Julio Cesar Herrera Soria, Project Manager in Montevideo, Uruguay
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Julio Cesar Herrera Soria

Verified Expert  in Project Management

Bio

Julio is a scrum master and agile coach with an engineering background. He considers himself an agility champion, enjoys teaching Scrum, and excels at leading organizations into the Scrum framework while elevating mindset to achieve high performance with quantifiable results. He delivered a system to manage fines that was the first SaaS solution in the country. Julio created an Agile club with members country-wide and provided more than 300 hours of coaching.

Project Highlights

National System for the Control and Management of Fines (CGM)
First digital solution designed under a SaaS model in Cuba, awarded in the XVII Convention and International Computer Fair 2018. This solution enabled the company to add 148 new contracts to its client portfolio and opened other negotiations.
Sacramentum
Trained and coached the team into Scrum. The system was developed in record time with high acceptance by its adoption. Thanks to the continual delivery and quality, the scope of the project and its total revenue increased by more than an 85%
Network Infrastructure Deployment
I trained the leaders of the different teams involved in the project in Scrum and coached them through the entire process. Each team was able to reduce their lead time; hence the overall project was reduced to ten days.

Expertise

  • Agile
  • Agile Project Management
  • Design Thinking
  • Jira
  • Rally
  • Scrum
  • Scrum Master

Work Experience

Scrum Master

2022 - PRESENT
Sabre
  • Supported the team by defining a new communication plan which helped reduce the time by 1.5 hours for developers attending to other requests.
  • Coached the team and organization in the Scrum framework and elevated agile practices, which reduced time wasted in unnecessary meetings by 12%, decreased cycle time, and increased the team's velocity gradually.
  • Transformed the team's mindset from a feature factory to an actual Scrum team. We moved from delivering only features and started focusing on providing value: Higher quality solutions, lower defects count, and higher client satisfaction rates.

Scrum Master

2020 - 2022
Tata Consultancy Services
  • Improved existing processes involving team communication and allocation. We reduced the three hours dedicated to other activities outside development to two hours.
  • Planned the training activities needed to increase the team and the organization's effectiveness. Provided more than 15 hours of lectures about the Scrum framework and Agile. Released a paper with a compilation of tips and advice about Scrum.
  • Achieved better results by reducing the cycle time by four days. Clients received solutions in a shorter time and provided feedback more often, allowing them to adapt. Client satisfaction survey results increased by 14%.

Scrum Master

2008 - 2019
Empresa Nacional de Software
  • Defined the adoption plan of Scrum in the company and led its implementation. After a pilot period in one medium-sized project, we extend it to the rest of the divisions in the country.
  • Provided more than 45 hours of lectures and training. Created an Agile club within the company, including more than 50 members in the country. More than 300 hours of coaching sessions were completed.
  • Increased the productivity of development teams by 27% on average, leading to increased revenue in the company by more than 30% after adopting Scrum.

Project History

National System for the Control and Management of Fines (CGM)

First digital solution designed under a SaaS model in Cuba, awarded in the XVII Convention and International Computer Fair 2018. This solution enabled the company to add 148 new contracts to its client portfolio and opened other negotiations.

Designed as a SaaS model, the first solution with this characteristic in Cuba was adopted by all fines offices in the country. It integrates different services and stakeholders. This solution will serve as a platform for several entities and citizenship inquiries.

Sacramentum

Trained and coached the team into Scrum. The system was developed in record time with high acceptance by its adoption. Thanks to the continual delivery and quality, the scope of the project and its total revenue increased by more than an 85%

Sacramentum was developed to digitalize the historical archives of the Catholic church in Cuba. It was deployed in some of the major churches in Santiago de Cuba. It enables the church to conserve its historical memory by protecting its sacramental books.

Network Infrastructure Deployment

I trained the leaders of the different teams involved in the project in Scrum and coached them through the entire process. Each team was able to reduce their lead time; hence the overall project was reduced to ten days.

The project was created to build and deploy the infrastructure needed to provide a broad range of services over the cloud. It includes constructing the facilities and purchasing, installing, and configuring all necessary devices.

Education

2001 - 2006

Engineer's Degree in Systems Engineering

University of Holguín - Holguín, Cuba

Certifications

APRIL 2022 - PRESENT

Professional Scrum Master Level II (PSM II)

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 2022 - PRESENT

Professional Scrum Master Level I (PSM I)

Scrum.org

Skills

Tools

Rally, Microsoft Project, Trello, Jira, Atlassian Suite

Paradigms

Agile, Scrum, Agile Project Management, Agile Software Development, Change Management, Design Thinking, Management

Other

Scrum Master, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Stakeholder Management, Analysis, Agile Coaching, Web Project Management, Leadership, Mentorship & Coaching, Consulting, Small Business, Project Coordination, Project Management, Executive Support, Sprint Ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Business Analysis, Product Roadmaps, Business to Business (B2B), Web Development, Account Management, DocuSign, IT Projects

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