CESAR PEREZ
Warwick,NY
Summary
Driven and influential leader with a successful history in creating a collaborative and accountable environment across business, creative, and technology.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Agile Delivery Lead
Eargo, Inc, Awanoo, Inc
04.2022 - 04.2023
- Identified issues, analyzed information, and provided solutions to problems
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions
- Work closely with business, product, creative, and technology teams to develop B&N’s product roadmap
- Leading several projects for Barnes & Nobel that include UX/UI, Headless API, and mobile application development
- Coach and guide scrum teams on how to use agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality solutions
- Drive release planning for mobile application
- Refined engineering delivery workflow/process
- Directly managing and mentoring geo-distributed team of (12 team members)
- Organized and detail-oriented with strong work ethic
Founding
LumiQualis, LLC
06.2021 - 04.2022
- Built a culture of ownership, scrappiness, and cross-functional collaboration
- New business development lead
- Created client proposals/SOWs
- Client relationship management
- Strong focus on establishing trust and influence through results and genuine care for client’s and our team’s success
- Led recruiting and hiring process
- Review technology vendor proposals to select appropriate suppliers that align with our company strategy and vision
- Hands-on head of engineering
- Architected technology solutions, application architecture design, and established scalable cloud-based infrastructure
- Technology leader and manager of 22 geo-distributed technologists (US, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Peru)
Fractional Sr. Director
Urban, JP Morgan Chase
07.2018 - 04.2021
- Optimized engagement and delivery model resulting in a 28% cost reduction while increasing the quality of our services
- Lead technology discovery, business requirements gathering and refinement
- Manage product team (4 onshore & 3 geo-distributed API developers)
- Established internal design system
- Notable clients: JP Morgan Chase, Ogilvy, Samsung
Fractional CTO
Kanebridge Corporation
09.2019 - 03.2021
- Tandem CTO leading digital transformation
- Conducted discovery to define purpose and business requirements
- Performed technology audit, assessment, solutions and roadmap
- Coached teams in agile methodologies
- Refined hiring process and procedures
- Introduced User Behavior Analysis
- Legacy Stack: IIS, Classic ASP, HTML/CSS/JS, Attunity VMS/RMS
- Updated Stack: NGINX, CraftCMS, Jenkins CD/CI, Laravel 8.
- RedShift, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, NextJS, ReactJS/StyledComponents/Redux, GitHub
VP of Product Engineering
Sourcetop, Inc.
01.2020 - 02.2021
- Engagement and Delivery lead for Billboard.com, TherapeuticsMD & Navy Exchange Service Command
- Provided mentorship and guidance to fellow team members
- Managed 3 technical managers
Sr. Principal, Client-facing Architect
Rightpoint
10.2017 - 07.2018
- Established and developed relationships with Product and Business to define, prioritize and deliver features resulting in higher efficiency
- Lead frontend development architecture and delivery: Consumer Lending (Marcus.com)
- Identified and led redesign of JSON contracts of micro-services resulting in 22% reduction in network requests
- Managed four frontend and two backend developers
- Stack: ExpressJS, React, React-Router, Redux, Microservices
Chief Technology Officer
ASD Applied
02.2014 - 09.2016
- Created technical strategy and solutioning
- Implemented CD/CI leveraging CircleCI resulted in seamless and frequent production releases
- Conducted A/B testing with Optimizely
- Developed a microservices-based architecture & frontend architecture
- Stack: NodeJS/ExpressJS, NGINX, Laravel (PHP), SCSS, ReactJS, ES6, Semantic UI, ChartsJS, MySQL
Director
Sapient
10.2010 - 02.2014
- Publicis: Spearheaded NYC, Miami & other Interactive Production Studios
- Designed, implemented, and iterated successful delivery engagement model
- Reduced delivery costs by 18%
- Dramatically improved teamwork and collaboration between creative, account, technology, and PMO
- Led recruitment, scaled NYC Interactive Development practice, and actively engaged in team member’s career paths and growth
- Led 5 Sr. Managers
- Strong emphasis on accountability and career development of immediate reports
- Successfully architected frontend solutions for several Fortune 500 clients
- Defined and enforced development, build and release processes
- Technologies: JavaScript, SCSS, LESS, NodeJS, MySQL, Bootstrap, Semantic UI, .NET, NodeJS/Express, Bitbucket,
- DigitalOcean, AWS
Education
Associate of Science -
St. John’s University
New YorkSkills
- Effective and action-based communicator, natural relationship builder
- Executive & cross-functional collaboration
- Product & Project Management
- Agile Methodology (Scrum)
- Frontend Architecture planning & execution
- Domestic and geo-distributed team management
- Hiring, vendor selection, and management
- New business development
Software Skills
- JavaScript (ES6) – PHP – JSON – HTML5 – CSS3 – MySQL
Frameworks & Libraries
- ReactJS – ReactNative – Redux – NextJS – VueJS – NuxtJS – NodeJS – Laravel 8
CMS & E-commerce
- Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) – CraftCMS – Sitecore – Contentful – KeyStoneJS – Wordpress
- Project/Product Management Tools
- JIRA – Clubhouse
- DevOps
- AWS, DigitalOcean – Jenkins – GitHub – Bitbucket
Accomplishments
US ARMY, Cavalry Scout
Languages
Spanish
Professional Working
Timeline
Agile Delivery Lead
Eargo, Inc, Awanoo, Inc
04.2022 - 04.2023
Founding
LumiQualis, LLC
06.2021 - 04.2022
VP of Product Engineering
Sourcetop, Inc.
01.2020 - 02.2021
Fractional CTO
Kanebridge Corporation
09.2019 - 03.2021
Fractional Sr. Director
Urban, JP Morgan Chase
07.2018 - 04.2021
Sr. Principal, Client-facing Architect
Rightpoint
10.2017 - 07.2018
Chief Technology Officer
ASD Applied
02.2014 - 09.2016
Director
Sapient
10.2010 - 02.2014
Associate of Science -
St. John’s University
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