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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Project: Currently in the MVP phase, the project is aimed at developing a conversational agent that will help end-users to effectively access best practices, guidelines, and standards. The conversational agent will be able to understand the user's intent and provide the most relevant information based on the user's request.Responsibilities:- Participating in the scope, objectives, and deliverables definition for MVP phase.- Developing a detailed project plan that includes timelines, milestones, and key stakeholders.- Conducting risk analysis and identifying constraints and assumptions.- Creating and maintaining project and product documentation throughout the SDLC.- Developing and validating Team working agreement guidelines.- Creating and prioritizing the backlog.- Developing and maintaining a communication plan to ensure timely and effective communication among project stakeholders and team members.- Facilitating regular project meetings and status updates to keep stakeholders informed and engaged.- Managing and controlling changes to the project scope and schedule.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Project: AI project vulnerability detector designed for the security department of the company.Responsibilities:Participating in the scope, objectives, and deliverables definition for MVP phase.Guide and control project and product documentation.Validating Team work agreement guidelines.Creating and prioritizing the backlog.Developing and maintaining a communication plan ensuring timely and effective communication between project stakeholders and team members.Coordinate BAs tasks.Facilitating regular project meetings and status updates to keep stakeholders informed and engaged.Managing and controlling changes to the project scope and schedule.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Project: Digital e-commerce platform that allows registered suppliers to create and manage orders for consumers through a mobile application. These suppliers' orders are allocated to authorized accounts (retailers) to supply club sets to customers. On the other hand, the system allows consumers' order view, confirmation, and tracking throughout a consumer web responsive portal. Responsibilities:- Creating, analyzing, and validating detailed functional and technical specifications documents, providing clear guidelines for development. - Developing and refining Epics and User Stories with the project team, ensuring user needs are effectively captured and addressed. - Working collaboratively with designers, Product Owners, and developers to define interactions and user flows, ensuring a user-centric approach. - Bridge the gap with developers and engineers throughout the development lifecycle, ensuring solutions are built according to specifications and user requirements. Implementing best-practice risk management strategies, proactively identifying and assessing risks, and creating effective mitigation plans. - Collaborating with the QA team to develop comprehensive test plans, ensuring thorough testing of functionalities and adherence to requirements. - Ensuring the quality, accuracy, and completeness of project artifacts, maintaining documentation integrity throughout the project lifecycle.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Project: Staffing and Talent Acquisition - Agile Data Services is a tool that uses the company's internal data to discover and visualize useful insights for analyzing and assisting staffing decisions on time. The dashboards show timely, relevant, and accurate data to inform staffing processes while leaving the final team member placement decision in the team’s hands.Responsibilities: - Leading the process of envisioning the product and gathering requirements.- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders at various levels to elicit and validate requirements.- Creating, analyzing, and validating detailed functional and technical specification documents.- Working collaboratively with designers, product owners, and developers to develop interactions and user flows.- Participating in user meetings and testing sessions to understand customer processes, ideas, and issues.- Working closely with developers and engineers to ensure the solution is built according to specifications.- Using best practices for risk management and anticipating and assessing risks, creating mitigation plans.- Collaborating with the QA team to develop test plans.- Ensuring quality, accuracy, and completeness of project artifacts.Identifying key variables affecting business performance and establishing quantitative and qualitative metrics to measure success.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Project: A set of reports that offers insights based on data for students and professors. The project´s main goal is to design and implement descriptive and predictive reports based on the Edtech platform. It involves agile data science services. As a BA, I lead the co-design process by applying techniques such as design sprint where the team and stakeholders understand, Define, Sketch, Decide, Prototype, and Validate the product. After the report implementation, I validate them with stakeholders. The product is developed within an agile framework, Scrum, increasing value per iteration.Responsibilities: - Engaged in business viability analysis - Conducted analysis of business performance about predefined goals - Designed processes to enhance operational efficiency - Coordinated and supervised team activities - Managed resources effectively - Designed interactions and user flows - Documented processes thoroughly - Defined product requirements - Led backlog refinements for continuous improvement- Documented features comprehensively - Facilitated sprint planning sessions

