About me

Hello, my name is George Araujo, I can speak English and as you can see I can write too, I take photos and make YouTube videos for fun, Systems Analyst by training, specialist in critical collaboration environments.

Since 1999 working with the collaboration and messaging tools from IBM, or if you prefer, Lotus Notes / Domino, I now have the following certifications:

  • IBM Certified System Administrator – Connections 4.0
  • IBM Certified Advanced Administrator System – Lotus Notes and Domino 8

A brief summary of my professional experience

  • One year as Lotus Brasil trainee in Salvador (1999 – 2000)
  • Two years as an intern at IBM Brazil in Salvador (2000-2002)
  • One year as a technology consultant at IBM Brazil in Brasilia (2002 – 2003)
  • Four years as Administrator of the Corporate Mail environment (Lotus Domino) of Brasil Telecom Matriz (2004 – 2008)
  • One year as Technology Consultant in a mail service maintenance contract in a contract with 35,000 users, working for Avansys Tecnologia in Brasilia (2008-2009)
  • The following year I was promoted to Team Leader of the same contract above, now managing a team of 7 consultants, generating managerial reports and acting as contract leader to the costumer by Avansys Tecnologia in Brasilia (2009 – 2010)
  • I am currently working at IBM Brazil as a specialist in collaboration tools and Social Business at IBM (Since 2010)
  • Still at IBM I moved from Social Business Unit to Watson Customer Engagement in 2017, and started working as Services Consultant for our Digital Experience (IBM Portal) platform.
  • September 2018 I moved from the Services Consultant to Customer Success Manager
  • Late 2018 IBM sold our Marketing Cloud Platform to Centerbridge Partners.
  • Now I am still at IBM but working as Customer Success Director for Acoustic.

I consider important projects in my professional experience with Lotus Domino

  • Migration of the Brasil Telecom mail environment from MS Exchange to Lotus Domino
  • Migration of the Brasil Telecom Lotus Domino environment from version 5 to version 6
  • Migration of the Lotus Domino environment Brasil Telecom from version 6 to version 8
  • Development and maintenance of an access control application that allowed a significant reduction in the cases of access fraud to the Brasil Telecom systems.
  • Centralization of more than 100 mail servers to a single environment located in Brasilia
  • Management of a team of 7 (seven) consultants, and their egos for one year.
  • Ministered the first IBM Connections 3.0.1 training in Brazil
  • He presented the event “Social Business, the new wave of collaboration” demonstrating to customers how social networks have revolutionized the way we get started.
  • Implementation of a Corporate Social Networking environment (IBM Connections) for more than 140k users.

Besides all this I also have experience with

  • Video production / editing
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Logo development
  • Creation and maintenance of websites

If you are looking for a consultant with my profile please contact me by email talkto@georgearaujo.com.br