Ignacio Didiego

Director - Fintech Ancillaries

Keller, Texas, United States

About

Fintech, Travel and Hospitality Digital Product Management Leadership | Omni-Channel Digital Retailing | Digital Tech Stack Implementation | E-commerce | Mobile Apps | UI / UX Design | B2C | B2B2C | SaaS | Data & Analytics Specialties: Travel Industry (Airline , OTA) E-commerce Strategy Product Management Vendor Management UI/UX: Design ideation, Wireframing, Mockups, Storyboards, Personas, Journey Maps, Prototyping, A/B Testing, Usability Testing Mobile design Usability Research Web Analytics: Amplitude, Quantum Metrics, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics. Tag Mangement: Google Tag Manager A/B Testing: Optimizely, Adobe Target Conversion Optimization

Experience

  • Director - Fintech Ancillaries at HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions)
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Director - Fintech Ancillaries at Hopper
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Sabre Corporation (Southlake, Texas, United States)
    • Principal II E-Commerce Product Manager
      Jan 2016 - Oct 2024 · 8 yrs 10 mos

      ▪ Leading the Digital Experience E-Commerce Solution and integration of Airline Retailing initiatives. ▪ Responsible for the solution definition and delivery of new or existing products based upon the strategy and business needs. ▪ Managing multi-million annual investment plan for currently owned solutions (including capitalized investment, maintenance). ▪ Providing direction and ensuring development meets market requirements. Managing product release schedule and prioritization of opportunities.

    • Java Team Lead
      Jan 2014 - Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Team Lead Java Developer - Revenue Optimizer ▪ Building the next generation Revenue Management system. Complete re-write of the core functions of the system, applying the Mathematical Models to forecast the demand and handle reserved seats for each booking class. ▪ Heavily involved with the airline business model and its systems. ▪ Backend application consuming real-time events (Schedule changes, latest bookings) reacting to ensure the optimal Revenue for the airline. ▪ Technologies: Java8, Apache Camel, SpringBoot, Vagrant, MongoDB, Puppet, Rest Web Services

    • Team Lead UI Software Development
      Mar 2012 - Jan 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Responsibilities involved leading a team of 10 software/tests engineers between DFW and Buenos Aires Argentina, dealing with product owners in London and Dallas. ▪ Team responsible for the systems powering main and distribution sites of our brands in Europe (lastminute.com) and APAC (zuji.com) and hotel path for NAM. The platform is a white-label Online Travel Agency offering hotels, flights and dynamic packages. Services consumed by website and by mobile applications. ▪ Creation, Maintenance and Customer support of Travelocity Hotel Web services. Web services consumed both internally (Travelocity apps) and external (Meta partners, OTAs). Hand holding new meta partners. ▪ Working closely to the Product Owner, making prototypes on new ideas and shipping them quickly to Production. A/B testing over the new features to measure performance and conversion. ▪ Application level support on implementations for the site. Monitoring numbers over the pilot days to identify potential issues. Instant hands-on support on any severity issue. ▪ Multiple projects to re-design the UI layer. Several migrations to new platforms. Deeply involved in looking at analytics, trying to identify differences in conversion, potential issues and degrade in performance. ▪ Application code mainly related with Web applications and services. All layers of the application, Front End, Business logic, consumption of services, data sources, third party content.

  • Sabre Corporation (Argentina)
    • Tech Lead Java Developer
      Mar 2010 - Jan 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Java Developer for the Travelocity NA site. Working on new projects for the Hotels and Packages Lines of Business. Team building and knowledge transfer to new members on the team. Worked on several high priority projects for Hotels. Technologies / Tools / Methodologies: - GWT - Solr (Lucene) - Groovy on Grails - Hibernate - J2EE - JavaScript, JQuery, JSON - Jenkins(Hudson), Maven, Ant - Oracle - Shell scripting - Spring - Subversion - UNIX - Agile development methodologies

    • Senior Java Developer
      Sep 2009 - Mar 2010 · 7 mos

      Same role with new responsibilities, more involved in new projects. Helped re-building the Hotels and Packages team in Buenos Aires, involved in the hiring process for new team members.

    • SSr Java Developer
      Mar 2008 - Sep 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Java Developer for the Travelocity NA site. Maintaining and adding new features to the Packages Line of Business. Technologies: - JIBX, JUnit, Ant, Maven 2, Log4j, JMeter - Java Server Pages - Spring - Hibernate - Agile development methodology

  • .NET Developer (FreeLance) at Digital Gadgets
    Jul 2006 - Dec 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos

    My role consisted on developing Web Applications, custom made following the client requirements. Working directly with the founder of the company, in a free lance way. Mostly working from home and planning over the phone. Face to face meetings to plan and start an iteration.