Pablo Valdez
Project Management
Argentina
Skills
Project Management
About
Pablo Valdez's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Pablo also has skills associated with Management, Policy and Governance (other) (Management, Policy and Governance). Pablo Valdez has 19 years of work experience, with 9 years of management experience, including a mid-level position.
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Work Experience
Scrum Master
Svitla Systems, Inc
August 2023 - Present
- I am currently working for an Oil & Gas company based in the US, as an RTE for teams dedicated to IoT and Big Data, among other technologies. The teams I lead are distributed in multiple locations, such as Latam, US, Europe and India; this challenge implies adapting to multiple timezones, cultures and ways of working. These teams include Product Owners, backend & front-end developers, Manual & Automated QA analysts and DevOps analysts.
Project Manager
Zaelot
February 2022 - August 2023
- During my tenure as a Project Manager at Zaelot, I had the best experience ever in overseeing the planning, execution, and successful delivery of software projects. I tried my best to lead projects to be completed on time, within scope, and meeting the highest quality standards. My leadership skills, technical acumen, and commitment to fostering collaborative environments allowed me to drive successful project outcomes.
Business Development Manager
Workifit
July 2021 - February 2022
- Uruguay I worked as a Business Developer with WorkIfit, a mobile app that connected job seekers and companies in Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia with a wide variety of top-quality and diverse work opportunities. As a Business Developer, I was tasked with proactively finding opportunities, leading sales and market research, creating and executing strategies to get more customers and users, and working with our corporate partners and partners to further growth. My experience as a Business Developer for WorkIfit has been incredibly rewarding. In the short time I have been with the company, I have gained a wealth of knowledge about the market, our target customers, and the possibilities of growth that can result from strengthening corporate relationships. I have also had the chance to work on various strategies to better cater to the needs of our customers, from launching new products and services, to strengthening the user experience, to incentivizing new customers to sign up. Working with a variety of stakeholders and partners, I have been successful in gaining valuable insights into the needs of our users, as well as working to develop a comprehensive strategy for growth. The most rewarding part of working as a Business Developer with WorkIfit has been the chance to witness the tremendous potential our app had to make an impact on individuals, businesses and society.
Scrum Master
SparkDigital
February 2021 - December 2021
- City of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Delivery Manager
PK
January 2020 - November 2020
- Argentina I led and developed a 30+ IT professionals that work on a 100% remote basis for Telecommunications and Event Management industries; this team has been able to work seamlessly through the Covid-19 pandemic, providing their services as usual. My role included but was not limited to providing managerial support, career counseling and internal supervision, but it also included a relentless desire for these professionals under my scope to be rockstars in their areas of expertise, so that the value they provided was superior day in and day out.
Program Manager - Tax Technology
EY
August 2019 - January 2020
- Argentina I served as a Program Manager for a Regional effort which included, but was not limited to *Assessing current and future applications from an Information Security standpoint *Being a liaison between Business Partners and Compliance practitioners for closing possible breaches and security gaps *Leading a tri-lingual (English, Spanish and Portuguese) team that was formed to assess and close security findings that emerged from penetration testing procedures *Scheduling and leading initial testing processes that include Business-related personnel and pentesting staff from multiple locations worldwide
Project Manager - Canvas Command Center
EY
July 2018 - August 2019
- Argentina I coordinated the end-to-end deployment process for our Auditing software, which included but was not limited to change & resource management, interaction with transition managers and live support during deployments.
