Jorge Gómez

Past

Videogames Producer at Pyro Studios
IT Solutions Manager at Andago
Technical Manager at Multinational IT services leader

Team Manager at Telefónica
IT Project Manager at Teknoland

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Education

IE (Instituto de Empresa)
IE (Instituto de Empresa)
IE (Instituto de Empresa)

IE (Instituto de Empresa)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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Industry

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Jorge Gómez’s Summary

Success focused bilingual engineer - plus expected MBA in 2010 - featuring twelve years of managerial experience creating, producing and selling high performance technological solutions, topped with proactive attitude, proven problem solving abilities, market awareness, customer focus, outstanding negotiation and communications skills, IT expertise and worldwide mobility.

Proficiency handling concurrent projects, managing people, time, resources, budgets, forecasting and assessing risks, and leveraging quality vs. costs, motivating teams, obtaining results and keeping stakeholders informed.

Jorge Gómez’s Specialties:

Motivating teams to obtain results
Communication and negotiation
Autonomy, creativity and flexibility
Technical skills and innovation
Project planning, scheduling, tracking and reporting
Change and risks management
Market awareness and customer focus
Passion for videogames, high tech, and world cultures

Jorge Gómez’s Experience

Videogames Producer

Pyro Studios

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

July 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 9 months)

Lead the successful development of “Planet 51, the Videogame” on time and within budget of 15M USD, on five platforms: XBOX 360 (plus extra XBOX Live content), PC (Games for Windows), PS3, Wii, and NDS. Developed with Unreal Engine and internal tools, the game is based on the CGI movie by Ilion Animation Studios, to be released in Nov. '09 by Sony Pictures. http://www.planet51.com

Main duty was to maintain forecasts of the project's schedule and expenses to identify and avoid overruns, and report progress, budget, risks and issues to the Stakeholders. Facilitated that our highly talented cross-functional team of 63 designers, graphics artist, programmers, testers, writers and musicians worked as a well oiled “production machine”, and that the entire team knew the highest priorities and due dates in order to meet the deadlines.

Identified and defined the specifications, scope, prototypes' requirements, and supervised the creation, execution and maintenance of all schedules, milestones, deliverables and contracts of the project with extensive use of Agile based (SCRUM) and PMBOK (PMI) methodologies.

Liaised with legal and finance departments, outsourcing companies and the publisher SEGA, and contributed to marketing plans including PR, advertising and sales promotion. Represented the company in many different events, and was in charge of the R&D activities of the project.
IT Solutions Manager

Andago

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 2 months)

Drove the innovation - including definition, presales and delivery of new products and solutions -at Andago, the Spanish leading open-source integration and consulting company. Executed plans to achieve revenue, profitability and business goals.

Lead a team of 42 engineers while working on-demand and under heavy pressure, and used technical knowledge, understanding of business needs and strategic awareness on many projects, including social networks, telemedicine tools, grid networks, VoIP, Digital Terrestrial Television, geo-positional marketing, e- administration and process management.

Applied strong business planning, marketing strategies, communications skills and implemented matrix management and quality management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001), resulting into an income boost that tripled revenue in two years.

Wrote and led R&D proposals for the European Framework Program (FP7) and PROFIT programs, and evangelized portfolio of products and services to customers, retailers and media.
Technical Manager

Multinational IT services leader

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Key responsibilities included defining, planning and executing a multi-year roadmap of services and IT solutions for my business unit, and for the budgeting and review process of the results.

Was in charge of an international multidisciplinary team of 25 engineers specialised on both Microsoft .NET and Java J2EE environments, managing ongoing operations on the UK largest mobile network at Vodafone HQ, and implemented a new project acceptance and sign off model that lead to a remarkable throughput increase. Also gave technical and business speeches.
Team Manager

Telefónica

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

July 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Applied key teamwork management abilities to lead analysis, design, development, deployment and testing of webservices-based multiplatform solutions for mobile phones, PDAs, PCs and Interactive TV. Performed advanced prospecting, marketing and presales tasks on fibre-optic cable, broadcast technologies, mobile phones and new media, budgeting over 100M €.

Coordinated and monitored internal and external dependencies between related projects, performing value/benefit realization analysis and project issue and escalation management, and reporting to project teams and stakeholders on status and progress, leading a team of 14.
IT Project Manager

Teknoland

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 7 months)

Built web-based projects, managing scope, objectives and risks as well as tasks, milestones, timelines, resources, deliverables and budget, in accordance with PMBOK/PMI methodology

Jorge Gómez’s Education

IE (Instituto de Empresa)

IXMBA , International Executive MBA , 2009 — 2010 (expected)
IE (Instituto de Empresa)

Executive Education , Negotiation Advanced Workshop , 2008 — 2008
IE (Instituto de Empresa)

International Executive Programme , China, an inside View (at Cheung Kong Graduate School, Beijing, China) , 2007 — 2007
IE (Instituto de Empresa)

Executive Education , Advanced Project Management (PMBOK/PMI) , 2005 — 2005
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

BSc , Computer Science , 1994 — 2000

Activities and Societies:

IEEE member
Nuestra Señora del Buen consejo

1982 — 1994