Executive Journey

Two decades, hands-on roots.

From DBA and data architect to a 345-person global organization. Every role kept technical depth in the left hand and organizational scale in the right.

Globant

2024 – Present · Global

Technology Director, Data & AI

345 indirect · 20 managers · 5 regions

Annual budget ownership · vendor & alliance ecosystem · Top 100 strategic accounts · NA, LATAM, Middle East, Europe, Australia

  • Co-led Globant's GenAI strategy; co-created and scaled AI Pods to 17+ accounts (~30% faster time-to-value, ~20% less rework)
  • Core banking modernization: 6 institutions, 100+ apps, up to 40% OPEX reduction in 12 months
  • Improved time-to-impact ~30% vs baseline via standardized workflows with quality gates

Accenture

Jul 2021 – Jun 2024

Data & Analytics Manager — Practice Lead, Data & AI Colombia

30 FTE · US$3M target · ~20% YoY
  • Founded the Generative AI practice ”Genoma”, 7 reusable assets, delivery models, enablement, commercial narratives
  • Led Data & AI strategy for Banking and Oil & Gas: roadmaps, investment cases, transformation programs
  • 11+ initiatives · 10+ Data/AI strategies delivered

Xertica

Mar 2020 – Jun 2021

Head of Pre-Sales LATAM

15 direct reports · regional scope
  • Redesigned the end-to-end pre-sales process, funnel discipline, consistency, targets exceeded
  • Opened and expanded executive relationships: 7+ new enterprise accounts
  • +7% conversion · +22% revenue · −5% delivery time · +70% client satisfaction · +10% alliance revenue

Visión Colombia

Dec 2014 – Feb 2020

Solutions Manager

Data/AI product delivery · strategic bids
  • Built reusable assets and delivery standards, faster time-to-market, consistent execution
  • Led strategic bids that grew revenue and strengthened retention
  • +35% contribution to target · +75% retention · +22% revenue via bids · 20+ assets · 20+ projects on time & scope

Foundation

2006 – 2014

Visión — Senior Consultant · Mainsoft — Security & Platform Consultant

Hands-on years
  • Platform administrator → DBA → data engineer → data architect → technical lead, the technical floor every executive call still stands on
Capabilities

Executive scope, technical depth.

The CTO differentiator is holding both columns at once.

Strategic leadership
  • Data & AI strategy: executive priorities into roadmaps, investment cases, capability design
  • Operating model & governance design: co-created AI Pods at Globant; created Value OS at Athrios; governance wired into execution (30% cost ↓ in 14 months)
  • Subscription-based delivery: tiers, intake rules, KPI reporting, predictable cost
  • C-level stakeholder management: commercial cycle and delivery governance with executives
  • Multi-region leadership: 20 managers, 345 indirect, 5 regions, annual budget
  • Commercial strategy: US$3M practice target ~20% YoY · +22% revenue · US$60M program closed
  • Change management & adoption: transformation installed through cadence, owners, gates, metrics
Technical depth
  • 200+ architectures designed and built, banking, retail, healthcare, insurance
  • Platform migrations: Teradata, Cloudera, Netezza, Oracle → GCP, AWS, Azure; multicloud, lakehouse, data fabric, data mesh
  • Batch → real-time: Kafka, CDC, windowing, Lambda/Kappa; stream only where latency changes the decision
  • Agentic stack: MCP, Agent-to-Agent, LangChain; RAG / hybrid / agentic RAG on pgvector & Qdrant
  • Engines: Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery · Delta Lake/Iceberg · dbt · catalogs
  • Banking-grade controls: certified regulatory reporting, source-to-KPI lineage, masking, RBAC/ABAC, MDM golden records
  • DevOps / IaC: CI/CD, Terraform · Anthropic ecosystem: Claude Code, MCP in agentic designs
BankingOil & GasRetailAirlinesUtilitiesHealthcareMiningConstructionTechnology Services
Operating Principles

How I run transformation.

01

Agents without governance create faster noise; agents with operating discipline create leverage.

02

Governance should work as guardrails that accelerate trusted delivery, not as bureaucracy that delays it.

03

Start with the business metric; then design the platform and operating model around it.

04

Transformation is not announced; it is installed, through cadence, owners, gates, metrics and adoption.

05

Leverage beats headcount.

06

Quality is not cleanup; it is operating discipline.

Credentials

Education & certifications.

Executive Management Program — PADE · INALDEin progress · 2026
Solution Architecture — MIT / Accenture2024
Business Leadership — Universidad de los Andes2023
Project Management — Universidad Piloto2018
B.S. Telecommunications Engineering — Universidad Piloto2013
Google Cloud — Professional Data Engineer2022
Google Cloud — Associate Cloud Engineer2022
Google Cloud — Digital Leader2022
Google Cloud — Sales Credential2021
LanguagesSpanish · English

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