jorge castro

* In charge of establishing in Costa Rica a new company called NOVABANK, whose objective are the sales of financial / banking products in the digital channel area. The focus of NOVABANK is having a solution for every necessity the customers had with the digital channels. We uses an Omnichannel Strategy for developing our products and the interfaces. Having Omnichannel ready products, allows that any transaction be initiated in one digital channel and finished in a different one. * Responsibilities * Established the company. * Design the architectural strategy for the products to be developed. * Define the partners that will join this new company and what will be their participation. * Define the pricing model and the go to market strategy. * Prepare the annual budget and the justifications * Elaborate the marketing plan. * Hire personnel for the different areas of the company * www.novabnk.com

* Consulting Project Manager * Manages the implementation projects in Central America and Bolivia. Those groups were implementing the SYSDE BANCA/2000 core banking. * Responsibilities * Engage with customers to negotiate the implementation methodology, the implementation group, main milestones of the projects and the deliverables * Designate the group of engineers who will be responsible for the implementation of BANCA/2000. * Weekly evaluation of the different projects, to assure the milestones are reach on time and anticipate any road block. * Monthly meeting with customer Project Manager and the Executive Committee to review the advances of the projects and decides about any changes in the initial negotiation or in the ongoing project. * Elaborate job descriptions, justify posting, interview candidates and hiring new employees. * Escalates or inform to the appropriate top management, where an incipient problem could deteriorate the relation with the customer

* Technical Support Specialist Provides Support services to the majority of DATA/GENERAL Customers in Costa Rica, including Banco Nacional de Costa Rica, ICE, AYA, RECOPE, INVU, etc.) Specialist : * AOS/VS Operating System * DG/DBMS and DG/SQL. * Third generation languages (COBOL, PL/I, PASCAL, FORTRAN 77) * ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE (Data General Assembly Language) Accomplishments * Developed a Middleware product which connects and Exchange information from the Data/General Mainframe computer in Banco Nacional, to a network of teller machines that operates in their platform. * Developed an assembly language routine that reduces the time to do a open database transaction from 25 seconds to less than a second. This routine were implemented in the AYA(Water company in Costa Rica) and the main benefits was that the Water company did not need to do an upgrade to the hardware.

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