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CABA (1406),

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Cell phone: 15-6459-0767

E-mail: acqudt@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

A proven leader with a solid technical background, contributing to improve existing processes and software development practices in an agile environment, to maintain a high level of motivation of the team and to deliver the best solutions to the clients. CORE COMPETENCIES

Team Leadership Project Management Critical Problem Solving Process Improvement Quality Control Operations Management Testing Automation Technical Strategies Training & Mentoring AREAS OF EXPERTISE

E-Commerce Marketing Telecommunications

Healthcare Internet Analytics

EXPERIENCE

Project Leader at VirtualMind

Buenos Aires April 2014 - Present

Leader of a team that builds solutions to manage subscriptions for the most important US newspapers.

Duties

● Partner with the Product Owners to define and prioritize product backlog

● Task assignments and supervision

● Led initiatives to improve processes following Scrum and Kanban principles

● Best achievement: released multiple sites for different clients on the same platform with very good results and feedback from users Team Leader / Scrum Master at Thomson Reuters

Buenos Aires July 2010 - April 2014

Scrum master working with a multidisciplinary team in charge of implementing E- Commerce solutions for customers based in Australia, UK, New Zealand and Spain. Duties

● Partner with Product Managers to define the product roadmap

● Responsible for full development life cycle, coordinating Scrum ceremonies, tracking project progress, reporting status to upper management

● Worked side by side with team in Eagan, Minnesota -either through teleconference or in situ in MN- to review and improve process and architecture of systems supported

● Definition of framework and standard practices for agile methodology

● Definition and monitoring of goals and career plan for direct reports

● Best achievement: sites had an increase in sales of 20% Technical Leader at Verizon Business

Buenos Aires August 2008 - July 2010

Leader of a team of .NET and Java developers to provide support to an order installation management system.

Duties

● Coordination of tasks with leaders of other systems involved

● Project planning and monitoring

● Review of technical design

● Reports for upper management in US

● Best achievement: reworked systems in .NET and Java, decommissioning legacy applications in Cobol and C++ improving performance and quality of code

Senior Analyst Programmer at Verizon Business

Buenos Aires July 2007 - July 2008

Analysis and design of an order installation management system. Faced several technical challenges that were satisfactorily accomplished, such as the full refactoring of the system making use of good software development practices. Duties

● Coaching and mentoring of junior co-workers

● Assistance to the Project Leader in project planning

● Definition of interfaces and architecture with other team leaders

● Best achievement: refactor of the system implementing best development practices, using TDD

SemiSenior Analyst Programmer at Telefonica de Argentina Buenos Aires September 2005 - July 2007

Duties

● Led a marketing campaign project

● Migration of a logistics system from VB6 to .NET Junior/SemiSenior Analyst Programmer at Omint S.A. de Servicios Buenos Aires May 2003 - August 2005

Analysis and development and support of web application built with .NET. Duties

● Designed, developed and deployed a .NET CRM distributed application.

● Migration of a legacy system from Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP to ASP.NET. EDUCATION

ORT

Advanced PMI training course 2012

Universidad CAECE

Computer Sciences 2002 - 2008

TECHNICAL SKILLS

● Methodologies: agiles (Scrum, XP), PMI, CMMI

● Programming languages: .NET, Java, VB6, ASP, PHP, Python, jQuery

● Database engines: SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle

LANGUAGES

● Native Spanish

● Fluent in written and oral English

● Basic French

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