Elizabeth has over 19 years of experience in software systems development for enterprises and projects of diverse kinds that range from the very large to the very small. Her analytical skills and attention to detail have made her stand out and be given high level of autonomy and responsibility on various projects throughout her career. We believe her skill set, energy, and charisma make of Elizabeth a fabulous candidate to become our first full-time lean-agile coach in Mexico and we are thrilled to welcome her as a consultant in training.

Elizabeth got her first job at Grupo Toda Internacional (leter became Productos Lorena, then absorbed by Hershey's), where she worked on the sales control system and provided technical support for the production environment. After Productos Lorena, Elizabeth worked for Unisys as an intern during their 2K migration. Once finishing her internship, Elizabeth spent several years at the University of Guadalajara developing and supporting its financial systems using Oracle and Delphi.

Elizabeth then joined the Oportunidades Program at Sedesol (Secretary for Social Development) to contribute on nationwide software projects for the National Insitute for Adult Education and for social development focused on people with limited finances. She started working at Sedesol's operations department on a project to capture statistical data for the systems previously developed. Because of her outstanding work, Elizabeth was promoted to Subdirector for the DB systems, working on Oracle, where she promoted existing systems to be migrated, and new development to be done, on web environments. She is currently improving the metrics systems and developing software for the publication of generated data on the web for public access.

Elizabeth is a M.S. on Information Technology candidate at ITAM (Autonomous Technology Institue of Mexico). She has certifications on Software Engineering from the University of Guadalajara; on Finance Foundations and on Neurolinguistic Programming from ITESO (Occident Superior Studies Institute of Technology); and Opensource Software Development from UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). Elizabeth has a B.S. on Computer Systems Engineering from ITESO.

Elizabeth's first contact with lean-agile was a presentation on that subject by Masa at ITAM. The more she learned about lean-agile the more she got convinced this is a great wat to make proyects succeed. She got interested on joining Shojiki Solutions because she agrees with its charter, modus operandi, business plan, and ethics.

Elizabeth enjoys her free time watching movies (even pays particular attention to their metadata), going backpacking, and reading scientific divulgation books.

Liz Rivera

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