PMO Lead - Technology Transformation Program
EY
October 2017 - June 2018
- Argentina I led the Governance actions for a USD 50+MM, C-Level based Transformation Portfolio for EY Technology, which involved crossorganizational efforts aimed to reshape and separate the technology operations from EY's core business. My specific actions were risk & issue management, schedule management, status reporting, forecasting & resource planning and implementing a new project management tool across the entire portfolio. Received Award: EY Vision and Values Award, May 2018
PMO Lead for Networking Services
EY
December 2016 - November 2017
- Argentina I led a team that went from being a group of individuals with no direction nor defined scope to a self-directed unit that has become the go-to people for managing domain-driven projects; here, I implemented a standardized Project Management Toolkit that set deliverables' expectations to stakeholders and established a management methodology for the team members. Such standardization was crucial for feeding and updating several PowerBI instances that served as dashboards to various groups of stakeholders, who can see management indicators in a clearer, more intuitive way. This team's level of responsibilities kept growing over time thanks to my leadership. Received Award: EY Better Begins With You - Global Finalist, October 2017
Operational Readiness Specialist
EY
January 2016 - November 2016
- Argentina I worked as a gatekeeper for the Tax, Advisory and Transactional Services portfolios, providing Sign-Offs for infrastructure and software-built deployments across the globe. Such position required interaction with Transition Managers, Change Coordinators and Support staff, in order to ensure all of the areas that take part in a Configuration Item's lifecycle were actively engaged throughout this life cycle.
Program Manager
KIU System Solutions
March 2014 - January 2016
- Argentina I led the Project Management Office, in which I took charge of driving a major business transformation in a Software Development company whose main business is designing, maintaining and improving software suites for airlines across the globe. My main duties, in this aspect, were to implement both Agile and Waterfall methodologies across the Infrastructure and Software Development teams, to provide training across the entire organization in terms of these aforesaid methodologies along with information security training sessions, and to also train the Company's C-Level in topics like Strategic Planning and Operations Management. Besides, I provided methodological support and act as a Scrum Master/Project Lead in most of the company's projects and initiatives, which were properly grouped in Programs and Portfolios for a more accurate management.
Project Analyst
Globant
August 2013 - March 2014
- Argentina I provided operations support to Business and Technology Partners, related to Business Productivity, Mobile and High Performance Solutions' projects, in areas such as forecasting, staffing demand and analysis of presales proposals. Besides, I worked on the new products and concepts' lab, as a volunteering PM; in this position, I led two website-related projects, where .net and Java technologies were used, while remote on- and off-shore teams (running on Agile methodologies) were coordinated.
CFM - Sr. Analyst
Accenture
January 2012 - July 2013
- I worked on a +100 contracts' transition for an Accenture-acquired software company. My tasks in this position consisted in creating and maintaining the projects' documents, acquiring the involved contracts' financial information and providing financial support to Project Managers and Senior Executives during this transition process. 1st Phase - Transition: I created and maintained the project documentation related to the Transition's planning, and I worked in obtaining the project requirements from the Sending Location, in being a focal point with local and US-based stakeholders and in receiving, stabilizing and kicking off the financial support operations from Buenos Aires for North America and Europe-based PMs and Delivery Leads. 2nd Phase - On-Going support: Daily interaction with PMs and Delivery Leads aimed to provide Financial Support for Services, Maintenance and License deals, which implies followingup on existing projects, expected renewals and new sales. This set of activities and responsibilities also implies providing advisory on cost-reduction opportunities, reviewing and validating pricing proposals and reviewing financial forecasts. Developed skills for this position: Fluency in English, knowledge of US GAAP and SOX standards and procedures, and intensive usage of MS Excel and SAP (FI and CO modules) as software tools.
European Project & Program Delivery Manager
IBM
June 2010 - January 2012
- Argentina My main duties were related to IT infrastructure projects (from the Company's Solutions Portfolio, mostly based on Tivoli and Servers' Virtualization) by creating project plans, negotiating milestones with customers, coordinating teams and their tasks and work transitions from Argentina to Poland, managing process improvement projects and developing an implementation program dedicated to deploy strategic tools for all new and existing accounts, all both for Argentina, for USA and for the SPGI (Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel) areas. Developed skills for this position: This set of tasks required multitasking abilities (for running up to seven initiatives simultaneously), effective communication (for both internal team, and client relation) skills, fluency in English and Portuguese languages, proactiveness, quick decision-making and negotiation skills. This position required Project and Program Management skills to be used and developed, along with a deep understanding of the ITIL set of standards and practices. I also performed internal Quality-oriented actions aimed to implement initiatives for team improvement, communication enhancements and issue tracking and resolution, based in SIX Sigma and LEAN methodologies.
