José Antonio González Villalón

Head of Corporate IT CIO-track

Grupo Industrial Saltillo
Monterrey, NL · México
Adjunct Professor · Tecnológico de Monterrey
Spanish · English

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Executive focus

IT Governance & Strategy
Digital Transformation & Enterprise Architecture
Data, AI & Analytics Strategy
ERP / SAP S/4HANA Programs
Cybersecurity, Compliance & Risk

Executive profile

I lead the corporate IT function of a multinational industrial group, aligning technology strategy with business objectives. My focus is not code: it is IT governance, enterprise architecture and measurable value creation.

I am part of the Project Leader Team on a global SAP S/4HANA Private Edition implementation (SAP Activate), where I took part in the strategic selection assessment — platform benchmarking, functional fit, TCO/ROI, risk and change management — and lead the integration, development, BI and AI workstreams.

My technical credibility as a software and full-stack architect — with postgraduate specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning — lets me engage engineering teams and vendors as a peer and make sound technology decisions. I share that knowledge as an Adjunct Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

I am looking to consolidate an organization's technology leadership as CIO / CDO / CAIO, accelerating its digitalization and turning IT into a competitive advantage.

Lidero la función corporativa de TI de un grupo industrial multinacional, alineando la estrategia tecnológica con los objetivos del negocio. Mi enfoque no es el código: es el gobierno de TI, la arquitectura empresarial y la creación de valor medible.

Formo parte del Project Leader Team de una implementación global de SAP S/4HANA Private Edition (SAP Activate), donde participé en el assessment estratégico de selección — benchmarking de plataformas, fit funcional, TCO/ROI, riesgos y gestión del cambio — y lidero los frentes de integraciones, desarrollos, BI e IA.

Mi credibilidad técnica como arquitecto de software y full-stack — con especialización de posgrado en Inteligencia Artificial, Machine Learning y Deep Learning — me permite dialogar de igual a igual con ingeniería y proveedores, y tomar decisiones tecnológicas sólidas. Comparto ese conocimiento como Profesor de Cátedra en el Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Busco consolidar el liderazgo tecnológico de una organización como CIO / CDO / CAIO, acelerando su digitalización y convirtiendo a TI en ventaja competitiva.

−10%IT operating costs

99.99%Systems availability

−61%Concur contract, same scope

6Countries · Teamcenter PLM rollout

Expertise

Where I create value: leadership at the top, and enough technical depth to make the right calls.

Governance & Strategy

Business–IT alignment, digital transformation roadmap, enterprise architecture, IT budget governance (−10% operating costs, 99.99% availability) and vendor renegotiation with significant savings.

IT GovernanceEnterprise ArchitectureTCO / ROIVendor ManagementAgile / SDLC

Data & Artificial Intelligence

BI and AI strategy with responsible adoption, backed by postgraduate programs in AI/ML, Deep Learning and Data Science (UT Austin – McCombs). Hands-on with neural networks, LLMs and agentic systems.

Machine LearningDeep LearningLLMs & RAGAgentic AIPythonTensorFlow / PyTorchPower BI / Tableau

ERP & Enterprise Platforms

Global SAP S/4HANA Private Edition program (RISE, SAP Activate): selection assessment; integration, development, BI and AI workstreams on SAP BTP; Taulia and Concur. Legacy landscape on Oracle EBS with Oracle SOA Suite / EDI integration; Teamcenter PLM across six countries.

SAP S/4HANA Private EditionSAP BTPSAP ActivateTauliaConcurOracle EBSOracle SOA SuiteEDITeamcenter PLMDynamics CRM

Cybersecurity, Compliance & Risk

Security by design and compliance as a management discipline: secure SDLC, OWASP and PCI DSS awareness, information-security frameworks (ISO 27001, TISAX, ISO 42001 for AI governance). Proven track record with the Mexican tax authority (SAT) as an Authorized Certification Provider (PAC) and banking certifications (E-Global, PROSA). Active IAFCI member.

ISO 27001TISAXISO 42001 (AI)OWASPPCI DSSSAT / PACISO 8583Risk ManagementIAFCI

Manufacturing & Industry 4.0

OT–IT convergence and shop-floor digitalization: data capture, process automation and operational data enabled for analytics and decision making. Global scale: multicultural teams across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

OT / ITShop-floor SystemsIoT & Data CaptureProcess Automation

Software & Cloud Architecture

Full-stack architect background: .NET / C#, JavaScript, React and the MERN stack, scalable cloud applications, multi-tenant SaaS, CI/CD and DevSecOps. Enough depth to challenge designs and estimates credibly.

