Plexus Tech

Manage the delivery lifecycle to improve project efficiency and elevate agile adoption across teams.

Craft tailor-made, solution-focused proposals that highlight Plexus Tech's unique capabilities

Forge and deepen client relationships, serving as Portugal's key point of contact.

Elevate our team's capabilities by supporting the top talent acquisition and retention initiatives.

Delivery Director

Marcos Gonçalves

Marcos specializes in guiding SaaS and IT Services Founders & CEOs on their path to success. 
Get the support you need to navigate the challenges of entrepreneurship and reach your full potential.

Because why just fit in, when you're born to stand out?

Founder

Progressive Cloud

As a part-time COO and CIO, I help companies like yours get the most out of their operations and technology. I've played in the major leagues of banking, insurance, telecommunications, and automotive and thrived in the exciting world of startups. Imagine having all this experience for just a day or two a week. It's like having a full-time Exec, minus the high cost and long-term commitment.

I love connecting the dots between business and technology to make things smoother and brighter. Whether you're just starting and need a solid plan or you're an established player looking to move into the digital age, I can help. I aim to offer you a customized solution that is as flexible without breaking the bank. Sounds good? Let's talk!

Fractional Chief Operating & Information Officer (COO / CIO)

Progressive Cloud is a full-remote company that pairs unmatched engineering talent with state-of-the-art technologies to solve modern business challenges in the digital landscape. We're sponsored by the Futurice Group, a multi-national digital innovation and engineering company with Finnish roots. Their core business is developing and designing digital services and products across different business verticals.

Founder and CEO

Silicon Valley Insight

Project Management Excellence: Streamlined Silicon Valley Insight's delivery lifecycle for maximum efficiency and adherence to budget.

Strategic Implementations: Drove operational enhancements by pioneering strategy and integrating cutting-edge technology.

Team Leadership: Led multidisciplinary teams to excel in collaboration, performance, and risk management, upholding delivery standards.

Senior Vice President of Delivery

Vice President of Product & Project

Critical TechWorks

Leadership & Budget Management: Directed a 60+ engineering team, efficiently administering a €7M budget towards strategic user experience enhancements.

Integration Excellence: Spearheaded cross-functional team efforts to deliver top-tier integrated solutions, ensuring alignment with project goals.

Client Relations & KPI Utilization : Acted as the principal client liaison, notably with BMW, to fortify relationships, ensure transparency, and drive performance through key metrics.

Head of Interactions

tb.lx (formerly Daimler Trucks & Buses Tech and Data Hub)

Visionary Product Strategy: Devised and steered the product roadmap for Daimler tb.lx, aligning with corporate objectives and market needs.

Agile Team Leadership: Guided cross-functional teams to prioritize and expedite product development cycles, enhancing stakeholder rapport.

Metrics-Driven Management: Embedded KPIs and OKRs into product lifecycle to bolster performance, agility, and strategic direction.

Data Science Leadership : As Product Lead, orchestrated a data science team in constructing predictive models powering AutoTech streaming services.

Product Owner

Mercedes-Benz.io

Strategic Vision: Crafted and conveyed strategic plans for the Seller Center (platform for Mercedes Retailers), aligning product direction with corporate targets and user needs.

Backlog and Team Coordination: Orchestrated backlog management and rallied cross-functional teams for timely, high-quality output.

Performance Monitoring : Tracked product KPIs, championed inter- departmental engagement, and aligned budgets with fiscal objectives and operational efficiency.

Hiscox

CRM System Leadership: Spearheaded the delivery of a pan-European CRM system, bolstering underwriting and marketing functions, and ensuring GDPR and IDD adherence.

Strategic Product Management: Harmonized product strategy with Hiscox's platforms, led the adoption of agile practices, and oversaw a portfolio of 50+ annual IT initiatives.

GDPR Implementation Expertise : Orchestrated comprehensive GDPR compliance across Hiscox’s European operations, enhancing data protection and privacy standards.

Agile Execution Supervision : Directed agile project execution, upholding the company’s dedication to agile methodology and project efficiency.

Senior IT Business Analyst / Delivery Lead

Noesis

Platform Enhancement: Oversaw the maintenance of BNP Paribas's Neolink trading platform, ensuring high performance and reliability for securities trading operations.

Feature Deployment: Coordinated the deployment of new features and security patches to the Neolink platform, enhancing trading capabilities and safeguarding against cyber threats.

Quality Assurance: Executed comprehensive bug fixes and optimizations, significantly improving user experience and system integrity for Neolink's trading environment.

Senior Business Analsyt

Novabase

System Consolidation: Leveraged Calypso's integrated cross-asset platform to consolidate Novo Banco's trading operations, enhancing system efficiency and innovation in risk and accounting processes.

Operational Compliance: Guided Novo Banco through a strategic transition to the Calypso platform, streamlining operations and ensuring compliance with evolving financial regulations.

