Charles Schaefer

Director Of Engineering at Edvisor
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Experience

    • India
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director Of Engineering
      • Feb 2022 - Present
    • Brazil
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • COO
      • Dec 2015 - Aug 2021

      Brazil I started at the company in 2015, after merging it and my previous company. Changed the business culture to a more open, inclusive and people oriented one, setting cultural guides and ceremonies, and developing a management model that helped the company to grow from a local to an international business. Worked with a multidisciplinary team, leading the HR, Finance, Customer Service and Marketing (between 2015 and 2020) areas. With a deep technology background, I've helped the new… Show more I started at the company in 2015, after merging it and my previous company. Changed the business culture to a more open, inclusive and people oriented one, setting cultural guides and ceremonies, and developing a management model that helped the company to grow from a local to an international business. Worked with a multidisciplinary team, leading the HR, Finance, Customer Service and Marketing (between 2015 and 2020) areas. With a deep technology background, I've helped the new company's CTO with the engineering team management, employee coaching, technical guidance and innovation. Acted as an innovation supporter, presenting and helping to manage the adoption and development of new tools, products and technologies like cloud infrastructure, test automation, multiplatform architectures, computer vision solutions, Machine Learning, edge A.I. Inference and IoT/Microcontrollers. While managing the Marketing team, leaded the development of strategies in SEO, inbound marketing, content marketing, conversion rate optimization, marketing automation and others. These strategies kept the company as a top of mind in its market segment and helped to increase sales and unit economics. Achievements: • Made the company an internationally known player • Implemented an efficient management model • Helped to change the company's culture to a more engaging and collaborative one • A growth of 10x the MRR and 4x the head count in 5 years • Set up financial controls that helped the company to survive COVID-19 crisis without downsizing Show less

    • Brazil
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-Founder / CTO
      • Oct 2008 - Dec 2015

      Belo Horizonte Area, Brazil We founded UaiTI in 2008, focused initially on Web Development Outsourcing. After 2010, we started to work with the development of Educational Technologies. Our most exciting project was EAD Builder, a tool that helped Teachers and Instructional Designers to create online courses without a lot of hassle that they would have working with complex tools like Flash and Illustrator. The platform also provided an image library with a great visual quality, something that they wouldn't have… Show more We founded UaiTI in 2008, focused initially on Web Development Outsourcing. After 2010, we started to work with the development of Educational Technologies. Our most exciting project was EAD Builder, a tool that helped Teachers and Instructional Designers to create online courses without a lot of hassle that they would have working with complex tools like Flash and Illustrator. The platform also provided an image library with a great visual quality, something that they wouldn't have working with PowerPoint or similar tools. My main role was to set the product vision and roadmap, leading the development team to create great products, focused on customers needs and with as few resources as possible. To achieve that, we applied techniques of Lean Startup and Customer Development, and worked with agile methodologies like Scrum and with cutting-edge technologies. Our company was one of the firsts to use the MEAN Stack (MongoDB + Express + AngularJS + NodeJS) at the time. We eventually helped other Brazilian companies to start to work with this technology stack. In 2015, we merged UaiTI and its sister company, F6 Sistemas, and focused all teams only on one product: 4YouSee Digital Signage Software. Show less

    • Nigeria
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Development Professor
      • Jun 2008 - Feb 2014

      Belo Horizonte Area, Brazil Development of course materials (workbooks, presentations, etc) for trainings on PHP, Javascript, MySQL, SOAP and REST APIs; Professor of basic to advanced software development courses and the ZCE PHP 5 Certification Exam preparatory training.

    • Co-Founder / CTO
      • Jan 2008 - Oct 2008

      T3ch Web IT was my first entrepreneurship experience. It was a design and software development firm where me and my co-founders applied our knowledge to help small to medium business to develop software and websites projects, with a great focus on software usability and the use of modern web technologies. After a couple of months, we joined other entrepreneurs to co-found UaiTI.

    • PHP Web Developer
      • Aug 2007 - Jan 2008

      As a fullstack web developer, helped the team to evolve the software development operation, introducing tools and process such as version control, lifecycle management, automated deployment, automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

    • Brazil
    • Veterinary Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Web Developer
      • Dec 2006 - Aug 2007

      Worked as a software developer using PHP and CakePHP as our primary technologies. Helped the team to evolve from a copy-paste based to an automated code generation/scaffolding process, while supporting the team as a CakePHP technical reference.

Education

  • FIA Business School
    Master of Business Administration - MBA, Artificial Intelligence
    2021 - 2024
  • IGTI
    Software Architecture Certificate, Software Architecture
    2009 - 2010
  • Centro Universitário UNA
    Business Communication, Communication, Marketing
    2006 - 2007

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