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Patricia Martin-Aragon Perez

Ashburn ,VA

Summary

Bilingual Senior Scrum Master with expertise in Agile frameworks, enhancing team productivity through strategic backlog management and coaching. Proven track record in reducing time-to-market and empowering cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects on time. Certified Scrum Master skilled in facilitating daily scrums, sprint planning, and backlog grooming. Committed to fostering transparency, trust, and continuous improvement within organizations.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Project Lead and Agile Coach

Elavon
02.2020 - Current
  • Implemented customer-centric solutions customized end-to-end for high visibility and high volume customers in the hospitality and service industry, such as Nascar - APIs, device forms, etc.
  • Drove efforts to complete two successful data center moves
  • Led multi-disciplinary teams to achieve project milestones within established scopes and timelines.
  • Enhanced team productivity by 40% through coaching and implementation of Agile methodologies.
  • Reduced time-to-market by 30% via efficient backlog management and task prioritization.
  • Developed strong relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate collaboration on complex projects.
  • Streamlined project delivery by conducting daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and review meetings.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework activities including backlog grooming and sprint reviews for multiple projects.
  • Collaborated with Business Analysts to elicit user requirements for new features and enhancements.
  • Worked with Product Owners to create clear product roadmaps and ensure timely releases.

Project Lead and Coach

Capital One
09.2016 - 10.2017
  • Increased team efficiency and production delivery by 80% within two months.
  • Achieved 70% velocity improvement and reduced cycle time by 60% in two months.
  • Coached teams and stakeholders in Agile practices for continuous, sustainable improvement.
  • Initiated program coordination through Scrum of Scrums for bug fixes and multi-team testing cycles.
  • Facilitated Spanish language implementation for RDC application, ensuring optimal user experience.
  • Tracked and enforced Software Capitalization rules across multiple Scrum teams.
  • Volunteered as Life Safety team member, contributing to safety initiatives.

Project Lead and Agile Coach

AOL Platforms
01.2016 - 09.2016
  • Spearheaded multiple revenue-generating projects for AOL Platforms with over 100 team members.
  • Coached teams and stakeholders in SAFe framework to enhance project delivery.
  • Boosted stakeholder satisfaction by 80% through effective engagement strategies.
  • Achieved cost reductions of 40% through strategic resource management.
  • Drove revenue growth of 100% by implementing innovative business solutions.
  • Utilized advanced techniques like story mapping for improved long-term project planning.

Project Lead and Agile Coach

AmerisourceBergen Consulting
04.2015 - 12.2015
  • Increasing revenue by 80% for multiple programs
  • Increased stakeholder satisfaction by 100%
  • Reduced cost by 60%
  • Design and customize implementation of Agile methodologies for Lash Group MD IT department
  • Coach teams and stakeholders from Waterfall to Agile framework
  • Successfully conduct Scrum trainings for team members and senior management
  • Train a team of 15 Team Coordinators to become Scrum Masters for Lash Group MD IT department

Project Manager

Celcite Management Solutions LLC.
12.2011 - 06.2013
  • Led clients and team to a successful implementation of COPS software within large, complex telecom companies
  • Interaction with senior customer leadership to define project goals, execute against plan and manage issues and risks
  • Leadership of project team leads across all planning, implementation, QA, operations and maintenance work areas
  • Manage project schedule, budget, risk and performance.
  • Product owner of report, dashboard and scorecard needs expressed by Senior Management
  • In charge of designing, documenting and implementing any new or existing reporting needs – including QA
  • Delivery of reports in a weekly basis or in demand – reducing project cost and minimizing delays in delivery dates
  • In charge of transitioning the company from a waterfall to an agile project management style, train teams in both methodologies – both for US and off shore teams
  • Facilitator for a process to cover any gaps - ensure that the process agreed upon is enforced at Development, Engineering, Support and Deployment level – company wide
  • Successful project management of international Deployments
  • Timely communication of project status to senior management
  • Monitor and follow-up activity of IT department
  • Organized the Development, Engineering and QA department into teams, assigned projects and priorities – major improvements in reducing delays in delivery dates and reducing costs
  • Creation and implementation of releases for software development
  • Management of projects exclusively developed by the off-shore team (India) – enforcing processes, minimizing delays by 50%
  • Reorganized the whole company project structure in Team Foundation Server
  • Creation and implementation of policies for TFS for 70+ users
  • TFS administrator for multiple miscellaneous requests from Senior Management

Project Manager - Scrum Master

Qpay Inc
08.2006 - 10.2011
  • Full-cycle Project Management, Release Planning, Business Analyst and Testing for the following web-based projects for multiple carriers/vendors in the cell phone, cable and insurance industries
  • New product implementation, such as:

Initial Billing System integration (HO)

Migration to new Billing Systems (Amdocs)

Product Compensation programs

Reporting for both external and internal stakeholders

Internal system that controls the external application

  • Administrator role for Project tools such as Project Server, Rally and SharePoint: performed IT day-to-day support tasks and trained other resources in those procedure

Inventory Manager and Tech Support Specialist

Qpay Inc
08.2003 - 08.2006
  • Creation and setup of CA market for Qpay for Metro PCS (Sept 2003)
  • Creation of departments and their processes, management and main point of contact of several departments: internal and external technical support, inventory management, cell phone administration and email administration
  • Installed, configured and supported an organization's local area network (LAN) and Internet system or a segment of a network system, as well as helped the coordination of the setup of the multi-line phone system
  • Installation of ATM machines in carriers’ corporate stores
  • Setup, configuration and management of Vericenter server that controlled all payment processing terminals in the US territory
  • Communication with third party software company in all project phases (requirements, development, testing, application software hand-off and implementation in Vericenter Server)
  • Coordinated terminal deployments to all US states – from inventory, application software loading into the hardware, shipment of terminals and post-delivery tech support
  • Implementation of second-generation software for new products for VeriCenter payment terminals

Education

MBA - Finance And Telecommunications

University of Miami
Miami, FL
08-2003

Bachelor of Science - MSCIS - Computer Information Systems

University of Miami
Miami, FL
05-2003

BBA - Finance

Cardiff University
United Kingdom
09-1997

Skills

  • Servant leadership
  • Agile coaching
  • Product backlog management
  • Agile framework expertise
  • Project management
  • Project scheduling
  • Strategic planning
  • Schedule management
  • Advanced problem solving
  • Team collaboration
  • Relationship building

Certification

Microsoft - AZ900

December 2023- present

Scaled Agile - Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner

June 2021- present

Scaled Agile - Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

June 2020- present

Deque - A11y

June 2020- present

ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)

March 2017- present

ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching (ICP-APP)

March 2017 - present

Product Owner (CSPO)
March 2016 - present

Scrum Master (CSM)
September 2011-present

Languages

Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
Galician
Native/ Bilingual

Timeline

Senior Project Lead and Agile Coach

Elavon
02.2020 - Current

Project Lead and Coach

Capital One
09.2016 - 10.2017

Project Lead and Agile Coach

AOL Platforms
01.2016 - 09.2016

Project Lead and Agile Coach

AmerisourceBergen Consulting
04.2015 - 12.2015

Project Manager

Celcite Management Solutions LLC.
12.2011 - 06.2013

Project Manager - Scrum Master

Qpay Inc
08.2006 - 10.2011

Inventory Manager and Tech Support Specialist

Qpay Inc
08.2003 - 08.2006

MBA - Finance And Telecommunications

University of Miami

Bachelor of Science - MSCIS - Computer Information Systems

University of Miami

BBA - Finance

Cardiff University
Patricia Martin-Aragon Perez