P.J. LHUILLIER GROUP OF COMPANIES    JAN 1, 2020 - PRESENT

CONSULTING MEMBER, DIGITAL STEERING COMMITTEE

Formally established in 1988, the PJ Lhuillier Group of Companies (PJLGC) is a dynamic, multi-industry company that owns and operates businesses dealing with financial services such as pawning, remittance, microinsurance, micro savings, and business to business micro loan solutions. They have also ventured into other industries such as retail, hotel and restaurant management, IT, sports management, and real estate.

As one of two external members of the committee, Jay advises the board and management teams of the conglomerate in its digital transformation roadmap, impacting operations, its personnel, and the evolution of products and services. 

Specifically, the role also involves:

• Developing a systematic, measurable and continuous digital transformation strategy of the company.
  
• Making sound recommendations on where the business should go in terms of technologies that can be adopted to maintain sustainability and competitiveness.
• Reviewing all digitalization projects to makes sure that these projects are aligned with the industry standards, and the company's digital business strategy.
  

JOJO CROWDSHIPPING    SEP 1, 2018 - PRESENT

CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

GAMEWORKS     NOV 1, 2018 - DEC 31, 2019

CEO

Gameworks is a blockchain based platform that provides a tokenised gaming ecosystem to game developers and publishers. With its 4 key modules; Gamecentral (gamecentral.gameworks.io), GWX Wallet (gwxwallet.com), GWX Token Depot (depot.gameworks.io), and the Gameworks Service Stack (GSS) API, the platform makes use of the GWX token to drive the economic flow between publishers, games, merchants, and players.

At Gameworks, Jay was responsible for:

• Designed and created the business model and engineering architecture powering the entire Gameworks ecosystem. 

• Designed and executed the Private Sale purchase and disbursment infrastructure of the GWX token to certified early buyers of the GWX token using the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Nem cryptocurrencies.

• Together with the Chief Legal Officer, helped develop and execute the legal compliance roadmap for the various Gameworks business units and jurisdictions with regards to gaming and cryptocurrency. 

PROUDCLOUD     FEB 2009 - PRESENT

FOUNDER and CEO

Jay is also responsible for:

• implementing the company's agile workflow that follows a hybrid SCRUM/XP methodology, pair programming, peer code reviews, automated testing and continuous integration, and automated deployment;

• developing a full stack workforce that produces engineers that can overlap, in varying degrees, their front-end development, back-end development, ui/ux design, and devops competencies;
  

• continuous training and development for the company's human resources in all departments, including production operations, finance, administrative, and the rest of the organization;
  

• encourages the active participation of the company in the technology and startup communities such as Startup Weekend, JSConf Manila, RubyConf Manila, and other communities, resulting in a high brand equity for the company in these circles.

MEDIFI     AUG 2014 - PRESENT

Co-FOUNDER and CTO

MEDIFI is a HIPPAA compliant, WebRTC based, telehealth platform that connects patients with physicians globally, through video consultations, and instant messaging. The platform also includes a DICOM imaging manager/viewer, digital prescriptions, and a personal medical journal.

As the CTO of MEDIFI, Jay is responsible for,

• building the company's engineering team to its current size of 8 developers and ui/ux designers support the product development roadmap; 

• designing the architecture and technology stack for the MVP and current version of the platform that is built on Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MongoDB, WebRTC, and utilizes Amazon EC2/S3 for staging and production deployments;
  

• designing and currently leading the development of the paltform's next iteration which will heavily be designed to support a microservices architecture and migration towards a more robust WebRTC and signalling implementation, in order to properly scale;
  

• play a major role in the agile product development path, including feature design scheduling, and roll out; 

• represented the company in various tech startup and health tech conventions, events, and pitching events around the world, selected as an Angel's Choice awardee at the 2015 Websummit in Dublin, Ireland, and winning best startup at the 2016 APEC O2O Forum in Lima, Peru.

LAUNCHGARAGE     APRIL 2016 - PRESENT

Launchgarage is an accelerator and tech innovation hub in Manila that provides a venue for open collaboration, knowledge sharing, events, acceleration, and a landing pad for global startups and investors that  connect with the Philippine startup ecosystem. With its key relationships with global innovation hubs such as Plug and Play in Silicon Valley, Launchgarage is also sought after by local innovation drivers such as UP Enterprise UPSCALE, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Department of ICT, and the Department of Science and Technology, for guidance and support.

Launchgarage has over 28 tech startups with an aggregate total valuation of US$61.2M under its advisory portfolio, and has guided a good number of these startups by connecting them with strategic partners, investors, and mentors. It also serves as innovation advisors to number of large corporate partners through its Corporate Innovation Programs. 

AIRBORNE ACCESS     2002 - 2008

Jay established the country’s first Wi-Fi hotspot operator eventually becoming the largest and most popular Wi-Fi network in the Philippines with over 600 hotspots throughout the country. While leading and growing the company from a management perspective, he also played the lead role in developing the product and brand as well as the technology architecture.

As CEO, Jays role was to define the company’s vision, drive product development, act as chief strategist, while bearing P&L responsibilities.

• Developed the company’s overall business plan encompassing Financial, Technological, Marketing, and Sales/Distribution concerns.

• Developed the core technologies to support a secure and centralized authentication of subscribers through captive portal technology and RADIUS AAA.

• Built and trained a team of engineers to support the company’s development and network management requirements in relation to the wireless hotspot business model.

• Organized and directed the company’s management team through the start-up and succeeding day-to-day concerns.

• Successfully initiated strategic partnerships with various wireless related firms to support the company’s network deployment as well as implement joint marketing activities and co-branding.

• Successfully deployed over 600 wireless hotspots and hotzones around the country.

• Expanded Wi-Fi hotspot operations to Nigeria, Thailand, and New Zealand.

• Implemented Voice over IP capabilities over the entire network through Wi-Fi SIP phones and dual mode handsets.

• Successfully established the company as a white label solutions provider for the country’s major carriers including PLDT, SMART, BayanTel, and Eastern Telecoms.

PACIFIC SUN (ASIA), LTD.     JUL 2000 - APR 2002

GLOBAL DIRECT ACCESS     JUNE 1998 - JULY 2000

BUSINESSWORLD ONLINE     AUGUST 1995 - JUNE 1998

• directing the network and technology architecture that would support the organization's daily web publishing operations, and the peripheral digital products that would emerge over the life the company; 

• designed, developed, and implemented CODEX, the web search engine for the Businessworld online archives;

SYNTHESYS     1991 - AUGUST 1995

IGUE SYSTEMS     1989 - AUGUST 1991

• the Basic Interpreter for the SHARP’s pocket computer platform;
• platform that tracked the migratory behavior of Pawikan sea turtles for the the DENR.
  

ATLAS MINING & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION     1987 - 1988