Paez Cajas

High school diploma in the physics-mathematics track at the naval high school in Quito: physics, calculus and discipline before engineering.

• Foundations: Physics and applied mathematics, B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation Engineering.

• Foundations: Fisico Matematico, Liceo Naval de Quito, Control systems and feedback loops, Electronics and component selection, Mechanical design and FEM, Robotics and industrial automation, SCADA and control-room operations, Knee rehabilitation prototype (paper), Electric-guitar playing system (paper), Detergent dosing system (paper)
• Skills: Engineering design and prototyping
• Roles: Junior Project Manager, UIDE

The physics-mathematics base that every later model, estimate and metric rests on.

• Foundations: Fisico Matematico, Liceo Naval de Quito, Control systems and feedback loops
• Skills: Data warehousing delivery

Closed-loop control from mechatronics; the same idea behind sprints, retros and Path to Green.

• Foundations: B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation, Physics and applied mathematics
• Skills: Risk management and Path to Green, Scrum Master

Selecting and integrating electronic components for prototypes and machines.

• Foundations: B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation
• Projects: Automated pruning machine

Stiffness-criterion design and finite element safety-factor verification.

• Foundations: B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation
• Projects: Automated pruning machine
• Tools: SolidWorks

Robots, automated warehouses and automated greenhouses: where the career started.

• Foundations: B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation
• Domains: Industrial automation and robotics

Supervisory control and data acquisition; applied in a thermoelectric plant control room.

• Foundations: B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation
• Roles: Assistant Project Engineer, CELEC EP

Operator interfaces for machines; the first UX work.

• Projects: Automated pruning machine
• Tools: Sketch and Adobe XD

Published design and construction of a knee rehabilitation prototype.

• Foundations: B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation, X Jornadas Cientificas
• Domains: Healthcare and clinical genomics

Published design and construction of a system capable of playing an electric guitar.

• Foundations: B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation, X Jornadas Cientificas

Published design and construction of an automated detergent dosing system.

• Foundations: B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation, X Jornadas Cientificas
• Domains: Industrial automation and robotics

Research presented at the X Jornadas Cientificas en Investigacion, Ciencia y Tecnologia.

• Foundations: Knee rehabilitation prototype (paper), Electric-guitar playing system (paper), Detergent dosing system (paper)

Moved from engineering into project management: timelines, resources and deliverables for multidisciplinary projects.

• Foundations: B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation
• Roles: Project Manager, UIDE
• Skills: Technical project management
• Domains: Education and EdTech

Managed academic and engineering projects, budgets and stakeholder communication.

• Roles: Junior Project Manager, UIDE, Assistant Project Engineer, CELEC EP
• Skills: Stakeholder communication
• Domains: Education and EdTech

Control-room operations and engine maintenance at a thermoelectric plant (MARELLI engines, 155,882 kVA continuous generation).

• Foundations: SCADA and control-room operations
• Roles: Project Manager, UIDE, Technical Lead Engineer, UIDE
• Domains: Energy and power generation
• Projects: Plant asset database and digitization

Led EdTech LTI integrations and the automated pruning machine build.

• Roles: Assistant Project Engineer, CELEC EP, Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp
• Projects: Automated pruning machine, EdTech LTI integrations
• Domains: Education and EdTech, Industrial automation and robotics
• Tools: SolidWorks, Sketch and Adobe XD

ERP implementation, API integrations, SSO, roadmap and backlog ownership.

• Roles: Technical Lead Engineer, UIDE, Technical PM, Data Sleek, Upwork Expert-Vetted
• Projects: ERP implementation and API integrations, Single Sign-On rollout, xTrim agile and AI adoption summary
• Domains: Enterprise IT and ERP
• Skills: Product ownership, PMO leadership
• Tools: Jira, Sketch and Adobe XD

Data warehouses, SaaS integrations and dashboards with an offshore team in India.

