Rene Banuelos is a Business Optimization Consultant helping CEOs increase profit margins and reduce business complexity by replacing individual tasks or entire systems with Software, AI, and a Global Workforce; essentially reducing their stress and allowing them to regain their time freedom.Rene launched his first business, a locksmith service, at the age of 13 and started programming at 14. He later earned a Computer Science Degree from the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Rene worked as a software engineer for the Telecom & Defense industries for more than 5 years. His engineering experience includes Systems/Process Engineering, Native/Web/Facebook Application Design & Development and CMLI Level 5 Software Architecture. He later quit his last job to return to his entrepreneurial roots. Rene has experience in various industries including Financial Services (5+ Years), Real Estate Investing (5+ Years), Direct Sales (20+ Years), Digital Marketing including Crowdfunding (12+ Years), Marketing/Sales Software (11+ years) and recently in Logistics & Sourcing.In addition to consulting, Rene is currently recruiting and training teams of developers & marketers in Latin America for his media agency, 22Digital Media.He is also the co-Founder and CEO of 22Social, a software platform that allows experts to sell memberships through Facebook Groups. Rene launched 22Social in 2012 and it now has close to 1 million Facebook registrations and has had hundreds of thousands of customers.Rene’s mission is to help businesses and entrepreneurs thrive in spite of the current and future challenges/opportunities brought by changes in the energy industry, disruptions in manufacturing and supply chain, the accelerated growth of artificial intelligence, and the push towards a remote and global workforce.

A CEO has only 2 options, learn and execute every imaginable task required to get a tech startup off the ground, or recruit an all star team to help. I chose the second. The team and I bootstrapped this thing with nothing more than experience, a few loans and a hunger to provide a technology that would make it easier for the average business owner to have success online. Although our platform leverages multiple networks and technologies, our best bet was and still is Facebook. We put all our chips into the most powerful and leverage-able social network and it has paid off. Learn more at 22s.com

Invest in properties to generate rental income. Also purchase distressed properties, and rehab them for resale.

Develop custom social media strategies and design marketing systems for clients. Manage a team individuals with diverse talents to develop custom marketing tools and systems utilizing social media, mobile text and other platforms.

Trained and managed a team of representatives responsible for acquiring clients and assisting these with the financial planning process, including life insurance, college funding, retirement and more.

Collaborated in the design, development and testing of distributed software systems built on Sun Servers. Utilized various technologies including Rational Rose (UML Diagrams), C++, Shell Scripting, GUI generation tools.

Responsible for use cases, design, development, testing and documentation of various software tools to aid RF engineers in the optimization of wireless networks. These tools included dropped call analysis, mapping of call transfers between antennas and recommendations for optimizing antenna configuration. Utilized MS Visual Studio, C++, MapBasic, Visual Basic, VB for Excel and others.

Assisted in the design of print graphics for brochures, newspapers, magazines, etc. Utilized Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkExpress and other tools.