Marcelo Fernandes

Managing a multidisciplinary group of 6 teams towards maintaining and evolving a crowd-as-a-service platform that aims at collecting and labeling data in order to deliver high-quality datasets to train AI models. Architected and implemented a data pipeline to extract, validate and clean, filter, and package datasets to train speech recognition AI algorithms. Working as a Solution Architect on defining the overall voice-based Conversational AI architecture for the Accelerat.ai project using Rasa.

Managed a multidisciplinary cluster of 6 teams toward building machine learning-based services to drive business growth through experimentation. Engaged with the product and business areas to help to build roadmaps, define technical architectures, and transform the roadmap into an execution plan. Assuring the collaboration of managed teams across different engineering teams/offices and adherence to the defined global engineering best practices while helping to define and architecting them.

Implementation of a DevOps culture with 1-click deploy capabilities through customized Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment pipelines; Definition of short and long-term plans for the IT Architecture, CMS Platform, and Quality Assurance teams. Responsible for conducting the ESB and EAI platform evaluation, PoC, and selection process as well as the definition of Infoglobo SOA strategy based on Agile Methodologies and frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, and DoDAF;

Software development methodology project - Responsible for reviewing and evaluating the software development methodology against IT Governance best practices and software development standards such as TOGAF, Archimate, SOA, API, ITIL, COBIT, ITIL, MPS-BR, CMMi, RUP, Basiléia, PMBoK, SWEBoK, etc. SOA strategy project - Responsible for reviewing the SOA strategy definition against IT architecture best practices and standards such as OSIMM, ESB & EAI.

Responsible for leading and mentoring a large team of software architects and engineers during the implementation of many tailor-made applications for customers such as Serpro, Dataprev, CEPEL, Marinha do Brasil. Creator of T-Miner, a competency management and performance appraisal tool. Lead its implementation at Rio Tinto Brasil, Transbarge Navegación, Kinross Gold Corporation, Unimed Health Insurance, Araujo Drugstore, Ponto Frio, SuperVia, InfoGlobo, Tele Centro-Oeste, IESA Oil & Gas and GeVale Mining.

Tech Support and infrastructure projects on SCO Unix, Unixware, Tarantella and Citrix Metaframe to clients like EATON, Dataprev, and Serpro.

Lead the architecture and development of the billing & invoicing system based on the Microsoft platform (ASP, IIS, MS SQL Server) and the Lucent telephony platform.

Publications: Evaluation of Agile Software Projects in the Public Sector: A Literature Review. Journal of Software. 2016; Acknowledging the Effect of the Depreciation of Tangible and Intangible Benefits upon the Evaluation of E-Gov Projects. Journal of Software. 2015; Evaluating E-Government Initiatives: An Approach Based Upon The Appropriation of Tangible and Intangible Benefits. Democratic Strategies and Citizen-Centered E-Government Services. IGI Global. 2015. USA;

A Multicriteria Approach to the XP Release Plan that Maximizes Business Performance in Uncertain Environments. Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium - IEEE SIEDS 2008, Virginia, USA. An XP Release Plan That Maximizes Business Performance. International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Defining the Implementation Order of Software Projects in Uncertain Environments. ICEIS 2008, Barcelona, Spain; See more https://goo.gl/C4VSeq.