The greatest accomplishment of my career
A few months ago, a customer reported an issue that caused users major inconveniences when operating a software tool developed by Siemens. My colleagues and I sat together and decided that I could be the person responsible for checking what was happening and implementing a possible fix. What I didn’t know was that this would become the biggest
I imagine that after reading the previous paragraph, some questions must have popped into your mind. So to better clarify the reasons behind all this, I believe it is necessary for me to provide further details about my professional and personal life background.
Despite having worked for a while at the Brazilian Postal Services, my career was entirely built inside the industry. My first employment was an one-month job at Schindler Elevators, where I updated material records in SAP-MM. Besides that, I had my internship with Renault Spain, in a gearbox plant, where I was responsible for recording production and downtime entries, in addition to generating industrial performance indicators and reports for the entire engineering sector. After returning to Brazil and finishing college, I started working at Siemens, first at Chemtech, an engineering and software company of the group. Thus, over the past 13 years I have specialized myself in Industrial IT projects for large companies in product transformation sectors, all very sensitive and diverse, such as Energy, chemicals, petrochemicals, metals & mining, pulp & paper, water treatment and distribution, beverages & food, and others. I participated in and coordinated projects of various natures within software engineering, from blueprint and conceptual work, through pure development of new systems, user acceptance tests, solution architecture design and, mainly, integration and orchestration of industrial systems. I engaged with large teams, as well as one-man projects for several clients located in different countries around the globe. My work has always had the focus on high critical industrial solutions, such as manufacturing execution systems (MES), laboratory information management (LIMS), historical databases for shop floor (PIMS), automated warehouse control (WCS) and statistical process control (SPC). Six years ago I transferred from Brazil to the United States, where I FOLLOW THE SAME PATH with Industrial IT projects for large manufacturing corporations, with both continuous and discrete processes, but now more focused on operational intelligence (OI). Hence, as I believe that I have always delivered my projects achieving cost, quality and time expectations, I do consider myself, so far, a professional with relative success in the area of industrial information technology projects.
In case you are not an IT professional and are perhaps feeling out of place in the middle of my narrative, it's as if an experienced builder, who has already participated in the construction of major structures such as bridges, highways, tunnels or skyscrapers, suddenly said he has just finished hanging a painting on a wall, and that this is the greatest accomplishment of his career. Even worse is he exclaims that, even with the help of a few people, the frame was only firmly fixed after two weeks of hard work.
