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Ricardo Silva CardosoRS

Ricardo Silva Cardoso

Release Management

€555/day
Lisbon, PT
8-15 years

Average response time: 24 hours

About Ricardo

Careful Software Release Manager balances customer satisfaction with internal business goal achievement.
Drives iterations rapidly ameliorating consumer concerns and desires. Tirelessly mitigates liabilities and
enhances development leadership by expertly managing deployment timeframes with budgetary concerns
and end-user expectations.
Effective at building and deepening productive relationships with all product stakeholders. Skilled at guiding
operations, supporting deployments and implementing quality control standards. Analytical problem-solver
with excellent judgment and a detail-oriented nature.
Dedicated [Industry] professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized
practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance
the organizational brand.
  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Basic

  • Spanish

    Basic

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Magnirules
    Release Manager
    PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRY
    May 2022 - Today (4 years and 1 month)
    Lisbon, Portugal
    Owned and managed the end-to-end release lifecycle for multiple concurrent software products, coordinating delivery from development through to production deployment.
    Maintained and evolved the release calendar, ensuring alignment across engineering, QA, and business stakeholders to meet committed delivery dates.
    Chaired release readiness meetings and enforced go/no-go criteria, reducing post-release incidents by ensuring all quality gates were met prior to deployment.
    Collaborated with DevOps and platform engineering teams to improve CI/CD pipeline automation, reducing manual deployment steps and deployment lead times.
    Managed change requests in line with SAFE change management processes, liaising with the Change Advisory Board (CAB) for approvals.
    Coordinated environment provisioning and scheduling across development, testing, and staging environments to prevent conflicts and maximise delivery throughput.
    Acted as the primary escalation point during release execution, triaging issues and coordinating rollback procedures where necessary.
    Produced and maintained post release documentation
    Tracked and reported on key release metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate) to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
    Mentored junior team members on release processes, tooling standards, and best practices.
    SAFe Atlassian JIRA Agile method
  • Magnirules
    Founder and Managing Partner
    April 2022 - Today (4 years and 2 months)
    Portugal
    Daily management of company to provide freelancer work to worldwide customers.
    Accounting and HR management
    SAFe ITIL Agile method Atlassian JIRA Scrum
  • Merkle EMEA
    Adobe Experience Manager Consultant / DevOps / Release Manager
    January 2021 - April 2022 (1 year and 3 months)
    Lisbon, Portugal
    Responsible for working with customers in providing consulting services to install, develop, deploy and maintain Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) solutions including AEM Sites for content management and AEM Forms for business solutions that incorporate form design, data capture, and automated workflows. Support the continuous improvement of AEM deployments through technical process, optimisation of software configurations, training and best practice guidance

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Education

  • Licenciado, Eng. Informática
    UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
    2006
    Licenciado, Eng. Informática

Certifications

  • ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management
    Axelos
    2019
    ServiceManagement ITIL
  • Scrum Fundamentals Certified
    Scrum Alliance
    2018
    Scrum

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