Javier San Roman
Inhaber, Founder & CEO, JSR Ventures
Root Längenbold, Switzerland
Timeline
Professional experience for Javier San Roman
Current 11 years and 1 month, since Jun 2012
CEO & Founder
Zocobox.com
Design and develop the company flagship product: a cloud enterprise suite (CRM, PM, etc) for SMBs based on Java (J2EE) and Javascript (Ext JS), using extensive use of APIs. | Perform market research and develop a business plan for my startup. |Perform investor presentation and develop a fund-raising strategy. | Additionally, I coach new entrepreneurs and start-ups, most recently at the Startup weekend in Luzern (March, 2015). (http://www.up.co/communities/switzerland/lucerne/startup-weekend/5470)
I successfully provided companies with consultancy in the areas of IT and Management. As a freelancer, I have collaborated with customers in Switzerland and Germany in areas of: moving to the cloud, deploy core IT business applications, design and rollout IT processes.
1 year and 3 months, Jul 2013 - Sep 2014
COO (Contractor)
Mayoris AG
Enabled the onboard of the new CEO. Led the design and development of new corporate processes and helped define a new long term corporate strategy.
1 year and 8 months, Dec 2011 - Jul 2013
CIO (Contractor)
Mayoris AG
Lead the product development and internal IT team of Mayors, a leader in the email marketing software in Switzerland. In this position I led the design and development of the company’s new flagship product in the cloud (SaaS) and the migration of all major customers to this new product. Among other achievements was the reduction of overall IT costs by 35% by establishing new IT strategies, perform offshoring and streamline the IT operations.
1 year and 3 months, Nov 2008 - Jan 2010
Sr. Director, Information Systems Infrastructure & Business Information Systems.
Kofax Image Products
Responsible for the management of the company's IT department, resulting in an completion of several high profiles projects, rollout of major business applications, establishment of a IT governance model based on ITIL, while meeting all required SLAs and keeping IT costs 20% percent under budget.
9 months, Mar 2008 - Nov 2008
Sr. Director, Information Systems Infrastructure.
Kofax Image Products
Oversaw the company’s IT Infrastructure department with a staff of 50, responsible for the data centers, global network infrastructure, user workstations and 1st and 2nd IT support. Designed and oversaw the implementation of the two corporate data centers in California (US) and Zürich (Switzerland). Consolidated 80% of servers and applications from corporate branches around the world. Reduced costs and improved reliability by virtualising a significant part of the data center infrastructure.
1 year and 5 months, Nov 2006 - Mar 2008
IT Director EMEA
Kofax Image Products
Responsible for the EMEA IT organization (Help Desk, and datacenter Infrastructure IT Support). I defined a new strategy to evolve from a collection of independent IT teams and dispersed IT infrastructure towards a global IT organization. Successfully proposed to Executive Board the implementation of corporate Datacenters and the initiation of a process of standardization and consolidation of the IT infrastructure in EMEA.
2003 - 2006
e-Business Delivery Manager
IBM Global Services
Responsible of the IBM IT e-business delivery organisation, witjh direct responsibility over +5000 multivendor servers (IBM, SUN and HP), from aprox 30 customers and +11000 desktops in Spain and Portugal.
Educational background for Javier San Roman
2005 - 2006
Computer Science
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
1992 - 1996
Computer Science
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Languages
English
Fluent
Italian
Intermediate
German
Basic