Fernando Candia ETA, Fractional CTO, Engineering Manager, Organizational

Engineering Lead

Graybox

Nov 2019 - Nov 2022 (3 years 1 month)

Management: - Collaborating with Executive and Management teams in defining company strategy and executable actions - Building a team of distributed software engineers - Fostering the company's culture across the organization via Rockefeller Habits - Conducting 1 :1s, meetings, area rituals, resolution and collaboration sessions - Managing engineers based on Performance Score Guides with behavioral components and KPIs - Owning the employee experience cycle (hiring, onboarding, career progression, retention, offboarding) - Owning the processes, policies, and documentation for the team Technical: - Triaging technical requests by priority, severity, impact, and value - Providing software architecture and solution design consultancy, a

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Head of LATAM Ops

Graybox

Nov 2019 - Nov 2022 (3 years 1 month)

- Advocating for bridging the cultural differences around communication, feedback, persuasion, leadership, decision-making, trust, conflict resolution, and scheduling - Facilitating weekly discussion and training sessions - Developing a cross-cultural feedback loop with Management and Executives - Facilitating conflict resolution, performance issues, and performance improvement plans - Assisting during the recruiting process - Facilitating logistics for delivering computer equipment across LATAM - Performing and documenting monthly and ad-hoc general check-ins

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Technology Manager

Biometría Aplicada, S.A. de C.V.

Jul 2019 - Nov 2019 (5 months)

• Lead the technical and consultive efforts for RFPs, partnering with project management and other technical teams • Design and supervise design of Solution Architectures (conceptual, logical, physical) in cloud and on-premise environments • Create a technology R&D plan to integrate solutions to the company's portfolio • Develop strategic innovation projects for company's continuous improvement and new business models • Lead the UX and UI initiatives for launched and development-stage products • Manage and develop relationships with strategic technology partners • Prepare training and knowledge transfer programs for the company staff

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Innovation and Technology Sr Consultant

Biometría Aplicada, S.A. de C.V.

Aug 2018 - Jun 2019 (11 months)

Driven by knowledge hunger and experience in a completely new industry, Biometria Aplicada offered me an opportunity to develop my consulting and technology skills in the Financial and Fintech ecosystem. As a Sr. Innovation and Technology Consultant, some of my activities were: • Identify business needs and develop project specifications for both company portfolio and prospect proposals • Designed Solution Architectures (conceptual, logical, physical) in cloud and on-premise environments • Research and evaluate products and technologies for the company's portfolio using a methodological approach • Develop strategic innovation projects for company's continuous improvement and new business models • Partner with different company areas to

CEO & Founder

Decoy Agency

Mar 2017 - Dec 2022 (5 years 10 months)

Just after dissolving Cuadrangular, I founded a boutique Digital Tech and Creative Shop far from the typical Agency culture. We are customer-centric, with superior attention to user experience and a broad understanding of technology and its application in problem solving. The agency is currently in operations for small but high impact projects through a remote team, not accepting new project though. Some projects or partners we worked with: • 2018 Presidential Digital Campaign • Transport and Airspace Government Agency • Largest Mexican Security Technology company • Two Governors and their Digital Campaigns • A couple Municipalities • Mexican songwriter signed with Sony As CEO and Founder, and by definition of our Agency's startup spi

Co-Founder, Chief Operations Officer

Cuadrangular

Aug 2016 - Feb 2017 (7 months)

A year in the Business Development role allowed me to develop a methodology that generated predictable and growing income. In a board meeting we decided our next move was to make the operations more efficient to allow faster and more organised growth. My responsibilities in this role included: • Responsible for ensuring best value is obtained for the project including suppliers and internal resources. • Designed and implemented processes and operative standards achieving productivity improvements of 35% in 2 months. • Conducted staff assessments and career development initiatives in conjunction with Human Resources. • Responsible for budgeting, estimating and planning projects. • Ensured effective digital strategy development for clien

Digital Campaign Manager

Cuadrangular

Feb 2016 - Jul 2016 (6 months)

Closed the biggest project of the company and responsible of an on-site digital campaign with a budget of over $10,000,000 MXN. Campaign objective: reinforce brand supporters, identify undecided segments and target them with custom content. • Ads (Facebook, Google, Twitter) • Development (web & apps) • Social Media (content management, community management) • Design (static and video content) • ORM • SEO • SEM • Activations

Co-Founder, VP Business Development

Cuadrangular

Aug 2015 - Aug 2016 (1 year 1 month)

After successfully executing several projects in partnership with a Digital Marketing Agency, we decided on merging to offer more comprehensive digital solutions. Cuadrangular found a niche opportunity developing technology for the public sector, which later allowed us to introduce digital campaigns within the industry. We realised the market was condensed in Mexico City so efforts were made to serve them. Some of the responsibilities I had: • Opened and managed permanent offices in Mexico City; in charge for office hunting, recruiting and operation supervision. • Lead the company's planning and execution of strategies to increase sales and company growth. • Harvesting relationships with C-level stakeholders to harness current clients.

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Co-founder, Business Development, Full-Stack Developer

Scitus Labs

Mar 2013 - Aug 2015 (2 years 6 months)

First formal entrepreneurship, incubated at the ITESM Business Incubator from the development of a business plan to start of operations. Scitus is a web development shop working in small teams with great energy using Scrum methodology. Within this project, the startup ecosystem gave the opportunity to learn a lot about collaboration, the importance of partnerships, pitching and selling as well as using a wide range of new technologies. Some of the projects that I built: • Fleet Management System • Embedded System to track Semi Trailer real-time weight • Custom Content Management System for client's projects • Company's design system based on Bootstrap • Responsive websites with breakpoints for desktop, tablet and mobile layouts using t

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IT Intern

Cognotao

Sep 2009 - Jan 2012 (2 years 5 months)

Business process, innovation and IT consulting firm. • Developed a mobile app for the academic content management (transport, schedule, emergency contact, events, athletics, et al) based on Kurogo 1.1 Framework. • Developed a lexical analyser for the business language BPMN2 (Business Process Modelling Notation 2.0) in Java. • Provided leadership for a software translation project that ensured efficient English to Spanish translations. • Conducted Data Analysis initiatives to reduce server and cloud software acquisition costs. • Deployed Intalio BPMS as proof of concept for an experimental company initiative. • Developed web services for ITESM University donation system using Oracle WebCenter Components

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