Knowledge Collaboration: Established direct interfaces with the trading team, imparting specialized Calypso platform knowledge and fostering a collaborative environment for continuous process improvement.

Calypso Business Analyst

Empower Startup Founders & CEOs: Break Free from 'Do-It-All' Roles, Slash Costly Errors, and Launch Profitable Products💥

I guide Tech Founders and CEOs to optimal success and growth in the startup arena.

I talk about:

1. Strategic Leadership:
    - Navigating the crucial early and scale-up phases for SaaS and IT Services startups
    - Personalized mentorship for visionary tech leaders

2. Organizational Dynamics & Culture:
    - Talent strategy for attracting and retaining tech innovators
    - Fostering effective team collaboration, whether hybrid or remote
    - Agile practices and product-centric leadership

3. Mindset & Growth:
    - Career pathing tailored for the tech entrepreneur
    - Cultivating emotional intelligence and resilience within tech teams
    - Embracing the G.R.I.T. mindset for enduring success

4. Operational Tools & Marketing:
    - Leveraging cutting-edge tools and methodologies
    - Modern marketing strategies tailored for the tech industry
    
If any of these resonate with you, turn on the notifications.
    

## MORE ABOUT ME ##

15+ years in the driver's seat of significant software projects. Crafting tech narratives, nurturing teams, and witnessing companies reach new heights. But my journey extends beyond tech accomplishments. The challenges of COVID-19 revealed the profound link between personal growth, executive leadership, and entrepreneurship.
    
As your concierge strategist, I provide bespoke support tuned to your startup's pulse—sharpening your product, operations, and market strategy. Together, we'll customize your path from launch to industry impact.
    

## PORTFOLIO HIGHLIGHTS ##
    
    - 🌟 Leading the digital charge for over 15 years, delivering solutions for 30+ industry startups and giants.
    - 🚀 Launched and grew a tech consulting firm to €500,000 in revenue within 5 months.
    - 🤝 Fractional COO, CPO, and CIO roles bringing startups from concept to launch readiness.
    - 🗞️ Weekly insights on tech entrepreneurship and leadership with 'Founder Flightplan'.
    
    Ready to pivot and pen your success story? Here's your toolkit:
    
    1⃣ Subscribe to my insights:
    https://marcosgoncalves.me/newsletter/
    
    2⃣ Embark on the Founder Growth Program
    https://marcosgoncalves.me/why-score/
    
    3⃣ Tailored guidance for your challenges
    https://marcosgoncalves.me/1-1-coaching-sessions/
    
    4️⃣ Let's collaborate! Drop me a message.

Marcos G.

TheStarter - Cursos Avançados de UX Design

In this course, we explore what complexity is, why we sometimes struggle to deal with it, and how a systemic perspective can help us understand and navigate projects in complex ecosystems. 
Students learn about feedback loops, how to map complex systems, what system archetypes are, and how to apply systemic thinking to product and service innovation projects.

This course will make anyone a holistic thinker — someone capable of holding multiple viewpoints simultaneously, navigating the inherent ambiguity of an increasingly unpredictable world, and embracing complexity in design creatively and effectively.

Systems Thinking & Systemic Design Instructor

Awaken to Beauty

I co-founded a transformational retreat and coaching experience tailored for CEOs, investors, and change-makers. 

This highly transformational program focuses on consciousness, leadership, and personal development to drive impactful and systemic change in our planet.

Co-Founder | Life Coach

Soul Healing Energy Academy

As the founder of the Soul Healing Energy Academy, I believe that conscious leadership nurtures the uniqueness of each individual with collective awareness, fostering a holistic, harmonious, and regenerative society.

Deeply committed to contributing to the development of sustainable services and products, I teach systemic thinking to empower the next generation of leaders to lead holistically in the complex world we live in. 

As a consultant and coach, my mission is to guide CEOs, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and new digital leaders to align their external vision with inner wisdom, helping them and their teams to create something truly extraordinary on this planet for future generations to inherit.

www.she-academy.net

Founder & Executive Coach

Alto Comissariado para as Migrações

Recognizing the growing needs of diverse migrant profiles and the importance of their integration in Portugal, the ACM adopted a creative approach to the creation of new Municipal Plans for Migrant Integration. 

As the Service Design lead at the ACM, I worked collaboratively with various teams (technical, academic, migrant representatives) in strategizing and facilitating workshops (discovery, definition, development) across different phases of the project. This project involved an initial phase of internal diagnosis and feasibility assessment, followed by co-creation workshops and a national public consultation, aiming to ensure the inclusion of diverse perspectives in the creation of plans grounded in multiple viewpoints and the needs of various stakeholders.

Design Thinking & Strategic Planning Consultant

Complexytree

Complexytree,  empowers individuals and organizations dedicated to sustainable change by providing expert navigation through complexity. 

Our comprehensive services include Systemic Design, Service Design, Design Thinking, UX/CX Research, Strategy, Innovation, and Data Visualization, facilitating informed decision-making and impactful outcomes.

