Omar Duque

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Head of Engineering, Colombia at Commure
Colombia
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  • Commure
    Head of Engineering, Colombia
    Commure
    Aug 2020 - Current (6 years 3 months)
    - Building a system to accelerate healthcare software innovation
  • Polymath Ventures
    Tech Advisor
    Polymath Ventures
    Jun 2019 - Current (7 years 5 months)
    - Tech advisor for C-Level execs at some startups in the fund
  • Merlin
    VP of Engineering
    Merlin
    Jan 2019 - Aug 2020 (1 year 8 months)
    - Transforming how businesses and companies recruit and people get hired! Continuously evolving our product platform to satisfy our user base needs. Building a global solution with a world-class team from Bogota (Col).
  • Huge
    Gr. Director Of Engineering
    Huge
    Oct 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 3 months)
    - Principal Tech Director for Colombia offices, leading the group of Tech
    Directors. Helped expanding the team to 200+ people among two locations.
    - Member of the leadership committee of Huge's largest client and Tech partner to other Huge locations.
  • Huge
    Director Of Engineering
    Huge
    Jun 2017 - Sep 2017 (4 months)
    Tech Director in charge of the entire tech team at the Bogota (Col) office.
    Represented the team to the global Tech leadership, help to expand the team from 60 to 120+ people. Accountable for Tech quality of all the projects developed out of the office. Responsible of career growth, software
    development cycle and tech standards.
  • Torre.ai
    Head of Engineering
    Torre.ai
    Jun 2016 - May 2017 (1 year)
    - Head of the Engineering team at Torre. Led development, IT, QA, engineering support and Agile coaches.
    - Main responsibilities included setting standards and processes, professional growth, recruiting, and team building. I was also
    in charge of program management of joint efforts within the different brands at Torre (Voice123, Bunny Inc and Torre).
  • Torre.ai
    Head of Engineering, Fulfillment
    Torre.ai
    Apr 2014 - Jun 2016 (2 years 3 months)
    - Head of Engineering at Fulfillment area at Torre, including Software Engineering, IT, and Scrum®. I was in charge of decision making, SDLC, Hosting and project management of voicebunny.com and bunnyinc.com.
    - Also responsible for recruiting, hiring, and team motivation.
  • Torre.ai
    Head of Engineering, Fulfillment and Voice123
    Torre.ai
    Jun 2013 - Apr 2014 (11 months)
    - Leader of the development teams for the different brands, and the R&D group.
    Responsible of implementing POCs that will be lever in existing/future projects.
    - Final word on software architecture decisions. I also lead the IT department.
  • ZEMOGA INC
    VP, Project Management
    ZEMOGA INC
    Jun 2012 - May 2013 (1 year)
    - Head of global Project Management, accountable of the results of the whole projects executed by Zemoga's offices (Bogota, Medellin, Wilton Co, and NY), for clients such as eBay, Mozilla, Sears, Grainger, Gerber, AETN, Toyota, among others.
  • ZEMOGA INC
    Project Management Officer
    ZEMOGA INC
    Sep 2010 - Jun 2012 (1 year 10 months)
    - I led the Project Management Office where we manage our client's projects.
    - I'm in charge of the professional growth of the project managers, and internal processes life cycle in order to guarantee profitability, quality and on-time delivery.
    - One of my focus is to facilitate Project Manager's work creating/
    acquiring automatic tools to report projects status to Finance, clients and board of directors.
  • ZEMOGA INC
    Project Manager
    ZEMOGA INC
    Jan 2009 - Sep 2010 (1 year 9 months)
    - I join Zemoga as project manager and during this period of time I oversee the largest client program of the company, Sears Holding Corporation.
    - During this period of time I lead a group of 3 Project Managers and we did manage over 30 projects for Sears.com E-commerce website (including Kmart, Kenmore, and Craftsman brands) .
    - The projects involved web design, Front End Development and Mobile development.
  • Zapata Torrenegra Labs
    Project Manager - Software Architect
    Zapata Torrenegra Labs
    Mar 2005 - Jan 2009 (3 years 11 months)
    - Project manager and tech lead of an cross-discipline team in charge of developing state-of-the-art websites, during this period of time I led projects for clients such as Agora Inc, Casting123, Language123, and Voice123
  • Zapata Torrenegra Labs
    Senior Web Developer - Architect
    Zapata Torrenegra Labs
    Nov 2004 - Mar 2005 (5 months)
    - Developed new features for different properties like Voice123, Language123, Casting123, and Terra Latino dynamic SEO website.
  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Software Engineer
    Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Jan 2004 - Nov 2004 (11 months)
    - Developed the version 2.0 of the Counselor solicitude's system of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and it was released on all the campuses throughout the Country.
    - The system was directly integrated to the central information system of the university and every single solicitude was filed into students and teachers folder.
  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Web Developer
    Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Nov 2002 - Dec 2003 (1 year 2 months)
    - I worked for the Arts school building a platform to manage all the solicitudes that were requested by students, teachers, and internal dependencies (like researching groups) to the Faculty Council.
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  • Stanford University
    Stanford-Endeavor Innovation and Growth Program
    Stanford University
    Jan 2016
  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Computer Science
    Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Jan 1997 - Jan 2004 (7 years 1 month)