Alex Dantart

IT optimizer, business analyst, consultant, entrepeneur

Location: Zaragoza Area, Spain
Industry: Internet

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Alex Dantart's Overview

Current

Founder at Uptimiza
External Analyst, consultant and IT architect at Sigac S.L. (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

Content writer at tripwolf GmbH
External Analyst, consultant and IT architect at Grupo Zeta
Cofounder & CTO at Olapic LLC

Cofounder & CTO at guParty
CTO & Partner at Digiversia
CTO at CorsairBand
IT Consultant at HelpMyCash
COO at FloraQueen
Founder and CEO at Sync.es
Web developer at Ibercaja
Web developer at Pixar

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Education

Universidad de Zaragoza
Universidad de Zaragoza

Recommendations

16 people have recommended Alex

Connections

500+ connections

Websites

Resume in Google Docs / PDF

• Cost reduction
• Migrations and scalability of big IT projects
• Usability, UX and Conversion Rate & SEM improvements
• Analytics Operations Engineering
• IT management and agile software project management
• Productive and efficient work habits without supervision.
• Strong analytical and planning skills, combined with the ability to coordinate the efforts of many to meet organizational goals.
• IESE Business School case study: http://bit.ly/uFaeTI
• Self-motivator with high energy.

• MySQL, AWS, MongoDB, Python and PHP evangelist

Specialties

✔ High performance and availability in high demanded websites
✔ Optimization and improvement of IT departments
✔ Optimization and performance of processes and protocols used with technologies of medium and big companies.
✔ Leads the implementation of strategies
✔ Cost reduction
✔ Guide and advise young CEO.
✔ Complement the CEO’s experience, knowledge, personality and skills.

Founder

Uptimiza

June 2007 – Present (4 years 8 months) Greater New York City Area

• Analyse IT requirements for clients and giving independent and objective advice on the use of IT, defining tech resources requirements, developing agreed solutions and implementing new systems on planed timescales.
• Help clients with change-management activities, project managing, designing, testing, installing and monitoring of new systems.
• Provided training for users and consultants to clarify client’s system sepcifications, work practices, and nature of their business.
• Optimizing high-level websites (>100K visits/day) to reduce costs and improve performance (speed, UX, SEM/SEO ...)
• Automated communications between departments for improved transparency and cost
• Improving communications between departments and create automated processes to
save costs

All IT "uptimizations" can be applied in:
• departments (protocols, communication ...)
• persons (motivation, skills, ...)
• hardware (costs reduction, performance ...)
• "hard" software (servers and services tuning ...)
• "soft" software (web and mobile applications ...)
• final customer (SEO, speed, UX/UI ...)

External Analyst, consultant and IT architect

Sigac S.L. (Sole Proprietorship)

Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Executive Office industry

October 2011 – Present (4 months) Zaragoza, Spain

• Business analysis to perform protocols and communication between departments
• Created and managed 4 IT department engineers and documented all protocols and processes
• Built cloud architecture to support HA and demanded concurrent backoffice
• Built business and logic flow charts
• Backoffice analysis and development

Content writer

tripwolf GmbH

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

November 2011 – January 2012 (3 months)

Write & edit creative materials for travels promotion.

External Analyst, consultant and IT architect

Grupo Zeta

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry

June 2011 – November 2011 (6 months) Zaragoza, Spain

'Uptimiza' case study for hardware and "soft" software (Grupo Zeta: http://grupozeta.es )
• IT project to migrate 6 online newspapers (including www.elperiodicodearagon.com)
• Speed up web load time (from 8s to 1.3s)
• Built HA architecture (4F + 2 DB)
• MySQL optimization (0.12s max!)
• Monitorization and fast fail recovery
• SEO/SEM improvements
• Costs reduction