Chief Executive Officer

Marcura

The maritime transport ecosystem is highly complex, as 90% of all global trade is handled by this industry, providing critical energy, food, and essential raw materials to 7 billion people. This immense responsibility falls upon several hundred thousand professionals who are burdened by unnecessary process frictions and bureaucratic difficulties that should be straightforward transactions. 

As a consultant at Marcura, I conducted research with my team on industry processes and operations, and planned, organized, and conducted workshops with different key stakeholders, representing all central nodes of the ecosystem (CEOs, shipowners, charterers, ship captains, shipping agents, insurance agents, suppliers, operations directors, and port agents). As the leader of User Experience Research, I conducted UX activities for the digital service PortLog and additionally conducted research with my team and co-created ideation and prototype validation workshops for the launch of the B2B platform Claimshub, a SaaS that allows clients to manage maritime shipping claims online. 

I also created the process for linking all company services and creating service blueprints.

Expert UX Research Consultant

INTOSAI DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (IDI)

Strategic Design Consultant

Bliss Applications

I worked as a Service Designer and UX Researcher on two key projects for Millennium BCP. 
Firstly, I led the design of user flows and information architecture for the digital account opening service with mobile key, eliminating the need to visit a branch, while integrating all constraints (compliance, governance). 

Secondly, as project manager and UX Researcher in the team launching Millennium BCP's new institutional website, I engaged stakeholders from all directions (individuals, private, companies, institutional) in discovery and ideation sessions, strategic planning, and execution of all UX activities (individual interviews, focus groups, concept validation, brand personality) with clients across various age groups (18-70); mapping (Information Architecture) of all areas of the site (cards, loans, insurance, savings, etc.), and creating a graphic standards manual to ensure the integrity of the experience across all digital platforms.
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I also worked as a Service Designer in mapping the ecosystem of digital products at Galp and in developing the electric mobility (EV) service through the App and integration with Mundo Galp. As part of the strategic design team, we conducted collaborative sessions with different stakeholders (Galp, EV early adopters, Uber drivers, UV car fleet managers), mapped various user constraints of EV versus traditional cars, and obtained sufficient data for strategic definition and implementation of the new service.
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Additionally, I led the strategic design team in the research and information architecture phase for the launch of the Just in Case (Fidelidade Seguros) product. 

We conducted extensive comparative analyses of similar digital products and engaged different stakeholders in decision-making regarding the product launch platform, as well as user experience across different channels.

Service Designer | UX Researcher | Data Visualization expert

Swash

Helping Swash’s new tokenized ecosystem to empower everyday internet users and unlocking the next generation of Web 3 innovators.

Data Visualization Designer

Lunner Data Design

As the founder of a boutique consultancy specializing in Design Thinking and Strategy, I specialize in demystifying complexity for my clients. My mission is to visually map intricate landscapes, enabling clear navigation and insightful decision-making.

Through a dynamic blend of in-depth research and collaborative workshops, I partner with clients to distill diverse datasets into actionable insights and strategic direction. Together, we transform user perspectives and market opportunities into pioneering concepts, services, and solutions.

I plan and lead multiple design activities within cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and momentum throughout the creative process. Additionally, I curate and facilitate engaging workshops and co-creation sessions, fostering innovation and driving tangible outcomes.

UX Researcher & Strategic Partner

Hi, I'm Leonor!

I am a Design Thinking Consultant, Service Designer, and UX Researcher who loves to understand complex people and explore intricate systems. I'm also an executive coach.

Driven by a deep appreciation of complexity, I specialize in conducting UX research and leading teams to deliver exceptional digital products and services for B2B and B2C clients across a broad range of industries — including Banking, Energy, Insurance, Fintech, Web3, Education, Health, Shipping, Government, and more.

Companies hire me to uncover who their users are, understand their needs, and align those insights with business goals to design more meaningful and impactful experiences. My approach combines iterative UX research, design strategy, and systems thinking to guide teams through the design process and shape strategic, problem-solving approaches that lead to innovative, user-centered solutions.

As a systems thinker and innovator, I’m always seeking new perspectives from every ecosystem and their unique dynamics. My superpowers are Data Visualization and Storytelling, which help me bring clarity to complexity.

I'm deeply passionate about developing sustainable services and products, while also teaching systems thinking to empower the next generation of leaders—enabling them to lead holistically in the complex world we live in.

I can help you with:

→ Design Strategy
→ UX Research & Strategy
→ Service Design
→ Systems Thinking
→ Systems Mapping
→ Ecosystem Mapping
→ Systemic Design
→ Data Visualization
→ Group Workshops
→ Coaching
→ Leadership & Emotional Intelligence

I would love to hear from you about a project, an idea, or even just for coffee. 
Great ideas should always be shared!

> +351 934 262 388
> leonorgracamoura.design@gmail.com

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