Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)

Current

Senior IT Architect at The Server Labs S.L.
Partner at Amplia Soluciones S.L.
Partner at Opengate Systems S.L.

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Past

Freelance IT Contractor (Self-employed)
Professional Services Manager at Amplía Soluciones S.L.
Technical Lead at Adecco WWIT (Olecenter)

IT Manager at Cortal Consors España (SIAGA)
Developer at TCP Sistemas e Ingeniería

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Education

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)’s Summary

I think that I can define myself as an 'Enterprise Architect' that has evolved from Technical to Management. Since 2000, my job has been focused 99% on Java Enterprise Edition world, but my background comes from the Microsoft world and Systems Development on UNIX platforms for several years. I have a Master Degree in Computer Science by the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
I have been working in the development and roll out of Enterprise Applications following the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model, with different business goals and technologies.
Last years I have been tracking how Agile methodologies are being adopted slowly but firmly in the Enterprise environment. I have tried to adopt some Agile best practices, making the methodologies to fit into the company. Some of these best practices helped us to manage remote development teams, track changes in the projects and give honest feedback to the customers faster than traditional methodologies.

Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)’s Specialties:

Agile Team Management, Project Management, Client Facing Skills, Negotiation, Strong Technical Skills, Middleware Architectures Consultancy, Purchasing, Product Prospects, Budgeting, Software Development Consultancy, Knowledge of the Spanish Market.

Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)’s Experience

Senior IT Architect

The Server Labs S.L.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (7 months)

I currently work doing consultancy of Enterprise Architectures, mentoring and assessments of complex, high profile technology projects. Responsibilities include creating solutions and alternatives that support the business' needs of our customers and support the Business Development department writing technical proposals.
My skills include Agile Software development methodologies (Scrum and XP basically), Java Enterprise Architectures, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) , Grid Computing, Spring, Groovy on Grails, RIA, Ajax.
Partner

Amplia Soluciones S.L.

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — Present (4 years)
Partner

Opengate Systems S.L.

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — Present (4 years)
Freelance IT Contractor

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — December 2007 (3 months)

Freelance consultancy for management of integration projects, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) designs, Software as a Services (SaaS) solutions.
Professional Services Manager

Amplía Soluciones S.L.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2004 — October 2007 (3 years 3 months)

Manage teams of highly skilled personnel doing software development projects for Telcos and strong-middleware systems. I have successfully performed the following tasks:
- Creation of the department from scratch.
- Recruitment of developers and consultants.
- Set up of working procedures and methodologies. Adoption of Agile best practices.
- Tracking of projects
- Definition of baseline architecture of the projects. Style guides and Architectural rules.
- Client management
Technical Lead

Adecco WWIT (Olecenter)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ADO; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

August 2001 — June 2004 (2 years 11 months)

Manage teams of J2EE developers building worldwide corporate applications. Our applications were deployed in different countries and time zones, following the ASP model.
- Responsible of the creation in Madrid of the development center of Adecco dedicated to J2EE. Search and recruitment of developers (18). Definition of working procedures and architectural baselines.
- Migration of XpertOnline project from a consultant firm in Vancouver to the new Development Center in Madrid. Responsible for the technical ‘Take Over’ plan.
- Planning the ‘go live’ of the XpertOnline project in the Adecco Datacenter in Lyon(France). Set up of the procedures for ‘roll outs’ of new releases, bug fixing and Operations tasks.
- Enhancement of the technical features of the application in order to solve the problems of Scalability and performance.
- Technical Lead of the new version of Workcard ASP solution. Redesign of the current Windows DNA Architecture for a migration to .NET or J2EE.
IT Manager

Cortal Consors España (SIAGA)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Banking industry)

March 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 5 months)

Creation of the team that should drive the deployment of the new services after the purchase of SIAGA S.A. by CONSORS Online Broker. We had to implement the IT strategy of the group in Spain.
- Depending directly from the central IT department in Germany
- Create the IT department in Spain ‘from the scratch’.
- Development and deployment of the new services of the corporation in Spain.
- Update of the IS, adopting J2EE on Sun Solaris, Oracle and BEA Weblogic.
- Planning and Integration of the new services and middleware for the trading platform.
- Definition and implementation of the processes of development
Developer

TCP Sistemas e Ingeniería

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1998 — February 2000 (1 year 6 months)

Developer in Networking Department. Working in the project SGIPI for Telefónica I+D.

Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)’s Education

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

MSc, Computer Science, 1991 — 2000

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Diego Parrilla (diego (at) diegoparrilla.com)’s Interests:

Non professional: blogging, rock music, reading, movies, gadgets, basketball, soccer, food, siesta, travels. Professional: Software Architecture, Project Management, Software Engineering, Agile Methodologies...