IT Manager at Barcelona Digital Technology Centre, Entrepreneur & Blogger
Barcelona Area, Spain
- Current
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- IT Manager at Barcelona Digital Technology Centre
- Past
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- Project Manager at Barcelona Digital Technology Centre
- System Administrator & IT Help Desk at PowerOffice S.A. (TechFoundries Group)
- IT Help Desk at Promofon S.A. Unipersonal (Auna Group)
- 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
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- ESADE Business School
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- University of Cambridge
- The British Council
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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
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IT Manager
Barcelona Digital Technology Centre
(Non-Profit; Research industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 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).
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Project Manager
Barcelona Digital Technology Centre
(Non-Profit; Research industry)
February 2006 — January 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 2005 — February 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 2004 — January 2005 (4 months)
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IT Help Desk
Gestel Gestión Telefónica S.A. (Auna Group)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
February 2004 — October 2004 (9 months)
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Real estate agent
Barcelona Acomodation Services S.L.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Commercial Real Estate industry)
January 2003 — March 2003 (3 months)
Trying to develop, without success, a rental accomodation 2.0 webproject: www.bcnacomodation.com
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Barman
Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club (Ireland)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Sports industry)
March 1999 — July 1999 (5 months)
While studying English in Ireland.
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Waiter
Dusty Miller’s (Ireland)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Restaurants industry)
March 1999 — July 1999 (5 months)
While studying English in Ireland.
Blai Monegal Blanch’s Education
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ESADE Business School
Project Management , 2008 — 2008
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Computer Science Engineer 1999 — 2008
PFC: "Aplicación de la tecnología RFID en las cadenas de suministro. Estudio de viabilidad" - Nota: 8.5
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University of Cambridge
First Certificate , English
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The British Council
First, Higher and Advanced in English
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Blai Monegal Blanch’s Groups:
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Professionals Catalans de les TIC
Blai Monegal Blanch’s Honors:
Time magazine's 2006 "Person of the year": for transforming the information age.
Blai Monegal Blanch’s Contact Settings
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