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Enterprise Agile Coach

CDMX, Mexico
Worldwide
Systems Engineer, Spec Software Development Process
CDMX, Mexico
Worldwide
Systems Engineer, Spec Software Development Process

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CV Alex Canizales_EN.pdf

InnovationAgile MethodologySystems EngineeringBusiness TransformationChange ManagementDevOpsLean ProcessesPortfolio ManagementScrum MethodologySoftware EngineeringBusiness StrategiesSystems ArchitectureSystems DesignOperating ModelsBusiness AgilityTeam BuildingKanbanCoaching and MentoringExtreme Programming
Transformation Strategist and Business Agility Coach, Mentor, Consultant, Trainer & Speaker. Developing resilience, co-creating an innovative, evolutionary and sustainable path towards to achieve business purpose. Expertise in align business strategy with execution in order to evoke transformation, focusing on improving the companies ability of adapting to changes and responding rapidly to world landscape

Senior leader with +25 years of experience, +15 years of experience with Lean-Agile practices, spanning multiple industries in fast moving tech and innovative environments, working with teams in different countries of America, Europe, Asia and Australia, such as USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Sweden, Spain, UAE, India and Australia. Systems Engineer Specialized on Software Development Process, studies on Master on ICT Management. Guiding transformations at the enterprise level, driving journeys & roadmaps, scaling and operating models, facilitating change management, building teams and getting business outcomes

Business Agility Coach by Business Agility Academy, Certified Enterprise Business Agility Strategist (EBAS) & Certified AgilityHealth Facilitator (AHF) by AgilityHealth, Certified Professional in Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) by ICAgile & Business Agility Institute Member. First from Colombia and the only one to become a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) & Certified Team Coach (CTC), Certified Agile Leader (CAL II), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM/CSP-PO) by Scrum Alliance. Certified SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC), Release Train Engineer (RTE) & SAFe Remote Trainer by Scaled Agile Inc, OKR Certified Professional, Certified Agile HR Enabler by JLS, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) by Co-Active Training Institute, International Coaching Federation (ICF) Member, Agile Leadership Coaching Certification Program by ICF-CCE, Accredited Team Coach (ATC) by Agile Coaches Alliance, Kanban Management Professional (KMP): Kanban System Design (KSD) & Kanban System Improvement (KSI) by Kanban University, Lean Change Agent Foundations, unFIX Foundation, Flight Levels Systems Architecture. Working experience with several frameworks and methods like Lean, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, Scrum, LeSS and SAFe

Specialties: Business Agility, Lean - Agile Transformations, Lean Portfolio Management, OKRs - Objectives and Key Results, Agile Coaching, Co-Active Coaching, Agile Leadership

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2016

Languages

EnglishFluentSpanishFluent

Project history

Enterprise Agile Coach - Trainer - Mentor - Speaker

Agilisters
Enabling measurable and sustainable transformations across all areas of business operations and delivery with innovative solutions tailored to your specific transformation challenges toward being more resilient, customer centric, value-driven and adaptive to the changing global business landscape. Co-create strategy, facilitate, training, mentoring and coaching transformations in Banking, Insurance, Pharma, Chemical, CPG, Telco & Retail sectors (undisclosed contracts).

Head of Lean-Agile Center of Excellence

Banking & Financial Services

5000-10.000 team member

Guiding the Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) in a financial services company. Driving Agile and Lean transformation across the company, ensuring the adoption of best practices, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and collaborating closely with C-Level and different teams to enabling the Lean Portfolio Management and maximize business agility efficiency and value, aligning strategy to execution.

Enterprise Agile Coach

BanCoopel

Banking & Financial Services

5000-10.000 team member

Challenging the organizational and leadership status quo to enabling a learning culture. Able to establish trusting relationships with peers and team members and focus on improving the team’s ability to deliver value.

Enterprise Agile Coach

Mi Banco

Banking & Financial Services

5000-10.000 team member

Organizational change agent and strategist working side by side with leadership teams and individuals; experience in business agility driving transformation journeys, roadmaps for scaling agile and operating models, identifying value streams for continuous improvement opportunities.

Enterprise Agile Coach

Grupo Salinas

Other

>10.000 team member

Main activities and responsibilities: Challenging the organizational and leadership status quo to enable a continuous learning culture. Assessing, mentoring, coaching, advising and consulting organizations for effectiveness in applying
Business Agility principles and getting started with implementing SAFe.
Name of employer/organization: Grupo Salinas
Type of business or sector: Technology and Services / Holding Company

Sr. Agile Coach

Palo IT / Banco Santander
Main activities and responsibilities Senior Agile Coach at CoE Agile of Santander Bank México. Helping leadership and team members
remove the barriers and embrace the digital transformation by helping organizations find its own path,




approach and solutions to becoming agile. Organizational change agent working across multiple teams and
organizational boundaries, getting started with Scaled Agile using SAFe framework during their first
program increments.
Name of employer/organization Palo IT / Banco Santander
Type of business or sector Technology and Services / Banking - Financial Services

PMO - Regional Leader

Juniper Innovation Travel Technology
Main activities and responsibilities Regional PMO Leader, Responsible for having a vision of what is to be built, who represents the client and
responsible for working with the user to determine what to do and empowered to accept as done. The
single voice of the stakeholder to the team, serves as the customer voice and working with development
team stakeholders.
Name of employer Juniper Innovation Travel Technology - Cali, Colombia
Type of business or sector Tourism / Information Technology and Services

Agile Coach & Portfolio Manager

Sunhotels - WebBeds Group
Main activities and responsibilities Leading the large-scale agile transformation effort and enterprise portfolio manager. Agile leader keeping
transformation strategy and tactical alignment with the road-map to implement. Fostering E2E initiatives
using Scrum and Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Practices.
Name of employer Sunhotels - WebBeds Group - Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Type of business or sector Tourism / Information Technology and Services

Application Lead - Payments

Main activities and responsibilities Leading program, operation and support to delivery collections and payment services, ensuring quality
levels, road-map evolution, security and standards using Agile Frameworks like Scrum and Agile
Engineering Practices.

Certificates

Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC)

Scrum Alliance

2025

Flight Levels System Architect

Flight Levels Academy

2024

Certified Agile HR Enabler

Just Leading Solutions

2024

Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)

CoActive Training Institute (CTI)

2023

Certified SAFe® Release Train Engineer

Scaled Agile

2023

Business Agility Coach

Business Agility Academy

2023

Accredited Coach

Agile Coaches Allience

2023

Certified Team Coach (CTC)

Scrum Alliance

2022

unFix Foundation

unFix

2022

Kanban Management Professional

Kaban University

2020

Enterprise Business Agility Strategist (EBAS)

Enterprise Business Agility Strategist (EBAS)

2019

Certified SAFe® Practice Consultant

Scaled Agile

2018


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