Alain Jorda

Current

• Deputy Mayor for Budget, Economic Development, Innovation and University at Manresa City Council

Past

• Professor at UOC
• e-Business Consultant at AJ Comercio
• Deputy Director at Inoxtop

• Spain Country Mgr at Tonna Electronique
• Marketing and Sales Mgr at Macsa ID, S.A.
• Telecommunications Sales Mgr at Indra
• Data Communications Support Engineer at Epson Ibérica
• Software engineer at CIRSA
• Development engineer at Serra Soldadura

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Education

• EADA - Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Connections

182 connections

Industry

Government Administration

Websites

• My Blog

Alain Jorda’s Summary

I've got experience in a number of different kinds of companies, small and big, local and international, industry and services, for which I've developed different functions along my career: engineering, customer service, engineer management, business management, marketing and sales as well as some experience in procurement, information systems or quality assurance.
I think one of my strongest points is starting new activities, what I've done several times in the companies I was working at the moments. My strategic vision combined with good team building capabilities and a good general business experience help me in the development of new activities.

Alain Jorda’s Specialties:

Starting new projects. Strategic vision, implementing the vision and taking it to real work.
team building and motivating, redirectioning people goals and ways of working, change management.

Alain Jorda’s Experience

• Deputy Mayor for Budget, Economic Development, Innovation and University

  Manresa City Council

  (Government Administration industry)

  October 2001 — Present (8 years 3 months)

  city council budget (100M€). Initiating and developing a city innovation policy including the first "local innovation plan" in Spain (2005). Developing a "city entrepreneur path" going from secondary schools through university to the incubator. I've got the presidency of "Eurotowns" -www.eurotowns.org-, the european medium sized cities network, for Manresa. I have highly improved the city budget definition procedure by computerizing it and got several national systems information awards for the city council services.

• Professor

  UOC

  (Public Company; E-Learning industry)

  January 1999 — March 2002 (3 years 3 months)

  I developed a complete on-line course on e-Marketing and I then teached during several editions (twice a year).
  It was the same materials I presented as a 2-days seminar in several universities and business schools in Spain and Latin America.

• e-Business Consultant

  AJ Comercio

  (Information Services industry)

  June 1998 — January 2002 (3 years 8 months)

  Assessing companies on how to make business on the net. Speaker on the subject (e-business) in business schools and universities in Spain and Latin America. Editing a monthly newsletter -Comercio en la Red- with more than 5.000 subscribers.

• Deputy Director

  Inoxtop

  (Industrial Automation industry)

  September 1996 — June 1999 (2 years 10 months)

  As the Deputy Director I was in charge of improving the company results through changing procurement policy, implanting new information systems, quality management, production organization and introducing systems integration offering to the company portfolio.

• Spain Country Mgr

  Tonna Electronique

  (Telecommunications industry)

  January 1996 — September 1996 (9 months)

  In charge of deploying Tonna telecommunications equipment to the spanish cable TV operators. Unfortunately, the market didn't appear at that moment due to a lack of ruling frame in the country.

• Marketing and Sales Mgr

  Macsa ID, S.A.

  (Privately Held; Machinery industry)

  September 1993 — June 1995 (1 year 10 months)

  Changed the way sales force acted from selling on product catalogue to selling integrated solutions depending on customer needs. This included the creation of a systems integration department in the company. Sales in 1994 grew 41% from 1993..

• Telecommunications Sales Mgr

  Indra

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1986 — September 1993 (7 years 1 month)

  Starting as a Project Manager for European Space Agency projects in satellite data communications, then developing a new data telecommunications business unit and, finally, appointed as the Company Sales Manager for Telecommunications products and services.

• Data Communications Support Engineer

  Epson Ibérica

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  May 1985 — September 1986 (1 year 5 months)

  Developing a data communications protocol for EPSON portable computers

• Software engineer

  CIRSA

  (Privately Held; Gambling & Casinos industry)

  September 1983 — May 1985 (1 year 9 months)

  Developing the software for a company-developed video game machine.

• Development engineer

  Serra Soldadura

  (Privately Held; Automotive industry)

  December 1982 — September 1983 (10 months)

  Designing and developing hardware and software for microcomputers based welding controls for the automotive industry. Got a complete series of 100 welding controls up and running for Opel Germany in just one month and working alone.

Alain Jorda’s Education

• EADA - Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración

  General Management Programme , Business Administration , 1991 — 1991

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

  MSc , Telecommunications , 1973 — 1981

Additional Information

Alain Jorda’s Websites:

• My Blog

Alain Jorda’s Interests:

Innovation and technology as economic development tools

Alain Jorda’s Groups:

UPC

•    Xarxa Telecos BCN
•    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
•    Open Innovation and Open Business Models Network Spain
•    Red del Centro de Innovación en Productividad
•    FTTH Forum 2009
•    TIC.cat

Alain Jorda’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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