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Julia Duran
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CEO / Co-Founder at SouthGeeks
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MemberEntrepreneurs' OrganizationJan 2022 - Current (4 years 8 months)- CEO and FounderSouth GeeksOct 2016 - Current (9 years 11 months)
- Executive Account ManagerBairesDevNov 2015 - Oct 2016 (1 year)
- HHead Of Business OperationsOct 2015 - Oct 2018 (3 years 1 month)
- Project/Program ManagerHewlett Packard EnterpriseApr 2009 - Oct 2015 (6 years 7 months)Accounts: Marathon Oil, Nii/Nextel, Bimbo & Coca-Cola • As a client facing Project and Program Manager I am responsible for leading cross-country teams to deliver high quality products and services and generating new business opportunities between HP and our customers. • I focus on strategic planning, strong communication and continuous improvement. • My tasks include, but are not limited to: Program planning, projects supervision, project prioritization, project managers and teams leadership, executive reporting, high level risk assessment, facilitation of career development to teams, financial management, intercultural teamwork activities, execution follow up, customer satisfaction assessment and analysis, innovation championship. • Leade
- Project ManagerVerizonAug 2007 - Jan 2009 (1 year 6 months)Internal client • Manager for a 20+ people team (based in US, Mexico and Buenos Aires). Team composition: developers, QA and business analysts. Technologies: J2EE and .Net. • As a Project Manager my role was to coordinate the team’s development, estimating, planning, executing, organizing, performing budget management, stakeholders reporting and negotiation. • As a People Manager, my focus was on: people care, motivating activities, attrition control, and measuring results, productivity and performance. • One of the challenges I faced was the establishment of an extension of our development team in India and Mexico: offshore analysis, issues mitigation, leaders training and measurement and follow up of the team’s results. • Also, as part of
- Project ManagerIBMAug 2006 - Aug 2007 (1 year 1 month)Accounts: The Hartford, Nissan, Pfizer, American Express • Management of client facing Process Architecture Projects • Manager for several teams of about 8/10 people long (US, Argentina and India based) • My activities included, but not limited to: Stakeholders management, negotiation, reporting, scope definition, contract negotiation, team building, planning, executing, controlling and measuring.
- Process ArchitectIBMDec 2003 - Aug 2007 (3 years 9 months)Process engineering of IT (mostly ITIL) standard processes along different clients. The Delivery Process Architect was the first step in the transition of new accounts into the Company, and was responsible of establishing how delivery of services was going to be accomplished by IBM. It included: understanding and breaking down of the contract. Discussing expectations and needs with clients. Meeting and discussing the services with internal SMEs. Aligning expectations and delivering a Process document that outlined the services for each contract. This document was part of the agreement with the client. By performing this role I developed the following skills: Negotiation with client and internal technical teams, understanding of Company serv
- Software EngineerIBMJan 2002 - Jan 2004 (2 years 1 month)
- Project CoordinatorOrganización de Estados Iberoamericanos -OEI-Jan 2001 - Jan 2002 (1 year 1 month)
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- CComputer ScienceCAECE