Luís Marques

Experience

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  Revista Adeptos

  Sept 2008 - Jul 2014

  Photojournalist

  - Responsible for Photography Coverage: Captured and reported on major European and Portuguese football competitions, including the Champions League, UEFA Cup, Taça de Portugal, Taça da Liga, and Primeira Liga.Volunteer

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  Photojournalist / articles writer na Jogada do Mês.

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2012

  Photojournalist

  - Responsible for Sports Photography: Covered and photographed various sports events, including futsal, rugby, and American football.Volunteer

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  Braga Rugby

  Sept 2011 - Dec 2014

  Director, Coach, and Player | Rugby Team

  - Leadership and Coaching: Served as the director, coach, and player for a startup rugby team in Braga, overseeing all aspects of team management and development.- Season Planning: Spearheaded the planning and organization of the rugby season, including strategic development and execution for a newly established team.- Youth Team Planning: Managed the season planning for youth teams, including U10 and U12 age groups, ensuring effective training and development programs.- Event Organization: Coordinated and organized rugby events and tournaments, guiding over 100 athletes through preparation and participation.- Volunteer Work: Dedicated to contributing time and expertise to support the growth and success of the team.Volunteer Show less

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  Businessman Sole Proprietors

  Dec 2014 - Dec 2017

  Entrepreneur & Investor | Agriculture Sector

  - Investment Management: Led comprehensive investment projects, managing everything from planning and financing to production, logistics, and sales.- Strategic Business Planning: Developed and executed business strategies that drove profitability, utilizing strong market analysis and financial planning skills.- Risk & Financial Management: Effectively navigated risks and managed finances to ensure sustainable growth and long-term business success.- Operational Leadership: Oversaw all aspects of production, from resource management to distribution, ensuring efficiency and profitability. Show less

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  Nokia

  Dec 2014 - now

  - Product Ownership & Agile Leadership: Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and the development team, ensuring the product vision aligns with business goals. Lead Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming, to ensure timely and efficient product delivery.- User Story Development: Collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, then translate them into detailed and actionable user stories. Prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that each user story is well-defined, estimated, and ready for development.- Quality Assurance & Testing Strategy: Oversee the entire QA process from start to finish. Manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT), guiding the testing process and tracking feedback to ensure the product meets expectations.- Integration Design & Solution Architecture: Validate and oversee the integration of new functionalities into the existing system, ensuring seamless interoperability and efficiency. Analyze and evaluate new requirements, providing technical guidance to ensure that solutions are scalable and sustainable.- Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication: Serve as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders, gathering requirements, managing expectations, and ensuring that product updates are communicated clearly and effectively.- Continuous Improvement: Drive the continuous improvement process by identifying opportunities to enhance system functionalities and streamline processes. Regularly review and refine development practices, focusing on optimizing team performance and product outcomes. Show less - Pipeline Development: Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to streamline and automate the deployment of applications on Kubernetes. Utilized technologies such as Python, Shell Scripting, and DevOps tools to optimize the build and release processes.- Cloud Infrastructure Management: Worked extensively with cloud platforms like Azure and AWS, ensuring seamless integration and deployment of applications in a cloud-native environment.- Customer Requirement Alignment: Collaborated closely with customers to understand their requirements, aligning the technical implementation with business needs. Implemented necessary changes to meet customer expectations and improve application performance.- Automation & DevOps Practices: Applied DevOps and Agile/Scrum methodologies to enhance development efficiency and ensure continuous delivery. Leveraged automation tools to minimize manual processes and improve deployment consistency.- Kubernetes & Container Management: Managed application deployment and orchestration on Kubernetes clusters, ensuring reliability and scalability. Worked on optimizing the performance and security of containerized applications. Show less

  • Technical Product Owner & Scrum Master

    May 2022 - now

  • Support and Developer Engineer

    Nov 2019 - May 2022

  • Performance Analyst

    Sept 2018 - Nov 2019

  • Progress and Performance Manager

    Jan 2017 - Sept 2018

  • Customer Performance Manager

    Dec 2014 - Jan 2017