Ricardo Guevara

About Me

With over 18 years of experience in Software Engineering and a passion for helping businesses in their paths towards Digital Transformation, I have enjoyed working in different industries, from Financial and Healthcare to Manufacturing, Event Management and Staffing. Throughout my career and experiences with different markets in the North, Central and South America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, I have learned about the importance of creativity, simplicity and customer driven attitude as some of the core qualities to encourage business growth, as well as team and personal growth. Core skills include:

Product Management • Solutions Architecture • Business Analysis • Analytical and Critical Thinking • Profits & Loss Management

Software Project Management • Agile Methodologies • Service Management • Software as a Service • Software Engineering Practices

Software Development • System Integrations • Web Services and Applications • Data Analysis • Fluent in Spanish

Profile

• 7 years as a Solutions Architect and Project Leader, delivering value to customers, maintaining healthy communication between on-site and offshore teams and coordinating efforts of different departments involved in the different solutions.

• 8 years of experience as Business Analyst, participating in Requirements Gathering stage, Architecture Definition, Analysis and Design of Applications and Business Processes.

• 15 years of experience as Developer of Web and Windows applications, using different technologies and platforms through the years, such as .NET (C# and Visual Basic), PHP, JavaScript, VB6, MS SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL

Achievements

• Architected and managed the creation of framework-style solutions, with the goal of reducing implementation and configuration time for subscription applications (SaaS), shortening our ROI time and providing the recurring revenue that allowed us to surpass our growth goals 3 years in a row

• Supervised cross-functional teams for large software implementation projects, including tailored user experiences and comprehensive integrations across systems.

• Created and implemented internal processes for management of large projects that required the participation of diverse functional teams across the organization, maximizing and enhancing the use of the management tools already available.

• Architected and developed internal methods and development libraries to reduce development time on projects with similar characteristics.