Eleven years shipping software, data, AI, CRM, apps and VR products for US teams, from Quito.
I started as a developer building robots, automated warehouses and greenhouses in Ecuador. The projects were good; the management around them was not, so I moved into project management and PMO support for automation and electronics teams, and never left.
Since 2018 almost all my work has been with US companies, remote: data warehouses, a VR platform with 50 people on one board, software products, and a book of 20 to 40 client websites at a web agency. I am the PM who still reads the pull request.
Today I lead delivery for a clinical genomics SaaS startup as Technical Project Manager and Scrum Master, run a PMO for a product company, and build with Lovable, Figma AI and automation tools through my studio, AfterEP.
Outside work: road trips a couple of hours from Quito with my wife and our dog, and music playing whenever I work.
Philosophy
01There is no such thing as 100% agile; the loop is hybrid and the framework is the product.
02Communication, transparency and ownership are the whole job.
03Retrospectives start with what management got wrong.
Credentials
- AWS Partner Accreditation, Technical2022
- AWS Partner Accreditation, Business2022
- Upwork Expert-Vetted Talent, top 1%
- AI expert: Claude, ChatGPT, Lovable, Figma AI
- Automation expert: Zapier, Make, n8n
- Lovable expert: AI apps with integrations and Cloud backend
- HubSpot expert
- Agile Project Management Certification, Agile Scrum + Jira
- monday.com, ClickUp and Atlassian certified partner
- IBM Agile Explorer; Google Data Studio; IPMA Project Management
- PMI-ACP and CAPM training, exam in progress
- B.E. Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation Engineering, UIDE (Arizona State University partner)2015 to 2021
- Three published engineering papers (knee rehabilitation prototype, guitar-playing system, detergent dosing system)
