Steve Gouveia

Current

Solution Portfolio Manager / Senior Project Manager / Senior Business Developer at SAP EMEA

Past

Project Manager - CRM and BI at SAP
Senior consultant at SAP
Consultant at SAP

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Education

Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Company

Steve Gouveia’s Summary

I believe there’s always space for improvement and that efficiency comes from good processes and good methods.
With strong analytical skills, I built my career on finding ways to improve existing processes and solutions. My preferred areas are Operations, Supply-Chain and Information Systems.
I’m an experienced Project Manager with more than 11 years of consultancy experience, very focused on ensuring on-time, on-target deliverables.
Experienced in managing from single teams to multiple projects in parallel, I make use of my strong leadership, negotiation and interpersonal skills balanced with the necessary critical spirit.
I’m looking for a position where I can combine my experience with my analytical and leadership skills and where I feel continuously challenged and rewarded from my work.
Experienced Business Develpment through indirect sales channel.
I speak fluently English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Steve Gouveia’s Specialties:

Business Process Improvement, Project Management, Operations, Supply-Chain, Information Systems, Strategy Management, SAP, Negotiation, Analytical Skills, Interpersonal Relationships. Networking. Business Development.

Steve Gouveia’s Experience

Solution Portfolio Manager / Senior Project Manager / Senior Business Developer

SAP EMEA

(Public Company; SAP; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

"The SAP Business All-in-One solution enables mid-size organizations to solve all their fundamental business and IT issues at once. It is predefined, affordable, and can be implemented quickly in a fixed price and fixed scope project. This allows SAP customers to streamline business processes, increase efficiency, and achieve a fast time-to-benefit with minimal disruption to their business."
Project Manager - CRM and BI

SAP

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAP; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 6 months)

The Project Manager is responsible for the overall management of strategic and ramp-up projects throughout the lifecycle from project initiation to go-live and support. In that capacity:
Leverage relationships with customer executives, middle management, process owners, and partners
Work with customers as a key and influential member of their business planning teams to ensure a continuing delivery of outcomes through SAP solution and delivery teams
Participate in the project pre sales cycle to build a customer proposal by defining the objectives, scope, methodology, deliverables, estimates and staffing requirements
Ensure proper use of methodology, tools and procedures
Ensure project success (budgets, schedule, quality and business value)
Escalate problems early to those in the account management role
Manage and mitigate project risks
Perform Project Reviews
Perform project management coaching to project managers and team members
Senior consultant

SAP

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — December 2004 (5 years )

Support in the preparation, conception, realization and Go Live of customer implementation projects
Industry and process-oriented consulting with external and internal customers
Performance of feasibility studies / project reviews
Support of pre-sales activities
Taking over responsibility from time to time as a sub project team leader
Consultant

SAP

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 6 months)

Steve Gouveia’s Education

Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa

Master , Executive MBA , 2008 — 2009

Executive MBA starting September 2008 and finishing December 2009.
The first Executive MBA in Portugal internationally accredited by AMBA, the main accreditation agency in the world.
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Engineer , Mechanical Engineer , 1990 — 1997

Additional Information

Steve Gouveia’s Websites:

My Company

Steve Gouveia’s Interests:

PMI, Balanced Scorecard and Earned Value Management. Aviation, technology, playing keyboards and Internet are my hobbies.

Steve Gouveia’s Groups:

Sporting Clube de Portugal - Associate and Fan.
Portuguese Mechanical Engineering Association - Associate

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