Hello I`m Chechu
I engineer "stuff"
Also
build innovative solutions
ABOUT ME
Hello, I’m a Cloud Architect & Engineer from Santander. I hold a MSc in Engineering, with a double major on Electronics and Telematics, also masters in Consulting and Sales from IBM
Name:
Jesus ArtecheEmail:
Nationality:
Spain
RECENT BLOG
Standarizing the cloud
Extending on-premise Vmware environment with an IPsec tunnel to consume securely IBM Cloud services through the VPC.
MY SKILLS
I lead successful First Of A Kind client cloud projects, from pre-sales to delivery. My strengths are facing challenging projects out of my comfort zone, learn new technologies fast, and coordinate solution design and delivery across organizations.
I have over fifteen years of experience working in IT and cloud platforms field, in addition to a lifetime’s amount of serious study about these subjects in my off time. Recently I have invested time learning, designing and working with clients around AI technologies. I led teams to deliver successful solutions to complex projects with some of the top financial and telco enterprises worldwide
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
During this period I started the IT systems department serving to other companies of the group. I grew it to small group of people.
I drove the adoption of public cloud technologies in IBM at its first stage, educating IBMers and clients. I designed customer’s architectures from small/medium size companies to large complex projects, where I leveraged my leading skills to collaborate across organizations.
Leading heterogeneous teams on key strategic and large projects, First Of A Kind projects, creating innovative solutions using top edge technologies, that were re-used on other customer engagements. Reporting internal and customer executives and working with them to establish the short- and long-term strategy. Working closely with sales, offering management and executives to leverage these innovative projects as industry references.
Leading the expansion of the hybrid cloud strategy, enabling and leading technical sales country teams spread worldwide, to be successful on their customer interactions by First Of A Kind demos and Proof of Concept. Leading heterogeneous Customer and IBM teams to accomplish the creation of Minimum Viable Product in a short period of time, by following the IBM Garage method. Lead IBM team to create content and assets that are re-used by technical sales teams in their customer interactions. Use all customer interactions to create new opportunities for IBM to help customers to accomplish their goals.
I co-founded this startup and led the technical strategy with a focus on the emerging cloud technologies, building SaaS applications on AWS.
Acting as lead architect for strategic and large customer engagements for new IBM Cloud offerings or acquisition, working with platforms like SoftLayer, OpenStack, CleverSafe, or Bluemix. Evangelizing the adoption of cloud technologies on large and traditional organizations.
I deliver the cloud business class, as part of the IT module on the MBA.
Leading the development of a unified framework to standardize IBM software architecture and deployment across platforms, hyperscalers, IBM organizations, and partner networks. Designed this framework to support diverse skill levels from junior to senior, ensuring consistent implementation across teams. Driving automation integration to embed security and best practices through all layers, from platform infrastructure to DevSecOps pipelines and application templates. Architecting First Of A Kind Proof of Concepts (PoCs) leveraging IBM Software and AI applications for enterprise clients, overseeing successful PoC-to-production transitions by collaborating closely with professional services and account teams. Evangelizing IBM's Artificial Intelligence suite—LLMs, governance, data solutions—both internally and externally.