Work Experience

2024 - Present
MiPariente

Founder

Orlando, FL
  • Built a service squarely targeted at the diaspora: people living abroad who worry about being far away if something goes wrong with an aging parent back home.
  • Core pitch: 'Your aging parents deserve safety, and you deserve peace of mind' — QR-tagged bracelets, an emergency button, and an app backed by real local responders, not just an alert.
  • Personally designed and built the underlying platform — Rust embedded firmware, PKI-based fleet provisioning, fail-safe OTA updates, and a deterministic safety classifier holding a 10-second alert SLA — so the service can scale without compromising response time.
  • Operate the platform's canary deployment discipline and health-check watchdog personally, keeping devices monitoring real patients through multiple firmware generations without a missed-alert incident.
2024 - Present
Codexitos

CTO

Austin, TX
  • Lead technical architecture and hands-on delivery across client product builds, from discovery through production support.
  • Apply AI-paired engineering practices (agentic coding workflows, automated code review, red-green TDD) to ship at a pace a traditional team-scaled process can't match, without sacrificing security or architectural discipline.
2023 - Present
Grupo ISIMA SAS

Advisor / Investor

Bogotá, Colombia
  • Advise across the firm's seven service pillars: Digital Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Customer Experience Strategy, New Business Models, Product Strategy, Cloud Transformation, and AI & Intelligent Systems.
  • Bring hands-on AI/agentic-systems and cloud architecture depth to a firm positioned as a 'different kind of advisor' — staying engaged end-to-end from strategy through delivery rather than handing off a plan.
2013 - 2025
Accenture

Principal Director

Miami, FL
  • Delivered digital transformation projects generating $10M-$500M in client revenue across automotive, healthcare, energy, and financial services.
  • Recovery Specialist: Repeatedly selected by leadership to rescue troubled engagements—restored financial health and client satisfaction across 15+ turnaround situations in energy, healthcare, automotive, and government sectors.
  • Hands-on development of production LLM systems including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and agentic AI architectures.
  • Led cross-functional team combining ML engineering and enterprise security domains.
  • Nearshore Leadership: Grew team to 200+ engineers and $20M+ commercial portfolio serving automotive and MedTech clients.
  • Co-invented patented software solution that developed $100M+ in sales pipeline (USPTO-9,959,507/9,792,557; China CN105787801B).
  • Served as delivery lead for ~15 engagements ($250K-$10M each), managing multiple scrum teams of ~30 engineers, designers, and product managers.
  • Created solutions using design thinking and agile methodologies to deliver products in 4-6 months, with some products serving 10M+ users.
  • Achieved consistent record of on-time delivery and excellent client ratings.
2009 - 2015
Multiple Entrepreneurial Ventures

CTO/Co-founder, VP of Business Development

Miami, FL | San Francisco, CA | Ann Arbor, MI
  • Secured $2M+ for a startup through the development of the first product iteration.
  • Provided technical leadership and drove operational execution to create technical platforms for startups in the fin-tech, telecommunications, and social networking spaces.
  • Attracted top technical talent to build products and worked with senior executive teams to articulate the strategic plan.
  • Acted as spokesperson in trade shows (ITEXPO), with published articles. Achieved membership at a leading industry association (TEMIA) for one of these ventures.
2008 - 2009
Baxter International

Director of Strategy and Business Development

Fort Lauderdale, FL
  • Drove the regional strategic process for Latin America, improving regional revenue from $990M (7.8% in 2009) to $1.7B (12.1% in 2011).
  • Gained deep exposure to healthcare technology ecosystems, regulatory frameworks (FDA compliance), and clinical workflows.
  • Led cross-functional teams across medical device product lines including renal, medication delivery, and surgical care.
  • Consolidated regional strategy and governance processes across 20+ countries.
  • Led the 2009 and 2010 Strategy Summits for regional strategy definition.
  • Re-launched business development function across LATAM; established regional BD Council and obtained Board approval for major investment in Renal Centers.
2001 - 2008
General Motors

Business Development Manager, Finance Manager, Global R&D

Shanghai, China | São Paulo, Brazil | Detroit, MI
  • Led portfolio of 22 growth initiatives for Asia-Pacific region achieving ~$3B in revenue, including joint ventures and new in-house business development.
  • Created portfolio of advanced mobility and electrification strategies for GM and OnStar senior leadership—early exposure to connected vehicle and software-defined automotive concepts.
  • Generated and tracked revenue growth initiatives across Asia-Pacific region with target of $7B revenue.
  • International experience across Shanghai, São Paulo, and Detroit in finance, R&D portfolio management, and strategic planning.
  • Leveraged cross-functional teams, resources, and processes to drive projects to completion across diverse cultural and regulatory environments.
1995 - 1999
Netsoft Colombia

Partner | Co-founder

Bogotá, Colombia
  • Started and developed a profitable firm which provided I/T consulting and services.
  • Designed the Y2K-compliance plans for a major financial corporation, led the client's I/T team (30+ people) in the implementation. Client did not have any Y2K-related business disruption.
  • Developed Executive Information, Decision Support and Work Management Systems for Colombian National Road Agency to support the administration of a US$200 million budget to maintain the national road infrastructure.
  • Managed a US$ 0.5 million contract with the Colombian government to provide on-line Internet presentation of electoral statistics and results during National Presidential Elections of 1998.
1991 - 1995
Apple Colombia (CDM)

Product Manager (MarCom)

Bogotá, Colombia
  • Supported dealers and key customers after new product launches
  • Rapid progression from initial role as support engineer to a public-facing role with responsibility for product launches
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