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Juan Pablo Lara Figueroa

@juanpablolarafiguero

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Strategic Senior Project Manager with over 13 years of experience.

Colombia

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for a role that fosters innovation and collaboration, where I can leverage my project management skills to drive impactful transformations.

I help engineering organizations turn strategy into measurable business outcomes.

Over the past 13+ years, I've led enterprise technology programs, engineering teams, and digital transformation initiatives across financial services, enterprise software, consulting, and cloud environments. My focus has always been the same: enabling organizations to deliver faster, scale with confidence, and create lasting business value.

Throughout my career, I've partnered with executives, engineering leaders, and cross-functional teams to solve complex organizational challenges—balancing delivery speed, technical quality, governance, and financial performance.

Some highlights include:

• Scaled a regulated financial platform from 200K to 14M monthly transactions while supporting business growth and operational resilience.
• Directed multi-million-dollar technology portfolios, aligning engineering execution with strategic business objectives.
• Led multidisciplinary teams across Product Management, Engineering, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Business Operations.
• Delivered measurable operational improvements through portfolio governance, process optimization, automation, and executive reporting.

Beyond corporate leadership, I founded LARA, an AI-native SaaS platform that applies multi-agent systems to enterprise portfolio management, helping organizations automate delivery governance, portfolio analytics, executive reporting, and risk management.

I believe technology leadership is not about delivering more projects—it's about building organizations capable of delivering the right outcomes, consistently and at scale.

Core Expertise

• Engineering Leadership
• Technical Program Management
• Enterprise Transformation
• Portfolio Governance
• AI-Enabled Delivery
• Cloud & SaaS
• Agile at Scale
• FinOps
• Executive Stakeholder Management
• Organizational Scaling

If you're building high-performing engineering organizations or leading enterprise transformation initiatives, I'd be glad to connect.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Engineering Manager

Growth Acceleration Partners

Jun 2025 - Jun 2026 (1 year)

Led portfolio governance and dependency mapping, reducing coordination overhead by 25% across 20+ engineers and 5 C-level stakeholders. Improved delivery predictability by 40% and launched projects 4 weeks ahead of baseline, impacting a $2M+ portfolio.

Portfolio Management Dependency Mapping Capacity Planning Power BI Microsoft Project Azure DevOps Jira Confluence Slack AWS Azure Scrum Generative AI Gemini Claude

Continuous Improvement Manager

RocketPower

Oct 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 3 months)

Led Agile transformation initiatives across cross-functional teams, improving delivery performance and customer satisfaction. Designed Power BI dashboards for real-time release tracking and software stability metrics. Implemented Scrum practices and improved stakeholder communication across time zones.

Power BI Scrum Microsoft Project Microsoft Teams Jira

Senior Project Manager

Wizeline

Jun 2021 - Jun 2023 (2 years)

Delivered 10+ digital transformation projects on-time and within budget. Developed project roadmaps, KPIs, and risk mitigation plans. Coached Agile teams and aligned execution with client business strategies.

Digital Transformation Project Planning KPIs Risk Mitigation Power BI Jira Slack Google Workspace

Information Technology Service Delivery Manager

Arus

Nov 2018 - Sep 2020 (1 year 10 months)

Led infrastructure and software development teams using Agile frameworks. Ensured SLA compliance and high availability while managing vendor relationships. Developed automated dashboards for executive visibility.

Infrastructure Management Software Development Agile Framework SLA Power BI AWS Microsoft Teams

Scrum Master

Stefanini

Dec 2017 - Nov 2018 (11 months)

Facilitated Scrum/SAFe adoption and built Agile capability across multiple teams. Implemented dashboards and KPIs to improve delivery transparency and decision-making.

Scrum SAFe Agile Capability Building KPIs Power BI Dashboarding AWS Microsoft Teams