Alex Dantart

Optimizer, business analyst, entrepeneur and investor

Location: Zaragoza Area, Spain
Industry: Internet

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Alex Dantart's Overview

Current

CEO at Uptimiza
Founder, CTO and partner at Olapic LLC
Business Intelligence and IT architect at Grupo SIGAC

Content writer and curator of travel experiences at tripwolf GmbH

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Past

External Analyst, consultant and IT architect at Grupo Zeta
Founder & 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

19 people have recommended Alex

Connections

500+ connections

Websites

Empleo en Uptimiza

✔ Cost reduction
✔ Business Intelligence Architect and Analytics Operations Engineering
✔ Optimization and improvement of IT departments
✔ Optimization and performance of processes and protocols used with technologies of medium and big companies.
✔ High performance and availability in high demanded websites
✔ Guide and advise young CEO and complement their experience, knowledge, personality and skills.
✔ Leads the implementation of strategies
✔ IESE Business School case study: http://bit.ly/uFaeTI

Specialties

• Cost reduction
• Migrations and scalability of big IT projects
• Usability, UX and Conversion Rate & SEM improvements
• Productive and efficient work, strong analytical and planning skills, self-motivator with high energy, ability to coordinate efforts of many to meet organizational goals.
• Agile, MySQL, AWS, MongoDB, Python and PHP evangelist

CEO

Uptimiza

June 2007 – Present (5 years) Nueva York, Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza

• Helping clients with change-management activities, project managing, designing, testing, building and monitoring of new projects, and coaching CEO to boost resources.
• Providing training improving staff motivation and skills under client’s system specifications, work practices, and nature of their business.
• Improving communications between departments for optimizing transparency and cost, and creating automated processes/protocols to save costs and time.
• Analysing IT requirements for clients and giving independent and objective advice on the use of IT, defining tech resources requirements (focusing in costs reduction, improving performance and tuning), developing agreed solutions in multiple devices/platforms and implementing new systems on planed timescales.
• Optimizing high-level websites (>100K visits/day) to reduce costs and improve performance (speed, UX/UI, SEM/SEO ...)

Founder, CTO and partner

Olapic LLC

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry

November 2010 – Present (1 year 7 months) Greater New York City Area

✔ Raised $1M (http://1.usa.gov/Hx72Ft) for Crowdsource Photos for Brands.
✔ IESE Case study in Amazon April 2011 Blackout: http://bit.ly/uFaeTI
• Columbia University Lang Venture Grant award and NYC Seedstart Media 2011 & MassChallenge 2011 Winner

• Drove overall planning, product roadmap and built Amazon HA & auto-scalable platform with custom database and file cache, hand-made fast-response static content delivery network (CDN).
• DBA, network, web and security admin; improved design, UX and backoffice for clients.

• Built Photorank: http://mashable.com/2011/07/25/photorank/
• Built SocialPhotoStock: one day hacking in PhotoHackDay building a photo promotion tool for social networks.

Business Intelligence and IT architect

Grupo SIGAC

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Services industry

October 2011 – Present (8 months) Zaragoza, Spain

• Costs reduction (around 50% of original budget in time and price), and staff tasks time reduction improving protocols and new backend tools.
• Business Intelligence architecture
• 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 and curator of travel experiences

tripwolf GmbH

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

November 2011 – Present (7 months)

• Specialized writing that captures the nuances of travel destinations and recreates the personal experiences in words.
• Experienced the culture, the food, the people, the by lanes, the attractions, the festivals and even the untapped, unexplored destinations of many countries across the globe.
• Passionate about the subject to effectively construct the experience for the readers.
• Focused in creating effective content for SEO and lead.

External Analyst, consultant and IT architect

Grupo Zeta

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry

June 2011 – December 2011 (7 months) Zaragoza, Spain

'Uptimiza' case study (Grupo Zeta: http://grupozeta.es )

✔ Migrated 6 online newspapers (including www.elperiodicodearagon.com)
• Speed up web average load time (from 8s to 1.3s)
• Built HA architecture (4F + 2DB)
• MySQL optimization (12 ms max!)
• Monitorization and fast fail recovery
• SEO/SEM improvements (36% increase in 1 month)
• Documented all architecture development
• Costs reduction

Founder & 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 get a MMORPG old-mobile game and manage it to turn it into web and smartphones devices
• 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 (all responses less than 11 ms)
• Migrated platform from 4 Windows servers to 2 Linux, reducing costs and improving performance
• Connected 9 different payment gateways in a single payment method

IT Consultant

HelpMyCash

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

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

• Plan of migration and UX experience

COO

FloraQueen

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Retail industry

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

✔ Tunned buying process with A/B tests improving ecommerce conversion rate from 6% to 17%
✔ Analyzed all financial data to reduce chargebacks, save comissions and match data between payment gateway and financial internal records, saving $+300K/year
• Built all SEO features in page, creation of intelligent browsing directory and converting orders from SEO as main source, from 11% to 38%.
• QSA for PCI compliance and VISA audit
• Migrated of all platform from Windows to Linux of a working e-commerce site recoding and rebuilding complete frontend and backoffice in 3 months.
• Created of all new protocols and improving communication/performance between departments (marketing, financial and customer service)

Founder and CEO

Sync.es

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

2002 – 2008 (6 years)

✔ Bootstrapped the company from idea stage to $3M+ revenue with 20.000+ customers and 80.000+ domains management in 5 years.
• Founded ISP dedicated to domains and hosting, Web development, Web marketing and SEO.
• Built IT platform, policies, protocols, backoffice, datacenter network in own datacenter space, support and self-automation processes.
• Sync.es is a ISO/IEC 27001 Certificated company recently acquired by Arsys

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

Sync
- February 2002 to July 2008
Team Members: Alex Dantart, Yago Arbeloa

SYNC Intertainment es una empresa formada por profesionales entusiastas e inquietos.

Desde 2002 Sync no ha dejado de ampliar horizontes y expectativas, creciendo de la mano de sus miembros que han sido parte activa en el resurgir de Internet en España.

Ahora es una de las empresas más fuertemente consolidadas en Internet y se ha convertido en la referencia en el sector para desarrollo web, hosting y marketing online.

Nuestros más de 20.000 clientes y más de 80.000 dominios en gestión avalan el buen hacer de Sync.es durante todos estos años.

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

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
Winner project for start-ups incubators
- June 2011
• Received 2010 Columbia University MBA Lang Venture Grant award
• NYC Seedstart Media 2011
• MassChallenge 2011 Finalist
Best webpage awards
- 2001
• Mejor página web de Ciencia de la Asociación de Usuarios de Internet en 2001
• Mejor página personal 2000 de iBest en 2000
Antena 3

Gestmusic

Colaborador para contenidos científicos en programas de televisión