Cofounder & CTO

Olapic LLC

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry

November 2010 – September 2011 (11 months) Greater New York City Area

• Built new IT platform/coding for white-label photo-sharing project.
• Built Amazon auto-scalable platform with custom database and file cache, hand-made static content delivery network (CDN) and fast-response features.
• DBA, network, web and security admin. (IT admin)
• Drove overall planning for Olapic and Photorank.me and owned product roadmap
• One day hacking in PhotoHackDay with SocialPhotoStock.org (design, coding, sysadmin, database, processes)
• Improved design, UX and backoffice for clients.
• Received 2010 Columbia University MBA Lang Venture Grant award

NYC Seedstart Media 2011
MassChallenge 2011 Finalist
IESE Case study in Amazon April 2011 Blackout: http://bit.ly/uFaeTI

Cofounder & CTO

guParty

December 2009 – February 2011 (1 year 3 months) Madrid

• Built new IT platform/coding for online dating site.
• Built auto-scalable platform with custom database and file cache, and fast-response features.
• DBA, network, web and security admin. (IT admin)
• Drove overall project planning and owned product roadmap
• Improved design, UX.

CTO & Partner

Digiversia

Marketing and Advertising industry

February 2010 – January 2011 (1 year) Madrid Area, Spain

• Built new IT team to recover MMORPG web game.
• Created and managed 4 IT department engineers and documented all protocols and processes
• Managed Amazon cloud platform creation (EC2, AS, S3, ELB, RDS, EBS, R53, CloudWatch, SES ...) and scripts to perform other features.
• QSA for PCI compliance.

CTO

CorsairBand

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry

February 2010 – January 2011 (1 year) Madrid Area, Spain

• Built new IT team to recover MMORPG mobile game and convert it to web and smartphone game
• Created and managed 4 IT department engineers and documented all protocols and processes
• Rebuilt database schema and analysed bottlenecks in servers response times in game and improved.
• Created all new linux platforms that reduced IT expenses.
• Migrated from Windows servers to Linux and connected different payment gateways.

IT Consultant

HelpMyCash

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

February 2010 – April 2010 (3 months) Barcelona Area, Spain

• Plan of migration
• UX experience

COO

FloraQueen

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Retail industry

June 2008 – February 2010 (1 year 9 months) Barcelona Area, Spain

• Migrated of all platform from Windows to Linux: complete e-commerce site (coding and design), shopping cart, CMS, Backoffice, payment gateway implementation of BIBIT and system administration of frontend and databases hosts.
• Created of all new protocols and improving communication/performance between departments (marketing, financial and customer service)
• Tunned buying process and performing A/B tests to improve ecommerce conversion rate.
• Analyzed all financial data to reduce chargebacks, save comissions and match data between payment gateway and financial internal records.
• Built all SEO features in page, creation of intelligent browsing directory and converting orders from SEO as main source.
• QSA for PCI compliance and VISA audit

Founder and CEO

Sync.es

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

2002 – 2008 (6 years)

• Founded ISP dedicated to domains and hosting, Web development, Web marketing and SEO. Bootstrapped the company from idea stage to $2M+ revenue. Sync.es is a ISO/IEC 27001 Certificated company.
• Built IT platform, policies, protocols, backoffice, datacenter network in own datacenter space, support and self-automation processes.

Web developer

Ibercaja

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Banking industry

March 1999 – May 2001 (2 years 3 months)

Web development of Ibercaja.es website and IbercajaDirecto.com (bank online backoffice for customers) as private developer through Pixar

Web developer

Pixar

1998 – 2001 (3 years)

• Web developing (design and coding)
• Project coordination
• Domain name registration and management tools
• System administration

Independent Coursework
- Zend PHP Certification (Zend)
- MySQL Certification (Oracle)
- Architecting with AWS (Amazon)
- Getting Things Done - the Managing Projects & Priorities (Dave Allen)

Mejor página web de Ciencia

Asociación de Usuarios de Internet
- 2001
Mejor página personal 2000

iBest
- 2000
Case study in Amazon April 2011 Blackout

IESE Business School
- September 2011
Explanation of how the Amazon blackout of April'11 was managed. Link: http://bit.ly/uFaeTI
Official translator for Astronomy Picture of the Day

NASA
- June 1995
Translating the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" (APOD) webpage from NASA since 1995 each day. Spanish website URL is http://observatorio.info