Position: HR manager
Category: HR
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

Throughout my career I have worked in different organizations in several countries, from a private enterprise small business to a large international corporation, and I’ve also owned my own small business in Costa Rica. I have had the opportunity to try my hand at different positions, each unique yet always related to human resources and workflow improvement. And I continue to remain supportive and passionate about people, and what drives their behavior.

Over the years, I've made plenty of mistakes, and I've learned a lot from them, and the skills I can bring immediately to the job are:
• Ability to build efficient HR processes from scratch and manage employee performance;
• Team recruitment and team building;
• Facilitation of teamwork and stakeholder collaboration;
• Removing barriers between people and keeping the teams on track;
• Agile project management and team coordination;
• Maintaining a positive and productive environment, including psychological safety and 2-way communication;
• Ability to mediate conflicts and create a conflict-free environment;
• Coaching the team members in self-management and cross-functionality;
• Helping the team focus on creating high-value increments and managing flow;
• Planning and advising Scrum & Kanban implementation within the organization;
• Leading, training, and coaching the organization in its Agile adoption;
• Helping to develop interpersonal skills and Kaizen culture of continuous improvement;
• And promoting system approach, lean thinking, mindfulness and stress reduction.

Awarded a commemorative medal for work with youth at the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students.

Arriving in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in July 2023 within CUAET program.
Hello! I am Valentin, a passionate organizer with 10+ years of experience in general management and people operations. I am also the author of a teamwork course and several training programs, teacher, psychoanalyst, coach, certified Agile enthusiast (PSM1, PSPO1, PSK1, PAL1) and project manager (Google PM) with system thinking, good sense of humor, strong analytical skills, problem-solving capabilities. I am focused on connecting individual employee performance with company goals and maintaining a healthy, positive and productive workplace environment.
Personality: Assertive Protagonist (ENFJ-A), by DISC Model I am a Supporter (S).

At my current job, as an HR Manager:
• Responsible for staffing, motivation, 1:1s, improving engagement, and retention.
• Focused on connecting individual employee performance with company’s goals.
• Manage recruitment and onboarding, as well as maintenance of a healthy, positive and productive workplace environment.
• Created our own custom-made HR information system (HRIS) from scratch using Notion, along with other tools used for performance improvement (1-on-1s, OKRs, 360-degree feedback, Gallup Q12, weekly check-ins).

As an Agile enthusiast:
• Conduct Agile and teamwork trainings for newcomers, coach teams in self-management, helping the team members fully understand and adopt the framework and all its benefits.
• Implemented the Scrum framework within the organization, facilitated Scrum meetings, and teamwork.
• Accountable to CEO & Founder.