Melissa Vela

• Designed and developed an automated invoicing system using Google Apps Script to streamline the generation and distribution of invoices. The system extracts data from Google Sheets and dynamically populates an invoice template in Google Docs, significantly reducing manual effort and enhancing operational efficiency.
• Engaged in direct communication with the user throughout the development lifecycle to gather requirements and solicit feedback.
• Conducted user acceptance testing and iterated on the solution based on feedback to ensure usability and satisfaction.
• I developed a custom Excel Macro with Visual Basic to generate as detailed PDF instruction system, including guidance on quantities and pallet organisation for efficient distribution, reducing daily operations from 5 hours to less than 5 minutes.
• I communicated directly with stakeholders to understand workflow challenges.

Skills: Collaboration, User Feedback and User Acceptance Testing.

• I developed and maintained the company's website.
• I developed new features and fixed errors using Angular, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Git, Jira, Bitbucket.
• I contributed to the agile methodology implementation.
• I adapted web pages to be responsive.
• Worked with an agile team of 6 engineers collaboratively.

• Participated in projects for more than 5 different industries, leading up to 13 people with various roles including business analysts, testers, developers and I collaborated with the architecture team to make decisions according to the user needs and technical requirements.
• Proposed and led a solution for a 20 modules’ project, actively involved in decisions and validations in terms of UI Design, requirements, development, testing and delivery.
• Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
• Developed high-quality documentation to support training efforts, helping employees fully understand new systems and procedures.
• Performed gap analysis between existing systems or processes and desired state, identifying areas for improvement or enhancement.
• Improved business processes by analyzing current practices and recommending optimization strategies.

• Analysed user and technical requirements, designed solutions, proposed use cases, led teams of up to 13 people and validated the artefacts with the client and closed the projects in charge.
• Increased the quality of the products by planning, creating, executing test cases and reporting bugs as well as developing SQL (SQL Server 2012) to validate the information accuracy between the front-end and the database.
• Performed technical and end-user training of personnel.