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Jhonathan Alexis Hernández Orellana

Jhonathan Alexis Hernández Orellana

Director Of Delivery & Operations | Head Of Service Delivery | ITIL Certified | LATAM Nearshore Technology Operations Leader
El Salvador

Summary

Technology Operations & Service Delivery Leader with 20+ years of experience leading regional delivery, service management and IT operations for enterprise customers across LATAM and North America. Currently Head of Service Delivery for a 30+ account portfolio (~USD 20M/year, 200+ technology engineers), combining a results-driven mindset with a people-oriented leadership style. Pursuing a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence Applied to Business, leveraging AI and data to boost productivity, predictability and service quality.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
9
9
Certificates

Work History

Head of Service Delivery & Operations

Applaudo Studios
01.2022 - Current
  • Lead the Service Delivery & Operations organization for a portfolio of 30+ active enterprise accounts (mostly US-based), representing ~55% of the company's recurring revenue (~USD 20M/year) and a distributed team of 200+ engineers across LATAM.
  • Own the operating model for staff augmentation, managed services, and fixed-scope projects, including governance forums, service reviews, SLAs, KPIs, and financial performance (revenue, utilization, shrinkage, gross margin & EBITDA).
  • Design and run ITSM-driven processes for incident management, problem resolution, and change coordination, ensuring service continuity, structured root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement across accounts.
  • Consolidate the Service Management function as the operational bridge between customers and technical teams, owning escalations, service health reviews, operational SLAs, and executive reporting for key stakeholders.
  • Partner with PMO and Technology leadership to standardize delivery practices and DevOps-aligned workflows, define implementation playbooks, and unify monitoring and reporting to increase predictability and time-to-value.
  • Drive data-driven governance using the company’s data warehouse and Power BI dashboards to track CSAT, incident trends, utilization, shrinkage, and revenue, enabling earlier risk detection and informed decision-making.
  • Recruit, coach, and develop a team of Delivery Managers, PMs, and Product roles, strengthening leadership capabilities, customer-centric mindset, and operational discipline across the regional delivery organization.
  • Collaborate closely with C-level and senior leaders (COO, Heads of Tech, Talent, and Customer Success) on regional capacity planning, budgeting, operational OKRs, and strategic initiatives for Service Delivery & Operations.


Key Achievements:


  • Drove sustained portfolio growth, expanding recurring annual revenue from ~USD 2M to ~USD 20M in four years, enabled by a stable operating model, consistent governance, and a scalable Service Delivery organization.
  • Sustained portfolio CSAT consistently above 90% through targeted improvement plans, stronger Service Management routines, and focused coaching to delivery teams.
  • Maintained revenue attainment at ~120% year over year by tightening control over customer concessions, improving predictability of shrinkage, and maximizing team productivity and utilization across accounts.
  • Strengthened and scaled the Service Delivery & Operations function to reliably support 30+ enterprise accounts and 200+ engineers across multiple LATAM countries, sustaining a large share of the company’s recurring revenue.
  • Replaced fragmented, account-specific practices with a unified governance model (SLAs, KPIs, service reviews, and executive dashboards), giving leadership a clearer view of performance, risks, and priorities across the portfolio.
  • Introduced a standardized incident and performance framework that brought a common language for severity, impact, and accountability, enabling earlier detection of issues, more consistent follow-up, and more predictable service outcomes.
  • Elevated operational visibility by consolidating key metrics (CSAT, incidents, utilization, shrinkage) into Power BI dashboards, giving C-level and Delivery leaders a single, actionable view of portfolio health to guide decisions and investments.

Quality Assurance and Compliance Manager

Applaudo Studios
01.2019 - 12.2021

Achievements:

  • Led a team of 130+ Engineers in over eight countries, providing internal/external Quality Assurance Services for more than 30 customers, most of them located in the United States.
  • Created the QA service catalog and portfolio with the company's QA offering aligned with operational capabilities, capacity, and global customer expectations.
  • Developed and reviewed Quality Assurance Policies and overall service/product quality approach for Internal/External IT services and deliverables.
  • Ramped the QA Team from 10 people to 130 in less than two years and defined a competency framework for QA roles & skills, created and executed a team growth and people development strategy to become a world-class team.
  • Helped to increase revenue for external Quality Assurance Services from less than $50K/per month to more than $850K/per month.
  • Developed the company's overall quality compliance strategy with clear goals aligned with operational objectives, performed a process maturity assessment to determine the action paths to increase profitability with QA Service, and improved customer satisfaction.


