Francisco Amaral

Experience

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  Mobiltec

  May 2003 - Sept 2005

  Software Design Engineer

  • Lead Software Engineer at company’s product projects. Responsible for measuring and estimating the software modifications, designing high level specifications, reviewing detailed diagrams and in charge of the technical coordination. Those products were developed using C# and ASP.NET, based on .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework (for mobile devices) and MySql database.

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  Stefanini IT Solutions

  Sept 2005 - Feb 2006

  Software Design Engineer

  • External consultant on DELL Computers SA Global Development Center. Acting as software engineer in the team that was responsible for product support applications developed on .NET platform, based on C# and ASP.NET, MS SQL Server or Oracle databases.

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  Hewlett-Packard

  Feb 2006 - Apr 2008

  Software Design Engineer

  • Member of software group in Imaging and Printing division of Porto Alegre HP`s research and development center, being part of an international project for a HP software implementation. This large scale printer management software was built on Microsoft .NET Framework platform using Visual Studio and C# language.

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  Ellucian

  Apr 2008 - Mar 2013

  Solution Consultant

  • Solution architect at Latin America and Caribbean Ellucian team, being responsible for the design and construction of customer-specific solution architecture.• Provide customer, company executives and account team with functional and/or technical consulting advice during pre-sales discussions.• Supported small, medium and large size opportunities, at Latin America and Europe countries, by positioning Ellucian products, responding RFI/RFP, presenting demos, or giving product overviews to customer key-users and executives.• Leaded key accounts pre-sales processes that required the coordination of multilingual/multicultural teams.• Specialist in enterprise solutions, covering different application areas like student information system, ERP, collaboration portal, reporting and business intelligence, e-learning integration, workflow, document management and business processes management system.• Supports product management and implementation team with complete understanding about customer needs and potential market requirements.• Frequently attending to specialization trainings and user group meetings in the USA headquarter and Latin America countries.• Attended to Demo2WIN!® workshop, a complete training for preparing and executing a winning software or technical demonstration powered by 2WIN!Global (http://www.2winglobal.com)• Main accomplishments: Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, Insper, HSM Educação, UNISUAM, Grupo Educacional UNIS Show less

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  Desire2Learn

  Mar 2013 - Jul 2014

  Senior Technical Solutions Engineer (STSE)

  • Member of the global team of Technical Solution Engineers/Solution Engineers helps prospective and existing clients by understanding their unique needs and proposing a solution including D2L products and services.• Expert in Desire2Learn products, including architecture, functionality, usage, and deployment of cloud solutions.• Support business development in different countries of LATAM region, like Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil.

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  Ellucian

  Aug 2014 - Jun 2020

  • Functional leader, member of a highly skilled professional services team responsible for design, build and deploy global templates for large higher education groups that aim business process standardization across their institutions using common components, reducing implementation timeline and costs.• Facilitate business process review and application prototyping as well as provide business process analysis and insights into best practices.• Provide project leadership for functional work groups enabling them to stay on time and on task.• Serve as cross-module integration project coordinator to assist in the resolution of cross-module issues. Show less • Worked in alignment with sales VP to define and drive strategy for Solution Consulting team to support sales cycle, with an emphasis on optimizing organization, processes, tools and technologies. • As a Solution Consulting Manager have led solution consultants to clearly communicate company’s solution value by the way they drive consistent discoveries, deliver presentations and value-based demos, and apply repeatable approaches with standardized materials to reach solution success and provide proof points with relevant customer stories. Show less

  • Senior Functional Consultant

    Mar 2017 - Jun 2020

  • Sr. Manager, Solutions Consulting

    Aug 2014 - Mar 2017
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  Blackboard

  Aug 2020 - Jan 2022

  Solutions Engineer

  Help Blackboard customers to advance learning connecting deep understanding of education with the power of technology to reach teach and learning strategic goals.

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  Coursedog

  Jan 2022 - now

  Execute technical onboarding for clients, specifically related to integration of SIS data with the Coursedog application on a per client basis.

  • Manager, Data Services

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Manager, Technical Implementations Consultants

    Mar 2023 - Sept 2024

  • Data Engineer

    Jan 2022 - Feb 2023