Jefferson Durán Escalante

Jefferson Durán Escalante

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IT Program Manager
Bogotá, Colombia
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  • Shoozip Latam
    IT Program Manager
    Shoozip Latam
    Sep 2023 - Current (2 years 9 months)
    Creating a framework for the program, including the project scope, budget, and timeline. - Recruiting and organizing staff and technical experts, and overseeing teams working on projects. - Monitoring the progress of programs. - Working with external teams, stakeholders, and clients. - Identifying potential risks and threats to current and future programs. - Defining milestones for each project to depict interdependencies between projects. - Allocating and scheduling resources across projects to optimize resources and improve risk management. - I lead 5 project managers working on the Shoozip e-commerce technology platform, coordinating the dependencies of projects that are developed simultaneously, using scale agility practices and tools (
  • MercadoLibre
    Software Project Leader - LatAm
    MercadoLibre
    Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 1 month)
    Responsible for managing and leading scrum ceremonies with sponsors of the different projects. - Create the roadmap of each Q and make assignments to the technical team. - Generate reports with indicators to the stakeholders of each project. - Hold synchronization and alignment meetings with Cross teams on projects in which more than one team is involved. - Prepare demonstrations of the technical team, make announcements about rollouts and do post-ignition follow-up. - Prioritize the list of initiatives of each Q to generate a relevant backlog for the client and for internal applications to maintain or refactor. - Create filters in Jira to export spreadsheets and generate custom reports related to support tasks and fixed bugs. - Follow up a
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    Co-Founder
    CARÁCTER
    Jun 2017 - Current (9 years)
    Founding member of the leading opinion media outlet in eastern Colombia. - I supported the creation of the outlet, editorial line and growth of social networks. - I managed a team of opinion columnists, editors and social media managers. (8 people) - I advised public figures on the management of their personal brand and political marketing. - I created media strategies to support companies from different sectors using the media outlet's channels. - I worked on the management and acquisition of clients for different services offered by the outlet.
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    Technical Project Manager
    Owlabs
    Jul 2016 - Aug 2022 (6 years 2 months)
    - Responsible for managing software projects ( mobile and web) based on modern technologies (Node.JS, Angular, Django, MongoDB, etc). - Responsible for managing project scope, timelines, budget, and costs. - Responsible for managing and leading scrum ceremonies with sponsors of the different projects - Designed and implemented information technology solutions using Google Cloud infrastructure. - Created relationships with clients in the gathering of software requirements, and consulting in the selection of information technology solutions (Budget, time, performance, etc). - Prepared and demonstrated IT solutions for entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized companies. - Developed business plans, designed and implement processes to support busin
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    IT Security Solutions Consultant
    Cubeitz Group Limited
    Apr 2014 - Jun 2016 (2 years 3 months)
    - Built marketing strategies to sell CubeITz Security product to customers around LatAm. - Held meetings with clients to demonstrate the advantages and features of the product. - Coordinated meetings with partners and resellers to follow up sales strategies. - Managed the schedule of activities and events CubeITz. - Created online marketing strategies to promote the product and create communities of customers and users. - Closed new business with clients (including identifying new customers and markets, developing approaches to the market, identifying prospects, proposal preparation, etc.).
  • Mozilla
    Technical Evangelist - LatAm
    Mozilla
    Jan 2011 - Feb 2014 (3 years 2 months)
    - Collaborated with the PR and Marketing team to create events and talks to teach the functionality of the developer version of Firefox. - Created demos and prototypes to teach the functionality of Firefox and other Mozilla tools for web and mobile development. - Visited schools and universities to demonstrate the Mozilla Webmaker toolkit and how students could be part of the Mozilla community in Latam. - Supported Firefox localization team to develop a native language version for new community members.
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    Co-founder
    Ipiari
    Jan 2010 - Feb 2012 (2 years 2 months)
    Co-founder of Ipiari, a search engine optimized for better user experience, which was active for about a year at the beginning of the 2010s, known as the Latin American Google. - I was the coordinator of the search engine's operations in Latin America - I recruited people around the world to test and spread the benefits of the search engine. - I was in charge of making decisions together with the other co-founders on the search engine's IT infrastructure. - I coordinated meetings to obtain feedback and develop new features.
  • Universidad Industrial de Santander
    Web Developer
    Universidad Industrial de Santander
    Feb 2009 - Dec 2010 (1 year 11 months)
    - Designed, analyzed, and implemented web applications using HTML, CSS, JAVA 5/ JBOSS technologies. - Tested and documented software. - Developed web modules for a project management system for the planning office.
  • Universidad Industrial de Santander
    E-learning Assistant
    Universidad Industrial de Santander
    Mar 2008 - Feb 2009 (1 year)
    - Assisted virtual education projects from a technical and pedagogical perspective. - Participated in the formulation of technology policies in cooperation with Colombia’s Ministry of - Education experts. - Supported the migration process of a Business Administration education program into a virtual model.
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  • MBA USPEsalq
    Gestão de Negócios Digitais e Inteligência Artificial
    MBA USPEsalq
    May 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)
  • Université Côte dAzur
    Master in Project Management (Master MIAGE
    Université Côte dAzur
    Sep 2012 - Oct 2013 (1 year 2 months)
  • Universidad Industrial de Santander
    Bachelor of computer science / Ingeniería de Sistemas
    Universidad Industrial de Santander
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2010 (5 years 1 month)
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    Equipo de Social Media
    Jun 2013 - Apr 2014 (11 months)
    Equipo de trabajo de Social Media Management Intercomunitario
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    Mozilla Colombia
    Aug 2009
    Local Mozilla community
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    Ganador FONADE 2012
    Nov 2012