Product Director at LocaWeb
Brazil
- Current
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- Product Director at LocaWeb
- Past
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- IS Director at .comDominio Datacenters
- Product Director at VIA NET.WORKS, Inc.
- Technical Director at Dialdata Informática e Assessoria Ltda.
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
- FEA - USP
- ITA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
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Joaquim Torres’s Summary
Accomplished technologist and manager with a unique ability to bridge the gap between the technical world and the business needs of customers. Has proven business experience in information technology management and marketing. 15+ years in the Internet and IT markets.
Joaquim Torres’s Specialties:
- Management of product strategy, road maps, product life cycle and P&L.
- Product development management, from opportunnity assessment to "end-of-life" decisions.
- Agile Methodology (Scrum and XP) implementation and coordination in a 80+ people group including software engineers, user experience and product managers.
Joaquim Torres’s Experience
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Product Director
LocaWeb
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
February 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)
LocaWeb is the leading hosting provider in Brazil, hosting approximately 15% of all Brazilian domains. Since February, As Product Director, I'm responsible for managing the product strategy, road maps, product life cycle for new and existing LocaWeb products, including not only shared hosting products, but also LocaWeb iDC produtcs, based on data center solutions, and LocaWeb Telecom products such as voice recognition, virtual PBX, data links (xDSL, fiber, WiFi), VoIP, etc. Here are some of the products developed and launched under my coordination:
- Online Drive;
- Hosted Exchange;
- Hosted PBX;
- Online gaming infra-structure;
- E-commerce online store hosting and payment gateway;
- Web based shared calendar with event integration with Outlook/Exchange, Notes and Gmail based accounts;
- Domain Registration;
- Virtual Servers, Managed Servers and Colocation;
- Dedicated links;
- Reseller hosting infra-structure;
- Windows Streaming Media and Flash Media Server hosting; -
IS Director
.comDominio Datacenters
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
June 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 8 months)
The company provides Internet and Voice services for businesses. Since June/2003 I’m acting as their product and systems director to help them integrate the products, customers and billing management systems from 30+ companies they've acquired. They have around 300 employees and I’m responsible for a team of 10 people.
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Product Director
VIA NET.WORKS, Inc.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; VNWI; Internet industry)
January 1999 — May 2002 (3 years 5 months)
VIA NET.WORKS, Inc. is a leading, international single-source provider of Internet access and services focusing on business customers in Europe and the Americas. In 2001 VIA had approximately 1000 employees and reported US$95M in revenues.
I was responsible for:
- Management of product strategy, road maps, product life cycle and corporate product P&L for all VIA product portfolios, including Security, Hosting, Connectivity and Messaging Services in all 15 countries;
- Management of the product development process, from “Statement-of-Need” documentation to “end-of-life” decisions;
- Coordination of production of Marketing Product Pack for VIA products, to include positioning and pricing guidelines, product collateral, product training materials, as well as technical, financial and legal specifications;
- Ensuring the consistency of corporate product offerings and providing assistance to the local operations in training, localizing and launching the corporate products. -
Technical Director
Dialdata Informática e Assessoria Ltda.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 1992 — December 1998 (6 years 3 months)
Dialdata is an ISP I founded and ran together with 3 partners since October 1992. It was successfully sold to VIA NET.WORKS in December 1998. During all those years, Dialdata was a leader in the Brazilian corporate ISP market. In 1998 Dialdata had 45 employees and the revenue for that year was R$4.8M.
I was responsible for:
- Management of the Technical Department, including development, maintenance and support areas;
- Management and development of business and residential customers’ billing and help desk systems;
- Research, development and implementation of new technologies such as Remote Data Base Systems, e-commerce, Internet security, last generation programming technologies and multi-user real-time systems;
- Development and maintenance of several web sites.
Joaquim Torres’s Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
Marketing 2007 — 2007
Strategic Marketing for the Technical Executive (2 days training)
Trainer: Duncan Semester (http://web.mit.edu/simester/Public/)
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/execed/coursedetails.php?id=398
Additional trainings:
100 Essential Lessons in Product Management
Trainer: Marty Cagan, former VP of Product Management at eBay
http://www.svpg.com/services/workshop/workshop.html
Agile/XP Planning and Estimating Course
Trainer: Martine Devos (http://web.mit.edu/simester/Public/)
http://www.objectmentor.com/omTraining/course_agile_planning_game.html -
FEA - USP
MBA, Knowledge, Technology and Information, 1999 — 2000
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ITA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
Computer Engineer, Computer Engineering, January 1987 — December 1992
