Jorge Escobar

Technologist and entrepreneur specialized in building effective and scalable websites using best in class methods

Greater New York City Area

Current
Past
  • CIO and Co-Founder at interLatin Communications
Education
  • Universidad Simon Bolivar
Connections
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Industry
Internet
Websites

Jorge Escobar’s Summary

Jorge Escobar has worked for several high profile companies as well as an entrepreneur for a number of projects.

Presently he’s ExpoTV’s Web Technology Director, a user-generated product review site with a library of more than 250,000 videos.

He also created and still maintains Oyeme.com, a social portal for Latino communities worldwide, and recently launched El Blog De Jores, a social media blog for the Latin American market.

He served as Product Manager for Yahoo! North Latin America, coordinating the effort of Content, Marketing, Sales and Engineering for Yahoo! En Espanol and Yahoo! Mexico.

He also served as Chief Web Technology Officer for Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation (now Univision Radio) developing and managing their Hispanic local and radio station portal, Netmio.com.

Previous to the Internet revolution, Jorge worked as an Image and 3D Graphic designer for Telesistema TV Network in Ecuador and as a developer for interactive multimedia applications at the Caracas Museum of Natural History.

Jorge Escobar’s Specialties:

Web development, digital video encoding, storage and distribution, LAMP Stack, Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP / Perl specialist, CSS, user experience architect, user generated content (UGC) specialist, server deployment and monitoring, server architecture, product management, project management


Jorge Escobar’s Experience

  • Director, Web Technology

    Expo Communications, Inc

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    July 2006Present (3 years 5 months)

    Spearhead web development, strategy and monitoring for company's broadband operation.

  • Product Manager

    Yahoo! Inc.

    (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

    October 2004June 2006 (1 year 9 months)

    Oversaw the product team for Yahoo! En Espanol and Yahoo! Mexico

  • Technical Advisor

    Univision Online, Inc.

    (Public Company; UVN; Internet industry)

    January 2004June 2004 (6 months)

  • Chief Technology Officer

    HBC Interactive

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HSP; Internet industry)

    December 1999January 2004 (4 years 2 months)

    I drove the technical side of Local City Guide and Community site, Netmio.com

  • CIO and Co-Founder

    interLatin Communications

    (Internet industry)

    May 1996November 1999 (3 years 7 months)

    I have maintained Oyeme.com since its inception and continue to do so, in all its aspects: from graphic design, CSS coding, PHP scripts, Database design and server management.

    The site is written in PHP/MySQL/Apache and uses Smarty caching for a true Model-View-Controller approach.

    The site has 20,000+ registered users and 800,000 pageviews per month.


Jorge Escobar’s Education

  • Universidad Simon Bolivar

    Bachelor , Electronic Engineering , September 1992March 1995

    Dropped out to focus on self-started company.


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Jorge Escobar’s Groups:

  •    Cloud Computing
  •    Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
  •    EXPO
  •    Netmio.com (HBCi) Alumni
  •    Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation Alumni
  •    HISPANIC SOCIAL MEDIA
  •    EXPO STAFF

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