Francisco Gomes

Experienced Project Manager and Solutions Architect offering twenty years of experience in various IT areas. Successful when leading high-performing teams to sustain product vision, roadmap and business goals. Exceptional technical expertise, leadership and talent for driving stellar, on-target results.

Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

MANAGEMENT
· Extensive experience in business strategies, transformation programmes and service delivery across both private and public sectors
· Strong skills in planning and implementing ICT target state and roadmaps to support business objectives
· Effective governance framework development and implementation, including effective quality assurance practices
· Sound change and risk management skills
· Efficient in prioritizing activities, managing resource allocation and maximizing return on investments
· Strong multi-tasking skills with a meticulous approach to quality assurance
· Procurement, contract, financial and vendor management
COMMUNICATION
· Strong skills in conflict resolution with both internal resources and external parties
· Effective skills in the formulation of ICT strategies in complex environments, developing business cases and benefit realization plans
· 10 years of experience in liaising with C-level executives, senior management and technical resources across many industries
· Extensive experience in formulating and implementing Enterprise Architecture frameworks across Business, Application, Data and  Technology domains
· Effective negotiating vendor/supplier management and in the formulation of tender requirements
· Fluent Portuguese and Spanish language skills, both verbal and written
LEADERSHIP
· Sound performance in managing teams ranging from 10-15 direct reports in both operational and programme delivery environment
· Strong influencing skills and experience in enhancing service delivery and customer experience
· Effective team building skills and strong ability to provide clear directions
· Extensive experience in providing specialist / authoritative advice regarding technical infrastructure and in discussing strategic directions, priorities, projects and issues at both senior management and operational levels.

TOGAF 9.2 framework
DataDog Monitoring
Project Management
PHP Senior developer (10+ years)
Laravel
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Azure
AWS
Librecat Catmandu data processing toolkit
ELK Stack (Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana)
Solarium (SOLR)
Drupal
Bash Script
Docker
Git / Bitbucket
Confluence
Jira
Postman
MVC Frameworks (CakePHP, Code Igniter, Laravel)
Docker
Cool:Gen V. 6.0 and Advantage:Gen V.6.5
DELL vWorkspace
UNIDESK
Smarty framework
eFront learning
iOS Developer
Linux RedHat
VMWare vSphere and 3.5 ESX Servers
Lab Manager
VMWare View
Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Servers, 

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003,2007 & 2010, 

SCOM 2007R2, SCCM 2007R2, MOSS 2007 and Citrix.
Java, Visual Basic, HTML,
.NET, XML, JQuery, Objective C
Appcelerator Titanium (AXWAY)
Quest Foglight, Spotlight, Capacity Manager,
Performance Analyzer,
Active Directory Migration & Recover Manager
LMS (Scorm, e-Front Learning, Moodle)
Objective C Senior Developer (6+ years)
REST API
Scorm, e-Front Learning, and Moodle