Rui Claro
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Portuguese Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish Full professional proficiency
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French Limited working proficiency
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Experience
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Tecnoland - Tecnologias de Informação
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Board Member
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Nov 2019 - Present
Information technologies for hotels and resorts. Global hospitality solutions from its inception, design, installation, implementation and maintenance. Information technologies for hotels and resorts. Global hospitality solutions from its inception, design, installation, implementation and maintenance.
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Capgemini
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India
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Information Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Information Technology Manager
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Jan 2021 - Jul 2023
Managed tech teams within the banking and public sectors Managed tech teams within the banking and public sectors
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Founder - General Manager
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Aug 2012 - Dec 2019
Responsibilities • Set and executed organizational strategy • Made capital allocation decisions • Set the vision and corporate culture for the company • Built the senior leadership team Main Achievements Expanded the company to Northern Europe markets Achieved double annual sales growth Growth to 34 consultants Responsibilities • Set and executed organizational strategy • Made capital allocation decisions • Set the vision and corporate culture for the company • Built the senior leadership team Main Achievements Expanded the company to Northern Europe markets Achieved double annual sales growth Growth to 34 consultants
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Hipogest
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Portugal
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Automotive
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Director Information Technology
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Jan 2009 - Aug 2012
Hertz Rent-a-car, Starsul, Acail, Heliavia, Eurofrozen, SHA and BMW Angola Responsibilities • Revitalized IT staff and develop department goals • Projected and oversaw the IT budget • Planed, deployed and maintained IT systems and operations • Directed the organization's software development needs • Consolidated IT policies and procedures and implemented best practices • Scope of activity enveloped 23 companies in Portugal, Spain, Cape Verde and Angola Main Achievements Reduce annual costs by more than 30% with high productivity and efficiency gains Restructured the entire technology park, with the transition from AS / 400 legacy systems to SAP, Microsoft Navision, Sharepoint and CRM thus reducing the cost of software licensing up to 40% Replaced legacy telecommunications infrastructure with up-to-date Cisco technology Show less
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Banco Finantia
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Portugal
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Banking
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100 - 200 Employee
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Director Information Technology
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Dec 1996 - Aug 2008
Finantia, Sofinloc Responsibilities • Directed and controlled the staff of the information technology and communications departments • Arranged an annual business plan and operating budget and monitored the implementation of these to ensure that financial targets were met • Organized the development and implementation of company-wide information and communications systems which provided all required support to company operations • Assessed and introduced processes, procedures and systems, to ensure the cyber security and confidentiality of all company data • Directed and implemented a comprehensive and effective help desk service that provided technical support to systems users Main Achievements Created a Business Intelligence system based on Business Objects technology servicing every major department for company reporting analysis Replaced legacy systems development based on Informix 4GL to C# .NET that covered major departments of the company, lowering the cost of software licensing by 25% Supervised the creation of a website for the collection of proposals with a subsequent decision area which resulted on a 80% efficiency gains both in productivity and capacity Show less
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Unifina
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United States
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Software Programmer
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Jan 1995 - Nov 1996
Software Developer Consumer Credit Application Software Developer Consumer Credit Application
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INESC
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Portugal
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Consultant
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1990 - 1994
Software developer Inmarsat system Software developer Inmarsat system
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Education
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European University - Lisbon
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science for Management -
Harvard Business School
Certificate, Connected Manager -
INSEAD
Global Executive MBA, Computer and Information Sciences