Rita Felizol

Led a €8M+ security program portfolio for Telefonica Germany as Senior Security Program Manager — owning multi-quarter roadmaps, steering committee governance (IMSEC, Architecture Boards), CISO-level reporting, and cross-functional coordination across Germany, USA, Spain, and India. PMO implementation, drove access governance, endpoint security, vulnerability management, and security baseline programs across critical hosted infrastructure.

Senior IT Manager with over 19 years of experience in Technology managing complex projects and programs in Digital and Agile. Great business focus on delivering Transformation Projects and in inspiring continuous innovation. Working passionately to foster a culture of trust in a transparent environment. Extensive business background in multi-cultural environments, with experience in Investment, Retail and Corporate Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications and IT Consultancy.

Managing the group portfolio and projects in Operations & IT. Actively liaise with project managers to challenge and to provide guidance – identify issues, analyse their root cases and their impact, on financials, timeline and scope. Developing Robotics Process Automation and Chat Bot Global Community management, serving as a contact point for the whole community, coordinating between the Global Center of Excellence, bringing the RPA and chat Bot Community forward and expanding knowledge across the Group.

Management & delivery digital transformation project. Workstream Leader GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) programme. Manage the project activity, timelines, budget, stakeholders and working with third party suppliers. Senior Project manager and Workstream Leader of the risk ring-fencing program which is one of a package of measures included in the UK Government's Banking Reform Bill.

Business Technology Partner/Senior Project Manager over large-scale, top-priority and complex technology initiatives on Risk, Regulatory and Internet & Mobile solutions. Managed budgets of up to €5m and cross-functional teams of up to 12 developers, programmers, analysts and test specialists,located in diverse countries.

Experience managing technical staff, offshore resources and coordinating development activities with cross functional teams. Support multiple business units

Experience with full development cycle of Business Intelligence solutions including requirements gathering, design, implementation, and tests. Worked closely with clients to analyze business requirements, client’s information technology needs and their resources in order to plan IT projects and fulfill client’s expectations.

Information Technology