• Roles: Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp
• Projects: Seven-phase data warehouse plan
• Domains: Data and analytics
• Skills: Data warehousing delivery, Technical hiring and interviewing, Automations and workflows
• Tools: Snowflake, dbt and Fivetran, AWS, Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio, monday.com and ClickUp

Senior Technical PM, Product Owner and Scrum Master for US companies; 5-star rating, top 1%.

• Roles: Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp, Creative agency, Oklahoma, Website management agency, Clinical genomics SaaS startup, Product company PMO, Project management consultancy
• Certifications: Upwork Expert-Vetted, top 1%

Senior PM for web and SaaS delivery with Figma reviews, WCAG and hiring.

• Roles: Upwork Expert-Vetted
• Projects: Web and SaaS delivery with accessibility
• Domains: Web and e-commerce
• Skills: Compliance (HIPAA, WCAG, app stores), Technical hiring and interviewing
• Tools: Figma and Figma AI

Delivered a VR wellness platform on Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest, iOS and Android with about 50 developers.

• Projects: TRIPP delivery framework, Team working agreements
• Domains: VR and digital wellness
• Skills: Product ownership, Scrum Master, Compliance (HIPAA, WCAG, app stores)
• Tools: Unity, ShapesXR and GoogleXR, Plastic SCM, Jira, GitHub, Zapier
• Impact: Global rollout in under 12 months, 50+ people on one product

PM and Account Manager for a book of 20 to 40 WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify sites.

• Roles: Upwork Expert-Vetted
• Projects: 20 to 40 site operations book, Technical interview program
• Domains: Web and e-commerce
• Skills: Website and e-commerce operations
• Tools: WordPress and WooCommerce, Shopify, Jira

Technical PM and Scrum Master for a HIPAA-regulated clinical decision-support platform.

• Roles: Upwork Expert-Vetted
• Projects: Clinical rulebook, PostgreSQL migration and vendor handover, AI continuity system
• Domains: Healthcare and clinical genomics
• Skills: Scrum Master, Compliance (HIPAA, WCAG, app stores)
• Tools: PostgreSQL, Clockify, Claude and ChatGPT, Jira

PMO lead: leadership syncs, decision tracking, phased roadmap, documentation system.

• Roles: Upwork Expert-Vetted
• Projects: Documentation and decision system
• Skills: PMO leadership

SEO, Google Ads, conversion tracking and a Lovable site rebuild.

• Roles: Upwork Expert-Vetted
• Projects: Consultancy site rebuilt in Lovable
• Tools: Lovable, HubSpot (expert)
• Domains: Web and e-commerce

AI and web development studio: rescues, rebuilds and prototypes for small businesses.

• Projects: WordPress incident to Shopify migration
• Tools: Lovable, Shopify, WordPress and WooCommerce, Make and n8n, Figma and Figma AI, HubSpot (expert)
• Skills: AI-augmented project management, Automations and workflows

Designed a machine to prune buxus and spherical taxus: stiffness design, FEM safety factors, electronics, SolidWorks simulation and an operator interface.

• Foundations: Mechanical design and FEM, Electronics and component selection, Human-machine interfaces
• Roles: Technical Lead Engineer, UIDE
• Skills: Engineering design and prototyping
• Tools: SolidWorks

Learning-platform integrations with UX teams and KPI tracking.

• Roles: Technical Lead Engineer, UIDE
• Skills: Technical project management

Built the activity and asset database and led file digitization.

• Roles: Assistant Project Engineer, CELEC EP
• Skills: Technical project management

Program-level ERP rollout with API integrations.

• Roles: Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp
• Impact: 18% operational efficiency gain
• Skills: PMO leadership

SSO across integrated systems.

• Roles: Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp

Authored the summary on agile methods and AI/ML adoption.

• Roles: Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp

Discovery, infrastructure, ingestion, governance, modeling, dbt, data quality.

• Roles: Technical PM, Data Sleek
• Impact: 40% less manual reporting
• Tools: Snowflake, dbt and Fivetran

B2B back-end web projects with WCAG and WAI-ARIA.

