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Jorge Garcia

Scrum Master - Delivery Manager

€300/day
Madrid, ES
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Jorge

Agile leader with over 10 years of experience driving digital transformation in the fintech, fashion, and airline sectors.

SAFe certified, with a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, scaling agile practices, and delivering high-impact solutions. Expert in Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, DevOps, and end-to-end product delivery. Strong technical foundation with hands-on experience in quality assurance, automation, AI platforms, and the cloud. Passionate about empowering teams and generating continuous value.
  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Iberia
    Agile Project Head
    September 2023 - July 2025 (1 year and 10 months)
    - Standardized 18 Jira workflows and 24 boards across 6 squads; reduced average cycle time by 35% (9.4 → 6.1 days) in 6 months through WIP limits, automated transitions, and control chart coaching.

    - Decreased inter-sprint carryover by 30% (25% → 17.5%) and blocker age by 42% (7.1 → 4.1 days) by reinforcing backlog refinement, adding DoR controls, and implementing a review of aged WIP in dailies.

    - Reduced escaped defects by 32% (1.9% → 1.3%) through DoD gates, coverage thresholds, and CI validations; P1 incidents dropped 28% quarter-over-quarter after deploying release gating.

    - Improved stakeholder visibility with monthly OKR dashboards; reduced status reporting preparation time by 64% (2.5 h → 0.9 h per squad/week) through Jira automation and standardized views.
    KPIs and Metric Definition and Monitoring OKR IT Project Management Scrum Executive Coaching
  • C&A
    Scrum Master
    March 2022 - April 2023 (1 year and 1 month)
    - Implemented DoD/DoR in 3 squads; reduced lead time by 29% (13.1 → 9.3 days) and improved forecast reliability (planned vs delivered ±12% → ±6%) in 4 months.

    - Led Scrum of Scrums to manage interdependencies and align with UX/UI; accelerated delivery by 40% through CI/CD alignment and quality gates definition.

    - Built Jira automations that saved ~7.5 hours per squad per week (intake triage, status updates, and DoD checks), reducing manual transition errors by 72%.
  • SQA consulting
    Agile Consultant
    February 2020 - January 2022 (1 year and 11 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    - Trained 4 product teams (28 FTE) from ad-hoc to iterative; increased throughput by 46% and reduced lead time by 35% in 5 months; WIP per person dropped 30% (2.3 → 1.6) through Kanban policies.

    - Implemented workflows and reporting in Jira/Trello; shortened decision latency for priority changes from 10 to 3 days through weekly portfolio sync and risk logs.

    - Accelerated throughput by 38% (avg. 26 → 36 stories per sprint across squads) after establishing refinement cadence, capacity planning, and cross-team dependency synchronization.
    Kanban Scrum Agile Methodology Atlassian JIRA XP

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Education

  • Bootcamp, Computer Programming
    Spiced Academy
    2016
    Bootcamp, Computer Programming

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