Software Quality Assurance Leader

AVIANCA HOLDINGS S.A.
09.2011 - 12.2018
  • Responsible for defining and communicating test strategies regarding testing activities and milestones, test environments, management of test data, use of test tools (Test management tools & use of automation tools), escalation procedures, quality metrics applicable, etc.
  • Work with the business partners, product owner, business representatives, and vendors to verify and validate the business requirements and assist with eliciting and managing test requirements.
  • Test estimation and planning, reporting, bug/incident management, stakeholder & vendor management.
  • Understand and define areas to calculate the overall risk to the project / Create and define risk contingencies and plans.
  • Defining quality standards and metrics for IT projects/products


Achievements:


  • Defined and implemented a strategy of comprehensive software testing based on agile methodologies (SCRUM), COBIT, and ITIL, aligned with standards such as ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119, ISO 25000 (Software Quality Attributes), and other complementary reference tools such as bug and incident management.
  • Built a specialized team in non-functional testing (mainly load, stress, and high availability testing). This team conducted non-functional testing for more than 15 strategic projects of the company, mitigating several high-impact risks (Main business areas: Digital Transformation & e-commerce, Revenue Management, Aircraft maintenance Operations, etc.)
  • Worked with world-class vendors to establish communication and work channels to define the outsourcing scheme for the testing factory (Functional and non-functional scope).
  • Established metrics, applied industry best practices, and developed new tools and processes
  • Acted as a key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases by providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.

Project Leader (Project Manager)

AVIANCA HOLDINGS S.A.
05.2010 - 08.2011
  • Activity and resource planning.
  • Organizing and motivating a project team.
  • Cost estimating and developing the budget.
  • Responsible for analyzing and managing project risks.
  • Responsible for monitoring progress and managing reports and other relevant project documentation.
  • Ensure internal and external customer satisfaction and minimize risks.
  • Responsible for requirements elicitation and business rules definition and clarification.


Achievements:


  • Worked along with world-class vendors (Accenture, Lufthansa Systems, and Amadeus in the implementation of a large Structured Booking Record to provide Inventory and reservations data.
  • Manage strategic IT development projects to support the long-term growth of the company.

IT Project Coordinator

TACA INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES S.A.
08.2008 - 04.2010
  • Responsible for requirements elicitation, business rules definition, code development, interface development, testing and training for strategic projects of Revenue Management Business Area.
  • Web Interface development
  • Accomplish project plan milestones
  • Business Rules Definition alongside with stakeholders
  • Solution deployment
  • Web performance improvements
  • Code developing and testing
  • Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures.

Achievements:

  • Evaluated and Implemented a Revenue Management Systems (RMS), for income improvement and optimization of inventory utilization according to forecasting models.
  • Defined a centralized reporting schema of revenue management & optimization systems data.
  • Manage strategic IT development projects in order to support the long term company grow.

IT Developer and Analyst

I.S.T.A (Instituto Salvadoreño de Transformación Agraria)
11.2006 - 08.2008
  • Responsible for Identifying requirements and business rules.
  • Arranging project requirements in programming sequence by analyzing requirements; preparing a work flow chart and diagram using knowledge of computer capabilities, subject matter, programming language, and logic.
  • Coding and debugging.
  • Confirming program operation by conducting tests; modifying program sequence and debugging.
  • Providing reference for use and maintaining user documentation.
  • Participated in design and planning exercises for future software rollouts.

Consumer Technical Support Specialist

DELL El Salvador
01.2006 - 10.2006
  • Responsible for Interacting with customers to provide and process information in response to inquiries, concerns, and requests about products and services.

  • Diagnose and resolve technical hardware and software issues involving internet connectivity, email clients, IPTV, VOIP.
  • Identifying and escalating priority issues per Client specifications.

IT Analyst

Tecnologías de Información S.A. de C.V.
01.2004 - 12.2005
  • Responsible for requirements elicitation, business rules definition, code development, documenting.
  • Coding, developing and testing.
  • Developed diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.
  • Planned computer systems using information engineering and structured analysis.

Education

Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence Applied To Business

ADEN International Business School (With G.W. University)
United States
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Systems

University of El Salvador
San Salvador, El Salvador
01.2001 - 06.2008

Skills

Delivery & Operations Management

Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual

Certification

ISTQB Foundation Level (Certificacion) 

Timeline

Management 3.0

03-2022

Lean Change Management

03-2022

Head of Service Delivery & Operations

Applaudo Studios
01.2022 - Current

ISTQB Agile Tester Certification

05-2019

Quality Assurance and Compliance Manager

Applaudo Studios
01.2019 - 12.2021

ISTQB Advanced Level (Test Manager Certification)

12-2017

ISTQB Foundation Level (Certificacion) 

08-2014

ITIL Foundations  v3 (Axelos)

01-2014

ITIL  Release Control and Validations (Intermediate)

01-2014

Performance, Load & Stress Testing (Boston, MA) 

01-2012

Software Quality Assurance Leader

AVIANCA HOLDINGS S.A.
09.2011 - 12.2018

Systematic Software Testing  (Tampa, FL)

01-2011

Project Leader (Project Manager)

AVIANCA HOLDINGS S.A.
05.2010 - 08.2011

IT Project Coordinator

TACA INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES S.A.
08.2008 - 04.2010

IT Developer and Analyst

I.S.T.A (Instituto Salvadoreño de Transformación Agraria)
11.2006 - 08.2008

Consumer Technical Support Specialist

DELL El Salvador
01.2006 - 10.2006

IT Analyst

Tecnologías de Información S.A. de C.V.
01.2004 - 12.2005

Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence Applied To Business

ADEN International Business School (With G.W. University)
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Systems

University of El Salvador
01.2001 - 06.2008
Jhonathan Alexis Hernández OrellanaDirector Of Delivery & Operations | Head Of Service Delivery | ITIL Certified | LATAM Nearshore Technology Operations Leader