José Luis Paz López Email & Phone Number

Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico

Nexton empowers engineers, connecting them with the hottest opportunities in the Global Tech job market. Nexton was founded on the premise of Remote Work and the positive impact it is having on the global economy and the lives of high-performing professionals. Our vision is to help the best engineers in Latin America work with the most impactful US companies. Finding opportunities and talent can be difficult. Nexton has engineered a unique process to connect with talent and mobilize opportunities in an agile and frictionless way. We optimize for happiness. We believe the best things happen when you do what you love with great people on your team who support and improve the world from anywhere at an economical value of building something amazing.

Mexico City, Mexico

• Managing and nurturing commercial relationships with existing customers, ensuring the company's portfolio’s commercial success, focusing on building strong and trustworthy relationships with our customers while adding value to their businesses and to our stakeholders through customer satisfaction.• Managing communications with the customers, serving as a facilitator between the clients and our delivery teams to act upon feedback, ensuring mutual growth in revenue for both parties.• Delivering accurate existing account forecasting data on a monthly basis.• Define and implement the procedures needed to successfully carry the Account Management area.• Managed to increase the expected revenue by 50% during Q1-2023.

Mexico City, Mexico

• Managing the team assigned to Snappt, the company’s largest customer, handling over 100% growth of our client and our team, by coordinating managers, specialized roles, and the full development team, detecting and managing dependencies, and making sure they are aligned with a high-level vision of the product. • Involved in managing over 90 team members, both on the development team and the fraud analysts’ team, making sure motivation levels are healthy so both the client and the team members feel valued and committed to making the business grow. • Responsible for providing guidance through the whole software development life cycle and ensuring the team members have all the tools needed to perform at their best, providing a welcoming and challenging environment where the whole team is motivated to keep moving forward, growing, learning, and adding value to our stakeholders, always trying to reduce turnover and maximize resources utilization.

Mexico City, Mexico

• Senior Engineering and Account Manager, responsible for the commercial success of the company's portfolio, making sure we build strong relationships with our customers and partners.• Responsible for the overall outcome and performance of the company's largest project as Senior Engineering Manager, helping to manage over 100% growth of our client and our team, by coordinating managers, specialized roles and the full development team, detecting and managing dependencies, and making sure they are aligned with a high-level vision of the product. • Responsible for client proposals, analyzing and scoping of projects, looking after the client’s growth by identifying improvement opportunities and even getting involved in finding new ways to add value to their businesses.• Responsible for screening new candidates for the company, making sure they will be the correct cultural fit and that their technical knowledge will add value to our teams and our clients.• Also, responsible for ensuring the team members have all the tools needed to perform at their best, providing a welcoming and challenging environment where the whole team is motivated to keep moving forward, growing, learning and adding value to our stakeholders, always trying to reduce turnover and maximize resources utilization.

Mexico City, Mexico

• Responsible for managing 11 Project Managers and +250 developers distributed all over Latin America, both for Staff Augmentation projects and Delivery Teams, adding value to our clients' businesses by ensuring timely deliveries with high-quality standards, overseeing over 30 projects from 15 different clients, most of them based out of North America, including Pinterest, the company’s largest account.• Managed the team growth of over 150%, keeping high levels of customer satisfaction and low employee turnover, helping make this the company’s largest account in headcount and revenue. • Key responsibilities included establishing and maintaining trustworthy and lasting relationships with project managers and clients by supporting business growth with a clear focus on client farming, coordinating, enforcing, and improving the company’s systems, policies, and procedures, to avoid and mitigate attrition while maximizing efficiency by increasing billable hours and minimizing not worked hours.

Mexico City, Mexico

• Senior Project Manager responsible for managing 40+ resources simultaneously within distributed teams spread out across different countries in Latin America, being accountable for the results and performance of the teams involved with several clients, like Pinterest, Forcepoint, Outcome Health, Razoyo, Santos Capital Group, AcumenMD, ByteJam, Kalkomey, Scribbles Software, Exponent Partners, QuantCollective and ReceivaSure.• Key responsibilities included ensuring customer and team satisfaction throughout the projects, fostering client relationships, risk identification and management, project billing and budget upkeep, being involved with planning, follow-up, quotation activities, project management, performing team leader activities and reporting to key stakeholders involved.

Mexico City, Mexico

• Consultant in the business development area, being responsible for creating and delivering business proposals, supporting current opportunities, identifying new business opportunities, and developing technological tools for the oil and gas industry. • Also, responsible for planning, quotation activities, budget execution, budget follow up and project management for each opportunity, performing team leader activities and planning.• Product Owner for the development of a technological tool for drilling oil wells and reporting to key stakeholders involved.• Overseeing proper budget execution ensuring cost control, proposal delivery and logistics coordination needed for an executive training program prepared for Pemex’s top managers, keeping all expenses within budget, ensuring the expected profit for the company and our client’s satisfaction.

