User:Douglas Bernardini

Douglas Bernardini is Information technology (IT) Executive, with over 10 years’ experience in information technology management, leading IT transformation in complex business environments, adopting multi-platform solutions for medium-large companies in sectors such as retail, services, agribusiness, heavy industry, distribution wholesale and foreign trade.

Early Life & Education
In 1994, attended college at Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing where he received her Bachelors of Marketing in 1993. In 1997 he became MBA at Fundação Getulio Vargas. In 1992, he also study international marketing at Saint Joseph’s University.

Nowadays, he´s in Information Technology Master's Degree program at Harvard Extension School.

Career
- Project & Program Manager at GE Intelligent Platforms

- Project Manager at Neoris

- Senior SAP Project Manager at The White Team

- Head of IT at CVS Caremark

IT strategy
Experience in strategic IT long-term plan as a member of the enterprise senior management, meeting the business demands thru innovation, using last-generation solutions, observing IT priorities. Expert in develop effective 'business case' justifications and cost/benefit analysis for C-level management.

Finance & IT investment
Specialist developing annual IT budget, focused in IT financial forecast documentation, including main expenditure, cash-flow predicting, investments view and addressing opportunities. Quarterly financial monitoring, with skills in classifying adequate cost centers, and controlling IT expenses, for both operating (Opex) and capital (Capex).

Project Manager
IT projects head, using PMI© methodology and MS-Sharepoint© EPM tools. Result-driven attitude, validating consistent solution design, establishing realistic requirements, defining consistent schedule and sizing consultant´s efforts. Relevant experience dealing changes, minimizing efforts increases and delays. Skills in closure activities, gaining full acceptance from customer and successful project sign-off. Experience managing third party suppliers and consultancy firms.

Risk Manager
Experience in identifying IT risks, measuring threat level, evaluating likelihood, analyzing vulnerability and quantifying impact. Strong experience acting proactively building mitigation plans, proposing short-term feasible solutions, decreasing IT assets exposure. Experience in fast-track mitigation plans construction, solving problems and ensuring deliverables with high adherence, in timeline, with the expected quality and within budget. Strong methodological IT vision together with a strong hands-on profile.

Presentations
Strong ability to build efficient business presentations, with important public speaking skill. Specialist produce synthetics reporting for sponsors. Expert in create documents 'straight to the point' for high-level management, summarizing in an short status report presentation the 'progress' and 'main-points', in order to control stakeholder satisfaction, expectations and ensuring project success.

Leading Teams
Notable ability to lead and manage high performing teams, comprised of solution architects, business analysts and developers, administrating strengths and weaknesses. Expert in people recruiting and team construction. Relevant professional mentoring skills, including adjusting behavior and managing conflicts, keeping healthy environment, with high motivation and strong collaboration spirit, emphasizing engagement.