(303) 555-0167 ◇ Denver, CO
rafael.duarte@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/rafael-duarte ◇ rafaelduarte.com
Technical Project Manager with 8+ years delivering platform, integration, and infrastructure programs across engineering teams. Raised on-time delivery from 61% to 93% across a 14-project portfolio, and led a cloud migration of 38 services with no customer-visible outage. Reads architecture documents and runs a risk register with equal comfort, which is what keeps engineers willing to give a straight status.
Minor in Computer Science; coursework in Systems Analysis, Databases, and Project Management.
Certification current through 2026; also holds AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, earned in 2022.
- Run a portfolio of 14 concurrent projects across 5 engineering teams and a $4.2M annual delivery budget.
- Raised on-time delivery from 61% to 93% over two years by introducing dependency mapping at intake and a weekly cross-team unblock forum.
- Led the migration of 38 services from on-premises hosting to AWS across 11 months, completed with no customer-visible outage.
- Delivered 9 integration projects connecting the core platform to 12 third-party systems, all within a combined $1.8M budget.
- Cut average project cycle time from 22 weeks to 14 by splitting large scopes into releasable increments with defined acceptance criteria.
- Reduced scope-change escalations by 58% by introducing a written change request process with named approvers and cost impact.
- Gathered and documented requirements for 6 product initiatives, working with 4 engineering leads and 3 business stakeholders.
- Mapped 40 process flows across 2 departments, exposing 11 handoff gaps that were closed in the following release cycle.
- Built the reporting pack for a $900,000 program, replacing 3 conflicting status sources with a single weekly view.
Cloud Migration Program. Planned and delivered the move of 38 services to AWS across 11 months, sequencing by dependency and running a rollback rehearsal before each cutover. The program finished on schedule with zero customer-visible outage and $340,000 in annual hosting savings.
Dependency Mapping at Intake. Introduced a requirement that every project declare its cross-team dependencies before approval, feeding a shared dependency board. On-time delivery rose from 61% to 93% and late-discovered blockers fell by roughly three quarters.
Delivery Metrics Dashboard. Built a Tableau view of cycle time, on-time rate, and open risks by project, refreshed from Jira nightly. It replaced 14 hand-written status decks and became the standing input to the monthly portfolio review.
- Volunteer project manager for a Denver housing nonprofit, running 3 facility improvement projects a year on donated budgets.
- Member of the Project Management Institute local chapter, attending 8 events a year and mentoring in the chapter program.
- Coach a youth soccer team of 16 players two evenings a week through a 14-week season.
- Lead a delivery community of practice with 7 project managers, setting shared standards for intake, reporting, and risk management.
- Chaired the migration steering group of 9 members across engineering, security, and finance through an 11-month program.
- Mentor 2 project coordinators a year, with both of the past 2 promoted into project manager roles within 18 months.

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