Alejandro Moran
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Tech Strategy & Execution | CTO
New South Wales, Australia
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Chief Technology OfficerCatadorAug 2020 - Current (5 years)Acknowledging the future of a truly connected world, Cafeto Australia was reborn into Catador. Catador's vision is to connect the best tech talent around the world with companies transforming or flourishing with the use of technology. We are developing frameworks that are helping companies and tech talent to be matched based not only on skills but also on "what gets them out of bed each morning and keeps them going". This applies to individuals, teams, and businesses. Catador is acknowledging the future of a truly connected world where the right tech talent could be anywhere and providing options for you to have them as part of your team.- Chief Technology OfficerLIWFeb 2019 - Nov 2020 (1 year 10 months)LIW's purpose is to democratize leadership. That is - to put leadership into the hands of everyone, for good. LIW has been in the business of delivering measurable impact through leadership solutions for over 21 years, and today, it is a leadership technology company who provides both high touch professional services based solutions, alongside scalable blended and digital solutions. My role is to contribute and execute a digital strategy for building products that will revolutionize the leadership industry.
- Chief Technology Officer - Co-FounderAmelio HealthDec 2018 - Oct 2020 (1 year 11 months)Amelio Health is a healthcare tech / clinical education startup developing agile, just-in-time clinical education pathways for healthcare professionals to deliver behavioral / lifestyle programs to people living with pain and long-term conditions. My role is in providing Technology Strategy and product execution to make things happen.
- CChief Growth OfficerCafeto Software SASJul 2018 - Aug 2020 (2 years 2 months)Global Cafeto Software is an established software development company specializing in the Agile development of web, mobile, and custom applications. Cafeto reduces engineering risk for clients by offering rapid time-to-market while delivering standards-based software code that can be transitioned to an internal team at any time. Cafeto Software has presence in Australia, the United States and Latin America where my role was leading the growth of the company globally.
- mCo-FoundermPhytAug 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years 3 months)Australia mPhyt mission is to empower and motivate older adults to take action on their wellbeing to age active and healthy at the place where they live. Using a personalised data-driven approach based on Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and a proprietary Wellbeing Index, mPhyt proactively suggests services and activities related with the older people's needs, preferences and wellbeing status to help them improve over time. My job is to make sure we're building the right product and reimagine aged care to make people's lives better.
- Science Engineering ManagerInsurance Australia GroupAug 2014 - Jun 2016 (1 year 11 months)• Manage and responsible to deliver innovative and groundbreaking engineering solutions to pursue a disruptive new vision; making machine data accessible, usable and valuable to IAG using cutting-edge Big Data technologies to operationalize the next generation data platform for IAG. • Growth and lead a high-performance team of Scientists/Engineers; with a strong emphasis on recruiting, mentoring and motivating talent to achieve business goals. • Responsible to establish Continuous-Development/Continuous-Delivery processes through software solutions using science, technology and software engineering practices; enabling data scientists to deliver analytical models using data in ways they could never do before.
- Technical Lead, Emerging TechnologyInsurance Australia GroupJul 2013 - Aug 2014 (1 year 2 months)Australia • Lead and manage an emerging technology team to implement and deliver into production multiple customer-facing applications for IAG Retail Business Insurance; using an API-centric architecture and front-end technologies never used before in the company. • Responsible for the successful introduction and implementation of rapid prototyping frameworks based on API-centric architectures and Microservices for reusability within a Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery process. • Lead, research, and architect the implementation of emerging technologies such as NoSQL databases, front-end frameworks, and visualization techniques to deliver internal/customer data-driven applications in a matter of months considering system scalabilit
- PhD StudentThe University of SydneyMay 2013 - Feb 2014 (10 months)Sydney, Australia Researched a systematic approach to understand knowledge complexity in patents to uncover modular structures and measure them in a way of forecasting progress potential and innovation.
