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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires Office

• Managed several projects at once, allocating resources and maintaining clarity about prioritizations.
• Evaluated client briefs and worked with creative teams on pitches and proposals that both meet consumer and client expectations, but with a clear path for successful execution within given constraints.
• Performed design the architecture of applications with other developers, given existing environment constraints, and including any combination of technologies from front-end web and devices, services and database.
• Ensured strategic planning and development of the tech team including improved their skill sets, challenged them to learn new technologies, and enforced best practices.
• Worked with outside vendors and client IT groups when R/GA is not responsible for an entire end-to-end solution. This required me good communication, planning, and foresight; and the ability to understand each party’s.

Buenos Aires Office

• Managed day-to-day development, negotiating scope and progress of work with Production, Creative, and UX, and guiding overall development progress towards successful deliverables.
• Acted as a senior level technical contact with the client leadership, providing technical/creative strategic direction to the client.
• Participated in the office growth from 10+ to 50+ developers, planned and interviewed front-end developers, software engineers, iOS developers and QA analysts. After that, the BA tech team became the largest and most.
• Ongoing management of live systems, in collaboration with QA resources, as well as production, creative and interaction design groups internally.
• Led code reviews and worked with junior and mid-level team members to ensured that they get the right guidance to grow and improve their skills.
• Launched the first responsive website built at RGA offices on January 2012 for a L'Oreal campaign.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Analyzed prospective clients and planned the right architectural and infrastructure strategy. Experience in agency environment and liaising between creative and technical teams.
• Managed the 4 leaders of the company and reported to the CEO directly.
• Responsible for all the estimations and worked directly with the sale department in order to fulfill the sales quota.
• Ensured strategic planning for the tech department, staffing plan and new hires, managed interviews and the job opening list.
• Built the mobile development, that includes developers for native iOS apps. The department had developers on Brazil and Argentina.
• Implemented/Developed internal tools (e.g., proposal templates, estimate forms, time tracking, bug tracking software and project-tracking spreadsheets) that improved the communication inside the company and elevated.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Led the development team (15+) with front-end developers, back-end developers, designers, flash animators, etc.
• Responsible for the site architecture, design and implementation server side. Developed architecture, business logic and database structure of the project.
• Identified of requirements, establishment of clear objectives and possible balance between competing demands for quality, scope, time and costs of different digital media projects.
• Led the development team with standard methodologies Scrum and XP. Code reviews.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Research, analysis and design applications or web-based modules with high traffic for clients such as: SINCA, II Argentine Congress of Culture, Golden Pages, Yell Argentina, Acindar, Banco Galicia, Aique Larrouse, FCE.
• Developed applications with geo-reference capabilities for 'Secretaria de Cultura de la Nación'.
• Implemented solutions in web technologies like PHP / MySQL and Java / Oracle, as well as Objective-C.
• Managed development groups and software process with SCRUM and XP methodologies.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Researched and fixed security issues like SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting, Password Policies, Session Fixation, CRLF Injection, etc., on applications for Sony Latin America with direct reports to Sony Tokyo.
• Implemented of security fix's on Tomcat 4.2 with Hibernate Applications on Oracle 9i 1.0/2.0. Created and used scripts PL/SQL.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Developed control system for company production process. Implemented system with business logic performed entirely in Java 1.4 and communicating via Web Services with customer proprietary middleware developed in.NET.
• Developed and corrected bugs and new features from CU.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Administered the local/wide area network in a multi-server environment of Unix RedHat, CentOS, Fedora Core 3 y 4, Windows 2000 y 2003 Server, SQL Server 2000.
• Managed virtual hosting environment for 4,000+ customers, and 80+ Servers.
• Managed 4 operators (NOC team) for on-call support.
• Maintained daily backups, and monitored network performance, utilization and security (BrightStor y Veritas).
• Responsible for physical assembly of servers from component purchasing to racking and stacking.
• Managed customer care premium, realized pre-sale with technical proposals and designed solutions and architectures based on database and networking.