Strategic Technology Transformation

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Turning business strategy into practical, measurable technology transformation

I’m a Senior Business, Enterprise, and Solution Architect with 18+ years of international experience. I help organizations align strategy, architecture and delivery to realize measurable business outcomes across Financial Services, Travel, Automotive and Enterprise CRM.

My work blends business architecture, enterprise platforms, cloud modernization, integration and AI-enabled customer-service capabilities to translate strategy into measurable results.

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At a Glance

Experience Industries Architecture Focus Location
18+ years of international delivery Financial Services, Travel, Automotive and CRM Business, Enterprise, Domain and Solution Architecture Maastricht, Netherlands

I work at the point where business priorities, operating processes, enterprise platforms, data, integration and technology decisions need to become one coherent direction.

My role is not limited to drawing a target architecture. It includes clarifying trade-offs, aligning stakeholders, establishing practical governance and helping delivery teams move forward without losing sight of the intended business outcome.

Professional Profile

Architecture creates value when it makes complex decisions clearer, delivery more coherent and transformation easier to execute.

I have worked across business, architecture and engineering environments, supporting organizations as they modernize customer-service platforms, evolve enterprise applications, adopt cloud services and introduce AI-enabled capabilities.

My approach combines strategic thinking with practical delivery experience. I can move from business capabilities and roadmaps to integration patterns, security considerations, platform constraints and implementation decisions without treating them as separate conversations.

I am particularly effective in environments where several teams, systems and priorities must be aligned around a shared target state.

Selected Business Impact

Customer-service modernization

Led architecture work supporting the modernization of enterprise customer-service capabilities through Amazon Connect and cloud-native integration patterns.

AI-enabled service capabilities

Designed customer-service capabilities using Amazon Lex and Amazon Bedrock, including proof-of-concepts for AI assistants and operational automation.

Reusable enterprise patterns

Defined integration and event-driven architecture patterns that supported real-time interactions, reuse and scalable enterprise services.

Improved operational visibility

Built analytics and monitoring capabilities that improved lead-management visibility and contributed to approximately 15% higher lead conversion.

Architecture governance

Guided decisions across business value, security, maintainability, resilience and risk while aligning solution delivery with enterprise standards.

Cross-functional alignment

Worked with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, product owners and engineering teams to connect strategic direction with practical execution.

Career Journey

2025 – Present · DLL Financial Services

Senior Solutions Architect
Maastricht / Eindhoven, Netherlands

Supporting the evolution of enterprise solutions by translating business objectives into architectures spanning capabilities, processes, applications, data and technology.

Selected focus

  • Architecture roadmaps aligned with enterprise strategy and target architecture.
  • Architecture governance, standards and reusable enterprise patterns.
  • Collaboration with enterprise architects, product owners and engineering teams.
  • ArchiMate models that improve transparency and support decision-making.
  • Architecture advice balancing business value, security, maintainability and risk.
  • Cloud-native and reusable integration approaches.
  • Evaluation of emerging technologies for enterprise modernization.

2023 – 2025 · TUI Nederland BV

Senior Solution Architect
Maastricht, Netherlands

Led architecture work for the modernization of customer-service capabilities and supported the transition toward cloud-native, event-driven and AI-enabled solutions.

Selected focus

  • Amazon Connect customer-service modernization.
  • Amazon Lex and Amazon Bedrock capabilities.
  • Real-time integration and event-driven architecture.
  • AI-assistant and automation proof-of-concepts.
  • Business, operational, resilience and security requirements.
  • Alignment across business stakeholders, architecture and engineering.

2017 – 2023 · Mercedes-Benz CAC / Daimler Trucks AG

Senior Solution Architect
Maastricht, Netherlands / Stuttgart, Germany

Supported enterprise-platform evolution across CRM, cloud, integration and operational analytics.

Selected focus

  • Modernization strategies across AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Salesforce Service Cloud and Siebel CRM evolution.
  • Enterprise integration and event-driven architecture.
  • Customer-facing services and operational-process improvements.
  • Lead-management dashboards and monitoring.
  • Integration and analytics proof-of-concepts.

2009 – 2017 · Dell Computadores do Brasil Ltda

Senior Software Developer
Brazil

Built the engineering and enterprise-CRM foundation that later developed into architecture leadership.

Selected focus

  • Enterprise CRM application upgrades.
  • Customer-facing system enhancements.
  • Agile delivery and release-management practices.
  • Team mentoring and engineering standards.
  • Operational-efficiency improvements.

Industries and Environments

Financial Services

Architecture governance, enterprise modernization, target-state alignment and solution decision support in a regulated enterprise environment.

Travel

Customer-service transformation, cloud-native contact-center capabilities, real-time integration and AI-assisted interactions.

Automotive

Enterprise CRM, cloud modernization, integration architecture, operational analytics and customer-facing platforms.

Enterprise CRM

Long-term experience with customer-service processes, Salesforce Service Cloud, Siebel CRM, workflow evolution and platform integration.

How I Approach Architecture

Start with the business context

Understand the objective, constraints, stakeholders and operating reality before proposing technology.

Make trade-offs visible

Explain options in practical terms so decision-makers understand value, risk, cost, complexity and long-term consequences.

Design for evolution

Create target direction without assuming that every capability, platform or process can change at once.

Connect strategy and delivery

Maintain a clear line between strategic intent, architecture decisions, implementation work and measurable outcomes.

Reuse before reinventing

Encourage consistent patterns and shared capabilities where reuse reduces complexity and improves maintainability.

Govern through collaboration

Use architecture governance to improve decisions and alignment—not to create unnecessary process or distance from delivery.

Expertise Snapshot

Architecture and Transformation

Business Architecture · Enterprise Architecture · Domain Architecture · Solution Architecture · Target Architecture · Strategic Roadmaps · Architecture Governance · Business Capability Mapping

Business and Enterprise Platforms

Business Process Management · Enterprise Applications · Customer Service Platforms · CRM · Business Analysis · Operational Modernization

Cloud, Integration and AI

AWS · Microsoft Azure · Oracle Cloud Infrastructure · API-first Architecture · Event-Driven Architecture · Amazon Bedrock · Amazon Lex · Retrieval-Augmented Generation · AI Orchestration

Engineering Context

REST · SOAP · API Gateway · Kafka · MQ · RabbitMQ · JavaScript · TypeScript · Node.js · React · Next.js · Express.js · Apex · eScript · SQL

Frameworks and Ways of Working

  • ArchiMate
  • TOGAF principles
  • SAFe
  • Agile
  • Domain-Driven Design
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • API-first Architecture
  • Cloud-native Architecture
  • Security-by-Design
  • Privacy-by-Design

Education and Continuous Development

Education

MBA, Business Technology: AI, Data Science & Big Data
PUCRS, Brazil · 2026

B.Sc. Information Systems
Centro Universitário da Grande Dourados, Brazil · 2024

B.Sc. Aeronautical Science
Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, Brazil · 2002

Certifications

  • TOGAF 10 · 2026
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · In progress
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Associate Architect · 2022
  • SAFe Architect · 2022
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals · 2021

Languages and International Perspective

Language Proficiency
Brazilian Portuguese Native
English Fluent
Spanish Intermediate
Italian Intermediate
Dutch Intermediate, progressing toward B1

Working across Brazil, the Netherlands and Germany has strengthened my ability to communicate across cultures, functions and levels of technical depth.

Beyond the Résumé

A résumé shows roles and responsibilities. The more important story is how that experience is applied: connecting business priorities, architecture choices and delivery realities so organizations can move forward with greater clarity.

The service pages explain the areas where DMF IT can support an organization. This profile provides the professional background behind that work.

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