Dipl.-Ing. Luis Alfonso AMEZCUA ARAGON

In charge of developing technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals. Discovering and implementing new technologies that yield competitive advantage. Aligning and providing feedback on the product roadmap to decide on prioritization, resource allocation, and timelines. Supervising system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency. Using stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology.

Implementing a state of the art Computer Vision method to recognise persons' actions in a video through their skeleton information. Using in this work the UCF101 data- set. Splitting the project, which followed a complete common workflow for an effort of this type, in the following steps: 1. Data preparation: creation of the customed skeleton-based data-set from the UCF101 data-set, 2. Training, 3. Testing, and 4. Presentation: application creation of the skeleton-based action recognition

Generating an IT Assessment to align business and IT to increase the level of trust and ability to partner, improve cost efficiency and transparency in IT expenditure (both now and in the future) and increase the quality in IT Operations through stronger IT capabilities (meeting the future needs). On-demand consulting.

Giving advise at Laurea UAS in the digital services creation field and participating in different startup initiatives and activities: CTO of the VR Startup "WordyNerdy". On-demand consulting. Creating a business case for a Mexican technology company to launch a new service offering to respond to companies necessities from resources with high skills in new technologies (e.g. big data and bioinformatics).

In charge of innovating the technological infrastructure. Defining the IT operating model. Implementing project management and application development methodologies. Reporting to the CEO and managing a budget of 9 million pesos. Achievements: - Delivered the IT strategic planning for the next 5 years - Defined the technological, applicative and data architecture - Successfully managed the fulfillment of the contractual commitments - Led the approval of certifications, audits, credit ratings and reports

Generating proposals for Mexican advertising, human capital and insurance firms of: 1. the diagnostic of the IT and business strategy alignment by assessing the maturity level of IT processes, 2. the creation of the commercial area business processes including roles and tools for diagramming processes and 3. the methodology's definition for the migration of the Protection and Health area businesses to a new technological platform. Creating a business in the insurance and investment advisory industry.

In charge of planning and defining IT governance and strategy; executing the technological transformation program; conducting the required organisational and operational changes within the Services Development function as well as delivering operational- and infrastructure-driven IT services; overseeing the budget and IT Project Portfolio Management;executing and ensuring compliance with Service Level Agreements entered into with the suppliers of the services;establishing strategic alliances with IT vendors.

In charge of defining Strategies for Companies or Groups’ IT Areas whose annual income exceeded USD $700m in different Industries for Mexico and Central America; managing Business and IT Strategies alignment; defining and implementing IT Governance in order to ensure correct decision making at the strategic, tactical and operational levels; defining the Organizational Structure to support IT Functions; evaluating Financial Planning to ensure optimal IT expenditure and investment allocation.

In charge of delivering process solutions that ensured the fulfillment of functional capacities in support of the Financial (Economical), Customer, Processes and Business aspects (perspectives) that allowed the defined strategic targets to be reached; aligning actions and related goals through understanding of the Business strategy; evaluating, designing and managing development and support of GNP ́s Workflows, considered the key tool for the analysis, monitoring and improvement of the Business Operation.

In charge of providing technological and strategic advice on key projects of the different Companies comprising the BAL Group; managing special projects for Group companies; ensuring optimal technological and economical conditions for HW, SW and services acquisition by Group companies; participated in defining a variety of relevant projects for the Companies of the Group as well as in the selection of the providers required for the execution of these projects;executing BI analysis and an Innovation Program.

In charge of consolidating the elaboration of the contents of the internal Website “ZT SE Innovation Center”: categories, process, evaluation criteria, innovation concepts and migrating the Innovation Cockpit tool (INNOCO) of the ZT SE3 area, key instrument in the analysis of the innovation capability of an organisational unit.

In charge of hardware consulting (Alpha Server 8400, Alpha Server 4000/4100, Alpha Server 2100, RAID, Storageworks, etc.) and software consulting (Digital UNIX and related products); consulting at a national level in operating systems such as Digital UNIX and products such as Polycenter Netview and Pathworks; implementing Client/Server Strategies.

Learning Outcomes: - Formalising data-intensive problems in data science and artificial intelligence in terms of the underlying statistical and computational principles - Assessing suitability of different machine learning methods for solving a particular new problem encountered in industry or academia, and apply the methods to the problem - Implementing common machine learning methods, and designing and implementing novel algorithms by modifying the existing approaches