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José Rui Cruz

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HRForecast | Portugal

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Intermediate Python

My New Course

Intermediate Python

Insights architect, constructing bridges between data and actionable strategies.

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Data Manipulation with pandas

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Joining Data with pandas

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Intermediate Python

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Data Manipulation with pandas

My Certifications

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SQL Associate

SQL Associate

Other Certificates

ESTIEM Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

DataCamp Course Completion

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Introduction to Python
Introduction to SQL
Intermediate SQL
Intermediate Python

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

HRForecast | May 2023 - Present

Data Engineering Team Manager

As the Manager for the Data Engineering Team at HRForecast, I have been leading a team of six professionals. My primary focus is on aligning team operations with the company's broader objectives, maintaining high standards of work, and fostering an environment of continuous growth and improvement. : • Leadership & Guidance: Set the tone for the team by exemplifying the desired work ethic and professional demeanor. • Strategic Planning: Develop and implement both short-term and long-term objectives that are in line with the company's mission and vision. • Team Development: Mentor and evaluate team members, conduct performance appraisals, and handle employment contracts as needed. • Task Allocation: Oversee sprint planning meetings and manage work capacities to ensure an effective workflow. • Communication: Facilitate open communication within the team and with external stakeholders • Quality Assurance: Ensure all work meets the high-quality standards set by the organization. • Innovation: Promote the adoption of new technologies and methods to improve effectiveness and efficiency. : • Successfully restructured the team based on individual skills and strengths, leading to optimized performance and quality. • Developed personalized career plans for each team member, aligning their professional development with organizational goals. : • Utilized a range of tools including JIRA boards, Confluence, Excel, PowerBI, and Power Query for various project management tasks. : • Responsible for effectively communicating the team's progress and results to both internal and external stakeholders. : • Navigated various challenges such as crisis management and contract terminations, maintaining team morale and quality of work.
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HRForecast | Mar 2023 - Present

Product Manager

As Product Manager for smartData at HRForecast, I oversee end-to-end development of a SaaS solution aimed at delivering actionable insights into talent market trends, competitor benchmarking, and future job profiles. This product plays a key role in shaping our clients' strategic workforce planning, recruitment, and talent development. : • Product Development: Supported the launch of smartData and its first feature, "Job Insights," delivering valuable analytics on job profiles such as demand trends, skills, time-to-hire, and salary. • Roadmap & Prioritization: Manage a dynamic product roadmap, aligned with business goals and customer needs. • Customer Engagement: Regularly converse with existing and potential customers for feedback, driving product enhancements. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with internal teams including development, marketing, and sales to ensure seamless product delivery. • Market Research: Keep tabs on market trends and competitors to inform product strategy. • Stakeholder Updates: Regularly brief internal stakeholders on product status and milestones. & : • Employ a toolkit including JIRA, Confluence, PowerBI, Figma, PowerPoint, and Excel for product design and management tasks. & : • Participate in sales calls and customer consultations to tailor our product based on user needs and feedback. & : • Introduced structured processes to enhance transparency in product development and customer discovery, ensuring focus on key challenges and perspectives. This role has honed my skills in product development, customer engagement, and strategic planning, contributing significantly to smartData's ongoing success and scalability.

HRForecast | May 2022 - Jul 2023

Strategy Consultant

During my 1 year and 3 months at HRForecast as a Strategy Consultant, I was part of the Market Intelligence Team. Our mission was to harness data from a decade of public job postings to generate actionable insights for strategic workforce planning. : • End-to-End Project Management: Spearheaded projects from initial scoping to final delivery, ensuring they met both client objectives and quality benchmarks. • Client Acquisition & Account Management: Engaged in business development activities, crafting tailored presentations that showcased our analytics capabilities to prospective clients. • Cross-Functional Experience: Successfully executed projects across diverse industries and verticals, including Pharma, Chemical, Quality Management, Institutions, Electronics, Airlines, and Retail. & : • Utilized advanced tools like PowerBI, Excel, Power Query, and Excel VBA for comprehensive market and data analysis, ensuring data-driven outcomes. & : • Worked within a dynamic team structure, taking on solo or collaborative roles based on project needs • Fostered client relationships through consistent communication channels including scoping meetings, interim feedback sessions, and final presentations. & : • Demonstrated adaptability by customizing analytics solutions to meet the unique challenges posed by each client, emphasizing scalable and flexible solutions. This role provided a robust foundation in client engagement, data-driven decision-making, and agile methodologies, essential competencies for handling complex projects and driving outcomes.

