Soraya Bittencourt

Executive Technical Program Manager

Career Summary

Technical Program Management – Strategic Planning – Global Partnerships – Enterprise Implementation

More than twenty years managing teams, implementing enterprise solutions and delivering internet and mobile applications. Career highlights include concept, development and delivery of Expedia, AOL e-Commerce RESTful APIs, Wallet and digital delivery subscription engine. Created a platform for Nutrihand Inc., that tracks and manages health biomarkers linking providers and patients. Successful enterprise implementation and management of many ERP Applications.

Work Experience

Sr. Director of Enterprise Applications & Architecture

Theravance Biopharma Inc
2016 - Present

Responsible for business applications. Analyzed, selected and worked to implement enterprise solutions. Improved business process by using workflows. Work extensively with 3rd party vendors, managed internal resources and supervise validation across applications. Developed over 60 workflows for Quality management applications and a custom ontract Management CLM in SharePoint. Responsible for content across the organization, Coupa ERP and other applications.

Achievements:

Developed and implemented strategy to migrate documentation from OpenText to SharePoint. Developed and deployed workflows to automate business processes, increasing efficiency and productivity.

Created Augmented Reality application to easily demonstrate our drug benefits.

Manages Quality systems, contract managent and content for the company.

Technologies used:

  • AI/LLMs training/Agents
  • Power Automate/Apps
  • Nintex Workflow Cloud
  • AuthN/AuthZ
  • iOS/AR
  • JavaScript/JASON/JQuery
  • HTML/CSS
  • SAS/FullStack

Founder/CEO/CTO

Nutrihand Inc
2004 - present

Created the concept, founded the company and successfully delivered a platform for health management applications. Lead operations and strategic direction with full responsibility for bottom-line, software, product development and marketing.

Achievements

Integrated external technologies creating a unique application that links doctors and patients in real time to reduce health care costs. Managed user acquisition and retention.

  • Created the first internet based tracker, food nutritional dataset and health provider applications
  • Designed user experience for internet and mobile creating the following products in four languages: Wellness Center; RD Clinic; Nutrihand PRO; Snap Calories (iOS); Plate Maker(iOS) and HealthFirst.
  • Closed partnerships with McNeil's Nutritionals (Splenda), Néstle (Lean Cuisine), Rite Aid and a number of hospitals delivering unique services for their clients.
  • Establish company in Brazil to sell and manage wellness programs for corporations and implemented international payment solutions for our applications

Technologies used:

  • Java
  • J2EE
  • MySQL
  • AWS
  • Tomcat | Apache
  • HTML/CSS
  • Apache Servers
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Senior Technical Director

American Online Inc
1999 - 2004

Lead a team of 132 engineers, product managers, program managers and customer service professionals. Developed and implemented integration of e-commerce technology to the existing infrastructure improving merchant integration, billing and sales. Came to AOL as an acquisition of Obongo Inc where I was VP of engineering.

Achievements

  • "One click deal" UX design where users would buy merchandise in one click.
  • Created new processes to integrate merchants into the network reducing time to market and customer services cost.
  • Developed mid-layer software to interface with 14 billing systems.
  • Created an e-Commerce subscription engine to compete with iTunes.
  • Contribute to 20% increase in e-commerce sales in 2005.

Technologies used:

  • C++
  • Windows SDK
  • Macintosh SDK
  • SQL
  • HTML/CSS

Group Program Manager – Expedia.com

Microsoft Corporation
1993 - 1998

Created the concept, convinced management to invest on it, built the team and delivered.

Achievements

  • Built a successful application that generated millions in profit for Microsoft.
  • Delivered multiple versions of the site to also attend the corporate market.
  • Helped switch form a CD-ROM based business to MSN to internet.
  • Successfully trained the team on delivering applications that are ON all the time – service model.

Technologies used:

  • Windows NT/SDK
  • Microsoft SQL
  • HTML
  • Network Protocols

Skills & Tools

Frontend

  • WebStack
  • AWS
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • HTML/CSS/JASON

Backend

  • Python/PHP/JavaScript
  • Java
  • NoSQL/MySQL
  • Apache/Tomcat/Solr/BIRT

Others

  • DevOps
  • Code Review
  • Git
  • Unit Testing
  • Wireframing
  • SCRUM Master
  • Design
  • Java
  • eCommerce

Education

  • Synthesizer that follows musicians(Media Lab)
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Saxophone and Music Synthesis Majors
    Berklee College of Music
  • BS in Computer Science
    Universidade Gama Filho, RJ, Brazil
  • BS Electrical Engineering
    Centro Deferal de Educacao Tecnologica, RJ, Brazil

Awards

  • 1-2-3 for Windows Multimedia Smart Help
    The first version of an application in CD-ROM using multimedia for in context Help - 1993. STC Boston Electronic Documentation Competition
  • Best User Interface for New Technologies - WebEx
    Design of a Windows based application for the internet - 1999 PC World

Languages

  • Portuguese (Native)
  • English (Fluent)
  • Spanish (Professional)

Interests

  • Surfing
  • Gardening
  • Playing Music / DJ
  • Photography
  • Reading