Catarina Valente Pereira
Lisboa
Summary
Engineering Manager with a proven track record at Volkswagen Group, excelling in stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership. Spearheaded innovative engineering solutions, enhancing project efficiency and customer satisfaction. Proficient in Agile methodologies and programming languages, fostering team collaboration and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Currently leading three teams focused in internal Tooling & Infrastructure topics.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Manager
Volkswagen Group
03.2023 - Current
- Coordinated with internal strategic departments to identify client needs and develop customized engineering solutions.
- Improved engineering processes by streamlining workflows and implementing efficient project management techniques.
- Presented progress reports to executive leadership, demonstrating success in meeting project milestones on time and within budget constraints.
- Implemented quality control measures to reduce errors, resulting in increased customer satisfaction.
- Fostered a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by encouraging the sharing of ideas, leading to increased creativity and problem-solving capabilities within the team.
- Fostered climate of collaboration between team members and international organizational entities
- Optimized resource allocation to meet project deadlines, effectively managing budgets and minimizing waste.
- Facilitated knowledge sharing sessions, empowering team members with skills and insights to excel in their roles.
- Led cross-functional teams for successful product development, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to specifications.
- Cultivated strategic partnerships to leverage new technologies, enhancing product functionality and market competitiveness.
- Fostered culture of continuous improvement, encouraging feedback and implementing strategic changes to enhance operations.
- Streamlined communication channels, ensuring clear and timely updates between departments and with external partners.
- Boosted team morale and performance through targeted training
ServiceNow DevOps
SIEMENS
12.2021 - Current
- 1 year focused on leading the creation of a strategy for the current integration with external entities roadmap
- Support leading role for the remaining team members with detailed emphasis on integrations and interface topics
- Ramp up of a global HR Onboarding project
- Focused on leading the Product and Process improvement
- Lead and guided projects, topics and technical and architectural solutions near Product Owners, Program Managers and Service Owners.
- Provided expertise to stakeholders to prioritize and manage topics, with special focus on technical solutions, possible roadblocks and their dependencies
ServiceNow DevOps - Interfaces and Commercial
Siemens
11.2019 - 11.2021
- 2 years of technical implementation of SIAM and Commercial frameworks, and self-service portal improvements
- Technically implemented integrations with over 100 internal and external partners
- Experience in different authentication methods
- Evaluated, recommended and implemented features to improve or automate solutions to enhance the efficiency of the operational procedures within the team
- Worked in a multicultural, diverse team
- Constantly analyzing the products status' and their roadmaps to understand which requirements best fitted the main goals
- Constant contact with stakeholders to better understand their business needs and what solutions would be of best use to them
- Actively participated in finding dependencies between requirements, possible blockers and what could be done to surpass them
ServiceNow DevOps - ITSM and Commercial
Siemens
07.2016 - 11.2019
- 3 years working in ITSM processes and Commercial framework implementation, building applications and features from business requirements and technical design documents
- Understanding of ITIL and ITSM business processes
- Assisted in the definition of business requirements, helping the customer understand the business needs
- Communicated and discussed the solution with the customer
- Support regular processes, transactions, mass changes, data imports and exports
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Computers Engineering
Nova School of Science And Technology
Almada, Portugal07-2025
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- Recruiting
- Training and mentoring
- Financial analysis
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
- Cross functional leadership
- Risk Management, prioritization, Agile program management
- Programming and scripting languages: C, Javascript, HTML, CSS
- Software methodologies: Scrum, Agile
- Tools: ServiceNow
Certification
- ITIL Foundations
- Certified Scrum Developer
- Certified ScrumMaster
- Advanced Certified Scrum Developer
- Certified ServiceNow System Administrator
- Certificate of Proficiency in English
Languages
Portuguese
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Volkswagen Group
03.2023 - Current
ServiceNow DevOps
SIEMENS
12.2021 - Current
ServiceNow DevOps - Interfaces and Commercial
Siemens
11.2019 - 11.2021
ServiceNow DevOps - ITSM and Commercial
Siemens
07.2016 - 11.2019
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Computers Engineering
Nova School of Science And Technology
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