Ing. Ariel Peña Ocando

Led and participated global AI quality and Project Management strategy and product initiatives across ALDI markets (US, Europe, Australia), developing business cases, and strategic roadmaps to support executive decision-making and enterprise AI adoption, and consulting POs and Managers.Advised and reported to C-level and senior leadershipto define governance, KPIs, and prioritization frameworks; reporting KPIS of Top Projects, driving visibility and ~80% adoption across markets.

• Supervised 8 manual QAs, helped in the learning curve, definition of strategy, improvement of processes, definition of KPIs for testing • Verified of Testing process: Test Plans, Projects, Bugs, CI/CD, communicating with VP of IT, Heads of Delivery, CIOs and other Project Managers

• Managed user stories and backlog prioritization, translating business requirements into functional specifications for 3 large US projects • Coordinated 2 teams to ensure application functionalities met technical requirements and facilitated successful testing phases. • Received positive client feedback for 6 years for project launches by fostering effective communication and stakeholder engagement.

• Managed Agile implementation projects, breaking down technical concepts into epics/user stories and coordinating stakeholder involvement. • Experienced in implementing Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), with a focus on delivering high-quality projects. • Helped constructed and tested a Data Warehouse and Business Intelligent project for a global retail company, checking, optimizing, tunning queries in SQL, and coding in Python

• Supervised 30+ quality assurance projects with two team members per project, and managed the complete Software Developer Cycle, negotiating with the developers, manager, and infrastructure part, all projects in installed in production • Interacted with managers, project managers, developers, and other Quality Assurance teams following PMP Project Management Methodology for 10+ projects, 98% of which are without rollback

International Business

Intellectual Capital Management Crisis Management AI and Customer Experience Management Global Economic Trends Building Strong Brands Effective Operations

Master of Business Administration/MBA AUGUST 2019-JANUARY 2021 • Development Countries Scholarship, with international modules in: o Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) Chicago, USA o Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) Bangalore, INDIA

• Development Countries Scholarship, with international modules in: Stanford, MIT, Harvard o Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) Chicago, USA o Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) Bangalore, INDIA

Strategy Execution and Innovation Digital Strategy Machine Learning