Jorge Escobar

Current

Director, Web Technology at Expo Communications, Inc

Past

Product Manager at Yahoo! Inc.
Technical Advisor at Univision Online, Inc.
Chief Technology Officer at HBC Interactive

CIO and Co-Founder at interLatin Communications

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Education

Universidad Simon Bolivar

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Industry

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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 2006 — Present (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 2004 — June 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 2004 — June 2004 (6 months)
Chief Technology Officer

HBC Interactive

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

December 1999 — January 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 1996 — November 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.