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Lucia Huerta

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Last update: 06.09.2022

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Graduation: MSc Innovation and Project management; MSc in Applied Telecommunications and Engineering Management ; MEng Electronic Engineering with Communications
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Limited professional) | English (Full Professional) | French (Full Professional) | Spanish (Full Professional)

Attachments

Lucia_Medina-CV.pdf

Skills

I am project manager, with a strong focus in agile practices, who ambitions to work in engineering-based companies. With masters in telecommunications engineering and management, alongside my strong communications skills, I seek to enable technical teams to become more productive and organised, as well as advocating for change management.

Telco Experience:
  • In Telefonica Spain, my focus has been in working as a Project Manager for the project Aura, Telefonica's own AI, for the different European headquarters (Spain, Germany and UK). Tools and technologies used: MS Project, Redmine, Confluence, Jira, MS Bot Framework
  • In Telefonica Germany, I acted as the Aura's technical team's Scrum Master, made up of 8 senior developers. I coordinated their work packages via the tool Gitlab, was in charge of implementing Agile-based processes and started using and configuring cloud services, such as AWS, Azure and Cloudhealth, a reporting tool, and CICD pipelines
Consumer Electronics Experience:
  • At BQ, my focus was being a Firmware Delivery Manager, tasked with tailoring Android custom software for the companies smartphones and tablets. This involved coordinating multiple software releases and supervising the entire software developing cycle: from coding, to testing, validation, certification and, as a last step, maintenance.  My main working tools were Jira, Confluence, Android Partners Software and Jenkins
  • At Bragi I was the Project Manager of the Headphone, a mass-produced wireless headphone.  As a project manager of a consumer electronics device, not only I was responsible for the firmware-side of the project, but also the hardware part and the manufacturing part. This led me to travel to China and supervise ramp-up processes in the assembly line, or travel to the US to a certification agency. 

Project history

07/2020 - 03/2021
Scrum Master & Analyst
Telefonica Germany (Telecommunications, 5000-10.000 employees)

As a freelancer for Telefonica Germany within the project Aura, Telefonica's own AI being reached by over 150 000
customers monthly, I worked as the Scrum Master for the technical team. My key-activities included:
  • Coordinating a multidisciplinary team of 8 engineers, testers and analysts, alongside their work packages to hit business and internal timelines using Gitlab.
  • Introducing Scrum and Kanban methodologies, as well as additional processes, in both technical and product teams to ensure a more transparent and efficient workflow.
  • Leading the introduction of a new operational model in conjunction with Telefonica Spain by negotiating technical responsibilities and contractual obligations, while assisting with the legal activities
  • Supporting new functionality development across multiple platforms through the entire lifecycle
  • Ensuring team's productivity by facilitating retrospectives, process changes and setting up a continuous improvement team.

09/2019 - 07/2020
Project Manager
Telefonica (Telecommunications, 5000-10.000 employees)

At Aura's HQ, I worked as a project manager liaising with our German and UK offices to ensure Aura's continuous
and stable growth and adoption in those countries. My tasks included:
  • Coordinating over 6 software releases alongside their timelines with German and UK stakeholders and evaluating the impact of new releases in a multi-platform environment.
  • Tracking technical progress to deliver software improvements that add value to the product, while meeting UK and Germany's market strategy.
  • Working with MS Project to draft project timelines, develop risk analysis, and identify across different releases, platforms and countries.
  • Participating in the product committee regarding new functionalities and defining their technical roadmap.

07/2018 - 09/2019
Firmware Project Manager
BQ (Consumer goods and retail, 500-1000 employees)

At BQ, I worked on tailoring Android and custom-made features to our self-produced mobile phones by coordinating
periodic firmware releases, which include extensive testing and development, to ensure trustworthy and bug-free
software for BQ's customer base.
  • Overlooking day-to-day projects' progress, leading up to 10 firmware releases reaching a total of over 4 million devices worldwide.
  • Developing project timelines, designing validation plans, and supervising maintenance cycles of 13 devices both mobile phones and tablets
  • Providing additional support by reaching out to technological partners, ie. Qualcomm, Google.
  • Introducing a Scrum approach to drive and focus the team efforts more productively, both by encouraging agile practices, as well as from a Jira standpoint.

08/2016 - 06/2018
Project Manager
Bragi

My main dedication within Bragi was The Headphone, the second mass-produced product of the hearables start-up.
  • Managing and coordinating an interdisciplinary team of 8 senior engineers.
  • Securing a 10 000$ deal with AT&T, the world's largest telecommunications company.
  • Introducing and managing SCRUM practices within my team and planning sprints with Jira ticketing software.
  • Coordinating EVT, DVT, PVT and ramp-up processes, from both Munich and Dongguan (China).

Local Availability

Only available in these countries: Spain
I currently live in Madrid (Spain) but I will be moving to Barcelona in the month of April.
I am happy to travel to any European-based city once a month, and stay as many days as needed, even with a short-notice.

I do not currently consider relocating in the short-medium term.
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