PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

Jose Talamantes PavonPassionate and resourceful consultant with over fifteen years experience in IT services and international business delivering excellence to a broad portfolio of organizations. Known to have an innovative approach to challenges and for producing professional solutions. Strengths include effective communication, a results-oriented leadership, the competence to understand and translate business requirements into technical specifications and the ability to manage concurrent projects simultaneously. Interested in a challenges where contributions of knowledge and experience will be applied for implementing the next generation business intelligence.

DEGREES

MBA Entrepreneurial Management
Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) – Jönköping, Sweden.
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering
Jönköping University, School of Engineering (JTH) Jönköping, Sweden.
B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) – Mexico, Mexico.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Volvo Trucks

Services Owner Advisory Services, [Fuel, Energy, and Environment] – Göteborg, Sweden.
2020.04 – Present
Definition of the strategy and business models Advisory service offerings and managing the lifecycle and roadmaps.

Focus on the profitability of the customers working together with them to make an efficient operation of their business by reviewing the process, technology implementation, and training.

Representation and leadership of the services across the organization and towards the customers.

Support the regions to secure a concrete offer, local resources, and competence.

Conceptualization of the services, based on business understanding, identification of the risks and mitigations; support markets to sell and deliver advisory services.

Support the technological development and improvements needed to grow within advisory services within the fuel, safety, and driver coaching.

Volvo Buses

Global Connected Service Manager [Uptime and Vehicle] – Göteborg, Sweden.
2017.04 – 2020.03
Operation of service offerings and managing the life-cycle and roadmaps to align with Volvo’s vision and objectives with the focus of uptime of the vehicles.

Owner of Uptime Bus Monitoring Center: Observing the Electric vehicle´s Energy Storage Systems (ESS) or Running batteries, focus on vehicle performance and optimization of the usage of the vehicle to obtain the best output (Energy) while performing the transport.

Managed the teams of Data Scientist, including the team from Volvo Group Connected Solutions (VGCS) and GTT EMOB, with the objective of usage analytic data to evaluate the best usage of the vehicles, prevent failures, and predict the end of life of the components and ESS.

Project Sponsor of research projects, publicly funded by VINOVA in collaboration with academia i.e. Halmstad University, to develop lifetime models for all vital components in the electrical driveling of heavy duty vehicles based on Machine Learning (ML).

Creation and negotiation of the Service Level Agreements (SLA´s) and Operational Level Agreements (OLA’s) for the services with suppliers and customers.

Fleet Operation Services Project Manager (Telematics) – Göteborg, Sweden.
2014.10 – 2017.03
Responsible for managing project for Fleet Operation Services (Telematics)
Fleet Management Service migration to Azure, the cloud service from Microsoft;
Data Privacy Telematics Framework;
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for ElectriCity project;
Fleet Management Apps in mobile devices;

Consultant, Tender Manager – Göteborg, Sweden.
2013.04 – 2014.10
Responsible for managing a cross-functional team, analysis of the requirements presented by the public transport authorities (PTA) and presenting a tender response base on the capabilities from Volvo Buses. Accountable for creating and optimizing the tender process response for telematics towards achieve excellent bid responses.

Kyne Solutions

Consultant (owner), Manager – Jönköping, Sweden.
2008.01 – 2013.01
Founder and consultant of a business management and software development firm with focus on tailored systems and web applications. Identified and understood client needs and outcome for projects and analyzed their feasibility. Interpreted and prioritized specifications and requirements especially on how documents are evaluated. Assembled and led multidisciplinary teams according the requirements form the tasks in hand.

Jönköping University (JIBS)

Business Consultant & Project Manager (CPM) – Jönköping, Sweden.
2010.05 – 2011.05
Responsibility of the planning, execution, and management of the project for implementing streaming lectures within JIBS. Including the technical knowledge from capturing, edition, encoding, and publishing based on Apple iTunes-U standards.

General Motors Mexico (GM)

Technology Analyst – Mexico City, Mexico
2005.01 – 2005.07
Management of process for certifying the Dealer Network under the “Dealer Management System Certification (DMS)” at General Motors. Working with Accenture consultants to identify the needed functions that a DMS must have. Prioritized and created the timeline for the project and identified the critical path.

Plásticos Furbi

Technology Coordinator – Mexico City, Mexico.
2001.11 – 2004.12
Information manager, system administrator and enterprise communication.

CERTIFICATIONS

SAFe Agilist Certification

Scaled Agile, Inc.- Credential ID: 38327016-9884.

Certificate in Wireless LAN Technology

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology  (SAIT) – Calgary, Canada.

Certificate in Fiber Optic Networking Theory & Design

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology  (SAIT) – Calgary, Canada.

Film, TV and Media Production, and Radio Production

Jönköping University, JLK – Jönköping, Sweden.

Computer Programming

Carnegie Institute of Technology (Online) – Pennsylvania, USA.

LANGUAGES

Spanish

Native speaker

English

Fluent written and spoken

Swedish

Conversational

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Productivity

MS Office 365 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Project, MS Visio, MS SharePoint.

Operative Systems

Mac OS X, OS X Server, Windows, Windows Server, Linux and UNIX.

Programming

C#, Microsoft .Net Framework, ASP, PHP, Visual Basic, HTML.

Photo & Design

Adobe Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver).

Video Edition

Adobe Premier, Apple Podcast Producer, Final Cut.

DOCUMENTS

CV English

Request the CV to info(a)talamantesp.com