PwC Portugal | Sep 2021 - May 2022

Management Consulting

As a Management Consultant in PwC Portugal's Business Transformation Team, I was supporting a diverse portfolio of projects across multiple industries including Oil & Gas, Recycling, and Insurance. My role was multifaceted, spanning from planning and execution to client interactions and internal developments. : • Project Support: Actively involved in the planning and execution phases of various projects, including process optimization, reengineering, and ERP implementations. • Sales and Business Development: Assisted in crafting compelling sales presentations aimed at prospective clients, enhancing the quality of proposals. • Strategic Initiatives: Contributed to the exploration of a new service offering within the Business Transformation Team, analyzing market needs and operational readiness. : • Utilized PowerPoint for high-level presentations and Visio for process mapping. • Supported the PMO processes in ERP (SAP) implementations, ensuring comprehensive documentation and alignment between business and ERP processes. : • Collaborated within a multi-disciplinary team. • Engaged with clients for information gathering and results presentation, particularly in the domain of process optimization. : • Successfully mapped complex business processes, serving as a liaison to ensure seamless ERP integrations. While the role did not result in any major standalone achievements, the collective efforts contributed to the ongoing success and efficiency of the projects I was involved in. This experience has equipped me with a broad understanding of business processes and transformation initiatives, setting the foundation for future endeavors in technology-driven roles.

Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal, S.A. | Feb 2021 - Sep 2021

Problem Solver - Quality Management Intern

Internship focused on a Lean Six Sigma initiative aimed at mitigating defects in electrical components for Bosch products. This multifaceted project yielded substantial financial gains through a two-pronged approach: defect reduction and process improvement for defect investigation within the manufacturing facility. : • Proposed actions that would lead to significant reductions in non-quality costs, elevating the project's ROI. • Proposed the automation and digitalization of business processes, thereby enhancing operational efficiency. : • Process Improvement for Defect Reduction: Conducted in-depth analyses to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in production lines. Implemented corrective actions that led to a measurable decrease in defects. • Refinement of Defect Investigation Process: Introduced a specialized tool designed to standardize, structure, and digitalize the internal defect investigation process. This led to streamlined operations and more accurate defect tracing.

ESTIEM | Apr 2018 - Jun 2020

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Course Instructor

In April 2018, something completely revolutionary happened: students teaching students for a 10 week Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Course. After I got my ESTIEM Green Belt Lean Six Sigma Course, I was granted the opportunity to pass the knowledge that once was given to me. Me and 4 more wonderful trainers (also amazing students), throughout 10 weeks, 8 hours per week, we taught 40 students the ways of Lean Six Sigma :) This initiative was created for all students of the fourth year of the Industrial Engineering and Management of the University of Minho with the support of one teacher from the University and with this, we've been able to complement his curricular unit. This course wouldn't be the same without all theory presented by Gregory Watson, one of the most important persons in the 6 Sigma movement. The students had the opportunity to learn about: • DMAIC Cycle • Define: Project Charter; SIPOC; EXplanatory Data Analysis; • Measure: Deployment Diagram; Fishbone Diagram; Potential Problem Analysis; Measurement System Analysis; • Analyse: Regressions Analysis; Yamazumi Diagram • Improve: Improve Chain Thinking; Payoff-Effort Matrix; Prioritization Matrix; Demonstration Test; Simulation; Benchmark • Control: Documenting Standard Work; Mistake-proofing; Statistical Control; Implementation Plan; Control Plan; Realization Review; Benefit Capture Plan It was an amazing opportunity to give it back but also to learn! Someone said "By teaching, you learn twice" and it's very very true!

