Juan Diego Torres

Data Management / Software Engineering

Hello! I’m a driven and creative professional with an entrepreneurial spirit that lives at the intersection of new technologies and market opportunities. I speak my mind when it comes to work, if you ask my opinion I will provide it. Professionally, I am an accomplished data processing architect with a proven track record in software development and team management experience using Agile methodologies to develop database applications that power e-commerce websites in real estate and other industries.

I lead teams by example, apply Occam’s razor principle whenever I tackle a technology challenge, and mentor software programmers to harness their talents to produce their best work. My achievements include developing a unified data processing platform and leading a team of data analysts to leverage its potential to maximize productivity and master data management.

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GABRIELS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

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Group Leader & Senior Data Manager, Real Estate Products 2010 - Present

Leading the data processing team with 27 data analysts in Chennai, India responsible for designing and developing full stack (3-tier), distributed systems, relational databases, complex stored procedures, and native functions development to manage data and media content for enterprise level e-commerce web portals in the real estate market.

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Achievements at India office, 2017 to Present:

• ​​Expanded the responsibilities of the Chennai data processing team from a support role to all responsibilities of data management and database application development.

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• Created organization structure to incentivize professional growth by rewarding  technological innovation development and performance.

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• Continued exploring innovative data processing functionality using proprietary software and open source technologies to enable the company to stay competitive in the constantly changing real estate technology industry.

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• Nurtured between Chennai and New York a global data team's software development culture based on innovation, adaptability, and collaboration focusing on applying  software development life cycle, SDLC, to the company's proprietary CDMS.

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Achievements at New York City office, 2011 - 2016:

• Led development efforts to centralize Gabriels Technology Solutions' various data processing applications under one scalable central data management platform, CDMS, using advanced programming logic and a web-based user-friendly interface to allow novice and experienced analysts to quickly setup data processing applications of all kinds.

• Results:

• Reduced dependency on third party software for nearly all steps of the data processing cycle. 

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• Significantly Increased team's productivity, reducing turn around time for database application development.

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• Increased data accuracy across all clients’ real estate data.

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• Implemented feed monitoring and reporting system for all clients.  

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• Simplified and decreased process to download large amounts data from multiple sources via multiple protocols. 

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• Successfully reorganized and centered the data team development culture to focus on innovation, adaptability, and collaboration, practicing advanced centralized application development concepts.

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• Strategically reorganized the New York data team's roles and tasks to include the nascent data processing office in Chennai, India to play a supporting role in monitoring data applications.

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Data Manager, Real Estate Products 2009 - 2010

Responsible for leading a team of 4 data analysts to manage several newspaper media clients' real estate website sections.

• Successfully continued replacing legacy data processing systems with advanced functionality. Created a centralized database to standardized and simplify data entry, merge duplicate stored procedure code logic, and reduce redundancies and inaccuracies in data.

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• Increased team's productivity and realigned data analysts responsibilities to focus more on sophisticated, reusable, and centralized database application development.

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• Setup the foundation for the future development the company's advanced CDMS for data processing. 

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Data Analyst, Real Estate Products 2006 - 2007

Developed innovative data processing functionality to replace legacy database systems for The New York Times real estate website section, leading to significant performance improvements, higher data accuracy, better search results and user experience.

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Previous Experience

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February 2002 – Julio 2006 | Webion.e LLC

Managing Partner

Led business strategy planning and web development efforts to build Tribals.com, on of the largest body art community portals, with website features ahead of its time. Highlights:

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• Ranked on the top 3 search results for tattoos on Google, Alta Vista, Infoseek, Yahoo, and AOL search engines.

• Ranked among the top 90,000 most popular web sites on the Internet for 3 years in 2003 and 2004.

• Built strategic partnerships with Japanese translation services to provide unique kanji tattoo translations to members and visitors while increasing revenue.

• Developed reseller programs and successfully increased membership activation and revenue.

• Partnered with web design company in Argentina to design next generation look and feel and user experience for website.

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May 1999 – January 2002 | AppliedTheory Corp. (now Navisite)

Web Developer

Developed e-commerce websites using ColdFusion application server, front-end scripting languages such as CFML, CSS, JavaScript, C, and back-end databases on SQL Server.