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Remote

As Technical Program Manager working for Taller Technologies, I exercised the role for Venmo, a partner of PayPal. Working in partnership with other roles as Engineering Manager and Product Manager, I took care of scrum teams working for the QRC program, managing risks, dependencies with other teams or areas, and reporting to executive stakeholders.Venmo is a mobile application created and maintained for Android and iOS.

Remote

As a Project Manager working for BairesDev, I managed different types of projects or services including Time & Materials, Staff Augmentation, and Payroll.Across all projects, I had to take care aspects of people care, finances, and delivery.In the people care dimension I had to meet regularly with the engineers, run team building meetings, get feedback from the clients, contain attrition risks, and work the salaries cycle review and communication.In the finances area I had to send billing information to internal areas for the invoices generation, and sending forecasts.In the delivery dimension I played the scrum master role for several T&M projects, coordinating the software life cycle from the discovery, through development, internal testing, UAT, maintenance, and closure.Techs: Python, Java, Javascript, Angular, NodeJS, AWS, React, .Net. Jira, Confluence.

Córdoba Province, Argentina

As a Project Manager in Globant, I was accountable for three central aspects: Delivery, HR, and Financial. Delivery because I was responsible of the projects success where I was working as a Scrum Master. I worked in Back-End and Front-End projects of Southwest Airlines.HR because I worked closely with the team members in the delivery of the product, salary of the people, person-related needs, etc.Financial because I was responsible of mantaining the forecast, and more important, making sure the budget is respected.

Córdoba Province, Argentina

Durante este período, creé y actualicé contenido multimedia de las materias Construcción de Software, Ingeniería de Software y Seminario Final de la carrera de Ingeniería en Sistemas, de la Universidad Siglo 21.Mis principales responsabilidades fueron: - Crear y actualizar objetos de aprendizaje de acuerdo a la nueva plataforma de enseñanza. - Crear presentaciones y videos con contenidos conceptuales.- Crear roadmaps para que los profesores usen como guía.- Crear foros de discusión de contenidos para los estudiantes.

Provincia De Córdoba, Argentina

En los dos años que trabajé para Vates ocupando el rol de Scrum Master, siempre fue para dos equipos en Motorola (posteriormente Arris). Ambos equipos ofrecían servicios de desarrollo en Java para el mismo proyecto, "Merchandiser". Mis responsabilidades principales fueron: - Implementar prácticas agile. - Identificar riesgos e issues (de índole operativa o relacionada a las personas), y tomar medidas preventivas o correctivas. - Dar continuidad a las ceremonias Scrum. - Brindar información relevante a la alta gerencia.

Córdoba, Argentina

Como gerente de operaciones en BHP, mi objetivo principal fue implementar prácticas agile buscando a la vez obtener agilidad y uniformidad en la ejecución y seguimiento de todos los proyectos activos. Adicionalmente trabajé en la obtención de la acreditación de nivel 2 de CMMI. Algunas de mis actividades fueron: - Monitorear proyectos locales y remotos.- Implementar métricas para dar seguimiento a proyectos, obtenidas principalmente de Jira.- Promover la implementación de revisiones técnicas para reducir el retrabajo.- Planificar proyectos no iniciados.- Crear propuestas a clientes.

Guadalajara, México

Increase custom software development sales and establish a common work process to be used among Sales and Operations organizational units.• Sold a Software Project after 10 months of 0 sales.• Consolidated a workflow based on agile analysis to come up with early estimations and proposals to customers.Main activities• Coach presales analysts on analysis techniques and interview approachs.• Coach software development salespersons on product’s characteristics and clients approaches techniques.• Define together with Sales Management and Marketing Management the commercial strategy to take on every prospective client.• Participate in the commercial process from the beggining until closure.• Interview and select candidates to Sales organizational unit.• Supervise presales projects status.• Detect and present active risks of sold projects to Operations High Management, Commercial High Management, and High Management.• Expose organizational’s technical abilities.• Coordinate peer reviews.• Develop new projects’ estimations and proposals.

Guadalajara, México

Supervise custom software development projects to ensure timely, cost, quality and scope succesfullness. Motivate and implement continuous improvement to engineering and managing processes. Achieve CMMI high maturity level 4.• Administered 12 software development projects under a Budget of US 2.000.000,00.• Achieved CMMI’s 4 high maturity level. This made Innevo the only organization in Mexico to achieve level 4.• Increased organizational unit’s size from 5 to 35 people.• Institutionalized PMI’s best practices on Project management.• Institutionalized a strong-matrix organizational structure composed of Analysts, Architects, Developers, Testers, and Project Leaders.• Institutionalized an agile development software process based on use cases, architectural centred, and iterative and incremental.• Defined organizational unit’s objectives based on strategic organizational needs.Main activities• Coach Project leaders.• Supervise Project's status metrics, risks, objectives achievement, team productivity and action items.• I was team member in CMMI level 2 appraisal of one of the Corporate Enterprises.• Expose projects status to Operations High Management. • Implement CMMI's level 4 best practices together with QA.• Coordinate peer reviews between architects, analysts, and developers.• Define people’s training plan.• Interview people.• Participate as a member of the Project’s Change Control Board.• Define and coordinate presales.• Develop new projects’ estimations and proposals.• Define engineering and managing processes together with QA.• Define metrics for every project.• Implement a common language in all engineering areas.• Asign human resources to projects in coordination with Human Resources.• Implement engineering improvements directed by QA.• Supervise projects’ milestones, issues, and risks.• Help in the selection and implementation of Projects’ Life Cycle.

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