Project Manager Scrum Master
Resume:
CARLOS
RAMÍREZ
ad4sks@r.postjobfree.com
Orlando, FL, USA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/curamirez/
SKILLS
PMO leader
Program Management
Budgeting and Cost Control
Quality Control and Assurance
Scheduling and Timelines
Contract Management
Risk Management
MS Office (PowerPoint, Word,
Visio, Excel, MS project, Visio)
Team Leadership
Scrum&Kanban
Facilitation
Flexibility and ease of adaptation
Jira / Confluenc / Azure DevOps
Customer Service
Communication
English proficient
Spanish native
Critical thinking,
Leadership
EDUCATION
León University of Spain
12/2008. Master’s in strategic
management of TI
Fundación Universitaria de
Popayán, 04/2000. Bacherlor s
Degree- Systems Engineer
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Project Manager with more than 20 years of experience in different industries like IT, Software, Transportation, Consulting, Education, Manufacture and Construction, with excellent understanding of waterfall and agile approaches. Proactive and analytical with good communication skills and very strong team player, committed and well-organized professional, with a willingness to acquire new knowledge allowing professional and personal growth. I work in a fast-paced environment very well and am able to effectively manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
Certified PMP®, SAFe®6 and CSM®.
WORK HISTORY
Grupo Sestra – Senior Project Consultant – Contractor Remote USA, (March 2023– Current)
Main function: Manage different types of projects, for different clients and industries.
Developing project plans, defining scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements.
Identifying stakeholders, understanding their needs, and maintaining effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
Identifying potential risks, assessing their impact, and implementing strategies to mitigate or manage them.
Building and leading project teams, assigning tasks, providing guidance, and fostering collaboration.
Estimating project costs, creating budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring projects stay within budget constraints.
Establishing quality standards, monitoring project deliverables, and ensuring that they meet predefined quality criteria.
Creating project schedules, tracking progress, and ensuring timely delivery of milestones and deliverables.
Assessing and managing changes to project scope, schedule, and resources, while minimizing disruptions to the project.
Generating status reports, documenting project progress, and communicating key metrics to stakeholders.
Identifying issues or obstacles that arise during the project and implementing effective solutions to keep the project on track.
Building and maintaining relationships with clients, understanding their expectations, and ensuring client satisfaction.
Evaluating project performance, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing lessons learned for future projects.
STRENGHTS
Leadership
Led dozen of teams in
different countries in Latam,
Europe and USA.
Communication
Developed and delivered
presentations to clients and
sponsors showing the tracking
of projects
Facilitation of different
meetings in the Project Life
Cycle to have all the
stakeholders engaged to the
project
Collaboration
Worked closely teams,
sponsors, clients and
management to ensure design
compliance and project
success.
Echez Group. - Senior Project Manager & Scrum Master Cali, Colombia, (July 2022 – January 2023)
Main function: Support the agile cultural change in the company and lead Scrum Teams in drone and marketing industry
Responsible for the creation and use of the Project Life Cycle into the different projects, responsible for product initiatives from inception to implementation
Create and manage all the tasks, user stories and reports of the projects in Azure DevOps
Responsible for monitoring and achieving the KPIs of the teams
Manage risks and dependencies as well as identify and remove impediments
Facilitate and support all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
Mentor, coach, and assist the Scrum Team on agile practices, artifact tracking, maintaining rigor and transparency, and performing to the best of their abilities.
Facilitate and assist in defining the scope of the project, including working with the Product Owner in creating user stories with acceptance criteria, backlog, inceptions, etc.
Vates – Scrum Lead/Technical Project Manager
Remote, (April 2022 – June 2022)
Main function: Support the agile cultural change in the client, Yale University and lead an Agile Scrum Team.
Support the development team with the challenges of the day
Create and manage all the tasks, user stories and reports of the projects in Jira
Manage risks and dependencies as well as identify and remove impediments
Facilitate and support all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
Mentor, coach, and assist the Scrum Team on agile practices, artifact tracking, maintaining rigor and transparency, and performing to the best of their abilities.
Facilitate and assist in defining the scope of the project, including working with the Product Owner in creating user stories with acceptance criteria, backlog, inceptions, etc.
Sophos Solutions – Agile Team Facilitator
Cali, Colombia, (2020– 2022)
Main function: Support the agile cultural change in the client, Banco de Occidente, leading all teams to the agile mindset and correct practice of Scrum.
Continuously building agile teams with agile mindset
Helping the organization and the work teams understand agility and take advantage of it, generating products of great impact to the organization. More than twenty agile teams and five areas have benefited from it
Collaborate with other Scrum Masters and agile coaches to increase the effectiveness of the Scrum application and address obstacles that prevent teams from achieving sprint goals
Responsible for product initiatives from inception to implementation Contributing to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
Mentor, coach, and assist the Scrum Team on agile practices, artifact tracking, maintaining rigor and transparency, and performing to the best of their abilities.
Work with Product Owners develop the business case and other artifacts to build the scope.
Grupo Sestra – PMO Leader & Project Manager & Scrum Master Cali, Colombia, (2012– 2020
Main function: Lead the PMO, manage different types of projects, both predictive and adaptive for different clients and industries, having different roles in the company
Lead the creation of a Project Management Office
Responsible for all the product initiatives aligned to company's strategy from inception to implementation
Creation of a Project Management methodology to support all projects
Define all Standards that support the Methodology
I lead multiple projects within the company’s project portfolio simultaneously
I created and maintained project documentation throughout the lifecycle of the project and ensure documentation is standardized across projects
I was responsible for ensuring Scrum was understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
I trained more than 5,000 professionals from dozens of clients of the company UTRyT – PMO Director
Cali, Colombia, (2009– 2011)
Main function: PMO Manager supporting the different Divisions of the company. Tasks included the creation of a Project Management Office and its methodology to support all projects with focus in transport industry in a city of 2,500,000 inhabitants and the goal to move more than 600,000 passengers at day. In this position he has re-created the policies and established the process for the office project.
Manage all the project managers that belong to the PMO
Support to Project Managers in their projects
Responsible for the projects that support the operation and continuous improvement.
Responsible for the Project Managers of the company Managed complex inter-related Enterprise Projects such as: o Software Development
o Communications
o Fleet Control
o Help Desk
o Technology Information
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