José Alexander Soto Cortez Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Chile

Project manage scope, change management, and general cost tracking. Per project - Perform on-site project kickoff sessions, create project plans, conduct information gathering, light system configuration/testing (while engaging and directing specialists for intensive tasks), high-level planning for testing and training, manage golive launch and support handoff. Lead assigned personnel in support of implementations e.g. the following EBSCO Specialists: Pre-Sales, Circulation & Resource Access, Cataloging & Metadata, Resource Management & Acquisitions, API & Data, Training, Support. Communicate project status, functional and technical solutions, and strategies to project stakeholders. Presentations to groups (e.g. 5-25), well-defined emails, and web conferences. Establish strong relationships with library customer project leads. Champion in-scope project blockers and proactively collaboratively seek solutions. Communicate as needed with other EBSCO account stakeholders (i.e. Sales and Support - where the university may be a customer of multiple EBSCO product-lines). Collaborate with Product Management to package new and refined innovative approaches to professional services. Travel to customer sites as needed or directed.

Santiago Province, Chile

RESPONSIBILITIESPlan, organize, integrate, direct, control and evaluate all activities of the Chile office.Lead assigned personnel in support of implementations.Presentations to groups in situ and web conferences of the project plan to implement ALMA & Primo.Market all Ex Libris products in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay.Project manage scope change management, and general cost tracking.Present economic, technical proposals and close deal. Prepare public and private tenders.Prepare the service level agreement between the customer and the company.Generate leads through trade shows, direct advertising, and cold calling.Maintain utmost discretion when dealing with sensitive topics.Developed new strategies as a showroom, demonstrations, to promote the product.Organize annual Meeting Ex Libris users per each country. Use tool as basecamp, salesforce.ACHIEVEMENTS2017: Sale of first LEGANTO in Latinoamerica. 2016-2017: Sales increasing of the ALMA next-generation system and Primo of Ex Libris, in Chile, Peru, and Argentina in the SaaS modality. 2017: Market Opening in Argentina with the ALMA platform.Go live with ALMA at the University of Chile (I learned how to download of holdings, items, acquisitions, bibliographic data from Symphony)Initialization of ALMA project at University of the Andes, (I learned how to download of holdings, items, acquisitions, bibliographic data from Millennium)I presented the tender and won the project at Armada of Chile.2016: Market Opening in Perú with the ALMA platform. Recruitment of human resources to support the ALMA and Primo projects.2015: First sale and installation in Latin America of the library platform ALMA of Ex Libris.Recruitment of human resources to execute technical support activities, data migrations, training and API development during the projects.2013: Sale and first installation in Latin America of the digital preservation system, Rosetta of Ex Libris.

Santiago Province, Chile

RESPONSIBILITIESProject manage scope (kick off, Migration of Bibliographic, acquisition data, Training, Go live).Plan integration between academic systems and library systems. Create the project plant or Gantt on Microsoft Project. Training to the customer in situ or WebEx. Communicate project status, functional and technical solutions, and strategies to project Stakeholders.Training to the customer in metadata: MARC, DC, METS, MODS, EAD.Collaborate with Product Management colleagues to package new and refined innovative approaches to professional services of Aleph, Digitool and Primo. ACHIEVEMENTS 2012: Increase in the portfolio of clients and projects with software Aleph, Primo, Metalib; New customers.2011: Learned how to download data from system Horizon and local library systems.

Santiago Province, Chile

RESPONSIBILITIES• Aleph, Alephino, Digitool, Primo, SFX installation on Linux Red Hat.• Developer computer programs on Visual Basic to convert bibliographic, holdings, acquisition data from ILS as Horizon, Symphony, Koha, Millennium, Winisis, Pergamo, Janium to Aleph.• Build integrations between library systems and institutional, educational platforms via API.• Training in Primo, Aleph, SFX, bX.• Provide technical support to Aleph, Primo, SFX, knowledgebase, bX.• Harvest metadata from Repositories to Primo via OAI-PMH.• Setting Primo, Aleph, SFX, bX.Brindar Soporte Técnico en los sistemas informáticos de los software de gestión para bibliotecas de Ex libris.Actividades realizadas:• Instalar los sistemas de Gestión para bibliotecas.• Desarrollar el programa que permite convertir los datos desde los sistemas de gestión de • bibliotecas del mercado, hacia los productos de Ex libris.• Integraciones de sistemas bibliotecarios con sistemas institucionales y plataformas educativas.• Configurar los sistemas • Capacitar en los sistemas • Brindar soporte técnico.

Santiago Province, Chile

Docente en la Carrera de Gestión de Información Bibliotecología y Archivística en la cátedra Bases de Datos.

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Instalar el sistema de Gestión Aleph 500• Brindar soporte técnico.• Administrador de la red LAN• Desarrollo de programas de conversiones de datos bibliográficos.• Capacitación en los software de gestión.

Valle Del Cauca Area, Colombia

Primera implementación y experiencia con sistema de Gestión y Bibliotecas

Santiago De Cali, Valle Del Cauca Department, Colombia

Ingeniero De Sistemas Y Telemática, Systems Engineering

Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering, Professional Development Program

Activities and Societies: Construction y programming with EasyCStudy of the Robotic Engineering Curriculum with the Vex Robotics system.

Sistemas De Información Y Gerencia Documental, Archivistica

Alma Administratoralma Administrator, Network And System Administration/Administrator, Certification

Activities and Societies: Modules User Management, Fulfillment, Resource Management, Acquisitions

Project Manager, Information Technology Project Management