# Pedro Silva (@pedromosilva.eurosky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/pedromosilva.eurosky.social
Headline: Human with a passion for excellent Teamwork.
Location: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

## About

Sixteen years of international experience spanning Product Management, Agile delivery as Scrum Master and RTE, Project and Program Management Professional  with an Electronics Engineering foundation. Recently focused on AI-assisted development, within his own delivery role and across multi-disciplinary teams. Active in the wider Agile and AI communities as an Agility Community AI Ambassador. SAFe Release Train Engineer at Mercedes-Benz.io, currently on his second Agile Release Train, with scope ranging from 6 to 10 teams and 90 to 115 members (excluding stakeholders).

## Career

- **Release Train Engineer at Mercedes-benz.io** (Apr 2023 - Present)
  \- Supports Mercedes-Benz.io's Amaze and Ignite Agile Release Trains, currently on his second ART, with scope ranging from 6 to 10 teams and 90 to 115 members (excluding stakeholders), developing the welcome points of Mercedes-Benz’s Online presence.
  \- Supported the Checkout and Fulfillment ART in the context of a major backend transformation that involved establishing a future-proof micro services architecture for very complex payment and reservation systems that operate across the globe.
  \- Organizes and runs PI Planning events; manages risk and clarifies cross-team dependencies for smooth, on-time delivery.
  \- Aligns Product Management, Architecture and external partners on strategic and operational goals.
  \- Analyzes product/performance metrics (Jira, Agile Hive, Structure, EazyBI, Power BI) and drives data-based continuous improvement.
  \- Scales Agile and Lean principles company-wide; trains ART teams and active on the Communities of Practice. Leadership coaching and mentoring on Agile and Lean topics, tooling and frameworks.
  \- Holds a SAFe Release Train Engineer 6.0 (RTE) certification.
- **Scrum master at Mercedes-benz.io** (Aug 2022 - Apr 2023)
  \- Applied Agile principles and fostered continuous improvement (Kaizen/Lean); removed impediments through empathetic team leadership.
  \- Partnered with Product Owners and stakeholders to improve checkout usability, performance and conversion rate.
  \- In the scope of Mercedes-Benz Online Store supported the transition from a monolithic to a domain-driven micro-services architecture.
- **Senior Consultant  (Scrum Master, Epic Owner, IT PM) at CGI Group** (Nov 2021 - Jul 2022)
  Cologne e Região
  \- Scrum Master on an Agile development project for a major telecom client, inheriting a project at risk and stabilizing it within 6 months; also served as Scrum Master on a large retail client's Agile project with an international off-shore team.
  \- Epic Owner in an Agile telecom context, owning epic lifecycle end-to-end, defining value/benefits/risk with stakeholders, and supporting release forecasting.
  \- IT Project Manager on a geo-information visualization project and a Data Warehouse implementation for large telecom clients, coordinating requirements across on-shore/off-shore and cross-departmental stakeholders.
- **Lead Consultant at CGI Group** (Feb 2020 - Oct 2021)
  Cologne e Região
- **Senior Specialist Project and Program Management at Yazaki Corporation** (Jun 2016 - Dec 2019)
  Cologne Area, DE
  \- Led development and mass-production projects from RfQ to SOP for High-Speed Data cables, Airbag Squibs, Header, Optical Fiber and custom sensor housings.
  \- Led cross-functional project teams (PMT) against milestones; reported via Yazaki PMS (YPMS, PMI-based); managed stakeholder, customer and supplier communication.
- **Electrical Distribution Systems Design Engineer at Yazaki Corporation** (Mar 2014 - May 2016)
  \- Technical support for commercial-vehicle customers (Scania, MAN, Volvo, DAF, TATA); requirements analysis,
  \- BOM creation and RfQ-driven project delivery.
- **Electrical Distribution Systems Design Engineer at Sanofi (Portugal)** (Sep 2010 - Mar 2014)
  Ovar, PT
  \- Wiring-harness design and prototyping for OEMs (Mercedes-Benz, GM, VW, Toyota, Fiat, AvtoVAZ)
  \- Kaizen/Lean (NYS, TPS based) improvement work, including two award-winning QCC
  \- Quality Control Circles teams.
- **Systems Engineer at Optieng** (Oct 2008 - Sep 2010)
  \- Industrial automation (PLC/DCS programming, SCADA) for pulp & paper and liquid-fuel terminal clients.
- **Graduate Student Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações** (Jan 2008 - Jul 2009)
  Aveiro, PT
  \- Writing the Master thesis "MAC protocol for Location Systems" under project "LoPes"
  \- Localização de Pessoas / People Localization.
  \- The Paper "Implementing the FTT-L protocol with ZigBee" presented at ICECS 2009 explores the use of ZigBee to implement a master/multi-slave protocol named FTT-L
  \- Flexible Time Trigger for Localization to support an indoor localization system.

## Skills

### Other
- 5S
- Agente de mudanças organizacionais
- Agilidade
- Agilidade de negócios
- Amazon Web Services
- ArcGIS
- Automação
- Automação industrial
- Automotive
- C++
- CAD
- Claude Code
- Claude da Anthropic
- Coaching
- Coaching executivo
- Computação em nuvem
- Continuous Improvement
- Coordenação multidisciplinar
- Desenvolvimento de liderança
- Desenvolvimento de produtos
- Desenvolvimento de software
- Eletrônica
- Engenharia
- Engenharia automotiva
- Gestão ágil de projetos
- Gestão de stakeholders
- Gestão Lean
- GIS
- IA responsável
- Indústria automobilística
- Indústria de papel
- Inteligência artificial
- Internet das Coisas
- IoT
- Kaizen
- Kanban
- Lean Manufacturing
- Liderança
- Liderança ágil
- Manufacturing
- Melhoria de processos
- Metodologia PMBOK
- Metodologias ágeis
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Project
- Pensamento Lean
- Pesquisa e desenvolvimento (P&D)
- Planejamento de projetos
- PMO (Escritório de projetos)
- Product Owner
- Produtos eletrônicos
- Project Management
- Protocolos de encaminhamento
- RF (Radiofrequência)
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Scrum
- SIG (Sistema de informação geográfica)
- Sistema Toyota de Produção
- Telecomunicações
- Trabalho em equipe
- Transformação digital
- vibecoding
- Windows Azure

