Curriculum Vitae

Marcelo Araujo Bittencourt

E-mail: mabittenc @ gmail.com         Mobile: +41 79 632 69 85

Personal

Nationality: Brazilian        Date of Birth: 21/08/1975

Address: Route de Taillepied 107        City: Lutry, Switzerland 

Graduation

Master’s in Computer Science, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. Thesis: CAM – Computer Aided Mining. An intelligent system to help users to make Data Mining, based on graph's analysis and decisions tree. Graduated in 2002.

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, graduated from Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. Duration 4 years. Graduated in 1998.

Technician in micro Electronic, graduated from Colégio 1o de Maio with cooperation of Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET-RJ). Duration: 3 years. Graduated in 1994.

Certification & Training

• PMI (PMP Number 1594346)
• Product Management (By PM3)

Work Experience

• Sicpa Holding SA (Prilly, CH) (link)

- Business Analyst - For current projects, I am responsible to administer the coordinate the request for changes and bug fixes. I also work with the Market Team for technical support on sales and tenders’ activities, by providing a high level architecture and identifying the activities and effort to build a plan.

Since Jan’21

- Solution Delivery Manager - Responsible for managing the requirements, monitoring the development and to guarantee the quality of deployment. The main project was the track and trace for Pharma products called Genesis based on GS1 premises deployed initially in Russia and later offered around the globe.

From Feb’17 to Dec’20

• Sicpa Indústrias de Tintas e Sistemas (Rio de Janeiro, BR) (link)

- Project Manager for SICOBE (video) - SICOBE was a project to identify, count and mark cold beverages for the Receita Federal do Brasil (BR tax authority). As a PM I dealt with the board of directors, customer and the technical team (Operation and Development). This project had a revenue over a 1 billion BRL per year.

Responsible for the bidding of SICOBE. A custom version of SICPATRACE® was developed to run off-line. The system was deployed at a real factory and ran for 24h. My role was to manage the development, deploy and operate during the bidding evaluation (Dec’14)

From Jan’14 until Jan’17

- SW Development Team Coordinator - Responsible for a team of 18 people developing the client side of tracking and trace systems (SICOBE and SCORPIOS). These systems were installed at more than 300 hundred factories and managed more than 1400 lines at the same time (based on SICPATRACE®).

From Jun’10 until Jan’14

- Senior System Analyst - I developed a system for product recognition using artificial intelligence (vector machines and colorimetry). This project was a co-work between SICPA CH and SICPA BR. I managed the BR Team. After the first deploy (beta version), Brazil got full responsibility over the system.

From Oct’08 until Jun’10

• Comverse Kenan Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, BR) (link)

- System Analyst and Technical Leader - Working with C, C++, Java (J2ee, JavaBeans…) and XML (xml, xslt, xsd). Developing customizations for billing systems (Comverse ONE, Kenan BP, Kenan FX, RTB and CCBS) used by telecom companies.

From Jul’06 to Oct’08

• BULL Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, BR) (link)

- Sr developer - programming with TCL and C++ for Ericsson Multi Mediation version BMP 5. The project is responsible for the mediation at Embratel Telecom.

From Nov’05 until Jun’06.

• EDS Poland (Warsaw, PL) (link)

- Developer team leader - Worked with analysis and development of an extension on Kenan API for Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. The new API provided flexibility, security as well customizations. Written in ANSI C it had to be compatible with Windows and Unix. (System Kenan/BP version 11.0)

From Aug’03 until Jul’05.

• CSG Systems (Rio de Janeiro, BR) (link)

- Mid developer – Developing in C/C++ for Unix and Windows to Kenan/BP (BIF - Bill Invoice Format). Developed an interface used by Siebel based on XML, XSLT and HTTP to manipulate accounts and services.

From Jun’02 until Jul’03.

• ADDLabs Artificial Intelligence laboratory (Niterói, BR) (link)

- Master student and Mid developer - Developing an intelligent system for Petrobras and Data Mining system for Banco da Bahia using C++, PHP and Javascript.

From Jun’99 until Jun’02

Publications

• ‘Time Series for Currency Exchange Rate of the Brazilian Real’

with Frank C. Lin: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr) (link, link)

New York, March 26-8, 2000.

Languages

• Portuguese (mother lang.)
• English (advanced)
• French (intermediate)
• Spanish (intermediate)

Skills

• Product management
• PMP Best Practices (PMI)
• Eliciting and Managing Requirements

• Track and Trace systems
• Pharma serialization (GS1, GAMP)
• Telecom systems

    Marcelo A. Bittencourt

The market today expects more than technical experience, an employee must have an open mind to learn from the past to apply in the future keeping the head in the clouds and the feet on the ground.