Julio G Alvarado
Technical Product Manager
Mayaguez,PR
Summary
- Experienced Program Manager skilled in managing functional operations and projects related to supplies and logistics. Advanced understanding of organizational strategies, financial management, procurement and contracting. Expertise in logistical analysis, inventory and supply chain performance, development and standardization. Thorough understanding of inventory management, procurement and acquisition regulations.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Technical Product Manager
BOLD, LLC
Guaynabo, PR
12.2021 - Current
- Defining clear product strategy and roadmaps to achieve business goals
- Leading the product analysis around competitive environment, customer requirements and product metrics in order to deliver the right set of features and to drive engagement and usage
- Owner of the Agile/Scrum methodology by designing and leading Sprints, Grooming sessions and customer stand-ups
- Working with Data Engineering, Data Science and Content teams to optimize user experience and revenue through AB testing
- Working with multiple Engineering, Data Science to evaluate the content output of Knowledge Graph and determine the best method for delivering this content to the end user
- Translating customer needs into product and technical requirements
- Defining KPIs and analyzing metrics that inform the success of products.
Big Data Program Manager
Arecibo Observatory
Arecibo, PR
05.2020 - 12.2021
- Designed the Big Data department and strategy of the Arecibo Observatory
- Successfully prepared a robust inventory and report of the observatory's project data, covering over 1,700 observations dating back to the 1960's
- Designed and developed a web based data catalog to facilitate the access to external users to the observatory's projects index and metadata
- Serve as liaison between the
- Observatory's management and third party vendors while designing the Observatory's Big Data strategy
- Facilitated the engagement with global research community and computing centers, resulting in the design and implementation of a data migration plan from
- Arecibo to the Texas Advanced Computing Center
- This engagement will result in a substantial benefit to the scientific community while allowing public access to the Observatory's data
- Leading the implementation of process improvement initiatives such as Change Management and Data Governance frameworks
- Leading the Software Engineering team to successfully implement software best practices, tools and processes
- Implemented a
- Software Development curriculum in Python, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence methodologies to support continuous in-house development.
Sr. Systems Business Analyst
Honeywell Aerospace
Aguadilla, PR
02.2015 - 04.2020
- Duties include IT Project Management, Functional and Technical tasks, SAP FRICE development and Lifecycle
- Gained knowledge on
- SAP HANA technology as a use case for business performance, analytics development, scalability, speed, and flexibility
- Integrated various department’s data into a single SAP HANA instance and simplified the IT landscape of the Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing departments PMO and analytics programs
- Enabled capture of $107M Quarterly by researching and implementing multi-source database driven application, cost-saving initiatives and creating fresh new approaches to long-standing problems caused by Excess and Obsolete materials and Aged Work in Progress Orders
- Mentored, directed and inspired employees by being able to translate business problems and requirements into technical language that they were able to relate
- Demonstrated leadership skills by involving the employees into the requirements gathering process, provided the tools and mentorship and inspired them to be their best by sharing the credit and success of the project
- Increased customer satisfaction and repeat business through relentless pursuit of resolutions to problems and protecting company P&L
- Collaborate with Sales, Engineering and Strategic Marketing teams to understand current reach of existing technologies and develop a future state plan including integration with SalesForce.com Partner with Corporate Data Analytics team
- Demonstrated Planning and prioritized skills by working without supervision
- With the obtained requirements successfully built a Project Plan that included high level goals, budget, resources and deadlines
- Conducted weekly checkpoint meetings with stakeholders as well as team members
- Identified areas of opportunities and submitted appropriate solutions by analyzing potential risks on a team environment encouraging member participation
- Support and participate in application change control board meetings
- Successfully designed and developed a systems integration landscape that included SAP, Excel, SharePoint, Microsoft Access, Tableau and Oracle Primavera
- Proactively identified gaps in personal and technical skills and was able to obtain training to improve deficiencies and develop them
- Able to put in practice my listening and interpretation skills by participating in meetings with leadership teams
- Persuade stakeholders on technical matters that
- I understood were more appropriate to the team at the moment by comparing pros, cons and benefits.
Sr. SAP Consultant
Axon Puerto Rico
Isabela, PR
06.2009 - 02.2015
- Include Project Management, Software Development, Functional and Technical tasks
- Supported multiple SAP implementations
- Actively managed multiple projects through Software Development Lifecycles
- Improved my adaptation and change management skills by having first workplace experience
- Adapt to hear everybody’s opinion and accept them as valid, as a critical step in change management
- Able to identify areas of opportunities and potential problems by analyzing the entire scope and impact of the changes requested
- Evaluated the problems and presented solutions according to the parameters and the agreement of the team.
Freelance IT Consultant
, PR
01.2004 - Current
- Duties include supporting small business owners by providing reliable IT services
- Acquired hands-on knowledge of web development tools and techniques such as PHP, SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Content Management Systems, Codeigniter and Python
- Mentored and provided training to users in each of the customers’ locations for in-depth transfer of tool ownership
- Acquired hands-on experience with Big Data technologies such as Hadoop to store large amounts of data on distributed file systems, Apache Spark to process large amounts of transactions in-memory and Apache Hive as a data warehousing solution to query Hadoop data
- Provided support on data migration projects from legacy systems, combining multiple data sources into a single centralized data source that enables solid foundation to self-service analytics development.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Univ. of Puerto Rico
Timeline
Sr. Technical Product Manager
BOLD, LLC
12.2021 - Current
Big Data Program Manager
Arecibo Observatory
05.2020 - 12.2021
Sr. Systems Business Analyst
Honeywell Aerospace
02.2015 - 04.2020
Sr. SAP Consultant
Axon Puerto Rico
06.2009 - 02.2015
Freelance IT Consultant
01.2004 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Univ. of Puerto Rico
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