On Leadership by Jeff Weiner

Creating a Product-Centric Organization

I served as a missionary in the California San Fernando Mission, in California, United States.

Full Time Missionary

Lean Startup Machine is an intensive three-day workshop which teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products.
I got involved motivated by my desire to promote the Lean Startup methodology in the community.

Co-Organizer

Mentoring product and engineering leaders. Contributing mostly on product management careers, product management excellence, engineering management, and team leadership.
https://www.platohq.com/mentors/juan-fortunato

Mentor - Product Management and Engineering Leadership

Lic. en Administración de Empresas

Desarrollador Web

Transitioned from Engineering to Product with the assignment to create and lead a Platform team. 
Our team is responsible for building product capabilities that enable all product teams in the company to increasing delivery speed and efficiency at scale.

Director of Product Management

Responsible for process assessments to identify improvement opportunities, in order to develop processes that increase project's quality and reduce cost, particularly for projects involving several departments, each with its own set of priorities.
Taking part in processes implementation, mainly for Project Management. Responsible for creating process related products, and tools prototypes (programming VBA Excel).
Imparting instruction and giving support to Project Managers as they apply Project Management practices as defined by organizational processes.
These tasks and responsibilities are approached by applying CMMI (mainly Project and Process Management PAs).
Additionally, participated in the development of a PM Maturity Model for regional markets, based on OPM3, Prince, CMMI. Developed the tool (programming VBA Excel) for pilot testing the model with real cases.

Project Manager | Process Improvement Consultant (Banco Galicia)

Built Globons IT Solutions from the ground up. 

Responsibilities and activities include:
* Strategic planning, including operational and financial decisions
* Sales and account management
* Recruiting and HR management
* Training (in-house and for clients teaching web development)
* Product development (including technical definitions and programming)
* Process Improvement (mostly consulting services for clients)
* Currently working on our own ISO 9001 implementation

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Managed numerous software development projects for domestic and international clients, as well as product development projects, applying agile methodologies, diverse technologies and platforms. At any given time, always had multiple ongoing projects, simultaneously managing diverse teams, including client's employees and freelance developers.
Identified and managed project risks over and over, learning valuable lessons from good and bad experiences.
Being accountable and directly affected by projects r

Co-Founder. Product Manager, Delivery Manager

Providing a pragmatic approach to teaching through personal entrepreneurial experience. Sharing an up-to-date vision of opportunities present in the current market, especially for projects related to new digital technologies.
Teaching first year students of BA in Multimedia Technology, CPA, BA in Business Administration, etc..

Profesor Adjunto Proyecto Empresarial

I started at Emerios (formerly VMBC) as Product Manager.

Within 3 months I became interim manager in charge of 3 functional areas:
1. Product Development
2. Software Development
3. Software Quality Assurance

Within 5 months, I was able to:

Design and implement processes: 
	* Client Management in collaboration with Customer Experience
	* Product Development
	* Agile Software Development in collaboration with the PMO
	* Company-wide Job Accountability and Performance Reviews

Designed Organizational Structure, creating 2 new departments and reorganizing one:
	* Created Product Development, with 2 new roles (Product Manager and Business Analyst)
	* Created Quality Assurance
	* Reorganized Engineering to better serve Product Development processes, creating product specific subgroups, increasing efficiency in software development process and strengthening the most important product lines

Recruited and Promoted key players to support organization growth and structural changes:
	* Hired a

Director of Product Development

Led a major company shift, from traditional media (TV, radio, print) to digital media and e-commerce.

Hired 18 key roles, and established a leadership development plan.
Transformed a small service-oriented software development team into a full featured product development organization with multiple functional areas with cross-functional teams. 
Implemented Agile methodologies, expanded engineering organization with devops practices, redefined design process and roles, and established a basic framework for data-driven decision making.

Established product management best practices, achieving outstanding results, such as growing the biggest Facebook community of Argentina, growing daily visits from 100K to 1M over 10 months for a news site, expanding several products to new countries, and launching 3 new products within 1 year.
Products Shipped: MundoTKM.com (+ country-specific sites mainly Brazil, Mexico, Colombia), Leamos.com, Biblioteca Digital (b2b). In addition to incremental impro

Centro Acquires QuanticMind - February 24, 2020.

QuanticMind is shaping the future of advertising. Applying AI at scale, we consistently improve results and produce better business outcomes.