• Roles: Creative agency, Oklahoma

One Jira board with GitHub, Zapier and Plastic SCM, 1,000+ tickets per sprint, JQL views per department.

• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP
• Impact: 50% faster QA and bug response, 1,000+ tickets per sprint on one board, 30% fewer post-launch bugs
• Tools: Jira, GitHub, Zapier
• Skills: Risk management and Path to Green

Iterated agreements that cut the daily call from 60 to 15 minutes.

• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP
• Skills: Scrum Master

Single source of truth translating clinical and genomic language into technical requirements.

• Roles: Clinical genomics SaaS startup
• Skills: Product ownership, Stakeholder communication

Migration and front-end vendor transition without losing a sprint.

• Roles: Clinical genomics SaaS startup
• Skills: Risk management and Path to Green

Claude onboarding prompts so project context survives long engagements.

• Roles: Clinical genomics SaaS startup
• Skills: AI-augmented project management
• Tools: Claude and ChatGPT

Intake, tickets, QA and releases across three CMS and commerce stacks.

• Roles: Website management agency
• Skills: Website and e-commerce operations

Question banks, answer keys, scorecards; interviewed PM candidates.

• Roles: Website management agency
• Skills: Technical hiring and interviewing
• Tools: Claude and ChatGPT

Document management, decision log and phased feature plan.

• Roles: Product company PMO
• Tools: Confluence

Rebuilt the site and tied Ads and SEO to conversions.

• Roles: Project management consultancy
• Skills: AI-augmented project management

Store security incident response, then a scaled-back Shopify migration.

• Roles: Founder, AfterEP
• Skills: Risk management and Path to Green
• Domains: Web and e-commerce

Planning, delivery and reporting for technical teams.

• Roles: Junior Project Manager, UIDE
• Projects: EdTech LTI integrations, Plant asset database and digitization
• Impact: 11+ years leading technical projects
• Certifications: IPMA Project Management

Roadmaps, backlogs, acceptance criteria, MVP slicing, release planning.

• Roles: Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp, Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP
• Projects: Clinical rulebook

Ceremonies sized to the team, velocity and capacity, working agreements.

• Foundations: Control systems and feedback loops
• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP, Clinical genomics SaaS startup
• Projects: Team working agreements
• Certifications: Agile PM Certification (Scrum + Jira), IBM Agile Explorer, PMI-ACP (in progress)

Governance, templates, portfolio views and documentation systems.

• Roles: Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp, Product company PMO
• Projects: ERP implementation and API integrations

RAID logs, root cause analysis and recovery plans for anything that slips.

• Foundations: Control systems and feedback loops
• Projects: TRIPP delivery framework, PostgreSQL migration and vendor handover, WordPress incident to Shopify migration

Three-line updates, executive demos, decisions instead of storytelling.

• Roles: Project Manager, UIDE
• Projects: Clinical rulebook

Seven-phase plan from discovery to data quality.

• Foundations: Physics and applied mathematics
• Roles: Technical PM, Data Sleek

Hosting, DNS, plugins, Core Web Vitals, SEO and releases.

• Roles: Website management agency
• Projects: 20 to 40 site operations book

Question banks, scorecards, live exercises; hiring for project teams.

• Roles: Technical PM, Data Sleek, Creative agency, Oklahoma
• Projects: Technical interview program

AI expert: Claude and ChatGPT for documentation, QA and continuity; Lovable and Figma AI for prototypes.

• Roles: Founder, AfterEP
• Projects: AI continuity system, Consultancy site rebuilt in Lovable

Zapier, Make and n8n workflows connecting Jira, CRM, email and reporting without manual work.

• Roles: Founder, AfterEP, Technical PM, Data Sleek
• Tools: Zapier, Make and n8n, HubSpot (expert)

Accessibility, healthcare data rules and store compliance.

