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Rafael Morelli

Montevideo

Summary

Career Summary
Over 30 years of experience in the IT business, holding positions ranging from Product Owner, CEO, CTO, and Entrepreneur to Developer, Vendor, and Infrastructure Help Desk (Latest experience includes being a Product Owner and leading geographically distributed Scrum teams).
Has developed throughout time and experience the ability to balance business needs, solve end-user problems, and ensure the well-being of the development team. Above all, enjoys learning new technologies, leading the team, learning from mistakes, and sharing experiences with the team.
Experienced collaborator in meeting needs, improving processes, and exceeding requirements in team environments. Diligent worker with strong communication skills and task prioritization.

Overview

46
46
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Owner/Manager

UruIT
04.2021 - Current
  • Clients:
  • Forks Over Knives (USA): Led a team of 4 and designed a proposal for product growth strategy.
  • Perch Interactive (USA): Craft an interactive customer journey by engaging retail shoppers at the shelf, Led a team of 5.
  • Urucoins (UY): Tokenization solution for staff retention and recognition. Lead discovery process, ideation workshops, roadmap, and commercial proposal. Blockchain technology.
  • Jones For Quitters (USA); Startup, successful lunch of MVP in 3 months, web and mobile, 6 team members.
  • Movistar (UY): Led a team of 4, developing web and mobile applications for a telecommunication company.
  • As Product Owner, Rafael has to lead a product-led strategy to propose the transformation of client’s application, including tracking and communicating metrics that help understand how well initiatives are meeting objectives
  • Define strategy
  • Focus on vision
  • Translate strategy into actionable tasks
  • Work with cross-functional agile teams to execute those requirements
  • Team coordination meetings
  • Organizing demos
  • Analyzing to ensure requirements are ready to be worked on
  • Develop and maintain the roadmap
  • Backlog prioritization Daily interaction with customers, in situ and remotely.
  • Prototyping
  • Flow diagrams and Use Case diagrams
  • Interviews with end-user
  • Requirements gathering Improvement proposals
  • Encourage and motivate activities for team bonding
  • Fit interviews
  • Pre-sales support

Business Analyst

Globant
05.2019 - 04.2021

Clients:

  • Greensill (UK): Fintech onsite discovery process.
  • Zendesk (USA): CRM platform. Led a team of 6 developers
  • Johnson Controls (USA): API documentation analyst.
  • Augmented Coding: AI, Machine Learning
  • Nissan (MX): Mobile app discovery process.
  • Client’s business requirements analysis
  • Document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis
    Communicated client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models
  • Work with cross-functional agile teams to execute those requirements.
  • Team coordination meetings.
  • Organizing demos.
  • Analyzing to ensure requirements are ready to be worked on.
  • Involved with ongoing testing efforts.
  • Develop and maintain the roadmap.
  • Backlog prioritization
  • Daily interaction with customers, in situ and remotely
  • Daily interaction with third-party
  • Nonfunctional requirement identification
  • Prototyping
  • Flow diagrams and Use Case diagrams
  • Interviews with the end user
  • Requirements gathering
  • Improvement proposals
  • Encourage and motivate activities for team bonding

Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2015 - 12.2018

Clients:

  • Humana (USA): Healthcare. Entitlement system elicitation for +48.000 employees.
  • Price Waterhouse Cooper (USA): Datacenter process automation
  • Analyze client’s business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis
  • Communicated client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models
  • Provided input into developing and modifying systems to meet client needs and developed business specifications to support these modifications
  • Been a liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications
  • Engaged client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams
  • Translated stakeholder requirements into tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, and data flow/data model diagrams
  • As a BA with software developing experience, Rafael identified and implement automation processes in clients’ operations, with Excel macros in VBA, that saved the company an average of U$10,000+/month.
  • He identified and reconciled errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements
  • Drafted and maintained business requirements and aligned them with functional and technical requirements
  • Facilitated meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.

IT support technician

ServiceIT
09.2009 - 09.2015
  • On-site and remote resolution of infrastructure and software-related incident tickets
  • Social media Community Manager and e-marketing responsible
  • Acquisition of new clients and elaboration of commercial proposals.

ERP Consultant

Memory Computacion
09.2007 - 09.2008
  • Field consultant
  • Customer training
  • ERP systems implementation.

Commercial Manager

Talenur
12.2005 - 03.2007

Managed thecommercial strategy of the company (20 employees)

Sales team organization and leadership.

Achieved an increase of 25% in yearly sales

Set up anew business model for the company

Set up a customer support call center (10 seats)

Cofounder CTO CEO

OperadorWeb
01.2001 - 12.2005
  • Management
  • Business development.
  • Business Plan elaboration
  • Software development project leader
  • Call center set up
  • Call center operators hiring and training.

Independent Software Coder and Product Developer

Self Employed Services
01.1978 - 01.1999
  • Cobol, Clipper, and Visual Fox Pro programmer

These are some of the developed software projects:

  • Payroll management system
  • Stock and inventory management
  • Dairy management system
  • Accounting system
  • Factory production control system
  • Rent a Car administration system

Education

Some College (No Degree) - Systems Engineering

UDELAR
Montevideo

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Negotiation
  • Product Led oriented
  • Customer relationship-oriented
  • Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall frameworks
  • Requirement Analysis
  • Remote workshop facilitator (ideation, brainstorming, customer discovery sprint)
  • Analytical Tool Implementation
  • Needs Assessment
  • Project Management
  • Process Flow Diagram Creation
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Business Process Mapping
  • Tools: Atlassian Jira, Confluence, MS Office Tools, Google Tools, Miro, Trello

Certification

  • Scrum Master certification (SCRUM-INSTITUTE ORG)
  • Scrum Master certification (Scrum-Alliance - July 2019)
  • Business Analyst certification (TCS)
  • Preparation for PM P y CAPM PMBOK 5th Edition
  • Social media Community Manager capacitation
  • Harvard Business School - Negotiation
  • Product-Led Growth Fundamentals Certification
  • Agile Project Leadership
  • Blockchain: Beyond the Basics
  • Building an Ethereum Blockchain App: 3 Ethereum Development
  • Building an Ethereum Blockchain App: 2 Introduction to Ethereum
  • Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers
  • Introducing Semantic Kernel: Building AI-Based Apps
  • AI Accountability Essential Training
  • Data Science Orientation

Languages

Spanish
Native language
English
Advanced
C1
Portuguese
Elementary
A2
French
Elementary
A2

Timeline

Product Owner/Manager

UruIT
04.2021 - Current

Business Analyst

Globant
05.2019 - 04.2021

Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2015 - 12.2018

IT support technician

ServiceIT
09.2009 - 09.2015

ERP Consultant

Memory Computacion
09.2007 - 09.2008

Commercial Manager

Talenur
12.2005 - 03.2007

Cofounder CTO CEO

OperadorWeb
01.2001 - 12.2005

Independent Software Coder and Product Developer

Self Employed Services
01.1978 - 01.1999

Some College (No Degree) - Systems Engineering

UDELAR
Rafael Morelli