Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
I’m the Director of Products & Platforms at UST Spain, an American multinational provider of Digital IT services and solutions. Before this role I was the Director of the SMART CoE where I led the strategy and CoE for these technologies (Social, Mobility, AR/VR and Internet of Things) as well as User Experience and User Interface. My goal is to provide advisory and transformation services to our customers, helping them build innovating business solutions around this group of technologies. Before joining UST-GLOBAL I worked for 7 years at Invitation Digital in Bristol (UK) where I was the Head of Smartphone Development. I joined the company in the early days where we were a small startup, and helped during the long way to become one of the most successful vouchering apps around the World. We got acquired by Vodafone in 2012 and in 2017 I was part of the team dealing with the Fair Market Value process that ended up with the original founders taking control of the company once again. Prior to my adventure in the UK I was an R&D Engineer for Indra SL where I successfully applied my research skills and worked coordinating small teams and developing case studies in these projects.
Responsable of evolving our current solutions following a robust product development approach, and managing the Client Product Development Labs (CPDL). In our CPDL, we work with our clients to ideate, design, build and deploy innovative solutions to solve business challenges or open new revenue sources for our clients.
Reporting to the Director of Digital Solutions & Consulting Services, as the SMART Practice Director I lead the strategy and CoE for these technologies (Social, Mobility, AR, VR, IoT) within UST Global Spain & LATAM, providing advisory and transformation services to our customers, helping them build innovative business solutions around this group of technologies. I also work closely with Sales Teams and others Digital Practice Leaders to define, manage and guide the customer’s strategy and sales processes from a technical perspective.
Vouchercloud is one of the most successful consumer apps in the UK having had over 10M downloads – the app has been championed in the National press and Apple recently voted the app the top Lifestyle app of 2010 in their Apple Rewind awards. We had an exceptional journey during all these years. It began with the acquisition by Vodafone, along 5 years of continuous expansion and growing. To finally get back the company and sold it to Groupon
PORTAE, Application developed for ENDESA, the leading utility in the Spanish electricity system and the number one private electricity company in Latin America. The application is the mobile version of the real estate portal that enables you to find properties for sale and to rent.
R&D Engineer • Technical coordination and development of both R&D National programs and European Framework projects. • Indra SL technical coordination of SIBMATI (Multimodal Biometric Identification System Applied to Information Technology). Development of security mobile applications for Android Platform. http://innovation-labs.com/sibmati/ • Indra SL technical coordination of LUMINICA (Projection system for environments of large format, IMAX). Application for multimodal interaction (classical, touch, voice and gestures) with a cinema interactive 3D environment. http://www.innovation-labs.com/luminica/ • Indra SL technical coordination of MOBIAR (Tourist Experiences through Mobile Augmented Reality). An Android service platform for tourist information based on AR, which allows users to browse information and multimedia content about a city through their own mobile devices http://mobiar.tid.es/ Android applications • PC Remote Control. Turns the phone into a wireless keyboard and mouse with touchpad, using your own wireless network • Domotic dashboard, controls a domotic room • Augmented reality prototypes • Indoor Localization using Wireless LAN/WiFi Infrastructure Others: • Domotic framework using Phidgets and KNX. • Augmented reality demos with AR Toolkit and FLAR Toolkit. • Remote control of the PC using a Wii Remote, thanks to the library WiiuseJ. • Several web pages using JSP, Servlets Teaching: • R&D dissemination: Dissemination course on Research and Innovation in a technological enterprise • Android for Beginners: Android introductory course for SW Engineer in 8 Spanish universities o University Autonoma de Madrid o University Carlos III o University Juan Carlos I o University Alcalá de Henares o University de Salamanca o University Pontificia de Salamanca o University de Extremadura o University de Castilla la Macha • Android: Share the benefits of the using the Android platform
Máster profesional y en colaboración con empresas, en el que se imparte Android, iOS (iPhone-iPad), Windows Phone, NFC, HTML5, servicios RESTful, etc. Permite a los alumnos especializarse en un sector puntero, en auge y con gran demanda de empleo. http://www.web.upsa.es/mimo/