.NET / C#JavaScriptReactNode.jsMongoDB / SQL Server / OracleAWS / GCPCI/CD · DevSecOps

+ YEARS LEADING IT

IT SPECIALISTS LED

COUNTRIES WITH DEPLOYMENTS

99.99

% AVAILABILITY

Career

From software architect to corporate IT leadership — always at the intersection of technology, compliance and business results.

Oct 2019 – Present

Head of Corporate IT (CIO-track) · Grupo Industrial Saltillo
Responsible for the corporate IT function — strategy, architecture, development, BI, databases and operations — leading a multidisciplinary team of 22 specialists and acting as technology counterpart to business leadership.
- Project Leader Team, global SAP S/4HANA Private Edition (SAP Activate): selection assessment; lead of integration, development, BI and AI workstreams.
- IT budget governance: −10% operating costs, 99.99% availability; Concur contract renegotiated (−61%) with full functional scope.
- Teamcenter PLM rollout across Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, China and Mexico.
- Shop-floor digitalization (OT–IT / Industry 4.0), e-invoicing, middleware, mobile/web applications under a standardized agile model; secure SDLC standards.
Responsable de la función corporativa de TI — estrategia, arquitectura, desarrollo, BI, bases de datos y operaciones — liderando un equipo multidisciplinario de 22 especialistas y ejerciendo la interlocución tecnológica con la dirección del negocio.
- Project Leader Team, SAP S/4HANA Private Edition global (SAP Activate): assessment de selección; líder de los frentes de integraciones, desarrollos, BI e IA.
- Gobierno del presupuesto de TI: −10% en costos operativos, 99.99% de disponibilidad; renegociación del contrato de Concur (−61%) preservando el alcance funcional.
- PLM Teamcenter en España, Italia, República Checa, Polonia, China y México.
- Digitalización de piso de planta (OT–TI / Industria 4.0), facturación electrónica, middleware y aplicaciones móviles/web bajo un modelo ágil estandarizado; estándares de SDLC seguro.
Sep 2023 – Present

Adjunct Professor · Tecnológico de Monterrey

School of Engineering and Sciences, Computer Science Department: Business Analytics Platforms, Requirements Analysis, Process Design and Enterprise Architecture. Industry partner (Socio Formador) representing GIS.

Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Departamento de Computación: Plataformas de Analítica de Negocios, Análisis de Requerimientos, Diseño de Procesos y Arquitectura Empresarial. Socio Formador en representación de GIS.
Jun 2016 – Oct 2019

Head of Software Architecture & Delivery · Access Box Solutions (assigned to GIS)

Ran the software factory, analytics/BI, database and middleware teams (8 professionals). Delivered CFDI 3.3 invoicing and payroll, the Vitromex dealer portal and back-office platforms; founded the SWAT rapid-delivery team; led SharePoint, SOA, EDI and .NET teams.

Administré la fábrica de software y los equipos de analítica/BI, bases de datos y middleware (8 profesionales). Entregué facturación y nómina CFDI 3.3, el portal de distribuidores Vitromex y aplicativos de backoffice; fundé el equipo SWAT de entrega rápida; lideré equipos SharePoint, SOA, EDI y .NET.
Jul 2015 – May 2016

IT Director · Operadora Regia (DETECNO)

Led the SAT recertification as Authorized Certification Provider (PAC), built the governance, risk and compliance policies it required, cut infrastructure costs and launched a professional development program for the IT team.

Dirigí la recertificación ante el SAT como PAC, construí las políticas de gobierno, riesgo y cumplimiento requeridas, reduje costos de infraestructura e instauré un programa de desarrollo profesional para el equipo de TI.
Jul 2013 – Jun 2015

Software Architect · Grupo Industrial Saltillo

End-to-end implementation of Oracle SOA Suite; SOA and EDI integration standards; XBRL financial reporting; Dynamics CRM implementation team; +5 points in the Great Place to Work – IT score.

