Brazil

Data Product Management

Nano Degree in Data Engineering

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.)

Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)

Milene Mondek

Head of Data Product Managemeng

Product strategy

Time management

Critical-thinking

Leadership

Analytical skills

Advanced data analytics

Conversational AI

Video editing

Product roadmap

Python

Figma

Jira

Miro

ChatGPT

Databricks

Pandas

Airflow

Jupyter Notebook

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Project management

Chatbot

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Changing peoples life throught Data and Technology.

- Create the MLOps platform
   Reduced cost to process Data in 1/3 of the price
- AI application to classify financial transactions;
  Increase the F1 score from 82% to 88%
  Coverage from 30% to 60%

- Create the Data Platform from scratch
- Self Service form consuming;
- AWS

• Responsible for the Data Platform product.
     Our architecture involves bringing the main open source tools on the market to the Azure environment.

• Responsible for training and technical development of the Data Analytics team

With the Principal Enginnering of the Team, we define the strategy for the Data Platform and the Data Science Product.

• Assembled the Data Team, which involved hiring 4 data analytics and 2 Data Engineers;
• Created the Data Academy, where we trained more than 40 people in Database and Data Visualization subjects;
• Increased the visibility of the C-level about the main strategic KPIs in 100%;
• Increased the productivity of the team in more than 70%;

Worked on Fullcommerce and B2B digital products:
• Rapidly assessed and redressed a R$ 30MM platform development project, saving the company significant effort and money;

Set up and managed a 12 War Rooms effort of 150 people to tackle the most critical issues impacting digital sales
    •  Order processing problems dropped by 17% in 10 weeks;
    •  Daily errors in shipment miscalculations dropped from 24M to < 10;
    •  Conversion rate of Casas Bahia website increased by 20%;

Coordinated a team of 150 people.
            

    
    

    
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• Contributed to the consistent growth of Online channels. In the 2 quarters sales increased by 83%
• Reorganized the Online Team into Squads;
• Built the Data Analytics Team:
      - Responsible for the A/B Test roadmap;
      - Data Lake unification;
      - Dashboards for the business team.

Responsible for 3 million BRL budget.

Wotking with the team, I was responsible to get the strategy we decided done:

- Help to hire the team
- Design the Digital Strategy
- Remove obstacles of the others team members to get things done.

Worked on Fullcommerce and B2B digital products:
• Rapidly assessed and redressed a R$ 30MM platform development project, saving the company significant effort and money;

Set up and managed a 12 War Rooms effort of 150 people to tackle the most critical issues impacting digital sales
• Order processing problems dropped by 17% in 10 weeks;
• Daily errors in shipment miscalculations dropped from 24M to < 10;
• Conversion rate of Casas Bahia website increased by 20%;

Coordinated a team of 150 people.
            

    
    

    
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I worked, for 6 months, as part of the staff in a local business in the Cauca valley of Colombia, a farm project called Mayapurita whose purpose is helping people to connect with themselves and with nature through music, yoga, meditation and healthy food and the main revenue came from paying volunteers.

I was in charge of Finance and Customer Relationships. During my time there, the results I gave was:
- Trebled the number of volunteers in two months;
- The average staying days of volunteers and guests increase from 4 days to 2 weeks;
- Within 6 months we made the project self sustainable, settling all its debts.
            

    
    

    
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My mission was to help the company to be more efficient in the use of data to create their Digital Products.

● Started as responsible for the Operational Efficiency Team and left the company as COO.
● General role was to "get things done", mapping the company's operational issues and problems to solve them.
● Main projects:
          ○ To increase margins on products poorly managed.
          ○ Unification of the data team, facilitating results control and standardizing KPIs;
          ○ Process optimization, such as automatizing the travel packages planning sector; and creating tools for better communication across teams.
            

    
    

    
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As a Quantitative Specialist in the Regulatory Capital team, I was responsible for:

• The ICAAP report:
 - reformulated, with the help of several departments, the report to cover all the regulatory requirements;
- within the Regulatory Capital team I developed a model for contagion, counterpart credit risk and the capital planning model. I also implemented the Regulatory Capital stress test.

• Interest Rate Risk for Banking Book modelling: Validation of the data used to calculate this risk. Review of the current model and implementation of chances in the stress test model.

• Problem solving and process optimization:  
   Automation of data validation and cleansing process used to calculate the Regulatory Capital, reducing this daily operation from the initial 6 hours to 20 minutes;
   Optimization and automation of the process to calculate the Interest Rate Risk, reducing this monthly process from the initial 2 days to 30 minutes;
   Optimization and automation of the monthly Market Risk Report, reducing the time necessary to produce this report from 1 day to 10 minutes.

While at BTG, I developed a project to increase the number of women leaders in the company which won the support of several leaders, including the CEO, André Esteves.

            

    
    

    
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Stone is a Brazilian Acquirer. I joined the company at ground stage, when it was a pre-operational start-up. 
My mandate was to structure the risk area, which included the credit, liquid and fraud risk.I was responsible for:
 • Management of the credit risk and fraud prevention areas 
 • Building the operational processes;
 • Development of the risk management policy;
 • Development, jointly with the Commercial and Strategy Teams, of the fraud prevention products for customers;
 • Development of mathematical and statistical models for clients credit risk analysis.

I managed 4 people and worked also as a risk auditor assessing new clients, including Payment Facilitators.

            

    
    

    
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One year internship in the Business and Development team. My work included:
• Conducted quantitative analysis of business opportunities in growth markets, including securities lending and markets;
 • Developed algorithm to reproduce order book graphically to analyze market reactions to economic releases;
 • Developed algorithm to analyze lead-lag effect using Momentum/Contrarian Strategy;
 • Quantitative analysis of the market structure with regards to the VIX and VSTOXX settlement price, specifically the open auction at CBOT and intraday procedure of Eurex;
• Automation of monthly reports to the U.S. market regulator and preparation of the process description.
            

    
    

    
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Participated in the research group of Analysis and Mathematical Modelling in Applied Sciences at IMPA, where I had the opportunity to work on the following projects:

• Real Options Project team (in cooperation with Petrobras): modelled American options to develop hedge simulator for Petrobras trading desk; consolidated/presented team’s results for Petrobras team; performed stochastic simulations to develop risk analysis simulator for Petrobras;

• Part of CORE Project team (in cooperation with BM&FBovespa): performed risk analysis of BM&FBovespa clearing house; optimized models to evaluate settlement risk and close out strategies

Granted Excellence Scholarship from Petrobras.
            

    
    

    
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- Modeled chemical processes related to shale fracking
- Worked in a algorithm to simulate extraction of oil
- Collaborated with a team in the development of a proprietary simulator

Milene Mondek🇧🇷