Manuel Monteverde

Experience

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  Neoris

  Mar 2005 - Feb 2006

  System Analyst / Project Manager

   As a System Analyst I was responsible of generating Use Cases, flow diagrams and analyzing current problems for Vitro.  As Project Manager I had to gather the requirements or client needs, allocate resources, generate project estimations based on Function Points and present the project estimation to Vitro’s committee. Once the project was approved I had to do the follow up and activity tracking of the project.

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  Nearsoft

  Feb 2006 - Sept 2009

  REQUIREMENTS MANAGER/PROJECT LEAD

   I worked in more than 14 projects with US and Canadian clients, including one year on site for Chamberlain as an Account Manager and Business analyst.  As Requirement Manager I gathered the requirements (features, use cases and/or stories), analyze and organize information, interviews with clients, project proposals, solution proposals, presented the solution proposals, generated Use Cases, features or Stories and other UML diagrams, technical specifications, define the analysis process and project documentation. I was responsible of translating our client needs into information our development team could use to build or update the client’s software. As Project Manager/Scrum Master my activities were resource allocation, negotiations with clients and resources, review and evaluate project achievements metrics and milestones, updating project plan, project estimations with the development and testing team, searched for new project opportunities and interview new candidates. I also helped defining, promoting and implementing best practices and process like Scrum. We used FORAD (Agile Feature Oriented) as a methodology and Scrum and CMMi level 4 to support it. Show less

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  Disfrut

  Oct 2009 - Nov 2010

  Entrepenur

   I created a healthy fast food restaurant aiming at the maquiladora market. I created the business plan and did the government paperwork for opening a business,  I managed the company, performing administrative tasks such as recruitment, personnel management, purchasing, marketing and ensuring our customer satisfaction was good. Sold the company obtaining a profit of 70% over the initial investment.

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  Ramirez & Heguertty

  Nov 2010 - Dec 2012

  CORDINATOR

   As the coordinator I´m responsible for the logistics and price negotiations for every event nationwide. Obtain new events through new or existing clients.  I’m responsible of customer service regarding my clients and follow up of any problem they have. Generating reports for the business owners regarding sales, costs and prices.

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  Sonora Software

  Apr 2013 - May 2014

  Program Manager

  Primary Customer Interface.Ensure the process is implemented.Review and participate in the project estimation.Responsible for resource planning.Support sales activities.Coordinate project meetings and monitor project progress.

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  Softtek

  Dec 2014 - Nov 2021

  • Standardizing our Agile framework across 6 projects for our client.• Provide support adopting and improving Agile methods and practices.• Used Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for the development lifecycle.• Maintain CMMi level 5 across projects.• Responsible of coordinating Sprint Planning/Grooming meeting, Daily Scrum and Sprint Retrospective meeting.• Participate in Scrum of Scrums and Sprint Demos to present our sprint progress.• Ensure we have a healthy backlog, follow up on user stories, issues and risks, clear or mitigate impediments.• Track teams’ performance and help them improve.• Liaison between the scrum team and the Stakeholder/Product Owner, fostering good communication.• Created new User stories for SAFe planning.• Presented the System Demo to Business stake holders at the end of the PSI.• Follow up on dependencies between teams in our train or off train.• Obtained acceptance for our user stories from Product Owners/Business Stakeholders.• Kept teams motivated to achieve our PSI objectives and deliver as much business value as possible.• Coached team members and other teams on Agile practices• Generated sprint metrics and follow up. Show less

  • Agile Coach

    Aug 2017 - Nov 2021

  • Scrum Master

    Dec 2014 - Nov 2021