
Online Business Director at Panda Security
Bilbao Area, Spain

Online Business Director at Panda Security
Bilbao Area, Spain
I have been working on Internet Related companies since 1993, when I created my own small company back in The United States of America, where I went to school.
Since then, I have been actively involved in more that a dozen projects of all sizes related to The Internet and Ecommerce.
My fields of interest go from usability, to search engine optimization, to search engine marketing and also to a degree into programming languages.
I am experience in managing teams and I enjoy motivating workers and investors on startup environments.
I love to work and I work well under pressure.
Search Engine Optimization
Pay Per Click Advertising Campaigns
User Experience - Usability - Accesibility
XHTML - CSS - Javascript
Programming Languages (Java, PHP, C, C++, ADA, Assembly, Shell, AWK)
Computer Systems & Network Optimization
W3C Standards
Internet Entrepreneurship
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
In charge of maximizing online revenue generation. Also responsible for all web properties and online traffic acquisition strategy World Wide.
(Real Estate industry)
September 2008 — December 2008 (4 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
June 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Vueling is a New Generation Airline. We do our best so people can fly at the best prices and also have a great experience.
My mission at Vueling is to make sure we rank high on Search Engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo, where our potential costumers search for ways to move from one destination to another.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 1 month)
I developed the Search Engine Marketing strategy for the Design Studio, including Search Engine PPC Campaings, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) consulting for the E-commerce clients.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2001 — June 2007 (6 years 5 months)
My mission at YD WM is to ensure we use top notch technologies to provide our clients with the very best available solutions for their technological needs.
I make sure our systems are reliable and ensure our uptime is never below the 99.99% line.
I investigate in new technology developments in our field of work and recommend those that would make us more competitive.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 9 months)
I established the company in Spain from zero.
I did all he paperwork to get us incorporated, I hired the management team, I hire the offices in the three main cities where we had offices, I hired the P.R agency to help us launch the company on the media.
I did business development to help the company be number 1 in our sector only nine months after launching, despite of the big competition in the local market.
I attended International meetings in France, England and Italy to ensure a Global Estrategy to be follow at a Local Level.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1999 — December 1999 (8 months)
I helped to launch the Portal. I did hiring for the Content Department.
I helped the C.T.O to choose the Search Technology for the Portal, due to my previous experience having developed a search portal before
.
I designed the databases and the Directory Structure for the Portal.
I defined the Content Strategy according to the desired positioning desired by the founders of the Portal.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1994 — May 1999 (5 years 5 months)
Yahoo had recently launch it's directory, I read a magazine article about their story and decided to start my own Search Portal for my country, Spain.
I sat on the floor of my small apartment in Daytona Beach, Florida and with the help of my wife we were able to launch the portal in a few months, long night working till dawn, not much going out happen at that time.
At that point there were barely 400 sites in Spain, nobody thought it was a great Idea to write a complex search algorithm to search among 400 sites, three years later, Spain had more than 100.000 sites to be index and the Search Portal was a success.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
May 1996 — May 1998 (2 years 1 month)
Maintain a network of IBM Unix workstations used by the engineers to design aviation parts.
Maintain a Hight Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP) for critical engineering design process.
Coordinated the Digital Mockup (DMU) of the different Aviation Parts allowing product design engineers to replace physical prototypes with virtual ones.
Bachelor in Science , Aviation, Computers, Programming Languages, Software Engineering , 1992 — 1996
I deployed the first Linux Installation at School (Slackware 1994)
I worked at the Computer Lab as a Lab assistant
Associate Degree in Arts , Social Studies , 1990 — 1991
Worked as a van driver driving students to the different campus facilities.
12th Grage , High School , 1989 — 1990
International Students Exchange Program
Kundalini Yoga Kickboxing Padel Horseback Riding
Caminos, ACM, Networking Activo
Chosen among the TOP 100 Internet Professional for Spain in 2000, Revista Punto.com (Expansion)
Chosen among the TOP 200 E-commerce Professionals for Spain in 2000, Business Week (Spanish Edition)
Chosen among the TOP 1,400 Spanish Entrepreneurs in 2000, Actualidad Económica
President of the ACM (Asociation for Computing Machinery) chapter at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. 1992-1995
President of the Student Government, Carl Sandburg College, Carthage, Illinois. 1991