Antonio De Jesús Sánchez Piedra

Outline

• Responsible for delivering simultaneously all Educational Technology projects within company, ensuring that all stakeholder requirements are met.
• Leading the Kolegia School Manager & Kolegia Public Education projects, from inception to handover, ensuring that all deliverables are met within budget and deadlines.
• Working within all Product, Sales, Design, Marketing, Financial & IT cross-functional project teams, overseeing the delivery of all Educational Technology projects to strict standards, budgets and deadlines.
• Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.
• Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
• Identified and implemented cost-saving measures in all projects within company, negotiating with service providers, professionals, strategic allies, and sponsors.
• Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels, establishing a fluent communication channel by efficient digital and/or printed tools.
• With a strong coaching, mentoring, teaching and professional development abilities, trained personnel on use of IT tools and applications.
• Negotiated and managed project budgets to meet goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Writing and presenting business cases to leadership to gain project sign-off and funding
• Preparing slide decks for stakeholder presentations
• Providing ad hoc administration support across project
• Preparing project meeting agenda and taking notes during meetings
• Managing stakeholders, communicating and updating where necessary
• Identify, manage and mitigate project risks and issues
• Scoping projects to determine goals, feasibility, benefits and acceptance criteria
• Monitoring project progress and providing regular reports and metrics
• Reviewing daily work orders and communicated any changes to team

Key Achievements

• Delivered Kolegia School Manager & Kolegia Public Education within budget and deadline, producing 16 thousands user a month from scratch and 80k USD annual increase in earnings, for investors.
• Improved several inefficient operational processes, resulting in time save of over 2.5 man-hours per day
• Decreased project spending by 50k USD via negotiation of new terms with suppliers.
• Successfully delivered 33 projects over 5 years span

Outline

• Leading Fundación Educere Project, from inception to handover, ensuring that all deliverables are met within budget and deadline.
• Accountable for company-wide market lunch project with budget of $45,000, delivering naming, brand design, organizational strategies and documentation, marketing lunch strategy, website and intranet design, all of this to time, budget and specification.
• Managing strict standards, budgets, and schedules for delivery of all sponsors, donors, and investors projects while working within project team of important partners.
• Reporting to funders and stakeholders while assisting with all project delivery activity for variety of social entrepreneurship projects.
• Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
• Negotiated and managed third-party contracts related to project deliverables.
• Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.
• Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.

• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.

• Encouraged everyone to cultivate strong work ethic by demonstrating diligence, patience, and respect for others.
• Monitored team practices to establish high level of performance.
• Utilized positive communication to encourage team and promote integrity and respect.
• Facilitated team building activities and workshops to improve communication, collaboration and productivity.
• Assisted in developing marketing materials to promote coaching services.
• Utilized various coaching models and techniques to maximize client success.
• Established clear benchmarks for performance and monitored individual and team progress.
• Developed and delivered presentations to educate clients on topics related to coaching.
• Assisted clients in setting and achieving personal and professional goals.

Outline

• Setting performance standards for all campuses taking into account the entire academic institution while leading a team of 40 education experts
• Working within al campuses in Xalapa City, accountable for providing high quality teaching and improved standards of learning within the Academic Department
• Reporting to Owner and Investors within a successful Education business, providing in-depth financial analysis to support business decision making.
• Coordinated staff and student activities to promote a safe and productive learning environment.
• Formulated and implemented school safety and security policies.
• Maintained school focus on learning by enforcing rules related to academics, student discipline and class attendance.
• Monitored and evaluated educational programs to maintain high-quality performance objectives and standards.
• Developed and coordinated after-school programs and activities.
• Kept school in full compliance with established policies, legal requirements and student safety standards.
• Communicated with parents to encourage active parental participation in education.