Alfredo Octavio ac3ms5@r.postjobfree.com

+1-954-***-**** US Resident and EU Passport holder

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

PMP certi ed Project Manager with 15+ years of IT experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to understand the business needs in order to provide innovative recommendations on e ciencies and solutions. PhD in Mathematics with research and teaching experience. Extensive experience project managing Data Centers, Cloud (AWS and Azure), Software Development, Mobile technologies, and Enter- prise applications. Proven ability delivering IT projects on time and on budget. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tekeno LLC, Independent Consultant USA

IT Project management and Strategy Consultant 2015 { Present

Project Manager assistant, SME and LaTeX expert for Freedom Learning Group. Developing, creating, and revising content for online courses in math and science. Using a proprietary CMS.

Product and Project Manager for Stockpulp, a FinTech Startup, concept, design, development, and implementation of a Web application running on AWS and Microsoft Azure, including the algorithms for relevance and indexes. Finished on budget within the one year planned timeframe

Strategy management for Umovit, an animation startup with a web application running on Amazon Web Services.

Project Manager to launch a New Media company (Magazine, Website, and Podcast) for Revista Robot

(revistaelrobot.com). Running on Wordpress and producing, editing, and hosting a podcast.

Project Manager to set up a software development O ce for Avanti Way, to satisfy all future devel- opment for the Real Estate company. Managed and established a remote team with communications and Agile methodologies using Slack, Trello, and Jira. Four months planned duration accomplished Mi Banco, Banco Micro nanciero Caracas Venezuela

CTO, Sr. Project Manager and PMO director 2012 { 2014

Led the project to build and move a certi able Tier 3 production Data Center with a budget of 1.5 million dollars. Managing a team of about 30 in house personal plus hundreds of di erent outsourced contractors the project was completed in the expected 18 months despite local di culties to nd materials

Led the project for a mobile payment system usable by anyone with a cellular phone, without requiring a Data Plan. Implemented in Venezuela. This was a multi year, distributed team in an international project.

Led the project to implement a Project Management O ce (PMO) for the micro- nance bank, re- porting to the board and executive team. Managed, trained, and supervised 12 Project leaders from di erent echelons of the organization

Led team that implemented and maintained a Microsoft Windows Environment with Active Directory

Migration from Windows XP and Vista to Windows 7

Provided strategy and designed processes reducing over 70% of technology risks in less than a year, according to o cial banking regulator audit

Transban Investments Caracas, Venezuela

CTO and Sr. IT Project Manager reporting to the board 2004 { 2012

Led Project to set up an outsourced Data Center and technical internal processes for Facebank, a distributed bank in Puerto Rico, reducing forecasted sta by more than 60%. Managing a remote team of about 15 people (2008)

Led Project to set up and managed a bank level Data Center in our own o ces used by several of our a liated companies (2004-2010)

Led Projects to implement technology in new businesses as instructed by the board of directors. Managing stakeholders, including C-Level executives and board members

Provided leadership guidance at Unplugged, a Short Message Service Integrator in Venezuela trans- forming it into a Mobile development company oriented towards payment systems and banks

Implemented changes of the pro t focus of Unplugged, turning the company around from half a million dollars in debt to half a million dollars pro t in less than two years (2008-2009)

Led project and team that designed and implemented an Internet solution to allow remote work, from satellite o ces all over the country at Abaco, a brokerage house in Venezuela, reducing projected costs by 90% (2009-2010)

Inverunion Caracas, Venezuela

IT Project Manager 2003 { 2004

Responsible for the security team for Data Center, servers, workstations, and rewalls which maintained the record of no security breaches

Led Project, designed, and Implemented an Intranet/CRM system for the whole nancial group, leading to a unique customer experience and excellent customer satisfaction

Trained as a Financial Advisor

Patilla.com Caracas, Venezuela

Co-Founder and CTO 1999 { 2003

Created one of the rst e-commerce experiences in Latin America. IVIC, Venezuelan Institute of Scienti c Research Caracas, Venezuela Associate Researcher and CTO 1991 { 2001

Published 14 papers in peer reviewed journals

Led the committee in charge of technology and network EDUCATION

PhD in Mathematics. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI May 1991 CERTIFICATION

Project Management Professional, PMP Number: 1714545, Project Management Institute May 2014 HONORS

Correspondent for The Mathematical Intelligencer a Springer Verlag Journal

Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Operator Theory and Harmonic Analysis, January 1994. In honor of Misha Cotlar

Rackham Fellow, 1991

COMPUTER SKILLS

Expert level user of several project management tools including MS Project, Jira, Trello. Including doing training on the use of MS Project and Trello

Expert level user of O ce applications including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio

Expert level user of operating systems including macOS, Windows, and Linux. Capable of giving support to others.

Experienced with Microsoft Windows Server and Services Environment

Experienced with Cloud Services (AWS and Azure)

OTHER

Board member: Stockpulp (2015-Present); Umovit (2012-Present); Laboratorios Nacionales Polinac (2011 { 2014); Transporte de Valores Bancarios Transbanca (2010-2012); Abaco (2008-2010). Fluent in Spanish (na- tive) and English, some knowledge of Italian. In my free time I like to read, play the guitar, and swim. I also tinker with new, old, and strange hardware and software. Writing is my passion, I’m on twitter (@aoctavio), Medium (@aoctavio,), octavio.net, alfredo.octavio.net, currently in running in AWS, and in Spanish at re- vistaelrobot.com. Podcaster at revistaelrobot.com. Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfredooctavio or just Google my name.

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