• Roles: Creative agency, Oklahoma, Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP, Clinical genomics SaaS startup

From requirements to working machine: design, simulation, build, documentation.

• Foundations: B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation
• Projects: Automated pruning machine

Expert level: CRM pipelines, workflows and reporting.

• Skills: Automations and workflows
• Roles: Project management consultancy, Founder, AfterEP

Expert: JQL, automation, dashboards, integrations.

• Roles: Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp, Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP, Website management agency, Clinical genomics SaaS startup
• Projects: TRIPP delivery framework
• Certifications: Agile PM Certification (Scrum + Jira), monday.com, ClickUp, Atlassian partner

• Projects: Documentation and decision system

• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP
• Projects: TRIPP delivery framework

• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP
• Skills: Automations and workflows
• Projects: TRIPP delivery framework

• Roles: Founder, AfterEP
• Skills: Automations and workflows

• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP

• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP

• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP

• Roles: Technical PM, Data Sleek
• Projects: Seven-phase data warehouse plan

Partner accredited (Technical and Business).

• Roles: Technical PM, Data Sleek
• Certifications: AWS Partner Accreditation (Technical), AWS Partner Accreditation (Business)

• Roles: Technical PM, Data Sleek
• Certifications: Google Data Studio

• Roles: Clinical genomics SaaS startup

• Roles: Clinical genomics SaaS startup

• Roles: Website management agency, Founder, AfterEP

• Roles: Website management agency, Founder, AfterEP

• Roles: Project management consultancy, Founder, AfterEP

• Roles: Clinical genomics SaaS startup
• Projects: AI continuity system, Technical interview program

• Roles: Creative agency, Oklahoma, Founder, AfterEP

• Foundations: Human-machine interfaces
• Roles: Technical Lead Engineer, UIDE, Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp

• Foundations: Mechanical design and FEM
• Roles: Technical Lead Engineer, UIDE
• Projects: Automated pruning machine

Certified partner on both.

• Roles: Technical PM, Data Sleek
• Certifications: monday.com, ClickUp, Atlassian partner

University projects and learning-platform integrations.

• Roles: Junior Project Manager, UIDE, Project Manager, UIDE, Technical Lead Engineer, UIDE

Thermoelectric plant operations.

• Roles: Assistant Project Engineer, CELEC EP

Machines, robots, automated warehouses and greenhouses.

• Foundations: Robotics and industrial automation, Detergent dosing system (paper)
• Roles: Technical Lead Engineer, UIDE

ERP, SSO and integrations at enterprise scale.

• Roles: Senior Technical PM, Kruger Corp

Warehousing, pipelines and BI.

• Roles: Technical PM, Data Sleek

Immersive meditation across five app stores.

• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP

HIPAA-regulated clinical decision support.

• Foundations: Knee rehabilitation prototype (paper)
• Roles: Clinical genomics SaaS startup

CMS, commerce, SEO and site operations.

• Roles: Creative agency, Oklahoma, Website management agency, Project management consultancy
• Projects: WordPress incident to Shopify migration

Completed June 15, 2022.

• Tools: AWS

Completed June 15, 2022.

• Tools: AWS

Expert-Vetted: top 1% of Upwork talent.

• Roles: Upwork Expert-Vetted
• Impact: 5.0 Upwork rating

• Skills: Scrum Master
• Tools: Jira

Certified partner on three platforms.

• Tools: monday.com and ClickUp, Jira

• Skills: Scrum Master

• Tools: Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio

• Skills: Technical project management

Course 92% complete; exam pending.

• Skills: Scrum Master

Counted from the first PM role in November 2015.

• Skills: Technical project management

• Projects: TRIPP delivery framework

• Projects: TRIPP delivery framework

• Projects: TRIPP delivery framework

• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP

• Projects: Seven-phase data warehouse plan

• Projects: ERP implementation and API integrations

• Roles: Senior VR PM and Product Owner, TRIPP

• Certifications: Upwork Expert-Vetted, top 1%