In addition to my Product role, I'm responsible for managing operations in Argentina. I make sure all employees are motivated and productive, fostering a great culture of collaboration and team work to achieve ambitious goals. 
QuanticMind is rapidly growing the engineering team in Argentina to take on some exciting challenges.
Come join us! You'll be working with very talented people, both locally and in our other offices (in US and Canada).
We're hiring Engineers with experience in react.js, or big data / data science, or java, or quality automation. Reach me @ juan@quanticmind.com.

General Manager (Argentina)

Founder

Process Improvement. 
Working with small business owners, conducted assessments of processes in place at the time, with a critical perspective in order to identify root causes of known problems, and other improvement opportunities. Starting with strategic business definitions redesigned all business processes throughout a period close to a year.
Organizational Design. 
In relation to Process Improvement project, carried out Strategic HR Planning, which resulted in structural changes in organization architecture, new roles and reporting relationships and a training plan for all involved employees in order to acquire necessary competencies.

As a result of periodic evaluations, the decision was made to extend the service by adding a coach, and coaching sessions with key stakeholders, which resulted in better adoption of defined processes and new organizational structures.

Business Process Improvement Consultant

Advising early stage startups in:
* Business Model Generation, iterating quickly through experiments outside the building.
* Customer Discovery, taking elements of the Job-to-be-Done theory to identify and classify needs.
* Product Strategy, defining product vision, and MVP focussed on the target segment with highest potential.
* Story-telling, articulating a solid story to attract talent, customers, and investors.

As Mentor:
* Helping founders be disciplined and apply proven methodologies.
* Holding founders accountable, helping them to focus and achieve their goals. 
* Providing an objective, unbiased perspective.
* Coaching founders according to their individual needs.

Startup Advisor & Mentor

I've been leading product and engineering teams for over a decade, delivering successful products to market. 

Juan Fortunato • Director of Product Management at Basis Technologies • Peerlist Profile

Lean Startup Machine is an intensive three-day workshop which teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products.
I got involved motivated by my desire to promote the Lean Startup methodology in the community and specific

LSM Buenos Aires 2014

Process Development and Certification project.

SGC conforme a la norma ISO 9001:2008

Desarrollamos una aplicación web que automatiza la generación de legajos, los cuales son requeridos por entidades que reciben en sus instalaciones a empleados de terceros (por ej. promotoras o repositores externos). Con esta herramienta, la

SAIL - Sistema de Administración e Impresión de Legajos

En base a nuestra experiencia en desarrollo de software, y en colaboración con clientes de la industria gráfica, hemos desarrollado un Sistema de Gestión de Gráficas que satisface las necesidades de software para empresas gráficas de cualqu

Sistema de Gestión de Empresas Gráficas

Desarrollamos la capa de presentación del sitio web, en base al framework Django. Mediante el buen uso de javascript logramos brindar una excelente experiencia de usuario. Tambien integramos herramientas de reportes para propietarios de con

Movie rental Websites

Desarrollamos un player basado en OSMF (Open Source Media Framework) de Adobe extendiendo la funcionalidad para soportar subtítulos en múltiples lenguajes, con cantidad de idiomas y estilos de fuente configurables mediante parámetros javasc

OSMF Flash Movie Player con Subtitulos

We developed a Web application for Digital TV Channel Management, program scheduling and administration.
With a rich interface, a very user-frienly visual schedule, make's it very simple for end users to administer channels from any locatio

Web Application for digital TV Channels Content Management

We developed an explorer with administration and player functionalities for multimedia files using Silverlight. 
With jQuery javascript framework we significantly improved usability by getting functionality that was previously in 4 differen

Multimedia Files Explorer

We developed a simple IVR wizard as a proof of concept for a decision making process.

IVR Prototype

If you use Backpack (37Signals) reminders all the time to push out tasks and todos into the future, this Chrome extension allows you to create reminders without leaving your current webpage.
To configure the extension to work with your Back

Chrome Web Browser Extention for Backpackit

Desarrollamos una aplicación web para la consolidación de información de diferentes organismos relacionados con la SENAF mediante interfaces para la generación de reportes de alto nivel de Prestaciones a menores desde dichos organismos y po

Registro de Protección Integral de la Niñez y de la Adolescencia

We developed a SNMP Extended Agent, which allows to monitor and administer system configuration on remote machines. This was used to monitor TV repeater stations located in diferent places around the country.

SNMP Monitor

Desarrollamos el Sistema Integrado de Gestión del Programa Familias, para el Ministerio de Desarrollo Social. Este sistema se utiliza para el traspaso de beneficiarios desde otros programas, realizando validaciones mediante interfaces con s

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Juan Fortunato

I've been leading product and engineering teams for over a decade, delivering successful products to market.