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Diana Castro Lopes

Solutions Design | Business Architect
Porto
Diana Castro Lopes

Summary

Versatile Professional with proven track of working collaboratively with customers, partners and internal teams, to drive meaningful business transformation, by bridging the gap between business capabilities and technology enablers, across various LOBs. Previous experience in project management (E2E delivery excellence), performance implementation programs and strategic planning definition.

Strong self-improvement and development mindset, having graduated top 5% in MBA class of 2017.

Overview

11
years of professional experience
7
years of post-secondary education
3
Languages

Work History

Farfetch
Porto

Solutions Delivery Manager
07.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Drive Business Transformation Journeys for enterprise level clients (B2B), connecting Customers Business aspirations to FARFETCH value proposition
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, ensuring that architectural decisions are customer-centric, aligned with business goals, and contribute to the overall success of engagements.
  • Manager of High Performers team, delivering technology solutions and ensuring they align with Enterprise level client needs, business objectives, and quality standards.

Farfetch
Porto

Solutions Delivery Lead
02.2021 - 07.2022

Job overview

  • Lead team of solution architects or cross-functional teams to collaboratively design and implement solutions that balanced customer requirements, to achieve agreed service levels within budget.
  • Provide guidance, mentorship, and direction to team members in aligning their efforts towards defined goals.
  • Establish documentation standards to capture solution architecture, design decisions, and specifications.
  • Pre-sales discovery in order to identify opportunities and enhance FARFETCH´s roadmap for competitiveness, balancing technical expertise with a deep understanding of customer business requirements

Farfetch
Porto

Solutions Delivery
02.2020 - 02.2021

Job overview

  • Redesign, implement, and manage changes in business processes, leveraging Farfetch's technological capabilities to optimize workflows, improve efficiency, and drive organizational effectiveness while ensuring proper training and documentation support for successful change adoption
  • Project Management, developing detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, resource allocation, and budgeting.
  • Stakeholder Management fostering strong relationships with stakeholders to gain their trust, support, and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.


Area of expertise: Product Information Management

Farfetch
Porto

Service Delivery
09.2019 - 02.2020

Job overview

  • Advised clients on methods, technologies, process improvements and training that would increase overall business potential - catalogue performance.
  • Participated in drafting service budgeting, advising on areas of possible improvement to reduce costs and service delivery times.
  • Maintained proper staffing levels to guarantee timely and accurate deliveries.

UNESCO
Recife

Sustainability Consultant
05.2016 - 07.2021

Job overview

  • Program Manager
  • Master planning for Sustainable Urban Development for a Port Area (Suape Port, brazil).
  • Strategic advice, proposing actionable strategies to drive change on a social, environmental, cultural and economic sphere, targeting direct benefits on the surrounding communities.

Total Investment: 7 M R$

Douro Engenharia Ltda
Recife

Head of Strategy and Production
08.2017 - 12.2018

Job overview

  • Strategic planning for operational execution;
  • Financial analysis (including cost control);
  • E2E production management.

Techne Engenheiros Consultores
Recife

Consultant Engineer
06.2014 - 05.2016

Job overview

  • Geotechnical engineer / In-house expert consultant
  • Technical assessment, alongside with risk management and mitigation strategies
  • E2E Solution proposal

Caminha Empreendimentos
Recife

Engineering Construction Manager
01.2013 - 06.2014

Job overview

  • Accountable for projects delivery, within the approved time, quality, and cost estimates.
  • Management of the highest grossing project of the company at the time (+120 direct reports)

Education

Getúlio Vargas University
Brazil

MBA from Business Administration Concerning Business Management
08.2017 - 12.2018

University Overview

Grade: 19/20 - Top 5% of Class

University of Porto
Portugal

Master of Science from Civil Engineering - Engineering, Geotechnics
08.2006 - 02.2012

University Overview

Grade: Top 20% of class

Skills

    Problem solver

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Timeline

Solutions Delivery Manager

Farfetch
07.2022 - Current

Solutions Delivery Lead

Farfetch
02.2021 - 07.2022

Solutions Delivery

Farfetch
02.2020 - 02.2021

Service Delivery

Farfetch
09.2019 - 02.2020

Getúlio Vargas University

MBA from Business Administration Concerning Business Management
08.2017 - 12.2018

Head of Strategy and Production

Douro Engenharia Ltda
08.2017 - 12.2018

Sustainability Consultant

UNESCO
05.2016 - 07.2021

Consultant Engineer

Techne Engenheiros Consultores
06.2014 - 05.2016

Engineering Construction Manager

Caminha Empreendimentos
01.2013 - 06.2014

University of Porto

Master of Science from Civil Engineering - Engineering, Geotechnics
08.2006 - 02.2012
Diana Castro LopesSolutions Design | Business Architect