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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Mirigos is a boutique firm helping software companies grow their technology teams by hiring top-notch engineering talent from Latin America and Europe. Our unique model allows for a complete alignment of priorities between you, employees, and us.Helping companies solve their hiring challenges. Tangibly supporting CEOs, CTOs, Boards of Directors and VCs on key business initiatives. Mentoring and advising startups and service companies. Advisor and Mentor for several international acceleration programs. Helping - Developing Go-to-Market Growth Plans and Monetization Strategies. - Setup, managed, tuned, and transitioned highly effective local and distributed engineering teams.- Coordinated work between in-house technology teams, outside contractors, and overseas developers.- Originating Strategic Alliances between clients and outside partners- M&A (Capital Raise and Diligence)

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Founded a tech startup providing services landlords to help manage their properties. Built a product without raising external capital. Lead product and engineering efforts along with wearing every startup hat possible.

Beverly Hills, California, Us

Oversee the engineering department, lead global cross-functional teams of developers, QA engineers, and release engineers. Develop and manage over $6 million annual staffing and consulting budget. Guide and approve financial decisions and reporting. Analyze available technology, market needs, and existing resources to determine project implementation approach. Coordinate, coach, and direct teams to complete projects, including team collaboration, project sizing, tracking of deliverables, training, and skill management. • Led the development, redesign, and support projects of a multi-language and multi-domain site, Ticketmaster.com• Achieved 32% cost savings, while dramatically increasing productivity, by restructuring and transitioning off-shoring operation of Ticketmaster.• Transitioned the team to the DevOps model, built a responsive organization supporting ever-changing priorities. Adopted the best of breed tools to move the company to new levels of success.• Built upon latest technology innovations, best-of-breed practices, processes and tools with objective of accelerating releases of new functionality, with continually improving quality.• Built and managed a global cross-functional team ensuring consistent and timely delivery of software products with a high-level of quality and architectural integrity while maximizing resources.• Decreased time-to-release from eight weeks to two weeks by transitioning the team from waterfall to scrum, cascading agile development adoption company-wide.• Streamlined the deployment process and merged separate development and testing teams into one cohesive group, reducing number of production issues and expediting on-demand product changes and rollouts.• Transformed the release management system into a self-service portal integrated across services to support continuous development and continuous testing, improving user experience and customer satisfaction.

Hired to transform ad-hoc shop to an organized department with streamlined operations. Direct software engineering, quality assurance, and production support teams. Serve as member of the senior management team, responsible for setting up and implementing company’s development plans. Work closely and effectively with key customers to ensure needs are consistently met. Establish and implement policies and procedures to comply with insurance management, government healthcare regulations, and HIPAA compliance for medical office.• Developed work processes in a startup environment, which increased quality without affecting time-to-market.• Established an offshore engineering team which was able to control costs without reducing productivity.• Setup 24x7 proactive system monitoring which resulted in 60% decrease of downtime.• Designed and implemented systems migration to a redundant architecture which eliminated the need of downtime for releases and maintenance.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Direct all aspects of cross-functional engineering department and oversee development of projects for an online lead-generation aggregator for lending, education, credit, and insurance products. Manage software development, quality assurance, production support, and release management organizations consisting of up to 30 professionals. Supervise department’s activities related to weekly releases. Develop and implement quality processes and standard operating procedures by introducing metrics and documentation. Produce status reports, progress statistics, and business-oriented metrics as well as ROI studies, cost savings comparisons, and financial analysis to company executives.* Quadrupled number of simultaneous projects for team to handle through effective resource management, without increasing headcount.* Reduced labor costs by over 50% by initiating and planning outsourcing of QA and development resources and implementing an off-shore development team in Chile for the company. * Increased efficiency by 50% through change release cycles and established development practices and entire software development lifecycle. * Established and managed and offshore development and testing team which provided services to multiple engineering organizations in the company.* Led a smooth transition of taking an ad-hoc startup team in a dysfunctional environment and transformed it into a cohesive, aligned engineering organization with improved morale under leadership.* Designed and set up application monitoring systems to proactively alert proper staff of production problems. * Virtually eliminated production deployment issues by establishing release management processes. * Formulated suggestions for defining, prioritizing, and completing projects on schedule and withing budget.* Restructured the engineering department after three rounds of layoffs to maintain consistent workflow.

Directed design and implementation of technology solutions for company’s clients. Focusing on software development processes, helped clients achieve higher ROI, reduce cost, and increase productivity. Designed quality programs which helped achieve product excellence without jeopardizing release schedules. Established software release methodologies appropriate for fast-paced companies. Performed quality audits.* Reduced project lifecycle by 35% by improving development process.* Consulted senior technology executives on methods to improve productivity, while preserving costs.* Designed and executed an efficient outsourcing methodology which returned expected positive results.

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Managed all aspects of testing and quality assurance groups for a provider to Fortune 500 companies in areas of high security online payments; heavily involved in developments using wireless WAP, Palm, and smart cards technologies. Developed and maintained department’s budget. Prepared and led all audits performed by customers. * GENERATED REVENUE AND PROFIT as opposed to a cost center. * BUILT A WORLD CLASS QUALITY ORGANIZATION which attracted clients over more established and larger competitors.* Established QA department and reporting that DEMONSTRATED TRUE COST OF QUALITY.* Planned and built the QA department from scratch, including a STATE-OF-THE-ART QA testing lab.* Established release criteria and effectively managed over 20 simultaneous company projects.* Designed product development management tracking tool to ANALYZE PROGRESS AND MINIMIZE RISKS.

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Theale, Berkshire, Gb

Developed enterprise level back office software for helpdesk, logistics, and sales management. Identified customer needs to understand expectations, translated into business requirements, and provided technical support during pre-beta and beta releases. Delegated tasks, scheduled staff, and communicated status to management and clients.* LED QA “SWAT” team with full responsibility for all high risk and HIGH VISIBILITY PROJECTS.* DEVELOPED COMPANY-WIDE STANDARDS for QA Partner automation and maintained QA Partner libraries.

Oversaw all day-to-day operations of the consulting division for a QA consulting and professional training company. Effectively managed quality assurance and Internet projects.* INCREASED company’s REVENUE by 800% over a one-year period.* DRAMATICALLY INCREASED number of active clients from 3 to over 40 within one year.* Collaborated with clients to CONSISTENTLY MEET OR EXCEED PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS AND EXPECTATIONS.