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Oscar Castillo Chedraui

Oscar Castillo Chedraui

AI Business Leader | IT Delivery And Operations Management
San Salvador,El Salvador

Summary

Overall fourteen years of experience where you'll find proven events taking whiteboard problems to strategy execution, Risk Identification to healthy programs, managing from small to global distributed teams, managing from Core Banking migrations and international banking communication systems to implement and overview software staffing teams in many industries within America.
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I have worked for more than ten years in IT Management, from projects to building AI/ML (Data Science) business unit using POC's that gained momentum to active staff getting $2M in revenue (Actively developing Client Service Delivery business unit). More than six years at corporate banking industry and almost four years at a hyper-growth firm overseeing implementation and delivery of staffing services in different domains. I enjoy working towards strategic objectives and client expectations fostering key relationships (internal and external), but most importantly I love to mentor, coach and develop people.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Service Delivery Manager

Applaudo Studios
San Salvador, El Salvador, SS
04.2019 - Current

Main Responsibilities:

  • Manage, inspire and motivate leaders to empower operations excellence, high employee engagement, and service execution. Max Headcount 67 at single account.
  • Maintained proper staffing levels to guarantee timely and accurate deliveries
  • Coordinated new hire recruitment, training and development of the assigned population in different accounts
  • Perform and established request fulfillment processes as needed.
  • Integrate firm's internal areas towards responsive and adaptable service environment. Focus in delivery and people development
  • Escalation orchestration and reporting to senior management with Response Plan aligned with embedded organizational strategic objectives and key results
  • Lead and develop Service Delivery Leaders and other Managers
  • Keep throughput time between resource availability and allocation to increase productivity and reduce variability to empower efficiency of our people's life
  • Gatekeeper of the stage-for-success

Sr. IT Project Manager

Applaudo Studios
San Salvador, El Salvador, SS
04.2019 - 03.2022

Industries:

  • Banking | RealState | Education | Social Impact | AI | Data Science |

Overall Description:

  • Manage Client relationship to leverage Applaudo capabilities that fits and empower Technology Gaps in our clients. I serve as a liaison between Stakeholders, Product Managers, Technical leads and translate business needs to our internal team

Main Responsibilities:

  • Keep integrated all Applaudo internal areas to adapt as needed based on NDA, MSA and SOW's agreements
  • Billing and invoice control, Project planning, budgeting for new initiatives
  • Manage large operations through direct structured delegation among different roles (Principals, Team Leads that represent Front-End, Back-End, DevOps, Product Owners, Service Delivery Leaders and Managers and among other functional roles)
  • Risk Management: Mitigate risks that might impact Product Roadmap. Change Management
  • Facilitate project objective and scope understanding so that architecture solution proposed client side (if any)
  • Keep throughput time between resource availability and allocation to increase productivity and empower efficacy and efficiency of people time.

Senior IT Project Manager

Citi
San Salvador, El Salvador, SS
07.2013 - 04.2019

Main responsibilities

  • Plan, execute, monitor, and control business initiatives/requirements. Manage multiple IT LOBs projects
  • Manage communication between technology and business areas (Liaison)
  • Manage key stakeholder relationships between technology and business
  • Lead and control based on PMI and Agile (Scrum) best practices
  • Manage project financials and resource allocations
  • Identify project governance and oversight
  • Managed up to 6 project teams in Agile environment, realizing success through application of SDLC methodologies and exceptional leadership skills
  • Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs. Established Program / Project Risk Management

Google Apps for Work Specialist

TELUS International
San Salvador, El Salvador, SS
07.2012 - 07.2013
  • Manage and support communication tools (mail, chat, documents, etc.) based on business requirements. Plan, adapt and implement Google Apps for Work tool. Follow-up in cases reported by companies in timely manner.

Bell Internet Tech Support

Bell
Toronto, Ontario
07.2011 - 07.2012
  • Analyze and diagnose network problems and ADLS and fiber services. Manage and monitor logistic support of field work for residential customers. Generate incident metrics reporting them as lessons learned (Knowledge base).

Focus Group Analyst

Dichter & Neira Research
San Salvador, El Salvador
01.2010 - 05.2011
  • Conducted research, gathered information from focus group sessions and other sources
  • Used software tools to capture coded information so that quality and quantity are appreciated
  • Presented daily results
  • Optimized coded process from 8 to 2 business days to get results in report

Project Management Office Assistant

Dichter & Neira
San Salvador, El Salvador
06.2009 - 12.2009


  • Assign Scheduled flights based on capacity
  • Budget management
  • Risk and issues communication to Stakeholders
  • Create expenses report per flight as assigned by client
  • Create all itinerary per interviewer.
  • Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution.

Education

Harvard Business Analytics Program - Executive Education

Harvard Business School
Boston
07.2021 - Current

Nanodegree - AI Programming With Python

Udacity
United States
05.2021 - 08.2021

Executive Program - Data Science For Business Leaders

Udacity
United States
03.2021 - 05.2021

Nanodegree - AI Product Manager

Udacity
United States
01.2021 - 03.2021

Executive Program - AI For Business Leaders

Udacity
United States
11.2020 - 02.2021

Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Industrial Engineering

Universidad Francisco Gavidia
El Salvador
11.2008 - 12.2014

Introduction To - Python And R For Data Scientist

DataCamp
02.2022 - 05.2022

Affiliations

  • Harvard Startups Club and Data Minds - Participant
  • Three Shields VC - Applicant Investor
  • Harvard Business Analytics Cohort Representative

Timeline

Introduction To - Python And R For Data Scientist

DataCamp
02.2022 - 05.2022

Harvard Business Analytics Program - Executive Education

Harvard Business School
07.2021 - Current

Nanodegree - AI Programming With Python

Udacity
05.2021 - 08.2021

Executive Program - Data Science For Business Leaders

Udacity
03.2021 - 05.2021

Nanodegree - AI Product Manager

Udacity
01.2021 - 03.2021

Executive Program - AI For Business Leaders

Udacity
11.2020 - 02.2021

Service Delivery Manager

Applaudo Studios
04.2019 - Current

Sr. IT Project Manager

Applaudo Studios
04.2019 - 03.2022

Senior IT Project Manager

Citi
07.2013 - 04.2019

Google Apps for Work Specialist

TELUS International
07.2012 - 07.2013

Bell Internet Tech Support

Bell
07.2011 - 07.2012

Focus Group Analyst

Dichter & Neira Research
01.2010 - 05.2011

Project Management Office Assistant

Dichter & Neira
06.2009 - 12.2009

Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Industrial Engineering

Universidad Francisco Gavidia
11.2008 - 12.2014
Oscar Castillo ChedrauiAI Business Leader | IT Delivery And Operations Management