Alejo Castaño

VP, Head of Delivery

MAS Global Consulting

Sep 2021 - Current (5 years)

Oversee the entire delivery process, from project initiation to deployment, ensuring that projects are delivered to the highest quality standards. I work closely with stakeholders to understand their requirements and ensure that the project delivers on its objectives. Responsible for managing the project budget and ensuring that the project is delivered within its financial constraints. Additionally, I am responsible for managing project risks and implementing mitigation strategies. Lead and motivate the delivery team, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and resources to deliver the project successfully. I work closely with other departments and stakeholders, such as sales, marketing, recruitment, and management, to ensure that pro

VP of Nearshore Development and Delivery

MAS Global Consulting

Apr 2020 - Jan 2022 (1 year 10 months)

Senior executive responsible for leading and managing the development and delivery of software and technology projects. I manage multiple teams of developers, project managers, and other technical staff, as well as overseeing the implementation of project management methodologies and processes. I make sure that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of the company's clients.

Development Director

MAS Global Consulting

Jun 2017 - Apr 2020 (2 years 11 months)

- Managerial oversight of several cross-functional teams that work for different US companies, mainly Fortune 500 corporations. - Staff teams based on customer needs - Participate in the selection process and on-boarding of new team members - Interact with customers to make decisions related with all our teams, planning, staffing, estimations, etc. - Participate in office logistics, infrastructure and management decisions - Contribute with Pre-sales activities - Act as the main point of contact for all Onsite and Remote team members regarding engineering and technical decisions - Planning and estimation for company's objetives - Manage area's budget - Define politics, guidelines, processes for the area - Strong people management skills - Ex

Software Manager

Seon

Dec 2015 - May 2017 (1 year 6 months)

- Main point of contact between the customer and several onsite development teams - Work closely with Business & Technology Leaders to define and implement critical business functions, needs and products - Participated in product design decisions - Support and maintenance management - Interact with end-users to understand their needs and establish new requirements - Responsible for the performance of all teams - Broad experience in leading and managing large engineering initiatives and teams - Staffing and team augmentation

R&D Manager / CIO

Satrack

Dec 2010 - Nov 2015 (5 years)

In charge of overseeing and coordinating roadmaps and activities for several software development teams (company's legacy products, customized development, support & maintenance, back-office development and process automation, etc.). Planning and management of projects. In charge of the transition from traditional software development methodologies to Agile methodologies. I was also in charge of leading other areas of the company, such as: Cartography area (maps, layouts, maintenance of the network and other), IT division (company's internal infrastructure, customer facing and development environments - Production, QA, Development, Staging, etc.), BI area and Innovation (R&D). I was also responsible for defining processes, guidelines, det

Technology Analyst I

Almacenes Exito SA

Mar 2007 - Dec 2010 (3 years 10 months)

Solutions Architect in charge of the migration of multiple legacy desktop applications to a centralized web application with totally different technology stack. Also, one of my main responsibilities was to interact with different vendors and coordinate and plan activities. Project management, support & maintenance of current legacy systems during migration, and architecting and coordinating the applications migration was my main focus areas.

Solutions Architect

PSL Corp Now part of Perficient

Jan 2004 - Jan 2007 (3 years 1 month)

PSL was the first Colombian software company to become certified in CMMi level 5. This gave us all complete understanding of best practices, besides knowledge in Six Sigma, PSP, TSP, RUP, Agile methodologies, QA best practices, etc. I was part of several teams that worked with banking solutions. I was in charge of the implementation of CORE functionalities for these applications, which were highly transactional, failure tolerant and with high availability. I was also in charge of overseeing and mentoring Junior developers, providing guidelines, defining coding and database standards and creating the first company's development training program. Part of my main responsibilities were to execute tuning of high performance application and load

Solutions Architect

PSL Corp Now part of Perficient

Jan 2004 - Dec 2007 (4 years)

PSL was the first Colombian software company to become certified in CMMi level 5. This gave us all complete understanding of best practices, besides knowledge in Six Sigma, PSP, TSP, RUP, Agile methodologies, QA best practices, etc. I was part of several teams that worked with banking solutions. I was in charge of the implementation of CORE functionalities for these applications, which were highly transactional, failure tolerant and with high availability. I was also in charge of overseeing and mentoring Junior developers, providing guidelines, defining coding and database standards and creating the first company's development training program. Part of my main responsibilities were to execute tuning of high performance application and load

Software Developer

PSL Corp Now part of Perficient

Jan 2002 - Dec 2004 (3 years)

I was part of several software development teams that implemented banking and financial functionalities.

Software Developer

PSL Corp Now part of Perficient

Jan 2002 - Jan 2004 (2 years 1 month)

I was part of several software development teams that implemented banking and financial functionalities.

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CEO

ADN Digital

Jan 2001 - Jan 2002 (1 year 1 month)

CEO and Founder - Support and maintenance services for IT companies. - Marketing and communication services.

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CEO

ADN Digital

Jan 2001 - Dec 2002 (2 years)

CEO and Founder - Support and maintenance services for IT companies. - Marketing and communication services.

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Internship Trainee

Leather Center

Jan 2000 - Dec 2001 (2 years)

- I had the responsibility to automate critical manual processes executed by different areas of the company. - Integrations between AS/400 and desktop application - Support and maintenance of Visual Fox Pro legacy applications with Informix databases - Research of wireless technologies to implement in the company and help main areas to keep track of Production lines, sales, inventory, etc.

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Internship Trainee

Leather Center

Jan 2000 - Jan 2001 (1 year 1 month)

- I had the responsibility to automate critical manual processes executed by different areas of the company. - Integrations between AS/400 and desktop application - Support and maintenance of Visual Fox Pro legacy applications with Informix databases - Research of wireless technologies to implement in the company and help main areas to keep track of Production lines, sales, inventory, etc.

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