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Senior Program Manager | PMP | Digital Transformation | SaaS/CCaaS | 5 Languages

Barcelona, Spain
Worldwide
M.Sc. Telecommunications and Electronic Engineering
Barcelona, Spain
Worldwide
M.Sc. Telecommunications and Electronic Engineering

Profile attachments

CV_Giovanni_Barbosa.pdf

About me

Program Manager with 15+ years delivering enterprise IT projects for clients like Deutsche Telekom, Bosch, Lidl, and Allianz. PMP certified, Dipl.-Ing. (RWTH Aachen). Fluent in PT, DE, EN, ES, FR. Available across Europe, UK and Brazil. EU and Brazilian citizen, ILR for United Kingdom.

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PMP-certified Program and Project Manager with 15+ years of experience in enterprise IT delivery. I have managed cross-functional teams of up to 20 people across solution architecture, development, consulting, and training, running 6 to 8 projects at the same time with total program value up to €10 million.

My work has been mostly in SaaS and CCaaS platforms for clients in telecommunications, finance, retail, and the public sector. Companies I have delivered for include Deutsche Telekom, Bosch, Lidl, Lufthansa, and Allianz Germany. At Verint and NICE Systems, I handled full project cycles from pre-sales and SoW definition through go-live and transition to support.

I have hands-on experience with data center migrations, contact center transformation, multi-country cloud deployments, and AI-driven speech analytics (DaVinci transcription in the context of interaction analytics). I have led both waterfall and agile programs, and I am comfortable adapting governance and delivery methods to the client's maturity and context.

I hold a Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering from RWTH Aachen University (DAAD scholarship) and speak five languages at business level: Portuguese, German, English, Spanish, and French. My technical background allows me to communicate effectively with both engineering teams and C-level stakeholders.

I also bring solid experience in contract management, risk mitigation, change control, and financial tracking.

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2025

Languages

GermanFluentEnglishFluentFrenchFluentPortugueseNative speakerSpanishFluent

Project history

Senior Project Manager

Verint

Internet & IT

1000-5000 team member

  • Manage projects and programs from pre-sales support, SoW creation until the project closure and handover to support for German and French customers
  • Use of Waterfall (PMP), Agile and hybrid project management methodologies
  • Create, monitor and manage project budgets and forecasts
  • Leading a team of up to 20 specialists (business consultant, trainer, services engineer, developer, etc)
  • Experience with Feedback Management, Quality Management, Workforce Management (WFO) and Recording on premise and cloud based.

Senior Project Manager

NICE Systems

Internet & IT

5000-10.000 team member

* Leading and managing multiple customer facing software delivery projects through
initiation to closure. Working with customers of different sizes and utilizing
cross-functional teams in multiple locations throughout EMEA.
* Full ownership and accountability for project planning, resource management, scope
and budget management to deliver profitable projects on time.
* Monitoring and controlling project scope, schedule and budget
* Stakeholders management: internal as well as external (partners and customers)
* Experience with Robotics Automation (RPA), Workforce Management (WFM) and Recording
(Engage, NTR and NIM) on premise and cloud based. Control and Manage several
projects simultaneously, delivering solutions on time and on budget, for South
America and Europe business markets;

Product Manager

Vodafone Group

Telecommunications

>10.000 team member

* Program management of 3 projects for the introduction of Internet of Things (IoT) to
Vodafone Italy from requirements management, scope definition, deployment until the
acceptance tests and go-live.
* Stakeholder management: Vodafone Italy (marketing, engineering and networking
teams), Cisco (software supplier), Huawei and ADB (hardware suppliers), eMaze
(network security), Ziba (UIX and package design) and Sagencom (STB supplier for the
Vodafone TV service);
* Result: successful commercial launch of 3 projects with key features (FON, IPTV,
IPv6, extended security features, etc).
* Technologies: ADSL/VDSL, IPTV, VoIP, Internet of Things (IoT), SmartHome

Technical Project Manager

T-Mobile Germany

Telecommunications

>10.000 team member

* Coordination of Samsung qualification as a new mobile network provider for Deutsche
Telekom resulting in no delay and the successful qualification of Samsung
* Stakeholder Management: acting as a SPOC for Deutsche Telekom towards Samsung,
Huawei and Ericsson.
* Controlling and managing all test activities (in total 12 testers) as well as
offering more efficient alternatives to meet the projects goals.
* Technologies: RAN, PS, PS, Core Network.

Project Manager for the EMEA region

Top Image Systems (TIS)

Internet & IT

250-500 team member

* Management of several IT projects and program for the EMEA (Europe Middle-East and
Africa) region following the PRINCE2 methodology
* PMO member: actively improving and monitoring projects conduction and processes.
* Preparation and conduction of customer workshops.
* Requirements management and definition of the project scope (SoW creation)
* Pre-sales support.

Wireless Product Manager and Sales Support

Huawei Technologies

Telecommunications

>10.000 team member

* Responsible for designing and presenting technical solutions in the field of
GSM/UMTS/LTE network
* Pre-sales support for T-Mobile in Poland and The Netherlands.
* Life-cycle management of RAN products, mainly SingleRAN.
* Preparation and conduction of customer workshops.
* Technologies: RAN, 3G, 4G.

Senior Services Engineer

Ericsson GmbH

Telecommunications

>10.000 team member

* Technical consultancy for multi-vendor verification and inter-operability tests
(IOTs) through interface testing activities and
* Onsite validation of mobile networks with 80% of time visiting customers in Africa,
Asia and Europe
* Expertise in packet core networks (IP networks)
* Involved in all project phases
* Technologies: GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, LTE and all 3GPP; protocol analyzers;

Certificates

Project Management

Project Management Institute

2015


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