Gustavo Muñoz

Past

Director of Operations Asia at JackBe
Director of Research and Development at JackBe
Deputy CTO at JackBe

R&D Underdirector at InterWare de México
Development Manager at InterWare de México
Java Development Manager at Mexico Analytica

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Education

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

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Gustavo Muñoz’s Summary

In-depth expertise in Engineering and IT Management, strategic business-planning and development, process and product improvement, R&D, and operations. Experienced professional on startup environments with track record of leading expansion for multi-unit operations (both profit-driven and non-profit). Consistently exceeded goals and turnaround objectives for each employer.

Gustavo Muñoz’s Specialties:

Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Management of highly geographically distributed teams, Software Business Models including Open Source.
Server architecture, Ajax, API designer, Concurrent Computing, Distributed Computing

Gustavo Muñoz’s Experience

Director of Operations Asia

JackBe

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

July 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 9 months)

Opened and lead operations in Asia with mixed responsibilities on Engineering, Services and Sales.
Designed, presented and executed a strategic plan for extending OEM, services and consulting contracts around JackBe's award winning Ajax product in the region.
Coordinated highly geographically distributed teams with locations in India, USA and Mexico.
Total Asian engineers trained on JackBe technology: 1000+
Director of Research and Development

JackBe

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Key role within the Board creating a strategic plan for the new path for JackBe: Enterprise Mashups, comprising new market, product & sales strategy.
Opened a new office for Engineering at Fremont, CA.
Took leadership for a strategic account which became the tipping point for closing investment rounds.
Responsible for NQ Suite product development.
Represented JackBe on the OpenAjax Alliance as part of the Interoperability and IDE Working Groups.
Participated as a key architect on the design for the Enterprise Mashup Server and the tools around it.
Deputy CTO

JackBe

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 8 months)

Developed, presented and executed plan for taking Engineering to the next level in terms of processes, tools and roles.
Took ownership of NQ Suite design and development. JackBe became a clear leader for Ajax Solutions with sales in several countries (USA, PR, Colombia, Mexico, among others).
As part of the original five-people-Board I took a key role for designing the whole product strategy.
Leading role for hiring world class engineers for helping JackBe to reinvent itself after Ajax became a commodity.
Successfully lead the implementation of NQ Suite for Citigroup Mexican branch (online banking system).
R&D Underdirector

InterWare de México

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2000 — May 2003 (3 years 3 months)

Created both an internal and external technical consulting units.
Helped to develop a suitable project process integrating Agile methodologies.
Increased productivity by standardizing a product development cycle.
Designed and developed a number of products based in Java.
Development Manager

InterWare de México

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1998 — February 2001 (3 years 1 month)

Successfully lead a number of projects with different customers from the Financial and Government industries.
Hired, trained and managed 30 Java engineers.
Lead engineer for the development of a CORBA middleware server. It was heavily used in one of the two biggest retail banks in Mexico.
Java Development Manager

Mexico Analytica

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

June 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 8 months)

Developed the product of the company while managing all the Java development team. Mexico Analytics was a startup and provided online financial information of Mexico Stock Exchange, Bovespa among other LATAM stock exchanges. We were the first WebLogic international client (long time before they were acquired by BEA).

Gustavo Muñoz’s Education

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Bachelor , Applied Mathematics , 1991 — 1996

Activities and Societies:

Member for 3 years of the Minor Mathematical Faculty