César Duarte

Stepped up to a challenge in Cultural Care Au Pair Tech to rebuild and re-imagine the Product vision and strategy, coming back to a place where I was successful many years ago as a Product Manager by delivering the last big product to go live worldwide in all markets. Acting as a Lead/Group Product Manager, working on the future but keeping our business running with the current landscape.

Took over our VARO Digital Innovation Center initiatives, from the RPA team (Robotic Process Automation) and Data Science team to MVP/prototypes/experiments with new ideas and technologies (like Blockchain and Smart Contracts, Virtual/Augmented Reality Glasses, Time Series and others). - Actively coached our product owners into being more independent and really owners of their products and solutions, guiding them on their development in the craft of Product Management (and agile Product Ownership).

- Took over a failing early-stage product stuck in a test market, ultimately scaling to a worldwide release of a superior and nimble experience for our au pairs and internal staff with a streamlined, supervised onboarding (50% reduction of time to sale), ultimately leading to Higher NPS, revenue and exceptional customer success – company OKRs - Key role in setting up the reorganization of the whole tech and product teams in cross functional teams focusing on deliver “experiences” for our customers and staff

- Driving of a new complex and advanced topic from inception to delivery as a major new feature on a major version of the product that has +420k users and which +225 institutions rely on. - PO of a newly formed team that has accomplished the above in a short period, turning itself into a self-organized agile oriented team that focus on value and delivering with quality - Took over as PO for two crucial teams of Appway, covering virtually all of the Appway Platform product

Responsibilities: -Creating and maintaining a core team to drive Scraim to success -Building and iterating the business plan and the pitch -Raising capital from various different sources -Securing Strategic Partnerships and new customers -Product Management (including technological decisions and methodologies) -CRM Achievements: -Successfully turning a R&D Project into a commercial product (with some pivoting) -Creatively funding the venture (from small side projects to EU funds and VCs)

- Focus on building a great product that our customers love - Implemented Scrum to help the team to add more value - Responsible for defining the roadmap and breaking in down to small manageable chunks of sprints - Deeply involved as a Product Owner - Working with the costumers to understand their feedback and constantly improve our product to match the market needs

Main Responsibilities: Lean IT Development and Consulting. Kaizen and Lean Consulting. Management of an Innovation/Improvement Project following an agile approach from inception to implementation and transition. International customers from different types of industries: - IT; - Healthcare; - Retail; - Process Industry; - Real Estate Management; - Textile.

Main responsibilities: Management of an Innovation Project with Multiple organizations and entities involved. Performed almost all types of roles related to Quality – Process Implementation, Process definition, Process Consultancy, Metrics and Appraisal Team Member (ATM) in SCAMPI (Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement -benchmark-quality ratings relative to CMMI models). Also responsible for: Social Media Management and the company website.

The research is associated with the development and evaluation of multimedia learning objects for interactive boards, where the main activities are the design, development and evaluation of learning environments that take real advantage of multimedia in various areas of science, higher education and in the pedagogical context of workshops with high interactivity proportioned by the nature of the boards (interactive surfaces) and the various devices of remote participation of students.

Challenging journey to Silicon Valley, the one-week visit exposed the teams to a highly dense environment of world-leading startups and market and industry specialists. The opportunity is given by CMU Portugal, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

inRes is an acceleration program for Portuguese entrepreneurial teams working in ICT and will provide a training period in Portugal, followed by a six-week structured immersion period in Pittsburgh, in the U.S., anchored at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

Software Development, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Business Management, Graphics Computing, Computer Architecture,, Artificial Intelligence, Architecture of Software Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Operations Research, Computer Laboratory, Web Applications.