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Sunnyvale, California, Us

Merqueo , Co

• Establishment of the Product team from the ground up• Leading Product Management, Product Design, and Agile Coaching teams towards operational excellence in partnership with the Technology team and other senior leaders• Refining and executing the product strategy in alignment with the company's vision

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Led the development of BendR (bendr.io), the first application empowering data analysts to streamline the process to extract, transform, and load big data sets through a fully cloud-based solution.• Defined processes for quality, development and UX design• Delivered the alpha version of the product

San Francisco Bay Area, California, Us

• Created and managed the UXD team.• Formalized processes to design experiences by streamlining the work between designers and developers.• Designed a framework to periodically calculate the task success rate for the main funnel utilizing remote user testing techniques.• Generated an overall increase of 20% on UX metrics and KPIs in less than a year.• Fostered the inclusion of usability testing as a key part of the product development process.• Redesigned 50% of the main funnel, the sample uploading interfaces for talents and the project manager view of the platform, utilizing Sketch, Invision, Zeplin, UsabilityHub and UserTesting.

San Francisco Bay Area, California, Us

• Managed a Scrum team of 4 engineers and one designer to produce new features and improve the experience of the users over 100,000 active users.• Led an experiment to expand product lines across verticals which included building 10 prototypes in 12 months.• Used the Design Sprint process to find ways to improve the Search feature.

San Francisco Bay Area, California, Us

• Led a team of five engineers and one designer to overhaul key experiences on the platform.• Defined functional requirements and created wireframes to build new features and maintain the platform.

• Created wireframes and prototypes using Axure.• Built the product from the ground up using LAMP and MongoDB on the back end, with jQuery and LESS on the front end. • Took the company from an idea to being part of an elite group of startups selected by the Wayra acceleration program, which provided us with seed investment and mentorship.• Hired and managed one engineer to build new features utilizing lean methods for product development.• Led marketing and user development efforts to grow the user base from zero to 1,500 in 6 months.

San Francisco, California, Us

Defined architecture for the first version of the API. VoiceBunny later became part of Torre.

• Built the first prototype of myband.is, which later became a spin-off.• Created and executed the digital strategy for the band Cielito Drive.• Designed a digital strategy for Sidestepper ready for implementation.• The strategies include community management, promotional activities, identity creation, website development, photo shoots, social media ad management and blog content management.

New York, N.Y., Us

Managed several online interactive projects mostly for Sears Holdings Corporation and some for Alcon, coordinating workload between teams in different locations, and working in a close liaison with the client.

New York, N.Y., Us

• Worked as a freelance to design and implement the architecture of an ad manager for TheDailyBeast.com• Developed new small applications for the same site.

• Designed the architecture of the system based on Web Services, adapting the CakePHP framework• Designed and developed several subsystems, from data structure in MySQL to the backend architecture• Developed rich user interfaces using jQuery and Google Maps• Adapted the CakePHP test suite to the particular requirements of the project• Participated in the LetMeGo Immersion, an effort to release the beta version of the site in record time, coding 24x7 (minus sleeping time) for three months.

San Francisco Bay Area, California, Us

• Estimating, scheduling and following up tasks for a new parameterization system• Overseeing development architecture and data structure design • Carrying out quality assurance on some of the features implemented • Writing test cases based on user stories provided by the Product Developer

• Developing applications in Perl and Javascript for Prromo (a Promotion Management System for Agora Inc.), Voice123 and Language123• Designing the architecture and developing Voice123 SmartCast, a filtering system designed to more effectively match voice talents with projects • Creating and implementing the processes to effectively manage all bugs and support requests • Carrying out the estimation and development assignment for bugs and support requests

• Designed and developed several Web applications in PHP, dynamic HTML contents and implementation for PDA devices (Palm OS) in SuperWaba. • Oversaw development and carried out quality assurance on the implementation of the second version of a content management system • Managed MSSQL Server and MySQL databases • Supported and maintained the company’s previously released applications

Barranquilla, Atlantico, Co

• Managing all related processes, including help desk, for the University’s course management tool (WebCT) • Carrying out testing and supervising the initial live online broadcasts of classes for the video streaming project aimed at teachers, students and the general public • Developing multiple static and dynamic pages with flash animations for internal use • Automating a reporting process by creating Perl scripts • Developing a search system for Learning Objects in ASP

Barranquilla, Atlantico, Co

• Providing help desk services for teachers and students with issues using WebCT • Assembling HTML contents in the aforementioned system • Developing Learning Objects in Flash and Java

Bachelor, Computer Systems Engineering

Major, Software Engineering For Computer Networks

Stanford Endeavor Leadership Program

10-Week Business Course, Product Management

Diploma In Bars And Restaurants Management, Restaurant/Food Services Management

Associate'S Degree, Culinary Arts/Chef Training