Manuel Alves

Senior Product Owner

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyProduct MarketingProduct OwnershipDesign ThinkingScrumConfluenceJiraAgile CoachingA/B TestingUser Research

Languages

EnglishFrenchPortuguese

About me

Intro

AI Product Owner Expert at SAP with 10+ years in BI, data analytics, and product management. Led enterprise software development at BMW/Critical TechWorks and delivered scalable solutions across banking and tech sectors. Specialized in stakeholder management, agile methodologies, and transforming complex data into strategic business value.

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Work experience

AI Product Owner Expert | Expert Data | Wonderful Father | Outstanding Husband

SAP

May 2024 - Present

2 years 6 months

Portugalete, Biscay, Spain

As a global leader in enterprise applications and enterprise AI, SAP is the bridge between business and technology. For more than 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to be at their best by bringing together critical business operations across finance, procurement, HR, supply chain and customer experience.

Product Owner

Critical TechWorks

Nov 2020 - May 2024

3 years 7 months

Portugalete, Biscay, Spain

Critical TechWorks is a joint venture to lead the future of motion. Established in 2018, Critical TechWorks is a company formed as a result of a partnership between BMW Group and Critical Software. Critical TechWorks is exclusively put together to support BMW in building software for its future driving machines.

Expert BI & Data Analytics

Sword Group

Nov 2019 - Oct 2020

1 year

Luxembourg

Sword Group is a world-leading IT and digital transformation partner that helps streamline your business, improve quality and reduce costs.

Expert Business Intelligence & Data Analytics

Natixis

Jul 2019 - Oct 2019

4 months

Rua de Santos Pousada 220, 4000-478 Porto, Portugal

NATIXIS is the international corporate, investment, insurance and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the 2nd-largest banking group in France with 35 million clients spread over two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne. It is listed on the Paris stock exchange and has a solid financial base. With more than 16,000 employees, Natixis has a number of areas of expertise that are organized into three main business lines: Corporate & Investment Banking, Investment Solutions & Insurance, and Specialized Financial Services. A global player, Natixis has its own client base of companies, financial institutions and institutional investors as well as the client base of individuals, professionals and small and medium-size businesses of Groupe BPCE’s banking networks. Now with an internal role but continuing to work on the BI / Big Data / Data Visualization projects that Natixis wants to be developed and maintained in Portugal. Responsibilities: • Data Quality / Cleansing • ETL Flows • Analysis Services Databases • Business Reporting • Real Time Data Technologies: • SQL Server (2017,2019) • TFS • Microsoft BI Suite (Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise with SSIS, SSRS and SSAS) • IBM Cognos 10-->Migration Cognos 11 till September • Informatica PowerCenter • Power BI (DAX and M-Language) • Serena Dimensions • Service Now • Oracle 12 c • SQL Developer • Linux (Shell Scripts and Commands) • Control-M • WinScp • XLDeploy and Jenkins Folders • Big Data--> Cloudera and Hortonworks joined: we have Sandbox (Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Hbase, Scala, Nifi and Indexima)

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant

Altran

Jul 2018 - Jul 2019

1 year 1 month

44, R. de Serpa Pinto, 4400-012 Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

International project on a bank that wants to create his IT structure on Portugal to deal with the financial information. Responsibilities: • ETL Flows • Analysis Services Databases • Business Reporting • Data Quality / Cleansing Technologies: • SQL Server (2014, 2016, 2017) • TFS • Microsoft BI Suite (Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise with SSIS, SSRS and SSAS) • IBM Cognos 10 • Informatica for ETL • Power BI • Serena Dimensions • Service Now • Oracle 12 c • SQL Developer • Control-M • WinScp • Linux (Shell Scripts and Commands)

Senior BI Consultant

timestamp:biw

Mar 2018 - Jul 2018

5 months

Praça de Alvalade, nº6, 11ªF, 1700-036 Lisbon - Portugal

International project on an insurance company that wants to create his IT structure on Portugal to deal with the financial information. Responsibilities: • ETL Flows • Analysis Services Databases • Business Reporting • Data Quality / Cleansing Technologies: • SQL Server (2014, 2016, 2017) • File Loader, Uploader, Moris and Role Extractor • SSMS • Visual Source Safe • Microsoft BI Suite

Senior BI Consultant

KCS iT Project Management

Jul 2016 - Mar 2018

1 year 9 months

Lisbon Area, Portugal

International project dedicated to visualization and analytics tools and at the same time forecast the future by testing and use Big Data tools. Responsibilities: • ETL Flows and Support • Analysis Services Databases and OLAP Cubes • Business Reporting • Data Quality / Cleansing • Data Visualization • Data Modeling Technologies: • Power BI, Tableau and QlikView • Big Data (Hadoop, Data Lake and U-SQL) • Microsoft BI Suite

Senior BI Consultant

Amaris

Jun 2015 - Jul 2016

1 year 2 months

Région de Lisbon, Portugal

• ETL Flows • Analysis Services Databases and OLAP Cubes • Business Reporting • T-SQL (Transact-SQL) • Oracle PL/SQL • Oracle 11g, Oracle 12c • SQL Server (2005,2008,2012,2014) • SVN • TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Senior BI Consultant

PDM&FC

Feb 2014 - May 2015

1 year 4 months

Rua Fradesso da Silveira n. 4, Piso 1 B, 1300-609 Lisbon (Portugal)

Definition of the ETL processes. Microsoft BI Suite. Toad for SQL Server. KeyPass. Lync.

Senior BI Consultant

IBM

Sep 2013 - Jan 2014

5 months

2740 Porto Salvo, Portugal

IT Support. SQL Server. Oracle. Business Intelligence. Tivoli Storage Manager. IBM Maximo. ISM Dispatch. Companhia IBM Portuguesa SA (Porto Salvo) Avenida Doutor Mário Soares, Talaíde-Porto Salvo 2740 PORTO SALVO http://w3b.ibm.com/


Education

Universidade do Minho

Master's degree

2009 - 2010

2 years

Universidade do Minho

Systems and Computer Science Engineering

2000 - 2005

6 years

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