Ing. Ariel Peña Ocando

AI governance framework and KPI reporting system across 5 ALDI markets (US, UK, Australia, and EU), adoption of quality standards among product owners and market managers. Advised C-level and senior leadership (CEOs, Managing Directors, Directors) on project prioritisations and strategic. Influenced enterprise AI adoption decisions across markets.Managed multi-year budget across release cycles, consistently delivering under over budget, covering planning, defect triage, testing strategy, and coordination.

• 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