Marco S.
a i & Automations Lead @Mars
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WORK HISTORY
a i & Automations Lead @Mars
Mars is know for your aggressive AI adoption: LLMs, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Mistral, OpenAI, Llama, Azure Cognitive Services (Foundry), Copilot Studio, Power Platform• Not part on IT team, but within MGS Corporate Affairs (where innovation happens), leveraging executive sponsorship to define and drive enterprise AI adoption strategy, align C-level expectations, accelerate decisions, remove IT blockers, and ensure RAI principles were embedded from strategy through execution• Multifaceted specialist (cloud, software development, integrations, databases, AI) with an E2E view of the enterprise tech stack, enabling efficient solution design• Promoted Responsible AI, working closely wt the RAI Committee and Legal to ensure compliance, security, governance, and brand protection• P.S.O. and hands-on builder, defining functionality, road maps, and leading AI initiatives (Copilot Studio chatbots, agentic automations, workflows)• Enablement and adoption: validated solutions from citizen developers, produced HLDs, raised tickets and delivered GenAI capability sessions to formalize adoption and impact• Automation analytics across Power BI, Viva Engage, Populo, Quadrant, ServiceNow, and other sources providing integrations and ETL• Prompt engineering for GenAI-based videos and images using Veo2, Firefly, and Canva• Python and PowerShell scripts leveraging LLMs and smaller models, automating daily routines• Scaled proven solutions beyond Corporate Communications, accelerated real-time analytics, connected tools and data across teams• After a while, I got the opportunity to start to contributing to internal communications initiatives (KPI definitions and improvements, development and improvement of new channels, strategies to increase Town Hall presence, ways to use AI to generate data, become influencer on Viva Engage creting posts about AI to increase adoptions, and support to the overall comms strategy)- But it\'s very in the beginning - Long journey ahead.
EDUCATION
St Mary’s University, Twickenham
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence
SKILLS
ABOUT MARCO S.
Hands-on technical leader with experience leading senior engineers, senior managers, UX/UI teams, project managers, and citizen developers, operating naturally across technical depth, execution, and engagement with business stakeholders and C-level executives.Extremely pragmatic, he stands out in chaotic and ambiguous environments where there is no clear path yet. He tests ideas quickly, creates his own approaches when needed, and uses creativity to turn chaos into structured solutions.In his view, a large portion of professionals shaped by traditional engineering should not be leading the most sensitive AI definitions. Not due to lack of intelligence or technical competence, but because they were forged for a type of world that AI simply does not respect. Classical engineering assumes predictability, order, method, and controllable behaviour. AI, on the other hand, is ambiguous, probabilistic, unstable, and often unpredictable. Although his trajectory is essentially technical, his brief background as a marketing executive and advertising agency owner reinforced qualities he now considers decisive in AI: creativity, empathy, strategic thinking, and the ability to operate outside rigid patterns.Defines himself as a pioneer and a disruptive professional, always innovating, influencing, setting direction, and generating impact. The reasons for that definition are objective:Built the world\'s first virtual supermarket and the first successful e-commerce case in Latin America. He received awards and recognition, and for more than a decade his name was constantly mentioned in the press as an e-commerce expert, often referred to as \"the father of e-commerce in Latin America.\" His blog consistently ranked #1 in Google organic results when people searched for \"E-Commerce Specialist\"(a quick search for \"Marco Jr E-Commerce\" may still surface old articles, feel free to check).Alongside his first manager, they were responsible for the startup of Microsoft in Brazil. The first client/server system delivered on behalf of Microsoft to a major client in the country came from his hands. His phone rang whenever Microsoft needed support for pre-sales activities or product demonstrations at trade shows, when he was 18 years old.His trajectory brings together achievements of national and global relevance that could easily fill more than one page on their own. Even so, the examples above are already enough to demonstrate a genuinely disruptive profile, with a consistent track record of impact over decades.
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