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
    
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## 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'.
    
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Marcos G.

BNP Paribas Securities Services

Calypso Senior Business Analyst

New Link Solutions - NLS

@KLx (Credit Agricole Group)

- Gather and analyze requirements (Request Loans Process);
- Elaboration of Mockups;
- Perform Manual Testing;
- Defects Management;
- Elaboration of Welcome Guide for new comers;
- Production Support;
- Production Files treatment.

Salary: 2744 EUR - Gross Income

Business Analyst

@Crédito Agrícola 

Product Coverage: FX, MM, IR, EQ

- Gather and analyze requirements (EMIR, MiFID II, SAS and minor functionalities);
- Calypso configuration;
- Perform Manual Testing;
- Defects Management;
- Manage Deployments in Test environments;
- Production Support;
- Meetings with Project Sponsor to present the project status.

Salary: 2744 EUR - Gross Income

Altran Portugal

@Axa Assurance

- Translate French documents and teleconference meetings to Portuguese and vice-versa;
- Elaboration of procedure documents;
- Automated Software Testing with REXX.

Salary: 1200 EUR + Car - Net Income

Senior Consultant / Engineer

First Derivatives

@AIB 

Product Coverage: FX, MM, IR, CD, EQ

- Gather and analyze requirements (Finance, Operational, Risk and Accounting Reports);
- Calypso configuration;
- Perform Manual Testing;
- Defects Management.

Salary: 3836 GBP - Net Income

@LCH

Product Coverage: Transfers Agents, Repos, Simple Transfers, Bonds, Loans, Margin Call

- Perform Manual Testing (Collateral Management, SWIFT Messages, Data Uploader, Reports, Task Station, Workflow, Interface Calypso-CMS - Collateral Management System on-line, Portfolio Transfer, etc);
- Elaboration of Test Cases and Test Evidences in HP Quality Center;
- Defects Management.

Salary: 3836 GBP - Net Income

Software Tester

@US Bank

- Analyze requirements (Reports);
- Testing Data Uploader.

Salary: 3836 GBP - Net Income

@SIBS

- Perform Manual Testing (Target 2 Securities);
- Automated Software Testing with Selenium IDE;
- Defects Management.

Salary: 2105 EUR - Gross Income

@CMC

- Analyze and drawing Business Process;
- Analyze Business Requirements, Regulations and Legislation;
- Gather and analyze requirements (Register Financial Entities and Products, Direct and Indirect supervision, etc);
- Defining functionalities and Drawing mockups;
- Perform Manual Testing.

Salary: 2105 EUR + 130 USD per diem - Gross Income

@SIBS

- Automated Software Testing and Manual Testing for ATM; 
- Defect Management;
- Elaboration of Operational Manual.

Salary: 2105 EUR - Gross Income

42 consulting France

@BNP Paribas

Product Coverage: FX, MM, CD, IR, EQ

- Gather and analyze requirements (Interface with Superderivatives, Princing Partners, DeriveXpert, Markit, Neolink/PBLink);
- Perform Manual Testing;
- Calypso configuration;
- Defect Management;
- Training Users;
- Production Support.

Salary: 3660 EUR - Gross Income

@Novo Banco

Product Coverage: FX and MM

- Gather and analyze requirements for Portugal and Spain branches (Calypso Client Communication and Reporting and extractions);
- Calypso configuration;
- Defect Management;
- Perform Manual Testing;
- Training users;
- Coaching new co-workers;
- Responsible for Calypso Wiki Website;
- Production Support;
- Meetings with Project Sponsor to present the project status.

Salary: 1560 EUR - Net Income

Accenture

@CGD

- Cobol Developer;
- Gather and analyze requirements (Client Management);
- Perform Unit and Integration Test and monitoring Users acceptance tests;
- Execute Code Review;
- Production Support;
- Teach cobol and coaching new Accenture colleagues on-job.

Salary: 1300 EUR - Net Income

Senior Programmer

@ABSA

- Gather and analyze requirements (Flexcube modules);
- Analyze BCA Business Process;
- Identify Projects Risks and update Risk Matrix.

Salary: 1300 EUR + 120 USD per diem - Net Income

Flexcube Business Analyst

@CGD

- Cobol Developer;
- Gather and analyze requirements (Client Management);
- Perform Unit and Integration Tests and monitoring Users acceptance tests;
- Execute Code Review;
- Production Support;
- Teach cobol and coaching new Accenture colleagues both on-job and on classroom.

Salary: 1300 EUR - Net Income

@Instituto de Informática 

- Perform Manual Testing for Social Security new system related with benefits and contributions;
- Defect Management;
- Elaboration of Reports;
- Manage Test and Pilot Environment (deployments of new releases and patches and configuration management);
- Update Test Unit Website.

Salary: 700 EUR - Gross Income

I started to do websites in 2000 with a friend. Since then, I did websites for AEISGB - Associação de Estudantes do Instituto Superior de Gestão Bancária, for the companies Moisés & Francisco, Lda and Oniway and for friends using Notepad and Macromedia Flash.

But only in 2004, I started to work in IT Sector as a Software Tester for Portuguese Social Security through Novabase.

Since 2005, I have been working for IT companies in Banking and Financial Services. I have been working with applications done in Cobol, Java and .Net as a Programmer, Software Tester and Business Analyst. I also have been working in multi-cultural projects, in countries like Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland, UK, Angola and South Africa.

I also do Apps for Android for fun. You can see it @ https://ricardodiz.pt/index.php/apps/

Financial Markets: +11 years
Means of Payment: +7 years
Client Management: +7 years
Credit: +2 years
Social Security: +1 year

Trading Software: Calypso, Kondor+, Sifox (Finantech - Asseco PST)
Application Software: Altamira, Oracle Flexcube, JIRA, TFS
Requirements Tools: MEGA HOPEX 
Mockups Tools: Balsamiq, LCG Designer 
Test Automation and Tools: ALM HP Quality Center, ALM Octane,  Selenium IDE, TestLink 
Project Management Tools: MS Project
Agile Tools: iObeya, JIRA Core, Trello, Miro, Azure DevOps
Development Environment: Android Studio
IBM Mainframe: Cobol, CICS, DB2, REXX
Development Languages and Technologies: HTML, CSS, XML, PHP, Javascript, Apache Freemarker
Data Analysis Languages and Tools: Python (Pandas), Jupyter Lab 
Databases, Tools and Languages: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, SQL, TOAD, Oracle SQL Developer, Squirrel SQL

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