Americas International Sales Operations Specialist
Avaya
October 2009 - June 2010
- *In charge of consolidating and creating management reports for the Americas International Sales team, reporting directly to the Sales Operations Director, located in Miami. *Performance measurement and compensations' payment approval for Avaya's Partners and Distributors across the region. *Supporting the finance team, providing follow-up on pending and current orders and supporting the regional Sales Operations managers. *Project Manager for the internal/external auditing process that was successfully accomplished in the sales department, in order to renew ISO 9001's standard certification; besides, I am carrying out internal initiatives for improving Sales Operations' performance and interaction with Sales and Billing. *This position requires trilingual skills (English, Spanish and Portuguese), and also requires skills in using Essbase, Business Objects and Salesforce.com for extracting and analyzing the financial reports, along with knowledge in SAP for order tracking.
Assigned Support and Reporting Analyst
EDS, an HP company
June 2009 - November 2009
- *Providing financial support for different service contracts that EDS Iberia is holding for both Spain and Portugal, which involve the analysis of the activity contained in the cost centers assigned to each contract. *Fluent relationship with EDS Iberia's Finance management, by providing weekly finance reports, and by coordinating with the involved Account Managers the analysis of the provided information, focusing on minimizing possible deviations between actual and budgeted amounts. *This position required fluency in English and Portuguese, along with command of SAP's accounting module and internal reporting tools (based on Business Objects software).
Accountant-EMEA Region
EDS, an HP company
October 2007 - June 2009
- *I provided financial and accounting analysis from Buenos Aires's Shared Service Center, for the company's subsidiaries located in Sao Paulo, Lisbon and Madrid. *Coordination, review and internal approval of balance accounts (including banking movements), the analysis and explanation of monthly variations for certain accounts and cost centers, Fixed Assets' activations, depreciations and write-offs, and both creating and analyzing Journal Entries for the general ledger which fully comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. My job position serves as a Focal Point (in a team also included by two other junior analysts) that coordinates the information and instructions received from our internal clients' offices. *I also carried out a project, alongside Portugal's Accounting chief and our technical consulting team, located in India, for customizing the currently used SAP module for making it able to comply with the latest requirements from Portugal's Finance Ministry. *This position required fluency in English and Portuguese, along with command of SAP's accounting module and internal reporting tools (based on Business Objects software).
Treasury Analyst
Cubecorp
October 2006 - October 2007
- I performed duties related to payable and receivable accounts, issuing payment orders for employees and vendors, creating, maintaining and updating follow-up reports related to aging status and providing support both for Treasury and for Procurement Departments; besides, I was responsible for maintaining updated status reports for paid and non-paid invoices, debt collecting and caring for the full compliance of the company's invoices' payment terms. In this position I did also apply my bilingual skills and my technological background, and I acquired strong skills in Oracle Financials. During this period I decided to lead a successful re-negotiation process related to Cubecorp's payable accounts, in which I was able to extend the original payment terms for our key vendors in an overall 50%.
Billing and Contract Analyst
Cubecorp
May 2006 - October 2006
- I performed duties related to Contract Maintenance and Billing. Bilingual skills were required for this position. During this period I acquired skills in the usage of applications such as Oracle Financials and SIAP. My main duties and responsibilities were the maintenance of sales estimations, the analysis of new and existing contracts, and the execution and follow-up of the billing process and accounting analysis.
Database Analyst
Cubecorp
October 2004 - May 2006
- In this position I became one of the leaders and focal points in a special project created to support Verizon Business' operations in the wholesale market. My main duty was recovering line cost, for circuits that were not being used by customers but were still being billed by the telcos involved. I acquired technical skills regarding last mile, multiplexing hierarchies and WATS service circuits. As stated previously, I became the leader in recovered cost, generating annual revenues over U$S 1 million, apart from leading the team in productivity and becoming a focal point regarding Best Practices for junior analysts.
Education
Universidad Empresarial 'Siglo
