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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
El Salvador, El Salvador
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
San Salvador, El Salvador (Remote)
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.
El Salvador, San Salvador
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.
El Salvador, San Salvador
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.
San Salvador, San Salvador
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)
El Salvador, San Salvador
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
El Salvador, San 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.
El Salvador, San Salvador
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

Service Management & ITSM

SLA & KPI Governance

Team Management & Leadership

Stakeholder & Customer Management (Nearshore LATAM)

Strategic Planning & Execution

AI & Data-Driven Governance

Budgeting, Revenue & Margin Management

Continuous Improvement & Incident / Risk Management

CSAT & Customer Satisfaction 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