VANESSA ARTEAGA

**** ******* **** ** ***** Houston TX 832-***-****

ac4mep@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-arteaga/

Scrum Master and Technical Lead with over 15 years of software development experience and 7 years of Scrum experience. Certified Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Master. Evangelist of Agile/Scrum principles and methodology.

EXPERIENCE

JULY 2013 – PRESENT

TECHNICAL LEAD AND SCRUM MASTER, PDS AMERICAS

Software technologies and R&D for the E&P industry.

Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.

Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.

Working with remote teams and facilitating communications.

SEPTEMBER 2008 – JUNE 2013

SR SOFTWARE R&D ENGINEER, PETROTECHNICAL DATA SYSTEMS

Software technologies and R&D for the E&P industry.

Involved in a project for Shell Exploration and Production, performing the following tasks:

Requirements gathering and analysis of the solution.

Using SCRUM framework for software development.

Development of different plug-ins in VC# .NET for geophysicists, involving complex mathematical and visualization algorithms.

Development of part of the plug-ins usage statistics web service.

Customers support.

NOVEMBER, 2007 - JULY, 2008

CONSULTANT/ANALYST DEVELOPER, BLOM ASA

Company based on collecting and processing high quality geographical information and developing software applications and services based on this information.

Analysis and development of the system needed to register the cartography contained in the GPS device programming in Visual Embedded C++.

Developed a map viewer application for Nokia phones and an ECOM plugin that received requests and obtained the piece of map corresponding to those geographic coordinates. Using Symbian and Carbide C++. Delivered the demo project that made us sign the contract with Nokia.

JANUARY, 2006 - MARCH, 2007

FUNCTIONAL ANALYST AND TECHNICAL LEAD,

GEOFACTORY TECHNOLOGIES (LATER ACQUIRED BY NAVTEQ)

Technology company providing online hi-tech maps and location based solutions.

Development of a component for estimating routes between two geographic points, developed in Visual C++, as well as the viewer client in ASP.

Development of the new GIS platform, including planning, requirements gathering, analysis, design, architecture definition and programming in VC# .NET, using MySQL Spatial as spatial database for storing geographic data.

Responsible for a project for the firemen corps of Madrid, software application for tracing the most suitable route for the firemen trucks, using Oracle Spatial and VC++ .NET.

NOVEMBER, 2004 - DECEMBER, 2005

ANALYST PROGRAMMER, ATOS ORIGIN

International IT services provider company.

Working in various projects for telecommunications provider Auna (numeric portability, indirect DSL, numeric preasignment), involved in System functional analysis, Database modelling, programming in PL/SQL for data access, programming user interface in Visual Basic, writing documentation, providing support to customers and deployment department and end user trainings.

MAY, 2002 - OCTOBER, 2004

ANALYST PROGRAMMER, SAGE GROUP

Supplier of business management software and services company.

Working on accounting and invoicing software, involved in system analysis and design with Rational Rose tool using Unified process and UML, database modeling, using SQL Server, writing

SQL queries and triggers needed, programming UI and business layers using Visual C++ and C# .NET and programming part of the data access layer that gave support to both applications, using Visual C++.

EDUCATION

2007

INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMA IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY

Awarded with Distinction.

FEBRUARY 2002

COMPUTER ENGINEERING, BSC + MSC, UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA DE SALAMANCA (MADRID CAMPUS)

Specialization in Software Engineering

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