- PTechnical LeadParcelPointJun 2012 - Jul 2013 (1 year 2 months)Australia • Lead the design, architecture and development of a scalable high- volume platform for parcel delivery in hundreds of locations around Australia using JVM programming languages as the main development tools; including the architecture and development of the website from scratch using web frameworks and open source libraries. • Design and development of the API architecture which helps our retailer partners to integrate seamless with our platform on their online websites as another option for parcel delivery; including Geo location services and operations in parcels. • Introduced and championed the adoption of key agile and test-driven development practices including build automation and Continuous Integration/Continuou
- Software EngineerSiteMinderAug 2011 - Jun 2012 (11 months)Australia • Designed, developed and improved algorithmic solutions to handle availability and updates at high rate of throughput for multiple online booking systems using open source libraries. • Worked in the design, architecture and development of various Middleware interfaces between external accommodation booking agents and our channel management systems using Web Services to handle online bookings for hundreds of hotels around the world in real time.
- Software EngineerPROS Revenue ManagementJul 2008 - Aug 2011 (3 years 2 months)• Worked in the design and development and of the Real-Time Dynamic Pricing Engine which provides pricing and availability information for airlines, with lookups and calculations performed at a high rate of throughput. • Winner of the Innovation Cell Program creating a new Pricing Product running in the Cloud in 5 weeks. An optimizer product was created using Amazon AWS, Grails, Groovy, Java, REST architecture, Sencha Ext JS, and AIMMS Optimization Software. • Design and implementation of new modules for O&D (Origin and Destination) PROS product including improvements in optimization and forecasting engines using Java, Cassandra, Oracle Berkeley DB, and different based application frameworks.
- Software EngineerSofttekMay 2007 - Jul 2008 (1 year 3 months)• Redesigned the Architecture for the Portfolio-Customer site to provide a better customer experience for real-time investment reports across multiple Genworth products. • Migrated and developed the Portfolio-Broker site as a portlet into on BEA WebLogic Portal Platform and the Backend integration with external applications using Java and Web Services. • Provided enhancements to the existing Genworth Financials products including changes in the pricing engine and real-time update reporting tool.
- Research AssistantInstituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Tec de MonterreyAug 2005 - May 2007 (1 year 10 months)(ITESM) - Mexico • Contributed with the development of new features for PDLib's Data Server; which provides personal digital library content storage and retrieval services using MySQL and Jakarta Lucene, supporting full-text search to improve performance and reduce index storage requirements. • As part of my research project "Incorporation of repositories DSpace as part of architecture for personal libraries", I designed and implemented a new feature to allow the interoperability with DSpace repositories, which is an open source software created by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to enable open sharing content with the PDLib projects. This feature was mainly developed using Java, open source tools, Apache XML-RPC and
- Head of DevelopmentAmerican Educational Communication InstituteMar 2002 - Jul 2005 (3 years 5 months)• Handled and implemented the development of the Digital Library search engine for "Enciclomedia" program, which has been installed in more than 70,000 Mexican classrooms. • Managed and worked on the implementation of an XML/XSL generation/transformation engine to produce content for web, PDF, HTML and print use using Java, Oracle, Swing, DHTML, XML, XSLT, CSS technologies to create a digital version of the textbooks of the Ministry of Education. • Responsible for the implementation of the Phronesis-DB-ILCE system that allows the submission, searching, retrieval, and administration of a digital library via a web interface.
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- MSc in Information Technology & ManagementUniversity of North Carolina - Greensboro Business SchoolMay 2006 - Dec 2006 (8 months)
- Master of Science in Information TechnologyInstituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Tec de MonterreyJun 2005 - Jun 2007 (2 years 1 month)- Thesis: Incorporation of repositories DSpace as part of an architecture for personal libraries
- B.S. in Telecommunications EngineeringUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoJun 1997 - May 2002 (5 years)- Thesis: WCDMA. New cellular third-generation wireless technologies in Europe and Japan
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- RRecipient, Academic Excellence Scholarship
- RRecipient, Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)
- AAwarded by Australian government to students of exceptional
- AAwarded by Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) during the