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Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

-Guide clients to align project efforts with their strategic goals and ensure that projects contribute to long-term business success.-Lead Agile teams in the implementation, deployment, and maintenance of Digital Experiences through platforms like Sitecore and Optimizely.-Manage Agile initiatives, delivering projects with budgets exceeding $100,000 per sprint, ensuring efficient, timely, and cost-effective results.-Perform Business Analyst tasks, including analyzing business processes, gathering requirements, and translating them into actionable technical specifications.-Oversee client change requests, providing adaptability while ensuring the project scope and quality are maintained.-Take on the role of Product Owner when necessary, facilitating smooth transitions and maintaining continuity across all project phases.-Contribute to the development of new business opportunities while managing essential project documentation (e.g., MSAs, SOWs) to ensure clear communication and alignment.

Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador

Led strategic and tactical project development, including milestone scheduling, time estimation, resource allocation, status reporting, and financial tracking.Identified, standardized, and tracked project documentation, ensuring continuous monitoring of issues and risks.Compiled required documentation, acted as a trusted advisor to clients, and drove the adoption of initiatives aligned with client objectives.Coordinated and prepared internal and external meetings with a keen attention to detail, ensuring effective communication and alignment.Ensured project completion within the established timelines and budgets, documenting deliverables, lessons learned, and continuous improvement initiatives.Utilized agile project management tools and methodologies such as Kanban, Lean, Scrum, Waterfall, and DevOps to drive successful project execution.Trained and mentored project leaders on best practices to ensure client satisfaction for Fortune 100 companies, with a presence in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador

Development and monitoring of assigned projects, generation, standardization and continuous improvement of production and quality requirements, ensuring completion within cost and timeframe, measurement and monitoring of business KPI's, successful management of communication between the teams involved, compilation of project documentation using Kanban, Lean, Scrum, Waterfall and DevOps methodologies, coordination of personnel required for execution, leadership in multidisciplinary teams for Fortune 100 companies client satisfaction, with presence in Sillicon Valley.

Guayaquil

-Led strategic and tactical technology projects, directly collaborating with Silicon Valley-based Fortune 100 clients to deliver impactful digital solutions.-Acted as a Business Analyst, gathering and analyzing business requirements, conducting gap analysis, and translating client needs into clear technical specifications for development teams.-Created project roadmaps, including milestone scheduling, time estimation, resource allocation, and financial tracking to ensure timely and cost-effective project delivery.-Acted as a trusted advisor to clients, driving the adoption of innovative solutions aligned with their strategic objectives and business processes.-Facilitated stakeholder meetings to ensure business needs were understood, documented, and prioritized, creating comprehensive user stories and workflows.-Managed change requests, adapting project scope as necessary to address evolving client needs while mitigating risks to ensure project goals remained aligned with business objectives.-Led cross-functional teams through Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean), ensuring projects were flexible and adaptive to changing requirements.-Utilized project management tools such as JIRA, Trello, and Microsoft Project to track progress, resolve bottlenecks, and optimize team performance.

Guayaquil

-Act as the liaison between business users and technical development teams, identifying business needs and drafting/updating functional specification documentation. This includes use cases, process/data workflows, and addressing gaps, overlaps, and conflicting information.-Leverage data to create and define key performance metrics, develop reports, build forecasting models, and conduct in-depth diagnostic analyses to support data-driven decision-making.-Collaborate closely with teams to resolve project challenges, outline test scenarios, and provide functional and technical recommendations as needed to align with business objectives.-Manage client communications and ensure effective coordination between cross-functional teams, ensuring clarity and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.-Utilize Agile methodologies such as Kanban, Lean, Scrum, Waterfall, and DevOps to manage projects and ensure smooth delivery for Fortune 100 clients with a presence in Silicon Valley.-Identify and mitigate project risks by analyzing scope, tracking changes, and ensuring project deliverables are in line with business goals and client expectations.-Ensure continuous improvement by updating documentation and refining processes based on lessons learned and stakeholder feedback.-Facilitate the development of data-driven insights by executing experiments, monitoring performance, and refining metrics to support ongoing business initiatives.

Guayaquil, Ecuador

-Serve as the primary liaison between business users and technical teams, identifying business needs and translating them into detailed functional specifications, including use cases, process workflows, and data flows.-Analyze and document business processes, identifying gaps, overlaps, and conflicts in project scope and requirements to ensure alignment with business goals.-Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and prioritize business requirements, ensuring clear communication and understanding across teams.-Utilize data to define key performance metrics, track project performance, and support decision-making through the creation of reports and dashboards.-Work closely with development teams to troubleshoot project challenges, outline basic test scenarios, and provide functional recommendations to meet project objectives.-Manage client and team communications, ensuring the smooth flow of information and alignment on project timelines and deliverables.-Apply Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban to support project execution, adapting to changing project needs while maintaining focus on client satisfaction.-Assist in creating project documentation, including requirements documents and user stories, while ensuring continuous improvement through feedback loops and lessons learned.

Barquisimeto, Venezuela

-Managed the hiring of national and international suppliers, ensuring alignment with production needs and company goals.-Planned production activities and controlled inventories of raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished products.-Applied continuous improvement and process reengineering techniques across products, personnel, and work teams to enhance efficiency and productivity.-Designed, managed, and developed processes through Business Process Management (BPM) to optimize workflow and resource allocation.-Implemented Total Quality Management (TQM) and quality assurance practices in line with ISO 9001 standards.-Coordinated transportation logistics, including the administration and dispatch of goods to and from warehouses.Ensured compliance with industrial hygiene and safety regulations within the production plant, following current standards and best practices.

Miranda, Venezuela

-Implemented warehouse management system (WMS) software and logistics operations management within the supply chain.-Designed and developed websites to support business operations and client engagement.-Organized and scheduled training sessions for both internal and external clients, ensuring alignment with company objectives.-Reviewed and developed program content for project management training based on the PMBOK Guide and its fundamentals.-Conducted quality assurance and verification processes to maintain high standards in service and product delivery.-Managed SEO strategy and language optimization to enhance online visibility and improve search engine rankings.

Barquisimeto Estado Lara

Coordination of Projects of Conceptual, Basic and Detail Engineering, Elaboration of project schedule according to customer needs, based on the principles of Project Management contained in the PMBOK Guide, design of projects according to current legislation and regulations, preparation of weekly monitoring reports, administration and control of time, costs, resources, personnel, among others, review and preparation of plans.

Zona Industrial 1, Barquisimeto - Venezuela

Planning of the production of pasta in different formats. Planning the rotation and shifts of Production operators. Reception and supervision of cisterns. Registration and production planning in SAP system. Creation of a database, programming and start-up of a Cleaning Program based on Good Manufacturing Practices for the Production and Packaging departments.

Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Weekly planning of shipments of merchandise nationwide, scheduling of shipments according to schedules of reception of the client, preparation of work orders, processing of authorizations of transfer of heavy cargo according to the type of material, updating and control of load tabs , review of documentation of units according to law requirements, management of medical examinations for personnel according to planning, schedule personnel rotation (drivers and assistants).

Master'S Degree In Business Organization And Industrial Projects, Engineering

Master'S Degree In Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering

Diploma En Ingenieria De Diseño Y Manufactura Avanzada, Ingeniería Industrial

Ingeniero Industrial, Ingeniería Industrial

Desarrollo Web Full Stack Bootcamp Xvii, Computer Science