United States

Project Management

Technical Product Management

Computer Systems Engineering

Ruben Tena

Senior Agile Coach

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Jira

Accountable for end-to-end delivery of complex software development projects.Promote agile adoption and in charge of driving agile transformations.Drive projects with an average team size of 15+ FTEs.Take a proactive part in technology selection.Acts as a consultant, promoting and establishing the best engineering practices.Resource Management, including the responsibility of technical staffing.Create, maintain, and establish project metrics.Facilitate project status reports and KPI monitoring.Program management.Contribute to estimations, architecture reviews, and documentation.

Highlights- End-to-end solution.- Biggest project engagement with this account.- The project was recognized as a role model by the agile transformation team.- Our product owner was recognized and invited constantly to share the agile experience.- The first agile project of the customer PA division.Scrum Master and Agile Coaching for 3 teams:- SCRUM and Agile Implementation- Backlog generation.- Product management and feature negotiation.- Communication with Stakeholders.- Cross-team collaboration- Forecasting and PlanningTechnical practices overview- Architecture Review- Code reviewProject Management- Project Execution- Stakeholder Management- Risk Management- Fully accountable for project deliveryTeams3 Teams conformed by:3 Front End4 Backend Developers2 Automation QA1 Functional Tester1 BA2 Product Owner3 Additional StakeholdersTools- Azure DevOps- VS Code- Microsoft Teams- GITTechnologies- Angular 6- Java 8- Javascript- MS SQL Server- Oracle- PCF- KubernatesDatabase- Oracle- MS SQL Server- MongoDB

Highlights- First and unique EPAM employee for this ADS project.- Managed customer expectations and interactions with other contractors.- EngX practices implementation.- Build a good relationship with our customers. Chevron decided to broke the relationship with the rest of contractors leaving only this position open for EPAM.- 9 FTEAgile Coach- Agile Transformation of the team project.- Define product roadmap for 2018-2019.Key Developer- Develop new capabilities using AngularJS and MarkLogic.- Implement EngX practices.Project Management- Project coordination and integration with external teams.- Release Manager for the ADS Data Hub.Solution Architecture- Datahub integration system- Integration Project- Aveva InterfaceTechnologies- AngularJS, MarkLogic, Server Side Javascript, XQuery, SPARQL, Gulp, Gradle, MarkLogic Data Hub Framework.- Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Server, Azure Logic Apps.

ROLES PLAYED ON A PROJECTS* Project Manager* Scrum Master* Agile Coach* Lead Software Engineer (.Net)PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE* Focus on applying agile practice for new projects and across the organization.* Provide advise based on personal experience in agile project governance, communication with client, team and people.* Directing agile workshop sessions in order to help to spread agile thinking.* Responsible for several agile teams.TEAM PERFORMANCE* Implements measures to increase employee morale, motivation, and satisfaction.* Servant leader, scrum master, events, and artifacts facilitator.* Responsible for identifying cases when a certain technical practice can help the team.* Implement the right methodologies, artifacts, and training that allows the team to perform at their highest level.* Keep team motivated and high morale on high-pressure projects.COACHING* Active Listener.* Runs complex tasks within a team, providing expertise and mentoring in challenging & brand new teams that are using agile practices for the first time.* Coach people on different roles on a team.* Analyze of the current situation and identify areas for improvement.* Out of the box thinking in order to consider different options.CUSTOMER RELATIONS* Capable to identify team stakeholders an understand their interests and priorities.* Able to work with product owners to generate backlog items.TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE* Specialized in .Net software development.* C#* ASP* SQL Server* SSRS and SSIS* Angular 4* Web API 2* Azure* MongoDb

Main activities and responsibilities:* Help and support .Net developers to have a successful career on EPAM Guadalajara.* Accountable for the career development and promotion opportunities.* Accountable for staffing and hiring process aligning the strategy between the .Net competency and company.* Ensure team performance, reliability, and results.* Risk management (Prevention, detection, and mitigation)* Evaluate and take advantage of project opportunities.How do I achieve it?* Weekly one on ones with each team member* Organizing and leading staff meetings* Have awareness of company needs and provide strategy.* Direct coaching with. Net competency meetings.* Promote agile mindset and principles* Promote continuous improvement on a daily basis.

Coordinate and lead software engineering team working with international customers.* Coordinate people and resources* Stakeholder management.* Risk management* Ensure SCRUM Implementation.* Manage engineering workload.* Coach / Solve any blockers during the sprint.* Software development using Microsoft related technologies (ASP .Net, Web API, Web Forms, SQL Server, C#, Team Foundation Server).

- Project evaluation, analysis, planning, and development.- Process Definition.- In charge of SCRUM implementation on a new development team for a new customer.- Product owner activities.- Backlog negotiation and project estimations.- Software development using .Net technologies (C#, ASP MVC 5, SQL Server, WebAPI 2).- Guide and promote best practices between developers.

PROGRAM MANAGER OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS- Accountable for support the production continuity from IS perspective.- In charge of software development and support teams.- Perform workload capacity management for the team.- Evaluate and approve customer project requests.- Risk evaluation.- Root cause analysis.- Lean software development.- Ichikawa, 5 Whys, Value Stream mapping.- Software development with .Net Technologies (WPF, C#, SQL Server, ASP MVC, SSIS, SSRS).

* Providing software solutions across all the company* Promoted from intern to software developer two months before the Franceresidence ends.* Several travels to France for project implementation and customer feedback.* Analysis design and development of software solutions using .Net technologies(Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, SQL Server, Java)

* Providing application support contacting directly users in remote sites.* Analyze and improving web application using java in WebSphere server.* Process mappings and documentation.* Direct support of 1st and 2nd level.

* Analyze, design and develop software with focus on the finance department* Analysis of business requirement.* Developing software development that manages sensitive data connecting tobanking accounts.* Development in VB.NET and ASP.Net.* Improve performance of existing applications.

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