Blai Monegal Blanch

IT Manager at Barcelona Digital Technology Centre, Entrepreneur & Blogger

Barcelona Area, Spain

Current
Past
  • IT Help Desk at Gestel Gestión Telefónica S.A. (Auna Group)
  • Real estate agent at Barcelona Acomodation Services S.L.
  • Barman at Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club (Ireland)
  • Waiter at Dusty Miller’s (Ireland)
Education
  • ESADE Business School
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • The British Council
  • University of Cambridge
Connections
183 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services

Blai Monegal Blanch’s Summary

PROFESSIONAL GOALS
Work on companies where I can apply my experience in Project Management and IT Management – always with a clear direction and clarity to achieve the customer satisfaction. Achieve excellence and innovation in each project I participate in. Learn permanently to maximize my performance and bring greater value to the company and my team.

Blai Monegal Blanch’s Specialties:

MY QUALITIES
- Clear vocation towards results, quality and costumer satisfaction.
- Great ability to Project Management and IT Management.
- Great ability to communicate and negotiate.
- Critical spirit, entrepreneur and innovative.
- Great potential and interest in expanding knowledge in all areas, both technical and business.


Blai Monegal Blanch’s Experience

  • IT Manager

    Barcelona Digital Technology Centre

    (Non-Profit; Research industry)

    February 2006Present (3 years 10 months)

    - Periodic assessment of existing infrastructure and study of alternatives of growth and/or restructuring.
    - Computer systems evolution, from 7 to 50 users.
    - Data Center management.
    - Contact with external suppliers, studying offers and negotiation.
    - Coordination of the definition process and implementation of new systems (ERP Dynamics Ax, CRM Dynamics Ax, Webs under different technologies: LAMP, SharePoint, CMS).
    - Technical manager of web portals: Mapatic.org, Tecnomapa.es, Pimestic.cat, Tic.cat, Poligonosenred.es, Infoayuntamientostdt.es, Bdigital.org, Bdigitalglobalcongress.net.
    - Management of the presence on the Internet (blogs, search engines, social/business networking, SEO, SEM campaigns and tracking results with Google Analytics).
    - DB managements (MySQL and SQL Server) and communication (voice + data).
    - Manager of the IT support team.

  • Project Manager

    Barcelona Digital Technology Centre

    (Non-Profit; Research industry)

    February 2006January 2008 (2 years )

    - Management of ICT studies and projects (Information Technology and Communication).
    - Participating in all phases of Project management: design, planning, subcontracting (if applicable), monitoring…
    - Participating in the development of different technological studies (RFID, security, mobility…) and responsible and author of the study: “Estudi i casos d’èxit d’aplicació de la tecnologia RFID”. (Available on www.bdigital.org)
    - Report regularly to the technical director the status of projects and studies.

  • System Administrator & IT Help Desk

    PowerOffice S.A. (TechFoundries Group)

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2005February 2006 (1 year 2 months)

    Working on PowerOffice Hotel, PowerOffice Express and PowerSyncro projects.

    - Data Center management.
    - Call Center management.
    - Management and analysis of customers, generating usage and behavior statistics – linking with the marketing department.
    - Quality control of projects (Testing, BugFixing).
    - Managing the logistics of the company products (buying and selling, importing and distribution, customization of products).

  • IT Help Desk

    Promofon S.A. Unipersonal (Auna Group)

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2004January 2005 (4 months)

  • IT Help Desk

    Gestel Gestión Telefónica S.A. (Auna Group)

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    February 2004October 2004 (9 months)

  • Real estate agent

    Barcelona Acomodation Services S.L.

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Commercial Real Estate industry)

    January 2003March 2003 (3 months)

    Trying to develop, without success, a rental accomodation 2.0 webproject: www.bcnacomodation.com

  • Barman

    Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club (Ireland)

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Sports industry)

    March 1999July 1999 (5 months)

    While studying English in Ireland.

  • Waiter

    Dusty Miller’s (Ireland)

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Restaurants industry)

    March 1999July 1999 (5 months)

    While studying English in Ireland.


Blai Monegal Blanch’s Education

  • ESADE Business School

    Project Management , 20082008

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Computer Science Engineer 19992008

    PFC: "Aplicación de la tecnología RFID en las cadenas de suministro. Estudio de viabilidad" - Nota: 8.5

  • The British Council

    First, Higher and Advanced in English

  • University of Cambridge

    First Certificate , English


Additional Information

Blai Monegal Blanch’s Groups:

  •    Informatica UAB
  •    Barcelona Professionals
  •    Professionals Catalans de les TIC
  •    Red del Centro de Innovación en Productividad
  •    TIC.cat
  •    PIMESTIC

Blai Monegal Blanch’s Honors:

Time magazine's 2006 "Person of the year": for transforming the information age.


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