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Laura Zavala is a seasoned IT project manager with 20+ years of experience in leading software and IT projects, managing teams, and implementing enhancements to existing systems. She is fluent in English and Spanish, with a Master's degree in Computers Science and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.

Experience

    • United States
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Sr IT project manager
      • Jan 2015 - Dec 2023

      Led and managed Software and IT projects from end to end to implement enhancements to existing systems, to upgrade infrastructure to comply with regulatory requirements and to migrate and integrate systems to different platforms. Coordinated efforts and communication between team and stakeholders ensuring requirements and business value were delivered as expected, aligned with Company’s strategy and goals with quality in a timely manner and kept them informed through relevant KPIs. Served as Scrum Master using SAFe framework with teams which transitioned from waterfall to agile and with Salesforce agile team delivering MVPs every 2 weeks assisting and coaching in all agile ceremonies. •Played Scrum Master role for Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce billing following Scrum and SAFe framework with Program Iteration of 6 sprints and agile team of 6 members tracking progress with JIRA in a Kanban board •Managed a project to migrate Utilities Billing from Oracle Netsuite Legacy system into ABS billing which included about 100 accounts , ~ $900,000 USD monthly revenue. Conducted requirements, plan, execution, communication and deliverables with external vendors and integration with internal systems and processes. • Managed a project to enhance the integration with Microsoft as a carrier partner and allow to transact MaxxConnect for Teams Direct Routing services and deliver dial in conferencing to Teams which is attached to £9m of revenue in EMEA alone. •Played Scrum Master for project to automate the platform and infrastructure implementation using Ansible playbooks and creating a portal with new APIs to expedite the VoiceMaxx implementations from 120 days to 30 days. •Managed Billing system changes to comply with billing regulations which involved coordination with external requestors and external customers like; develop bank slip update for Bradesco, set up 3D Secure authentication with JPMorgan for credit card payments, and modify payment reports for Mexico Taxing Office.

    • Technical Project Manager
      • Jan 2011 - Dec 2014

      • Assisted and set up DBA group to transition to agile methodology and techniques by setting up Jira space , playing scrum master and coach the team to calculate story points during backlog refinement and break stories into tasks, focus in MVPs during sprint planning, stay focused in sprint tasks and discuss issues during daily stand ups, enforce coordination with User Interface groups during sprint reviews and demos and workout positive retrospectives. • Set, prepared, and executed Disaster Recovery drill for main database between two datacenters which included redundancy and fail over procedures affecting all apps used to support conferencing features. The scope included DBs, external and internal front ends, Middleware’s, APIs, report systems, usage collection, conferencing provisioning systems and more than 100 stakeholders. • Replaced/upgraded End of Life HW to be compliant with EIT regulations and keep operation running with no risk for 20 systems. App and DB servers were distributed across Canada, US, Europe, and Asia. Elaborated inventory, scheduled plan, procured servers, managed budget, and coordinated maintenance windows with sanity testing. Communicated and collaborated with ~ 80 stakeholders among app owners, operations, networking, infosec office, and testers. • Led and managed a 1 year’s SW development program to support special characters in invoice PDFs which implied to set up Unicode in ~ 30 major systems and Informix Databases and coordination with ~ 80 stakeholders among managers, app owners, developers, testers, sales, customer service and billing ops.

    • Admin Project Manager
      • Jan 2007 - Dec 2010

      • Led and managed software development projects to integrate InterCall audio services with third party web services like Webex , Live Meeting (Microsoft) and IBM Lotus Live Meeting (IBM).

    • Mexico
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Technical Project Leader
      • Mar 2001 - Jan 2007
      • Mexico

      DDEMESIS/ GE-DDEMESIS Servicios SA de CV /Softek de Mexico • Worked as a consultant to lead a team of 8 members to develop and support financial applications in GE Treasury. Team was distributed in Mexico, Spain and India. Main user/customer was located in USA and I coordinated tasks and communication. Applications made in IIS/ASP and SQL server and Internet facing using SSL protocol • Six Sigma Green Belt certified with a project that reduced the time to modify Allocation’s data from 2 hrs to 1 minute. This involved data source analysis and process improvements • Worked as a consultant to lead a team of 4 members to develop and support local applications in GE Corporate GSO and GE Corporate . Main customer was in USA. Applications were made in IIS/ASP and SQL server

    • Technical Project Leader
      • Feb 1999 - Mar 2001
      • Mexico

      Worked as team leader to develop applications for different customers like a Customs’ agency and Skychef. Applications were developed in IIS/ASP, Visual Basic and SQL server.

    • Mexico
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • University Teacher
      • Sep 1998 - Mar 2001
      • Mexico City, Mexico

      • I taught the subject of Relational Data Bases with MS SQL • I taught the subject of Basics of MS Word • I taught the subject of Project Management

    • Mexico
    • Telecommunications
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Developer
      • Sep 1997 - Feb 1999
      • Mexico City, Mexico

      Worked as project leader to develop processes to support the day-to-day data processing in the newspaper “Reforma.” Also developed and implemented a distributed system to share information among newsletters owned by the same editor. Processes were mainly developed in MS SQL server and C#.

    • Bolivia
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Developer
      • Sep 1996 - Aug 1997
      • Mexico City, Mexico

      Worked as developer to modify in house applications to support financial operations in the stock market

    • Mexico
    • Government Administration
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Network Engineer
      • Jan 1996 - Sep 1996
      • Mexico City, Mexico

      Worked as network engineer to provide support to the financial network that connected more than 30 banks and financial institutions with the Mexico central bank

    • United States
    • Telecommunications
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Network Engineer
      • Jan 1992 - Mar 1994
      • Mexico City, Mexico

      Alcatel Indetel Telecom Pub SA de CV Worked as telecom engineer to plan the racking of telephone exchanges

    • Mexico
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Mathematics and Circuit Logic Teacher
      • Jan 1992 - Jan 1994
      • Mexico City, Mexico

      Mathematics and Circuit Logic Teacher 3 hours per week in cycles 1992 , 1993 and 1994

Education

  • 1996 - 1998
    Tecnológico de Monterrey
    Master’s degree., Computers Science, Major in Networking
  • 1988 - 1992
    Instituto Politécnico Nacional
    Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

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