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Project Leader
Mercado LibreProject Leader
Apr. 2021Medellín, Antioquia, ColombiaAs a Project Leader * Project Leader for one of the development teams of the largest online retail company in Latin America with over 150M of customers and 14B+ in revenue for 2023. * Raised the bar by implementing an organized development process, executing improvement plans for developers and worked to ensure our team delivered extraordinary results. Completed 15+ projects in time with a success rate of 95% and in budget. * Defined the team's vision, strategy, and action plans with engineering managers, user design teams and software engineers to reach goals. Created Gantt charts and Jira metrics (Burndown chart, control chart and cumulative flow diagram) to keep on track milestones and responsibilities. * Over time coached over 14 engineers to achieve their career path, providing feedback and the adequate tools to improve soft and hard skills, successfully promoting at least 1 engineer every year. Created a collaborative environment that encourages open dialogue and team efficacy. * Effectively managed cross functional company initiatives (Quarterly performance reviews, yearly goals setting and team building activities), having a 100% on the required 95% of compliance on the internal processes. * Successfully recruited over 10 FE/BE developers, and filled the opened positions when attrition occurred.
Scrum Master
Gorilla LogicScrum Master
Mar. 2020 - Mar. 2021Medellin, Antioquia, ColombiaAs a Scrum Master * Provided the agile structure, cadence, and discipline. Maintaining a pace of 95%+ of accomplishment on the duration of the e-commerce project for one of the largest essential oil marketing companies in the globe. * Managed continuous improvement activities to minimize waste in unnecessary development processes and eliminating low value activities, effectively boosting the team's velocity by 15% . * Maintained an in-depth understanding on risks and coached teams on compliance to minimize operational risks. Identifying at least 3 events that could have impacted the completion of the project. * Close engagement with the Product Owner to align squad goals with the vision and strategy. Leading the strategy on focusing on high priority user stories adding value for the client. * Strong expertise with Agile ceremonies, as well as Scrum and Kanban practices.
Delivery Manager
Growth Acceleration PartnersDelivery Manager
Sep. 2016 - Mar. 2020Medellin, Antioquia, ColombiaAs a Delivery Manager * Establish and maintain a healthy and productive relationship with stakeholders for 2 clients in real estate and financial industries each one with revenues 1B+ for 2019. * Communicated with key stakeholders (VPs and other managers) across the organization to ensure communication regarding delivery, risks, and opportunities for improvement. Effectively assigning engineers, budgets, agile frameworks and internal processes. As a Scrum Master * Guarded the Scrum Team from external requests and disruptions. * Appropriately utilized team's feedback and agile metrics (Burndown chart and velocity trends) to identify areas of opportunity and improvement. Increasing the efficiency by 20% of the delivered increment for each iteration . * Close engagement with the Product Owner to align squad goals with the vision and strategy. Eliminating non-priority tasks by 10%. * Strong expertise with Agile ceremonies, as well as Scrum and Kanban practices.
Quality Assurance Lead
GlobantQuality Assurance Lead
May. 2015 - Aug. 2016MedellinAs a QA Lead * Defining the testing process, focused on continuous integration, and leading the team to an stable pace of constant delivery. * Encouraged the team to follow best practices. * Generated 2 internal strategies aimed to improve quality and minimize bugs. Successfully reduced by 40% bugs on the testing stage. As a QA Engineer * Testing projects under agile methodologies. * Mobile application testing, using physical devices and emulators for Android and IOS. * Designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes, reducing corrective actions, improving significant cost and time savings.
Project Manager
Tata Consultancy ServicesProject Manager
Jan. 2010 - Oct. 2013Medellin, Antioquia, ColombiaAs a Project Manager: * Led teams in development and testing areas (Up to 45 members) for 2 clients in the banking and transportation industries. * Hired and trained over 30 new testing analysts and software developers. * Negotiated requests and requirements for the client, completing in time and budget 3 projects. Ensure that the team properly implemented the stipulated operational methodologies, minimizing waste on the process. * Active part of management meetings for the company and the client, sharing presentations with the team roadmap, highlights and achievements.
Quality Assurance Quality Control
Choucair Testing S.A.Quality Assurance Quality Control
Jul. 2008 - Jan. 2010Medellin, Antioquia, ColombiaAs a QA: * Testing at different levels; Requirements, Design, Functional and Acceptance (UAT) * Create plans with strategy, schedule and defined scope, in order to meet the expectations of the end user * Design and execution of test cases to perform functional testing and UAT * Generate software testing indicators at the end of the project

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