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. 

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