Business and Product, serial entrepreneur
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
"If you are offered a Seat on a Rocket Ship, You Don’t Ask What Seat. You Just Get On." Passionate technology professional between sales and operations, who understands and build client relationships and manage engineering operations and teams. Operate with strong scene of urgency and thrives in a fast-pace industries. Speaks fluent Chinese, lives in China for...
"If you are offered a Seat on a Rocket Ship, You Don’t Ask What Seat. You Just Get On." Passionate technology professional between sales and operations, who understands and build client relationships and manage engineering operations and teams. Operate with strong scene of urgency and thrives in a fast-pace industries. Speaks fluent Chinese, lives in China for the last 7 years. Specialities with strong practical experience - Chinese OEMS relationships - Keep, build clients relationships in different levels, from pms, sales to engineering teams. - Program Manager, Scrum Product Owner, Operation Manager - Coaching Scrum / Lean - Web & App development - Hardware integrations in smartphone makers - Entrepreneurship, Lean Startup, clients sales and retention, MVPs, small teams management Works speaking fluent Chinese in biz/operations for Chinese OEMs. Experience working remotely with California, India and Germany in English. Passionate about challenging products, different cultures and problem solving. Excellent motivator & communicator, team leader and creative in searching always new goals and get the maximum profit of all challenges.China Engagement & Operation Manager @ Primary relationship with Chinese smartphone makers OEMS. Keep, engage and response to OEMs & ODMs clients in a hardware & software company. Job done completed in fluent Chinese. Building the client relationship in different levels, explaining the company, technology and the engineering operations. Listen to client requests, expectations and issues to manage the deliveries and engineering operation in client. Coordinate the Hardware team response based in Bangalore and the software team response in MV, California, to deliver and improve a global app with 100+ million users, based on Chinese market, OEMs response and China users feedback. Clients, most of smartphone OEMs: TCL, ZTE, Gionee, Oppo, Coolpad, Lenovo, Huawei, etc. Global smartphone ODM based in Shenzhen & Shanghai. From July 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Shanghai City, ChinaVision Godfather & Co-Founder @ 1st Prize in AngelHack Shanghai 2013, 1st Prize Startup Weekend Shanghai 2013 & hottest booth prize in TechCrunch Shanghai 2013. We developed a simple game app (iOS & Android) to have fun competing with friends doing actual pushups, twists and stretches. Our vision is help lazy busy people to start exercising while playing casual games on their smartphones. The Nintendo Wii , Microsoft kinect for the smartphone. From November 2013 to June 2014 (8 months) Shaolin Monk & CEO @ Our aim is to help people to discover new bars/clubs/concert/parties in Beijing. Running analytics based on research, online data and offline data gather by party goers, PunchPunch.Me can forecast the 5 hottest bars/clubs/concerts to go every night. - Product Mgmt. & Development - Customer Development (Customer interviews and MVPs) - Analyze metrics (user behavior, feature engagement and retention) - Experience with A/B and Multivariate testing From July 2013 to November 2013 (5 months) Local Coordinator @ Beijing co-coordinator of the intensive three-day workshop that teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products. - Find local partnership and evangelize Lean Startup methodology - Connect with local entrepreneur community (attendees and mentors) - Find and add value to the workshop by interview previous attendees and add some MVP to test the value From August 2013 to October 2013 (3 months) Beijing City, ChinaCustomer Product Manager @ Pitched (30+), managed and being the responsible for (15+) enterprise applications (web and mobile) for Automotive OEM Clients (BMW, VW and MINI) and advertising agencies (BBDO-interone) - Managing multiple projects, using and supervising SCRUM - Set project priorities and talking to developers, testers & designers - Interface to the Client. - Create project prototypes using paper prototyping and Lean UX - Introduce & use Customer Discovery and Lean Startup for internal applications - Last 6 months acting as PMO, reinforcing new tools and Agile methodologies (Kanban, Lean, Customer Development, Lean UX and paper prototyping) & helping and coaching other POs and teams about SCRUM, paper prototyping, UX design and Lean From September 2010 to July 2013 (2 years 11 months) Application Engineer @ Managed and developed a Social Media Analysis & Monitoring tool for the Chinese market. The developed software tasks did - Crawl the forums and micro blogs (weibos) searching for patterns - Analysis by sentiment analysis these sources - Create analytics & graphics based on the sentiment analysis From September 2010 to March 2011 (7 months) Software Engineer in Test @ - Performed research, design, and development of software to automatically test Windows internal Protocols (packages received and sent) - Requirement analysis and produce documentation - Coordinate other team members to achieve the goals From December 2009 to September 2010 (10 months) Beijing City, ChinaVR demo developer (student job) @ Managed and developed demos in an immersive virtual reality machine. The computer assisted virtual environment (CAVE) was used to product development testing and proof of concept in the following industries: healthcare, automotive design and astronomy education. From September 2006 to February 2007 (6 months) iMBA, MBA @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 2015 to 2016 Next Startup Program - by Google for Entrepreneurs From 2013 to 2013 Master Degree, Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Computer Science @ Technische Universität Berlin From 2005 to 2006 Computer Engineer, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence @ Universidad Politécnica de Valencia From 2001 to 2007 Degree Final Project "Hacking and Hacking tools", Computer Science @ Universidad Panamericana. Mexico From 2007 to 2007
Peel
China Engagement & Operation Manager
July 2014 to Present
Shanghai City, China
PooshUP
Vision Godfather & Co-Founder
November 2013 to June 2014
PunchPunch.Me
Shaolin Monk & CEO
July 2013 to November 2013
Lean Startup Machine
Local Coordinator
August 2013 to October 2013
Beijing City, China
CRM Factory
Customer Product Manager
September 2010 to July 2013
CRM Factory
Application Engineer
September 2010 to March 2011
Microsoft Research Asia
Software Engineer in Test
December 2009 to September 2010
Beijing City, China
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
VR demo developer (student job)
September 2006 to February 2007
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
iMBA MBA
2015 to 2016
Next Startup Program - by Google for Entrepreneurs
2013 to 2013
Technische Universität Berlin
Master Degree Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Computer Science
2005 to 2006
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Computer Engineer Computer Science Artificial Intelligence
2001 to 2007
Universidad Panamericana. Mexico
Degree Final Project "Hacking and Hacking tools" Computer Science
2007 to 2007
Primary relationship with Chinese smartphone makers OEMS. Keep, engage and response to OEMs & ODMs clients in a hardware & software company. Job done completed in fluent Chinese. Building the client relationship in different levels, explaining the company, technology and the engineering operations. Listen to client requests, expectations and issues to manage the deliveries and engineering operation... Primary relationship with Chinese smartphone makers OEMS. Keep, engage and response to OEMs & ODMs clients in a hardware & software company. Job done completed in fluent Chinese. Building the client relationship in different levels, explaining the company, technology and the engineering operations. Listen to client requests, expectations and issues to manage the deliveries and engineering operation in client. Coordinate the Hardware team response based in Bangalore and the software team response in MV, California, to deliver and improve a global app with 100+ million users, based on Chinese market, OEMs response and China users feedback. Clients, most of smartphone OEMs: TCL, ZTE, Gionee, Oppo, Coolpad, Lenovo, Huawei, etc. Global smartphone ODM based in Shenzhen & Shanghai.
What company does Gustavo Villarroel work for?
Gustavo Villarroel works for Peel
What is Gustavo Villarroel's role at Peel?
Gustavo Villarroel is China Engagement & Operation Manager
What industry does Gustavo Villarroel work in?
Gustavo Villarroel works in the Internet industry.
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