Alex Dantart
IT optimizer, business analyst, consultant, entrepeneur
- Location
- Zaragoza Area, Spain
- Industry
- Internet
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Alex Dantart's Overview
- Current
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- Founder at Uptimiza
- External Analyst, consultant and IT architect at Sigac S.L. (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- 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
- Education
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- Universidad de Zaragoza
- Universidad de Zaragoza
- Recommendations
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16 people have recommended Alex
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Alex Dantart's Summary
• 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.
Alex Dantart's Experience
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
Alex Dantart's Courses
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Independent Coursework
- Zend PHP Certification (Zend)
- MySQL Certification (Oracle)
- Architecting with AWS (Amazon)
- Getting Things Done - the Managing Projects & Priorities (Dave Allen)
Alex Dantart's Honors and Awards
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Mejor página web de Ciencia
Asociación de Usuarios de Internet- 2001
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Mejor página personal 2000
iBest- 2000
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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
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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
Alex Dantart's Skills
Alex Dantart's Languages
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English
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Spanish
(Native or bilingual proficiency) -
French
(Elementary proficiency)
Alex Dantart's Education
Universidad de Zaragoza
Lic., Ingeniería Informática
1999 – 2002
Universidad de Zaragoza
Lic., Físicas
1995 – 1999
Alex Dantart's Additional Information
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- Interests:
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Science, tech, travel
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- Honors and Awards:
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Best personal website Spain from "Asociación de Usuarios de Internet"
Best science website iBest
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