Asunción, Paraguay

Parkea is a start-up whose main product is a platform for parking booking. The platform is available inweb and mobile versions. The start-up has three founders, one employee, and service suppliers.Responsibilities: - Prepared project proposals - Conducted product ideation and feasibility analysis- Managed the schedule and budget of the project- Prioritized feature implementation within an agile framework- Coordinated meetings with stakeholdersKey Achievements:- Won one of the biggest startups competition in the Paraguayan Market in the digital transformation field- Gained experience implementing agile frameworks through management tools such as linear and Jira - Being part of the product design thinking process

Asunción, Paraguay

Planning for a company that offers services and products in the construction field, planning andcontrolling the execution of private, government, and international projects such as hospitals andschools.Responsibilities:- Project management- Budget control- Resource management- Team coordination- KPI monitoring- Optimization of operational and administrative processes- Procurement management- Represented the company in meetings with stakeholders- Delivered successful projectsProject links here:https://www.contrataciones.gov.py/licitaciones/adjudicacion/contrato/355836-ritter-construcciones-srl-2.htmlhttps://www.contrataciones.gov.py/licitaciones/adjudicacion/355835-ejecucion-y-o-rehabilitacion-obras-civiles-unidades-salud-familiar-san-pedro-sur-1/resumen-adjudicacion.htmlhttps://www.contrataciones.gov.py/licitaciones/adjudicacion/355834-ejecucion-y-o-rehabilitacion-obras-civiles-unidades-salud-familiar-alto-parana-caagu-1/resumen-adjudicacion.htmlhttps://www.contrataciones.gov.py/licitaciones/adjudicacion/321348-lpn-n-08-17-obras-mantenimiento-reparacion-instituciones-educativas-plurianual-2017-1/resumen-adjudicacion.htmlhttps://mediosdigitales.mitic.gov.py/se-realizo-apertura-de-ofertas-para/

Asunción, Paraguay

Cátedra "Introducción a la Ingeniería"

World Trade Center - Asunción

Gonzalez Acosta & Wood is a real estate developer and construction company. Its target market isthe high-end private sector. I was in charge of the procurement, logistics, and budget control ofassigned projects such as residential buildings. Projects were developed following a waterfallmanagement framework.Responsibilities:- Procurement- Budget and scope management of assigned projects- Design of operational processes and strategic planning- Resource control- Parameters optimization- Supplier selection according to product needs- Represented the company in meetings with clients to present weekly updatesKey Achievements:- Lead decision-making discussions with key stakeholders- Successfully delivered more than three projects considering the triple bottom line- Enriched cost and supplier company databaseProject links here:https://www.gaw.com.py/obras/world-trade-center-city-del-estehttp://habitalis.com.py/index.php/proyectos/habitalis-felix-bogadohttps://www.gaw.com.py/obras/edificio-corporativo-tu-financierahttps://www.gaw.com.py/obras/edificio-ventura-25-de-mayo

Asuncio, Paraguay

The company is involved in infrastructure and civil project development, employing a waterfall management approach.Responsibilities:- Project management system design- Instructed directors and employees to implement the system- Homogenization of project system processes with processes of the quality system- KPI design and controlKey Achievements:- Successfully obtained ISO 9001:2015 certification following the designed project system processes- Enriched company outcomes through KPI design and control

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Project Management

With specialisation in Change Management

Discovering Ethical Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Pass

Online Course, Healthcare Data Security, Privacy, And Compliance, Pass

Online Course, Data Visualization, Approved

In this course, I have learned how to become a master at communicating business-relevant implications of data analyses. By the end, I know.

Nanodegree, Computer Software Technology/Technician, Approved

Agile Software Developer

Specialist, Real Estate Valuation

Diploma Of Education, Higher Education

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Engineering/Industrial Management - Civil, With Honours

Activities and Societies: Member of the Student Council as Student Welfare Committee (2012) and Secretary General (2013)