
Jair A.
Director of Product Management | Cloud & SaaS
Salary / Daily rate
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Freelance
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About me
Intro
Product Management Director with 10+ years leading cloud, SaaS & fintech transformations at Intel and FICO. Delivered $20M+ portfolio with 20% TCO reduction, 99.95%+ uptime on critical services, and $6.9M in realized savings through strategic vendor consolidation and automation. Expert in AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and executive-level reporting—turning complex technical operations into board-ready business outcomes.
Work experience
Product Management Director
Intel Corporation
Jul 2022 - Present
4 years 4 months
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Org scope: 4 managers (~12 ICs each) + 14 direct ICs → ~62 people (Product, DevOps & Software Engineering, SRE, TDOs & Customer Support) • Owned a $20M+ portfolio (cloud, core applications, observability, service desks); delivered 15–20% TCO reduction and SLA uplift through vendor consolidation. • Standardised SLOs, incident reviews and DR/BCP across 20+ sites; sustained 99.95%+ availability on critical services. • Modernised adjacent ecosystems with secure landing zones and end-to-end telemetry (Grafana/AppDynamics/Power BI) under PCI/NIST/ISO controls. • Built and coached a global organisation; improved MTTR –30% and change-failure –25% via CI/CD gates, runbooks and error budgets. • Delivered executive scorecards (Power BI/Tableau) tying OKRs to Quality • Cost • Delivery • Risk for board-level decisions. Stack: AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, AppDynamics, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Azure DevOps, SSO/Identity.
Senior Customer Support Manager
FICO
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
1 year 6 months
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Org scope: 3 managers × 6 ICs each → ~18 ICs (Software, Infrastructure, Network, Data Centre) • Regional delivery lead for FICO Falcon (fraud analytics): ~99.9% uptime and <450 ms decision latency in live payment flows. • Directed cloud operations and client roll-outs across LATAM/NA; integrated Falcon with POS/CRM/payment systems. • Reduced SEV-1 incidents –40% via root-cause reviews, playbooks and proactive risk management; CSAT +10% across strategic accounts. • Drove security/compliance baselines (SOC 2/ISO), access controls and audit readiness with clients and regulators. Stack: AWS (CloudWatch), AppDynamics, Kubernetes, Salesforce, REST APIs, privacy & audit.
Sr. Senior Engineering Manager
Intel Corporation
Jan 2015 - Mar 2021
6 years 3 months
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Headline: Led hybrid cloud & data-centre services; 24/7 follow-the-sun operations and IaC automation. • Managed multi-site hybrid cloud/DC (compute, network, identity, observability) with Kubernetes + Terraform automation. • Instituted SLOs, release gates and runbooks; executed DR drills and capacity planning for seasonal/high-traffic events; maintained 99.95%+ availability. • Built 24/7 follow-the-sun model; MTTR –35% and change-success +20%. • Delivered Power BI/Grafana dashboards for SLA, cost and capacity, improving C-suite visibility and decisions. • Savings: $6.9M realised (’22–’23 carry-over impact), $20.9M 10-year forecast via HW/AI optimisation initiatives. Stack: Kubernetes, VMware, Terraform, Linux, AppDynamics/Grafana, AWS/Azure, SSO.
Network Operations Team Lead
NewGate
Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
10 months
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Headline: Ops lead — automation & ISO 27001 certification; >$500K new revenue Built shell/PHP tooling for automated health checks & incident prevention; improved fault detection coverage 3×. Drove ISO 27001:2013 app certification; secured new enterprise accounts worth $500K+. Keywords: network monitoring, security certification, automation.
MIS Analyst
COMUNICACIONES NEXTEL DE MÉXICO, S.A. DE C.V.
May 2014 - Aug 2014
4 months
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Headline: Reporting automation for Customer Service & Logistics (decision KPIs) Automated MIS reports & logistics KPIs; report cycle time –70% and fewer manual errors. Delivered exec snapshots supporting workforce & SLA decisions. Keywords: BI, SLA reporting, operations analytics.
IT Young Professional (High Impact Leadership Program)
SCA Hygiene Products
Oct 2012 - Dec 2013
1 year 3 months
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
• Developed applications for Business Intelligence. • Practiced PRIME Project Management, based on the certifications to develop business intelligence. • Attended 1200 cases and supported more than 400 users. • Support and administrate networking, and IP.
Network Engineer
Unified Networks
Mar 2012 - Oct 2012
8 months
WTC, Mexico D.F.
• Obtained the CCNA certification. • Developed internal CRM Platform. • Supported network infrastructure site installation and maintenance. • Mainly focused on VoIP and network security.
Customer Support Engineer
Iusacell
Nov 2011 - Mar 2012
5 months
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Technical Support in the area of BAM (Mobile Broadband) Logistics support Database and measurements for executive skills.
Education
Escuela Bancaria y Comercial
Executive Bussiness Management, Senior Management
2019 - 2020
2 years
University of Maryland
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), AeroSpace Systems
2016 - 2019
4 years
Universidad del Valle de México
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Engineering
2016 - 2018
3 years
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Ingeniería en Sistemas Computacionales, Brand Innovation Technology
2011 - 2015
5 years
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
TSU Telecommunications
2008 - 2011
4 years
Licenses & certifications
Innovation Explorer
Issued: Nov 2020
Jeff Dyer on Innovation
Issued: Jun 2020
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Issued: Jan 2018
Scrum Master Certified (SMC)
Issued: Aug 2015