## Publications

- MAC protocol for location systems — Universidade de Aveiro (Jul 2003) http://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/2082
- Implementing the FTT-L protocol with ZigBee — ICECS 2009 - Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 2009, Tunisia (Jul 2003) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5410753

## Credentials

- Claude Code Materclass — Udemy (Aug 2026) https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-2b0fb260-2fa0-460e-bebb-afdd9c3bf531/
- The AI Ethics Course 2026:Work with AI Responsibly — Udemy (Aug 2026)
- Certified SAFe® 6 Release Train Engineer — Scaled Agile, Inc. (Apr 2025) https://www.credly.com/go/CLwo1HbY
- FLIN - Introduction to Flight Levels — Flight Levels Academy (Jun 2025) https://www.credential.net/f1a4ebf4-bbbe-44e2-b574-9e7325c07064#acc.yHdcbU6f
- Certified SAFe® 6 Advanced Scrum Master — Scaled Agile, Inc. (Jul 2024) https://www.credly.com/badges/b91c6603-72f9-4a41-98d3-d763918a4bdb/public_url
- Project Management Professional (PMP)® — Project Management Institute (Jun 2020) https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/9c89e050-6ae3-4bcd-aef0-d69ca8fd3d17/linked_in_profile
- Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist — Scaled Agile, Inc. (Mar 2022) https://www.credly.com/badges/b42553e5-b0f4-402f-b52f-f7b5f164cb26?source=linked_in_profile
- Management 3.0 — Udemy (Jan 2023)
- Professional Scrum Master™ II (PSM II) — Scrum.org (Mar 2022) https://www.credly.com/badges/66573c94-e3b5-4c0f-b810-0eb007d4573e?source=linked_in_profile
- Running Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform — Skillsoft (Aug 2021) https://skillsoft.digitalbadges.skillsoft.com/a23f2405-d34c-41e7-9fe5-f8b011c17c73
- Solve Problems Using Systems Thinking in the Workplace — Skillsoft (Dec 2020) https://skillsoft.digitalbadges.skillsoft.com/e4820059-ee2e-435f-bade-db17ecff9416
- Agile Programming & Testing — Skillsoft (Jun 2020) https://skillsoft.digitalbadges.skillsoft.com/e68aec71-f6c8-4eb4-ae6e-2709b93bf89e
- Expert Insights on Design Thinking — Skillsoft (Jun 2020) https://skillsoft.digitalbadges.skillsoft.com/7b05f417-ec12-45a4-8f6b-42a2f254231f
- Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I) — Scrum.org (May 2020) https://www.credly.com/badges/8cb94b65-8389-4e17-9cea-d5082f2dbb7c?source=linked_in_profile
- ITIL® 4 Foundation CPD — AXELOS Global Best Practice (Apr 2020) https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/1322a8ee-dcd3-4690-aa2b-1438851f3c7c/linked_in_profile
- Scrum Fundamentals Certified — SCRUMstudy - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile;Download Free Scrum Body of Knowledge(381 pages) (Oct 2019) http://81cd1176253f3f59d435-ac22991740ab4ff17e21daf2ed577041.r77.cf1.rackcdn.com/Certificates/ScrumFundamentalsCertified-PedroOliveiradaSilva-735077.pdf
- Project Management Excellence 2 by Johannes Zohner-Nassi (Crisis, Profitability and CRM) — Tiba Managementberatung GmbH (Mar 2018)
- Project Management Excellence 1 by Falko Graf (Requirement and Stakeholder Managemnet, Controlling) — Tiba Managementberatung GmbH (Dec 2017)
- Building Leadership Foundations by Corina Milek — Hemsley Fraser (Nov 2017)
- Project Management Fundamentals 2 by Yilmaz Kizilirmak (Risk, Change Control and Finance Management) — Tiba Managementberatung GmbH (Mar 2017)
- Project Management Fundamentals 1 by Yilmaz Kizilirmak — Tiba Managementberatung GmbH (Jan 2017)
- ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation — ICAgile https://www.icagile.com/credentials/a6f7313f-64a6-4439-a103-2a88a363edd5

## Education

- **Universidade de Aveiro** — Master (2003 - 2009)
  • Object Oriented Programming (C++, Java)
  • Telecommunications
  • Electronics
  • Waveguide Propagation
  • Optical communications
  • Control Systems
  • Computers Architecture
  • Signal Processing
  • Telecommunication Networks

## Awards

- Yazaki QCC Activity '12 (Sep 2012)
  Team Leader of the QCC winning team for the PTC Yazaki QCC Competition ’12 “The Improvers” with the theme “Optimize wire compensation on non-standard connectors”. Access to the European Yazaki QCC Competition taking place in Marocco in Nov. '12.
- Yazaki QCC Activity '11 (Sep 2011)
  Team Leader of the QCC winning team for the PTC Yazaki QCC Competition ’11 “The Improvers” with the theme “Optimize the Analysis of the Components to use on Waterproof Joints by W/Harness”. Access to the European Competition taking place in Bursa, Turkey in Dec. '11.

## Languages

- Alemão (native)
- Inglês (native)
- Português (native)

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/pedromosilva