IT Director at Universia Holding S.L. (Santander Group)
Madrid Area, Spain
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- IT Director at Universia Holding S.L.
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- IT Consultant at Ideal Objects S.A.
- IT Analyst / Developer at Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- Education
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- Universidad de Alcalá
- Universitat d'Alacant
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Javier Pozo’s Summary
I have experience in the direction of an IT Department specially in Internet environments, considering both development and systems areas. In addition my technological background allows me to be creative in innovation and project management.
I have led successfully several technical teams during my years of work and have managed to extract the maximum from them, using communication, confidence, team spirit and effort.
Javier Pozo’s Specialties:
IT, technology, computing, direction, management, developing, HR management, project management, software, hardware, purchasing, negotiation, internet, educational environments, seo, java, php, databases
Javier Pozo’s Experience
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IT Director
Universia Holding S.L.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
In this Internet company which belongs to the Bank of Santander, with educational and divulgative purposes for the university environment of 11 countries (Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Portugal, Mexico, Uruguay and Puerto Rico), I assume the task of IT Director in Spain.
The IT Department has approximately 15 people and is structured in 2 areas: development and systems. In the development area we create Internet projects internally and we subcontract the developments to another companies too, doing the opportune follow-up. In the systems area we take care of the stability of the platform in which we run almost 200 applications of all the Universia countries. We have more than 50 servers managed entirely by ourselves.
In addition, I collaborate actively in the development of international projects made in different countries of Latin America, taking part in the definition and launch. -
IT Project Manager
Universia
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
May 2001 — March 2007 (5 years 11 months)
I carried out functions of direction and coordination in international projects, planning times of delivery and collaborating in all the phases of development.
I led teams of 3-4 people with heterogeneous profiles (analysts, programmers, designers), taking responsibility in projects, principally under the Java platform, supervising development teams, taking decisions on hardware and software architecture and leading the definition, analysis, design, programming, testing and follow-up of Internet projects, created by our own or by another companies.
Besides the principal project in Spain, I collaborated in the launch of portals in the other countries, Alban (EU scholarships program), the Universia portals of employment and leisure and many more. -
IT Project Manager
Pragmalia
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2001 — May 2001 (4 months)
I worked as the technical manager of a 4 people team for Java-technology based project of Points and Offers for Día Supermarkets.
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IT Consultant
Teknoland
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2000 — February 2001 (5 months)
I created reports, offers and technical consultancies in Java and XML technologies. I led project development groups for several projects.
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IT Consultant
Ideal Objects S.A.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2000 — October 2000 (9 months)
I created reports, offers and technical consultancies in Java and XML technologies. I led project development groups for several projects and gave courses about "Java for begginers" and "Java for experts".
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IT Analyst / Developer
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 1999 — February 2000 (10 months)
I worked in the initial development and launch of this interesting project, which consists on a free digital library and much more web applications. It is still on-line at www.cervantesvirtual.com .
I was one of the programmers who designed the database, the search engine and the first verion of the portal.
Javier Pozo’s Education
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Universidad de Alcalá
Master , Economics E-Business Technology , 2004 — 2005
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Universitat d'Alacant
computer science engineering 1994 — 1999
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