Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)

I have been working in the development and roll out of Enterprise Applications following the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model, with different business goals and technologies. My current goal is to help Abiquo to create the leading solution of enterprise opensource cloud computing platform.

Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)’s Specialties:

Strong Technical Skills, Middleware Architectures, Cloud Computing Architectures, Purchasing, Product Prospects, Budgeting, Software Development Consultancy, Knowledge of the Spanish Market, Agile Team Management, Project Management, Client Facing Skills, Negotiation.

Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)’s Experience

Associate Professor

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)
Business Development Manager and Product Technology Strategist

Abiquo

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 2009 — Present (11 months)

- Lead Abiquo expansion in the enterprise
- Manage business and technology partners
- Define the Enterprise opensource offer of the company
- Cloud Computing Product and Technology strategy
Partner

Abiquo

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Cloud Computing Evangelist

Nubeblog.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

El blog en español de negocios sobre Cloud Computing, Grid, Alta Disponibilidad y Escalabilidad
Partner

Amplia Soluciones S.L.

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — Present (5 years )
Partner

Opengate Systems S.L.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — Present (5 years )
Senior IT Consultant / Architect

The Server Labs S.L.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — February 2009 (1 year 2 months)

Consultancy of Enterprise Architectures, mentoring and assessments of complex, high profile technology projects. Responsibilities include creating solutions and alternatives that support the business' needs of our customers and support the Business Development department writing technical proposals.
My skills include Agile Software development methodologies (Scrum and XP basically), Java Enterprise Architectures, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) , Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Spring, Groovy on Grails, RIA, Ajax.
Professional Services Manager

Amplía Soluciones S.L.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2004 — October 2007 (3 years 3 months)

Manage teams of highly skilled personnel doing software development projects for Telcos and strong-middleware systems. I have successfully performed the following tasks:
- Creation of the department from scratch.
- Recruitment of developers and consultants.
- Set up of working procedures and methodologies. Adoption of Agile best practices.
- Tracking of projects
- Definition of baseline architecture of the projects. Style guides and Architectural rules.
- Client management
Technical Lead

Adecco WWIT (Olecenter)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ADO; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

August 2001 — June 2004 (2 years 11 months)

Manage teams of J2EE developers building worldwide corporate applications. Our applications were deployed in different countries and time zones, following the ASP model.
- Responsible of the creation in Madrid of the development center of Adecco dedicated to J2EE. Search and recruitment of developers (18). Definition of working procedures and architectural baselines.
- Migration of XpertOnline project from a consultant firm in Vancouver to the new Development Center in Madrid. Responsible for the technical ‘Take Over’ plan.
- Planning the ‘go live’ of the XpertOnline project in the Adecco Datacenter in Lyon(France). Set up of the procedures for ‘roll outs’ of new releases, bug fixing and Operations tasks.
- Enhancement of the technical features of the application in order to solve the problems of Scalability and performance.
- Technical Lead of the new version of Workcard ASP solution. Redesign of the current Windows DNA Architecture for a migration to .NET or J2EE.
IT Manager

Cortal Consors España (SIAGA)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Banking industry)

March 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 5 months)

Creation of the team that should drive the deployment of the new services after the purchase of SIAGA S.A. by CONSORS Online Broker. We had to implement the IT strategy of the group in Spain.
- Depending directly from the central IT department in Germany
- Create the IT department in Spain ‘from the scratch’.
- Development and deployment of the new services of the corporation in Spain.
- Update of the IS, adopting J2EE on Sun Solaris, Oracle and BEA Weblogic.
- Planning and Integration of the new services and middleware for the trading platform.
- Definition and implementation of the processes of development
Developer

TCP Sistemas e Ingeniería

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1998 — February 2000 (1 year 6 months)

Developer in Networking Department. Working in the project SGIPI for Telefónica I+D.

Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)’s Education

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

MSc , Computer Science , 1991 — 2000

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Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)’s Interests:

Non professional: blogging, rock music, reading, movies, gadgets, basketball, soccer, food, siesta, travels. Professional: Cloud Computing, Software Architecture, Project Management, Software Engineering, Agile Methodologies...