Fernando Valenzuela
Head of Innovation and product development at Lojack Argentina- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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LoJack (Car security S.A)
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Argentina
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Consumer Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Head of Innovation and product development
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Nov 2019 - Present
I am in charge of the engineering and product development teams, where we design, develop and maintain the company’s products. Projects range from IoT platforms handling hundreds of concurrent tasks per second to business analytics and reporting. I lead an amazing team of SW developers, functional analysts and QA professionals.
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Innovation and development manager
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Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
I led a core project named “Strix”, a cloud native IoT platform whose design goals are scalability and high availavility. I coordinated design, development, testing and validation tasks involving both the backend and mobile frontends. The platform currently serves 200k+ devices and handles more than 1.5k signals per second.
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Project engineer
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Nov 2011 - Feb 2017
I developed applications targeted to different IoT devices (GPS trackers, home security systems) and managing software using .NET and Java frameworks. I handled special projects for different customers.
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UTN Buenos Aires
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Higher Education
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400 - 500 Employee
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Assistant professor – Final project (Proyecto final)
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Mar 2020 - Present
I tutor students in the final project of the Electronics Engineering curriculum. I teach agile framework and project management. I tutor students in the final project of the Electronics Engineering curriculum. I teach agile framework and project management.
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UTN Buenos Aires
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Higher Education
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400 - 500 Employee
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Assistant professor – Intro to programming (Informática 1)
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Jan 2007 - Dec 2019
I taught introduction to programming in C for Electronics Engineering. I taught introduction to programming in C for Electronics Engineering.
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Developer
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Jan 2010 - Oct 2011
I developed hardware, software and firmware for an environmental condition monitor designed for datacenters. Firmware included TCP stack, SNMP signaling and web administration. I developed hardware, software and firmware for an environmental condition monitor designed for datacenters. Firmware included TCP stack, SNMP signaling and web administration.
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Empresa de Computacion y Servicios S.A.
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Developer
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May 2007 - Jan 2010
I programmed OCR and biometric access control applications. Used .NET technology using SDKs for character recognition and retina scanning. I programmed OCR and biometric access control applications. Used .NET technology using SDKs for character recognition and retina scanning.
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Education
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Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Electronics Engineer