Rui Germano

Working via Amaris Consulting

Our mission is to strengthen the economic relations and promote business opportunities between the Netherlands and Mozambique.

• Responsible for the software delivery of the Data Centricity Program. Providing progress reports to stakeholders. Tracking progress on delivery. Highlight and resolve impediments. Provide Release Plans. • Coordinate the integration with data from sources such as Simcorp Dimension. PEARL, Bloemberg • First contact point for external departments such as Audit, Security, SRE. • Drove the creation a Deployment Strategy for the, until then new, in-house developed software. • Drove the creation of auditable software development practices that enforce the adherence to tight security regulation of the Financial Industry. • Interviewing and selecting engineering staff such as software engineers, test engineers.

• Line manage up to 20 Front-End and Backend developers, Quality Engineers, divided into 2 Scrum teams, each with a Scrum Master reporting to me. These teams are responsible for different chapter on the User Journey of a user that lands on a specific landing page, through the sign-in and or sign-up. The teams are working on an AWS native set of services and applications. • Coach my team members, and work with team on their career development. • Coach more junior Engineering Managers. • Interviewing and selecting engineering and Scrum Master candidates. • Tracking performance. • Work in defining culture, Career Framework, approach to trainings, recruitment, engineering relationship with other departments, outings, rewards, etc. • Work with the Technical Leads in order to define Tech priorities to tackle the upcoming Quarter(s). • Work with PO to define, review and adapt development Roadmaps for my team. • Responsible for team’s budget (outings, tooling, staff)

• Line manage up to 22 developers and testers, divided into 2/3 team of developers, divided into 3 Scrum teams. These teams are responsible for different chapter on the User Journey of a user that lands on a specific landing page, through the sign-in and or sign-up. The teams are working on an AWS native set of services and applications. • Coach my team members, and work with team on their career development. • Interviewing candidates. • Tracking performance. • Member of Amsterdam dev centre Leadership team. Work in defining culture, Career Framework, approach to trainings, recruitment, engineering relationship with other departments, outings, rewards, etc. • Work with Program Management to define, review and adapt development Roadmaps for my team. • Work with Product Management to achieve a balance of work that achieves the company’s business goals, while simultaneously incorporating engineering goals, such as tackling Technical debt and offering challenging tasks that keep developers motivated. • Work with external course providers. • Responsible for team’s budget.

Responsible for 3 Scrum teams (15+ fte). • Line manage a team of developers and developer in Test (18), divided into 3 Scrum teams. I’m responsible for the performance and skills development within the team. It’s my task to keep a healthy balance that allows the continuous growth of every team member. • Coach team elements to take leadership within their own teams. • Responsible for the Release Management (timing, quality management, stakeholder management). • Member of the CPMU Tech Chapter Management. There take part in defining the direction of the department. Also help coach more junior managers. • Interface to the external stakeholders, (Pre-)Sales, Segment Leads, Product Management. Responsible for providing the team’s short and medium term delivery planning. • Internal Agile Coach. Responsible to coach the team into working in an Agile way. I’m also the responsible for the Agile guild.

• Line manage the SW and ST group . I’m responsible for the performance and skills development within the team. It’s my task to keep a healthy balance that allows the continuous growth of every team member. • I’m the final responsible for the individual projects on the team. Which means that individual project leads on my team report to me on the current status of their projects, and in turn I report to my manager and our Japanese counterparts. • Take the role of Product Owner for my team. This means: o bringing-in input from different sources: Product Marketing team’s backlog/roadmap; internal R&D technology investigation backlog; Japan R&D requests; input from external visits to clients, fairs, events. o Order the backlog based on the perceived business priority and/or most efficient bundling of work. • Responsible for hiring and evaluating contractors. Responsible for managing the relationship with the resource providers. • Responsible for planning and reporting yearly, quarterly and monthly resource and financial needs. • Part of European R&D management team. Within that , part of the local IAB management. Among other activities it’s my task to care for a good connection between (SW) R&D and manufacturing. • Take active role in examining the business landscape and check our products against the competition.

Line manage the current team of developers in the Platform team. I evaluate the current skills needs within the team and together with my management determine the appropriate to fulfil the skill gaps. Responsible for the planning of tasks and tracking within the team. Find ways to bring the project back on-track. Negotiate, report and track the project progress for/with our direct stakeholders, the Project Leads. Report to our Group’s management team and the various Programs responsible for the projects. Responsible for overall Project deliveries where the team is the main contributor. Align the other Domain teams and their deliveries. Evangelize an Agile way of working.

In December Tekelec acquired mBalance

As a software developer I was responsible for the development of functionality that would be part of the company's SMSC, using SS7 over TCP/IP, SIGTRAN (SCTP) in order to create fast performing SMSC functionality using of off-the-shelf hardware. Languages used are C, Perl, shell. SQL for database operations.

Software development and support of Fleet Managment application