BorgWarner Inc. | Sep 2019 - Jan 2020

University Project - Improvement of a Manufacturing Process and Implementation of a Kanban System

I was part of a team constituted by 10 Industrial Engineering and Management students which, during a period of 6 months, had two objectives: to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a tube production process; and to reduce the space utilized in stock after a specific brazing process (used by almost every product of the company) by removing overproduction. Regarding the tube production process, after doing a proper study, we realized we could not satisfy our customer in a long-term. Ater identifying the bottleneck of each workstation, we applied a few layout changes and investments resulting in an aproximate 34% decrease in cycle time and a OEE increase of 4%. With these improvements, the company is able to satisfy the customer needs. Regarding the reduction of space utilized in stock fater the brazing process, we were able to design a Kanban system based on the company needs and limitations. With this implementation, not only we were able to reduce the space utilized in 25% but also with this Kanban we established a more effective FIFO system and ended up with overproduction. In short, we were capable of transforming the whole production system of the factory from a push system into a pull system. Tools Used: • SIMIO in order to simulate the tube production process with and without improvements and to simulate the kanban system. In the kanban system simulation, we were able to simulate more than 65 references throughout 11 final assembly lines. • Excel VBA with the objective of turning our ideas and improvement suggestions more easy to implement. • VSM in order to make a more visual analysis to the tube production process. Also used to compare the final results to the initial ones.

BorgWarner Inc. | Jul 2018 - Sep 2018

Summer Internship - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Project

In this summer, I had the opportunity to complete my Lean Six Sigma course by applying the knowledge acquired into action. I had the opportunity to remove a Quality Wall inside a Final Production Line where 15+ different parts were produced. By applying the whole stages of the DMAIC cycle, we've been able to define, track down, measure and get all the information needed to analyze, propose improvements and when and how will they be implemented. In this project, were used several tools: • Project Charter to define to the problem and set the objectives; • SIPOC and Process Map in order to see where we would be working on; • Explanatory Data Analysis using Minitab to work all the data acquired; • Input List, Fishbone Diagram and Cause and Effect Matrix using a funnel technique where we could prioritize the factors (X's) most important; • Reproducibility and repeatability Analysis of all inspection Workers; • Payoff-effort Matrix to prioritize improvements; • Implementation Plan; • Timeline where we can show throughout the time when we should implement the improvements; With this project, we could save around 25k euros a year with the removal of a person doing inspection on the quality wall. It was a great experience to learn more about the industry and more about Lean Six Sigma since I was able to interact with so many people. With all this interaction I could learn from each and every one of them and I was overwhelmed and truly blessed to be part of this project.

Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal, S.A. | Jul 2017 - Sep 2017

Summer Intership

In this three months, I was in the Times & Methods department and here I was able to learn how to calculate production lines capacities and how to develop the calculation of personal necessities for the business plan for the upcoming year. My main project, in this summer, was the development of a tool that generates an OPL (Open point List) and certain KPI's in Excel. This project was made entirely in Excel VBA, a programming language that I learned by myself while working. This tool will be very helpful and it will be used in all products made by Bosch in Braga.

JuniFEUP | Mar 2016 - Sep 2017

Junior Engineer

• Enterprise only constituted by students that provide engineering solutions to a diverse fields action. • I was a member of Human Resources what gave me the abilities to deal with different people and more than 50 collaborators. Also, I had the opportunity to organize various training actions and events with direct contact between students and companies. • Project Leader of the event EYF (Endorse Your Future) in 2017 which counted with 30+ students and 5 companies throughout 3 weeks of intense training and speeches about recruitment. (https://eyf.junifeup.pt/)

My Education

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Master's degree, Engineering/Industrial ManagementUniversidade do Minho | 2021
Master's degree, Mechanical EngineeringFaculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto | 2017

About Me

José Rui Cruz

Passionate for learning about data and all the wonders it can do

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