Mario Olivio Flores

Summary: Freelancing for various EU and US clients, I delivered strategic consulting and digital transformation projects for clients large and small, NGOs and commercial. Re-engaged with hands-on technical work.

Notable Projects:

• Wunderwork.io: When the CEO from my previous position founded his own HR tech firm, I co-developed a go-to-market strategy, candidate-talent matching strategy and single-handedly built out the MVP. We created a very thoughtful onboarding funnel that led to the acquisition of 100+ candidates a few weeks after launch, with a 70% completion rate.
• The Outreach Team (TOT): Provided strategic consulting services to help TOT facilitate a digital transformation to improve operations for their signature collection campaigns - operations that impact thousands of temp workers and millions of collected signatures. I outlined a tech roadmap, designed and executed learning field tests, and sourced vendors. I led vendors to deliver on-time and on-budget. Early results include 3x efficiency gains for a major cost-center.
• Schmidt Futures: As Eric Schmidt's philanthropic initiative looked to grow from a few hundred grants a year to several thousand, the organization needed tooling for grant management, tracking, and accountability. I evaluated, recommended, and helped persuade the board on a buy or build decision. After building support on the board, Schmidt Futures built up its internal team to pursue the initial product vision I developed - an innovative and flexible system to aggregate KPIs for grant initiatives with very diverse goals.

Summary: Hired to lead local, remote, and offshore development teams as a part of a corporate start-up. The role encompassed all technology components, including strategy, resourcing, DevOps, security, and development. Ultimately, the company decided against launching the product. The entire leadership staff departed.

Summary: A hands-on role responsible for leading strategy, roadmapping, analysis and scoping, building a scalable architecture, code quality, process implementation, issue triaging, resource allocation in a lean environment. Recruited and mentored team leads and members.

• Drove a welcoming team culture of quality, continuous improvement, healthy communication, and engineering best practices. Grew from 4 to 12 FT/Freelance engineers on 3 teams from 10 countries.
• Shifted delivery focus from cutting-corners to sustainable engineering best practices for fast iteration
• Simplified application and architectural complexity - reducing defect and error rates
• Continuously improved infrastructure automation, monitoring, and reproducibility, eventually migrating to Terraform/K8s
• Scaled infrastructure from 4M requests/day to 40M, from 15k managed devices to >50k
• Led prototyping of a Set-top-box and other hospitality IoT products - identifying and mitigating scaling challenges and other technical risks prior to full product launch
• Empowered other teams with training and documentation to reduce issue escalation by 90%

Summary: Led tech, product, UX, and design strategy, recruited contractors/staff/volunteers, including all lead developer responsibilities to facilitate user conversions, telephony services, donations, and analytics aggregation

• Massively reduced technical debt and simplified technical architecture: Transitioned fragmented tech services and multiple data stores into a single integrated services API
• Implemented analytics tooling to empower A/B testing and identified predictive metrics to increase conversation rates
• Continually improved internal deployment/review/QA processes through the course of a major branding relaunch
• Hands-on development of many API features in RoR backend and FE development with CSS/JS

Summary: Led internal tech/IT strategy and client web projects, including ad integrations, microsites, email programs, and conversion optimization

• Our efforts contributed to five Senate wins, including Sen. Tim Kaine, Sen. Bob Casey, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
• Led and built an internal ad reporting and analytics platform with Facebook, Google, and internal API integrations - reducing reporting burdens and empowering ad buying team to execute faster

Summary: MVP Development for a campaign email logging system called Traceful - a service to create a demographically representative set of personas for the purposes of collecting and identifying trends in campaign email communications.

• Aggregated and analyzed municipal data sources to build a sample of fictitious email personas
• Build an integration to Amazon's Mechanical Turk to leverage remote workers to submit subscription forms to thousands of campaigns
• Used ElasticSearch to develop simplistic vocabulary and tone analysis dashboards to compare campaigns from Democratic vs Republican senders

Summary: Provided general front-end and responsive development and analytics support, drove SEO strategy. Initially hired on 6-week contract that was extended to 8 months.

• One of three devs to launch Barack Obama's first 2012 campaign site, assisted with API design
• Built DNC's first electoral mobile sites, implementing polling place lookups with geolocation capabilities
• Tested and optimized donation pages, increasing contributions by 73% and amount contributed by 7%, amongst other results

Summary: Managed vendors and internal teams to deliver integrated print, broadcast, and collateral executions on time and within budget. Developed, presented, and “sold" creative/strategic recommendations.

• Crafted estimates and shepherded client and vendor contracts worth over $30MM
• Pitched and Secured $1.2MM for client-sponsored television documentary production and distribution
• Led media team on $17.5MM print and cable ad buy, carefully supervising the media matrix

Assistant Account Executive

• Led PSA distribution from vendor selection to delivering $2.8 MM in donated media time
• Coordinated our $300K nationwide casting search to develop an integrated testimonial campaign