Sara Duarte, Focused, passionate for tech, driven by intellectual curiosity and acquiring knowledge.

Axa Group Solutions

Jul 2017 – Dec 2020

Paris, France

Project Manager

Project manager for LIL applications (8 in total) responsible to drive all projects related to the applications and for the Roll-in for other entities on LIL, one of the main components of COPERNIC program, Axa Group accounting tool. • Managing and delivering on target all LIL projects from A to Z: technical, regulatory, business projects • Managing technical projects like migration of all LILs platform to the Cloud (Databases and Informatica platform) or Databases/Informatica version Upgrade; Database server virtualisation, etc • Implementation of a Master Data Management solution for LIL data dictionary and master data maintenance from A to Z. • Animate follow-up meetings with project stakeholders and report to senior management and client on the project status • Follow-up and report on the main project guide lines: plan, budget, scope and quality accordingly to project goals and expectations. • Organize and prepare BAU process and KT • Experience in leading teams working on v-cycle methodology as well as agile, conciliating both in the same project. • Business case definition • Resource and workload management for the teams under my leadership • Successfully managed several projects in parallel, some of them with more than 1000 man-days workload, for different group entities in a multi-country environment (teams based in India, France and Portugal) • Negotiate with other teams/project stakeholders to find a common group whenever needed. • POC’s development to present new functionalities to clients

BNP Paribas Cardif

Jul 2014 – Jul 2017

Paris, France

Project Manager / Team Leader

Project manager on BNP Paribas Cardif development center. Our team was responsible to deliver ETL/BI solutions for the needs of transversal BNP business teams: Client management system, Claims management system, prime system, etc. • Managing and delivering projects achieving the goals that were defined • Animate follow-up meetings with project stakeholders and report to senior management and project sponsor on the project status • Proactively make propositions for the obstacles found and captivate stakeholders to follow them • Follow-up and report on the main project guide lines: plan, budget, scope and quality accordingly to project goals and expectations. • Assure that project documentation is up to date. • Experience in leading teams working on v-cycle methodology as well as agile, conciliating both in the same project. • Participating on business case definition and estimation for team’s intervention • Resource and workload management for the teams under my leadership • Proactively search new project opportunities to assure team staffing. • Successfully implemented several projects small to medium scale (around 500-man days) • Negotiate with other teams/project stakeholders to find a common group whenever needed. • Be source of guidance on solutions to the client needs, with fully understanding of the context and objectives

BNP Paribas Security Services

Oct 2012 – Jun 2014

Lisbon, Portugal

Business inteligence / Data integration Consultant

Integrated on the service delivery team, I was responsible of the PROD monitoring and management of 2 applications used to integrate financial market data (fund management and pricing) and compliance data. • Monitoring PROD environment in real time to assure all flows are integrated successfully regarding the plan. • Identify bugs/improvements to be implemented. • Assure that applications KPI and SLA where fully respected. • Organize team shifts to assure an FTS coverage for all our clients (teams based in Portugal, India and USA). • Analyze and correct (by fix or workaround) the dysfunctions occurred in PROD. • Provide training and documentation on the applications for new users. • Application management (new user creation, privilege management). • Help development team to identify the best solution for the issues found. • Assure that users have a prompt answer on their quests (by phone, email or ticketing tool). • Deliver data extractions requested by the users. • Assure fluid communication to all users and management for all planned unavailability or incident on the applications. • Prioritize the different tasks and assign them to different team members. • Put in place different methods to assure that different shifts exchange significant information between them

Sara Duarte

Focused, passionate for tech, driven by intellectual curiosity and acquiring knowledge.

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