Lymari Castro works for the US Department of Defense (DoD). In her 18 years of experience at DoD, she has been a Technical Leader providing Enterprise Systems Engineering to a variety of missions and strategic initiatives from planning through implementation and decommission. Lymari is a subject matter expert in enterprise business agility, the application of agile practices in the systems engineering field, and process improvement. She is certified in the major agile frameworks: SAFe, Scrum at Scale, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), and Enterprise Business Agility. In addition, she is trained in design thinking and lean startup methodologies. She has successfully integrated systems engineering practices with agile and design thinking methods to advance the delivery of mission outcomes in a variety of complex projects, spanning small software development teams to large cross-organizational enterprise change initiatives. Her efforts resulted in the improvement of corporate workflows, new approaches for cross-organizational program management, and adaptable systems engineering practices.
Lymari is a member of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Agile Collaboration Group, Agile Alliance, and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA).
Lymari is passionate about process improvement and optimization, while leading and influencing change in a creative and fun approach.
She can be contacted via email to lcastro75@yahoo.com.