Mexico City, Mexico

• Manager responsible for Contractual compliance and control, having to ensure physical and financial compliance of the contracts held between our organization, our partners, and our suppliers, as well as providing planning and follow up. • Responsible for the company's participation in bidding processes with Mexican government entities, Pemex, and the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) leading the team in charge of submitting the documentation needed for participation compliance, having successfully carried out the prequalification process for Farmouts, Round 2.4 and Round 3.1, also being responsible for complying and updating the data needed to become a supplier for Pemex through the Achilles platform.• Involved in the company’s startup process and creation, determining the appropriate structure for each stage of the process, including organizational structure, budget planning, annual compensation packages, functions and responsibilities for each proposed position, contracts between the organization and our partners, contracts with our collaborators, personnel profile selection and physical offices location, supporting the Board of Directors and the administration management during the startup process.• Responsible for administrative duties, including administration, human resources, general services, and IT, also having the responsibility of performing follow up and coordination activities with the accounting department.

Mexico City, Mexico

• Responsible for strategic and executive planning, budget execution and follow up, defining organizational structure, roles, and responsibilities, being also part of the team responsible for identifying new opportunities for developing the business and identifying potential partners for each opportunity. • Responsible for the company's participation in bidding processes with the Mexican government and the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH), leading the team in charge of submitting the documentation needed for participation compliance, having successfully carried out the prequalification process for obtaining the license for hydrocarbon extraction within Round 2.3 of Mexico's Energy Reform.

Mexico City, Mexico

• Member of the team responsible for generating new business opportunities for the company, designing and developing business proposals and strategies for presenting them to high level executives and decision makers of potential customers and allies, with multicultural backgrounds and nationalities.• Member of team responsible for the study of new business cases for several fields and areas, including the analysis of current and new available technologies, production history, and involved in the economic evaluation of the proposals, to optimize and improve the generation of value. • Responsible for proposing and designing dashboards to monitor and control financial aspects within the organization.

Mexico City, Mexico

• Member of the reservoir and productivity team developing production history analysis, initial oil rates, production forecast, cost analysis, activities planning, well type and completion analysis for an oil field in the Chicontepec area.• Responsible for the follow up and monitoring activities for the Proyecto de Explotación Jujo – Tecominoacán production, with 41 active wells and a 20.000 bpd of oil and 100 mmscfd of gas production.

Venezuela

• Responsible for leading the production team in charge of several large-scale construction projects throughout Venezuela (Maracaibo, El Tigre, Caracas), including executing earthmoving, infrastructure (sewage, white waters, drainage, telephony, domestic gas and electricity), public buildings (schools, kindergartens, sports facilities) and urbanism for 900 apartments, 1,351 houses, roadways and water treatment plants.• Responsible for follow up and coordination of the billing, cost, executive and strategic planning, quotation and topography areas for the Agriculture Management Division, also being responsible for the project's update presentation for our client at Proyecto Agrario Integral Socialista Jose Ignacio Abreu E Lima.• Responsibilities also included executive and strategic planning, quotation activities, budgeting and financial management, negotiation, and valuation validation for payments.

Barinas, Venezuela

• Member of the team in charge of supervising, maintaining, and operating a thermoelectric generation plant in Barinas, as well as operating and maintaining 04 natural gas wells.• Responsible for the detailed planning of a major maintenance plant shutdown.

Maracaibo, Venezuela

• Responsible for monitoring and controlling the telecommunications network of construction sites and offices, as well as the radio communications system used at Proyecto Agrario Socialista Planicie de Maracaibo (El Diluvio). • Responsibilities included providing tech support for PC users, printers, telephony, and servers as well as monitoring and allocation of the costs associated with telecommunications services, analyzing the billing process, and implementing control methods to minimize unnecessary costs.

Maracaibo, Venezuela

• Intern for the telecommunications department, having responsibility to monitor and analyze the radio system used at Proyecto Agrario Socialista Planicie de Maracaibo (El Diluvio) to identify improvement opportunities. Also responsible for providing tech support for PC users, printers, telephony, and servers.

Maracaibo, Venezuela

• Company Vice president for Source Solutions C.A. (IT company providing software development services for apps and websites, cost control activities and training courses), also writing code for Websites, and system design.• Voting machines tech support• Tech support for PC users, printers, telephony, and servers

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master of Business Administration with Specialism in Strategic Planning degree from Edinburgh Business School, Scotland and Master.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master of Business Administration with Specialism in Strategic Planning degree from Edinburgh Business School, Scotland and Master.

Master'S Degree, Exploracion Y Producción De Hidrocarburos

Activities and Societies: Football team Master of Science in Oil & Gas Exploration and Production, Madrid, Spain 2007. Instituto Superior.

Bachelor Of Science In Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications

• Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering, Maracaibo, Venezuela 2005. Universidad “Dr. Rafael Belloso Chacín”. Specialization.