedes-benz.com.br

Project Goals: Deliver a Local Marketing BI solution for the truck parts Marketing Department, providing multidimensional analysis and reporting capabilities with data extracted from ERP and some other legacy systems of the company, loaded into star schema models built into IBM DB2 database, using Decisiion Stream as ETL Tool and Cognos 8 suite as metadata and front-end tools.

Customer: M.R.S. Logística – http://www.mrs.com.br/

Project Goals: SIG Project – Key Performance Indicators Initiative – Business requirements specification, KPIs definition, logical data modeling, Dashboards and scorecards design.

Customer: Grupo Simoes (Coca Cola North Region Bottler)- http://www.cocacolabrasil.com.br/release_detalhe.asp?release=55&Categoria=34

Project Goals: Develop a Marketing & sales portal, based on Oracle Portal, OLAP database & Discoverer tool, delivering operational indicators for the sales team and also providing Marketing analysis for the executives.

Other Projects:

Managed and implemented projects at other companies, like:

IBEST(Portal, web and BI project), Phillips do Brasil(BI project), Folha de São Paulo, Mesbla e Petrobrás (client-server applications).

Teaching Experience

Assistant teacher at Universidade Veiga de Almeida(RJ), MBA EM SISTEMA DE GESTÃO EMPRESARIAL INTEGRADA EM ORACLE APPLICATIONS (ERP) course , Business Intelligence discipline (2007).

Complementary Information

TECHNICAL SKILLS

RDBMS: ORACLE , DB2

MDBMS: ORACLE OLAP , ORACLE EXPRESS, COGNOS TM1

ETL: OWB(ORACLE WAREHOUSE BUILDER ) , COGNOS DECISION STREAM, COGNOS TM1 TURBO INTEGRATOR, COGNOS EXPRESS DATA ADVISOR

PRESENTATION TOOLS: ORACLE DISCOVERER, COGNOS REPORT NET, COGNOS POWER PLAY, , COGNOS TM1 EXECUTIVE VIEWER, COGNOS EXPRESS ADVISOR

METADATA: ORACLE DISCOVERER ADMINISTRATION, COGNOS FRAMEWORK MANAGER, COGNOS TRANSFORMER, ORACLE EXPRESS ADMINISTRATOR, , COGNOS TM1 EXPRESS XCELERATOR

CASE: ORACLE DESIGNER

PORTAL: ORACLE PORTAL

APPLICATION SERVER: ORACLE iAS

OTHER : ORACLE FINANCIAL ANALYZER, ORACLE SALES ANALYZER, ORACLE EXPRESS OBJECTS, ORACLE BAM ( BUSINESS ACTIVITY MONITORING ), ORACLE BSC ( BALANCED SCORECARD ), ORACLE DEVELOPER FORMS / REPORTS, ORACLE RAM( RELATIONAL ACCESS MANAGER ), PL/SQL, MS-PROJECT, MS-OFFICE, VISIO, ERWIN