Edward A Ortiz Email & Phone Number

Bogotá, Bogota, Co

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

As a Senior Technical Program Manager and Agile Coach at KLYM, I drive IT team efficiency and enhance collaboration between business and technical areas. My key responsibilities include:- Ensuring seamless delivery cadence and prioritizing initiatives based on urgency and impact.- Bridging communication gaps between business and technical teams.- Guiding IT and release teams on branching strategies and deployment best practices.- Customizing Atlassian suite automations and workflows to optimize processes.- Championing agile methodologies to mature business and technical teams.- Leading technical design reviews and helping product owners refine user stories.- Reducing gaps in understanding of our supply chain finance model by educating technical teams on SCF and Factoring products.Key Achievements:- Strategically contributed to OKR planning and structure for 6 quarters.- Managed a team of up to 120 people, forming tactical squads for critical software projects.- By ensuring an adequate delivery at KLYM we consistently Increased Net Interest Margin (NIM) by 15% over 2 years.- Successfully delivered 38+ platform releases.- Played a key role in executing 20+ programs, each with an average of 7 projects.- Enhanced the technical skills of 8 non-technical product owners.- Lead action plan, execution and monitoring to successfully get ISO 27001:2022 Skills and Tools Used:Jira, Confluence, SQL, AWS, Grafana, Azure DevOps, GitLab

- Machine Learning programs: Developed ML models with convolutional neural architecturesas well as implementation of regularization and optimization techniques for face recognitionand object verification.- IntelligentWarehouse: Unsupervised model that shows the optimal location to set awarehouse based on client consumption in order to reduce shipping times and gasconsumption. Case of study a vegetable warehouse in Toronto, Canada.- Commodoro: Web app that serves as professional network community for coffee farmers.(ReactJS, DjangoREST, PostgreSQL, Docker)- Fx-forecaster: Tensor flow forecasting model for currency exchange and commodities.Hyperparameter-modeler: Program that optimizes hyperparameter selection on machinelearning architectures.- ptp recommender system: Recommender system for profiling merchant and users. MVP forPlace to pay.- kiwibot analytical dashboard: Analytical dashboard and clusterization model for predictingdemand at kiwibot.

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Worked with clients in strategic business development, business valuation, financial evaluation for -investment and advice on effective project management some of the clients I've worked are:- ABA Colombia: Development of strategic and design financial business plan for 2015 over a budget of 1M. For 2019 I developed the valuation plan for the acquisition of the company by FCB & FIRE- Genval: mentorship in financial valuation for the program "Productive Migration" in cooperation with CCB (Bogota Chamber of Commerce)- Responsify: Implementation of financial strategics, VC fundraising plan.- National University of Colombia: Controlling and monitoring over two projects along other public institutions in measuring the impact of entrepreneurship by refugees in Colombia and quality of K12 education in Bogota public schools. Reduced the deliverable deadlines in 15%- SK Othila: Accelerated the management strategy of the company by training the C-level staff as well as developed their financial budget leading an optimization of 30% in their expenses- 1400gr Agency: Designed the financial plan of expansion business plan for LATAM.

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Managed the financial and strategic activities ensuring the company core operations. Execution of operations, production processes in video content projects and 10 RPAS operations (commercial and industrial).

Greater New York City Area

Managed supply chain and operations for purchases and importation of specialty coffee from coffee farmers in Colombia to United States. Audited over 30 coffee farms using a model that monitored the sustainability of farms, thus creating a fair and long term trade and relationship between the company and the farmer. Due the logistic process implemented the company generated an additional 5% revenue over the projected

Colombia

Tecko is one of the startups of sustainable and domotic construction project in Colombia. The role in the company was the business model design, documentation, launch, strategy development and operations to create a new business model in the construction sector, providing innovative, sustainable and attainable services for our customers using products under protocol such as KNX and Z-Wave along the integration with sustainable architecture design projects.

Bogota, Colombia

CSD Consulting is a firm specialized in strategic governance, development of the culture of synergy in the organizations, complex project management and project management.

Bogota, Colombia

Working as Project Manager for a Colombian pharmaceutical company called Genfar S.A. in the development of a methodology for manage projects inside and outside the company. The principal value of the project is the inclusion of a model to improve the research and to define the opportunity at the beginning of the project. Also the methodology is designed to consider a cooperation between the Government and the Academy focused in a three sided - model

Bogota, Colombia

Working as a bilingual agent for AT&T through Teleperformace. Create strategic plans to maintain the highest metrics for the centre. Take ownership of the customer calls, give the best customer care experience to the customer and help the client to get the best value of their money.

- Teacher Assistance and support area for other students in financial mathematics studies

Bogota, Colombia

- Trading in the Colombian stock market, using an online platform powered by Global Securities and DATAiFX.- Create and management portfolios of stocks in any variety of risks level depending of the volatility and the market behaviour.- Excellent performance in the administrations and trade of stocks during one and a half year.

- Coordination and presentation of pre-sale dates in the business proposals.- Monitoring file according to the technical requirements.- Delivery of reports to the Academic Board requires.- Visit and presentation of business proposals.- Development of market research.- Creating feasibility analysis of new programs to be presented to the academic as a way to diversify the portfolio of services

- Area teaching assistance and support for other students in English.

Certificate Of Completion, Information Technology Project Management

Learning skillsets and knowledge to work inside a technology startup ecosystem. Below some of the topic covered during the program.

Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Traning Program Certification

Baccalauréat, Administration Des Affaires, Profesional

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General, Profesional

Certification, International Business/Trade/Commerce