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Leonardo Lopez Larraquy

@leonardolopezlarraquy

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Experienced IT proefssional. Likes to be part of high performance teams

Argentina

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Leonardo is an experienced IT professional. He has been Java developer for many years. He became IT Manager and IT Director leading teams of over 30 people.

His professional carrer made a turn when he was expatriated to Colombia as General Manager leading the whole operation for Wavy for 3 years, before becoming LATAM Business Director

Currently working at T-MOBS as IT director leading 10 Python developers, and 8 operation resources from support and infrastructure

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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IT Director

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T-MOBS

Nov 2022 - Present (2 years 8 months)

As IT director I lead a team of 12 developers and 9 operations resources (infrastructure and support)

I'm involved in the product roadmap and the daily operations for billing and SMS message delivery. Also in the integrations with clients and partners.

I report directly to the CTO which is one of the founders of the company

Python Scrum MySQL SMS SMS Marketing Carrier Sales Project Management AWS Git SQL Jira Atlassian JIRA

Sales Director LATAM

kaleyra

Mar 2022 - Nov 2022 (8 months)

Reporting to America's VP Priyank Parik.

Managed to close 10 deals in 8 months at the moment I left and generated a pipeline of 30 another accounts.

The sum of the contracts where 7 figures

Sales HubSpot Forecasting Budgeting Leadership Lead Generation API Integration

Head of Partnerships

Chattigo

Jun 2020 - Apr 2022 (1 year 10 months)

Joined the company as Tech Manager but the CEO asked me to lead the commercial partnerships after some time.

Chattigo is an inbound multichannel platform to manage digital conversations. Its one of the trusted providers for Facebook in LATAM

Sales Partnerships Leadership Lead Generation Public Speaking

Head of Sales Southern LATAM

Wavy Global (currently Sinch)

Apr 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 9 months)

I was Country Manager for Southern Latam but I was promoted to head of Sales of South America region.

I lead all the departments in the office: sales, IT, operations, HR, finance, product

Sales Leadership Management Public Speaking Budgeting Forecasting

Business Development LATAM

Movile

Feb 2017 - Apr 2018 (1 year 2 months)

I was in charge of developing carrier relations across Latin America.

From Argentina to Mexico, I visited almost every country in 12 months creating new business

Public Speaking Carrier Sales Budgeting Forecasting

Country Manager North Latam

Movile

Feb 2014 - Jan 2017 (2 years 11 months)

I was expatriated to Colombia with my family to lead that operation for 3 years.

I was in charge of increasing sales and profit and market share.

I lead all the departments: sales, finance, IT, HR, product and operations

IT Manager LATAM

Movile

Sep 2011 - Jan 2014 (2 years 4 months)

Head for the IT department for all LATAM except Brazil
Leading 3 different teams of 18 resources (Release, Operations, Technical country managers), across foreign offices in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela and Peru
Lead project to fusion IT platforms between Movile and acquired Cyclelogic

Java IT Operations Scrum Web Development API Development Product Development

IT Manager / Software Architect

Timwe

Aug 2007 - Sep 2011 (4 years 1 month)

Head for the IT department for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay Leading a team of 5 developers
Being part of a group of 3 software architecs, between 60 developers worldwide
Remote team coaching (Mexico, Colombia, Portugal)
Regional project management of projects with partners such us: Turner Broadcasting, Direct TV, Cablevision, Warner, Pramer, etc

Java Solutions Architect Scrum Team Leadership IT Operations