Mauricio Giraldo, Application Development Leader for America

Mauricio Giraldo

Application Development Leader for America

Berlitz

Location
Colombia
Education
Master's degree, Master on Business Administration
Experience
26 years, 0 Months

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Application Development Leader for America at Berlitz
  • Colombia
  • My current job since November 2016

Lead the company's development group in the American region in order to perform maintenance and build the new functionalities of proprietary software for business management and proprietary software for educational management.
Implement developments in those countries in the region that still do not have the software of the company.

Architect/Senior Developer at Controlbox
  • Colombia
  • January 2016 to November 2016

Design, Development and Implementation of
software modules, Web Services, Reporting Services and ETL´s.
Meet with customers in USA, Europa and Asia to obtain information, define
schedules, identify stakeholders and Finally implement solutions.
Implement process based in different methodologies looking for
improvements as ITIL, PCI, PMI.

Chief of Business Intelligence at Avanza
  • Colombia
  • November 2013 to January 2015

Design, Development and Implementation of
Software for LAN Chile.
Design Data warehouse, PKI´s, reports and dashboards for costumers.
Design Data warehouse, PKI´s, reports and dashboards for Avanza Corporation.
Be in charge of Workforce management area.

Technology Director at Manati Park
  • Dominican Republic
  • May 2013 to January 2014

ERP solution implementation.
To Find technological solutions to improve the IT department
To Maintain the servers and communications platforms..
To Evaluate impact of new projects.
To Select and evaluate providers.
To implement IP communications.
To implement the network and the data link between offices and sea platforms.

Project Manager at Encontacto
  • Colombia
  • July 2011 to March 2013

To be in charge of acquisition, implementation, tunning of the infrastructure of the call center, lead projects area, using PMI principles and drive technical meets with customers.

Report to government the investment management.
Report and explain to audit the management decisions.

Project Leader at Indra Colombia
  • Colombia
  • June 2011 to December 2011

Manage a team of developers for a medium size project for Movistar Colombia.
Control cost, risk and schedule of the project.
Report directly to client

Project Manager at Sofía Ltda.
  • Colombia
  • October 2010 to May 2011

Advice, buying and evaluation of telecommunications products in China.

Search for suppliers, opportunities and exclusive agreements with China suppliers for the following products:
• Products in production, administration and distribution of renewable energy.
• Cutting edge products for educational media.
• Telecommunications products such as PBX, IP phones, gateways, hubs, among others.
• Energy-efficient products and green energy such as LED lighting, solar power appliances and other devices with similar characteristics.

Make the process of importation and legalization of the products purchased in China.

Travel to China to control and lead buying process.

Chief of Latin America Systems Department at Digitex Internacional
  • Colombia
  • November 2007 to September 2010

Chief of the Systems Department formed by four areas: Servers, CTIs and IVRs, Database and Software Area. These areas provide support to headquarters of Bogota Col., Ibague Col., Manizales Col. And Lima Peru.

Lead a Team of 20 engineers, managing resources and budget, making the project plans and representing the technology in front of actual and potential clients.

Writing RFPs. Monitoring and evaluating the purchase processes.

Elaboration and execution of budget of department.

Project Manager at Sofía Ltda.
  • Colombia
  • December 2005 to November 2007

WEB ASP.NET applications architecture.
WEB enabled applications development using three or n layers model.
Investor of the organization
Some of developments:
• Software WEB enabled for health records
• Portal for download manuals and online training of Adquira Latin America
• CRM application for investment company

Senior development engineer at ATENTO Colombia
  • Colombia
  • June 2003 to December 2005

ASP.NET web and Delphi applications development for Call Centers.
Managing the analysis, data base modeling and interface team. All based on UML and .NET tools.
Some developments:
• Web-enabled Software for sales force.
• CRM for the group HOMECENTER.
• CRM for customers line of Nokia Latin America.
• Suggestions and complaints System for Whirlpool Latin America and Caribbean.
• Web System for automation of data import of Small and medium databases.
• Web Scripting.
• CRM for Colseguros.
• Reports Development in Crystal Reports.

Systems Engineer at SOS KINDERDORF International. Regional Office for Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean
  • Costa Rica
  • March 2001 to June 2003

Advice on the construction of the Web Page.
Development of the Intranet of the Region.
Implementation of the financial system in the region.
Advice on computing investment.
Development of the information System for the regional Office.
Teaching to SOS international college students.

Trainee at EIDOS Group – National University of Colombia
  • Colombia
  • February 1997 to November 1999

Development and research with free tools and open licensing (Linux).

Investment Advisor at Financial Institute for development of Risaralda State
  • Colombia
  • January 1993 to December 1993

Verify and validate the technology investment proposals of municipalities of
Risaralda.

Education

Master's degree, Master on Business Administration
  • at Universidad de la Rioja
  • January 2016
Diploma, Microsoft Project Basic Level
  • at Intelligent Training of Colombia S.A
  • June 2010
Diploma, Microsoft Project Advanced Level
  • at Intelligent Training of Colombia S.A.
  • June 2010
Diploma, Project Management Professional
  • at Intelligent Training of Colombia S.A.
  • May 2010
Diploma, Altitude uAgent Windows Scripts Developer
  • at Altitude University
  • September 2009
Diploma, Altitude uCI management
  • at Altitude University
  • August 2009
Diploma, Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  • at Intelligent Training de Colombia S.A.
  • October 2008
Diploma, Windows Server 2008, Active Directory and infrastructure.
  • at Intelligent Training de Colombia S.A
  • October 2008
Master's degree, Project Management
  • at National University of Colombia
  • July 2008
Diploma, Microsoft Windows 2000 Network and Operating Systems Essentials
  • at New Horizons Costa Rica
  • November 2002
Diploma, Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000Professional and Server
  • at New Horizons Costa Rica
  • October 2002
Bachelor's degree, Systems engineer
  • at National University of Colombia
  • January 2000

Specialties & Skills

SQL Server 2000 2008
Visual Web Developer
Windows Server 2008
Microsof SQL Integration Services
Microsoft SQL Reporting Services
Visual Studio
Microsoft SQL

Languages

Spanish
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

AIESEC
  • Trainee
  • June 2000