Ivan Alfaro, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

* Transformed 5 low-usage on-prem products into SaaS products that now process 135 TB of data per month in Microsoft Azure. Products are now part of our core sale value proposition.* Launched the Innovation Challenge program to develop viable concepts for the problems the company wants to solve in the next 2 years. * Created a Customer Advisory Board to understand why 35% of our clients use our products in less than 20% of their legal cases. Addressed the main concerns of this group in our product roadmap. Now, 80% of those customers use our products in 60% of their cases.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Made our online marketplace the largest platform for the commercialization of early stage technologies in the industry showcasing over 30,000 technologies and patents from 700 organizations and 3,000 researchers.• Monetized data by launching APIs that exchange data between research institutions around the world and online marketplaces in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Product Revenue increased 15% annually. • Introduced our Technology Transfer product in the Asian market. Created a POC that allowed us to founded development work by pre-selling our product to 5 Japanese universities.• Led the definition and implementation of our first product in the corporate market: a technology-scouting platform for organizations to manage their innovation and new product development process. First 5 clients included 3 Fortune 100.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Organized and led workshops for the Chicago Startup Leadership Program about managing outsourced software teams when developing an MVP. • Conducted discovery sessions with startups to define their value proposition and initial MVPs. Designed quantitative and qualitative studies for demand validation of their products. • Chaired weekly story mapping sessions with starups to discuss user stories and to plan Spring releases.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Worked as Primary Investigator for the Creative and Collaborative Information Technology lab at UIC and examined how the use of social computing tools affect work practices and outcomes in the United States.• Applied text mining and topic modeling techniques on 20,000 social media job postings to analyze how organizations adopt social media to create value. Published results in three journals in the U.S. and Europe.• Design a set of experiments and used quantitative methods and statistical modeling to validate hypotheses on value proposition on a new mobile marketplace platform for 4 million users. • Served as a research consultant for 5 Fortune 100 companies to identify strategies that improve coordination in global software development teams. Proposed recommendations that reduced project duration by 30%.

Toulouse, Occitanie, Fr

• Launched our community management platform for mobile operators on 7 countries in the Latin American market. Developed an implementation roadmap for each operator in collaboration with local managers.• Identified points of improvement and validated product’s enhancements through users behavior analysis and A/B test. Defined product initiatives that increased our Net Monthly Recurring Revenue by 5% and our Annual Average Revenue Per User by 17%.• Managed the entire product life cycle for a new Mobile Marketing Solutions from market research and product planning to implementation, launch, and go to market strategy.

• Managed the entire product development life cycle of a Geographic Information System (GIS) for weather forecasting. Implemented the product in the air force and national weather agency of three countries.• Defined, implemented, and launched a new Business Intelligence product that combined OLAP capabilities with GIS features to provide data integration, reporting tools, and dashboards for the retail industry.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Interviewed final users and area managers to capture end-user analytical needs, and to identify the themes, topics, and information that needed to be included in the data warehouse. • Met daily with developers to recognize gaps in engineering execution on system’s requirements. Conducted QA and testing to ensure systems functioned properly and according to end-user requirements.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Developed new modules and product enhancements for a J2EE-based Call Center system using frameworks such as Struts, Spring MVC, and Hibernate ORM. • Implemented a battery of automated tests and release scripts to prepare deployment directives and builds reducing the deployment time of new code into production.

Product Management Certificate Program

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Management Information Systems

Master'S Degree, Management Of Information Systems

Bachelor'S Degree, Systems Engineering