Carles Ureña

Technology Innovation Director at JTI (Japan Tobacco International)

Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

About

20+ years experience in IT, currently leading Technology Innovation at JTI. Born and grown up in Barcelona, living and loving Switzerland.

Experience

  • JTI (Japan Tobacco International) (Geneva, Switzerland)
    • Technology Innovation Director
      Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

    • GVA HQ IT Services and Business Solutions Director
      Feb 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Global IT BTS Corporate Affairs & Communications Director
      Aug 2018 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Supporting the digitalizacion of the company and the transformation to an agile organization through technology. Leading and empowering a team of high potential colleagues to deliver on time and with quality. Bridging and closing the gap between business and IT. Open to discuss with the community about: -IT Strategy -Digital Workplace -Collaboration, Communication and Engagement -Corporate Video Broadcast -Bots -Standarization of service catalogs -Project management

  • Cambridge Technology Partners (Nyon, Switzerland)
    • Project Manager / Scrum Master
      Nov 2014 - Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Manage development project of the stakeholder extranet. SharePoint implementation with custom development and exposing data stored in CRM. Manage multidisciplinary and multicultural team. Risk, resources, change and scope management in a high complex and priority changing environment. Technologies used: SharePoint 2013, CRM 2013, .Net, SQL Server. Support Program Management operations.

    • Project Manager
      Nov 2014 - Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Due to the integration between Cambridge Technology Partners and Atos we start operating as Atos Consulting April 2016.

  • Project Manager at The Birchman Group
    Mar 2013 - Nov 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos

    As a project manager my mision is provide full service to customers achieving project goals, and develop the teams where I'm involved. My key responsabilities are manage large heterogeneus teams, project management, look for quality and manage risk and resources. I'm also involved in business development, creating, defending and budgeting solution proposals. I also collaborate in business unit development with cross activities as stablishing project management methodology, deploying ALM tools, generate reference documentation and helping people's talent emerge. Achievements: • Successful introduction in the company of Scrum as a development methodology • Succesfully manage large teams in multi-technology projects • Stablish strong and confident relation with customers Specialities: Project management, Scrum Master, Team leader, Customer relationship

  • Technical Account Manager at SOFTENG
    Sep 2011 - Feb 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

    We offer full service to deploy intranet and management solutions based on Microsoft's products. Understanding customer's infrastructure, desires and day by day work, planning the best solution, deploy with highest quality and guide to adopt the change is our work. We enjoy our passion on giving the best service and improoving the results.

  • Partner at DAC Tècnica
    Sep 2009 - Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    The company was dedicated to industrial automation programming. During this time I could modify internal procedures of the company to make it improve and stand out from the competition by reaching new customers and new markets. As a micro company partner I did all kinds of activities, consulting, sales, programming, business management, planning, etc. There I could develop PLC programs in many languages, CodeSys, .NET, etc.