Implementación completa de Oracle SOA Suite; estándares de integración SOA y EDI; reporteo financiero XBRL; equipo de implementación de Dynamics CRM; +5 puntos en la calificación Great Place to Work – TI.
2005 – 2013

Earlier leadership & architecture roles · INCOPTI · Grupo AGM · Tesis Automation & IT · Deintec · Depilite

Banner ERP implementation for Tecnológico de Monterrey; architecture of the ANTAD electronic platform and an ISO 8583 transactional gateway with bank certifications (E-Global, PROSA); manufacturing framework for Ternium; point-of-sale platform with centralized bank payment integration across 200+ branches in 7 countries, delivering significant monthly savings.

Implementación del ERP Banner para el Tecnológico de Monterrey; arquitectura de la plataforma electrónica ANTAD y de un gateway transaccional ISO 8583 con certificaciones bancarias (E-Global, PROSA); framework de manufactura para Ternium; plataforma de punto de venta con integración centralizada de pagos bancarios en +200 sucursales de 7 países, generando ahorros mensuales significativos.

Education & Credentials

Executive education and postgraduate specialization in AI, Data Science and Cloud Software — on top of an MBA in IT Management.

Academic

UT2025
PGP in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning – Deep Learning Specialization The University of Texas at Austin · McCombs School of Business Neural networks, CNNs, RNN/LSTM, transfer learning, TensorFlow / Keras / PyTorch, model deployment.
UT2025
PGP in Data Science & Business Analytics The University of Texas at Austin · McCombs School of Business Predictive modeling, ML applied to finance, marketing, operations and supply chain; Python, SQL, Tableau, Power BI.
UT2024
PGP Full Stack Software Development: Building Scalable Cloud Applications The University of Texas at Austin · McCombs School of Business
MIT2024
Professional Certificate — Full Stack Development with MERN Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT xPRO)
TM2017
MBA — Information Technology Management Universidad Tecmilenio
UR2002
B.Eng. Information Systems Universidad Regiomontana

Executive education & memberships

EG2022
Leadership in the Digital Era EGADE Business School · Tecnológico de Monterrey
EG2021
Digital Strategy & Transformation · Global Environment & Technology Innovation Trends EGADE Business School · Tecnológico de Monterrey
TEC2021
Digital Transformation as Business & Innovation Strategy Tecnológico de Monterrey
M32021
Management 3.0 — Fundamentals Workshop Management 3.0
IA2024
IAFCI & CCROC Training — Financial Crimes Investigations International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators · active member

SAP ActivateManagement 3.0OWASPIAFCIGreat Place to Work – IT

Hands-on Lab

Executives who still build. A curated set of my own work: teaching material, applied AI/ML projects with business conclusions, and full-stack engineering — proof that I can read, challenge and ship the code my teams write.

Teaching & Enterprise Architecture

Process Design and Enterprise Architecture

Featured · Course site (ES/EN)

Process Design & Enterprise Architecture

A five-week course I teach at Tecnológico de Monterrey, published as an interactive bilingual site: enterprise architecture domains and TOGAF ADM, BPMN process modelling, cycle-time / takt / bottleneck metrics, COBIT vs. ITIL governance, and the business case (NPV, IRR, ROI, sensitivity) that turns a redesign into a decision a manager can sign. Real-company cases, glossary, a workshop and self-check exercises for every week.

TOGAF · ADMBPMNProcess metricsCOBIT · ITILBusiness caseZachman · DoDAF · IAF

Open the course site Repository

Applied AI, Machine Learning & Data Science — UT Austin McCombs postgraduate programs

Full-code notebooks with EDA, modelling and business recommendations. Datasets are course-provided and not redistributed; notebooks open as read-only HTML.

Customer Churn Prediction

Capstone on a telecom customer base: audited dataset, EDA that answers who churns and why, and a recall-first modelling blueprint producing a scored list of at-risk accounts ranked by expected revenue loss, with retention plays whose unit economics survive Revenue Assurance review.

Pythonscikit-learnImbalanced dataPR-AUCBoard brief

Notebook Executive deck

Medical RAG Assistant

Retrieval-Augmented Generation over a clinical diagnosis manual: chunking, embeddings and vector store, prompt engineering with temperature/token controls, and evaluation of grounded vs. ungrounded answers for time-critical protocols such as sepsis management.

LLMRAGEmbeddingsVector DBPrompt engineering

Notebook

SuperKart Sales Forecasting · MLOps

End-to-end deployment of a regression model for store-level sales: FastAPI backend, Streamlit front-end and Dockerised services published on Hugging Face Spaces — the full path from notebook to a consumable product.

MLOpsFastAPIStreamlitDockerHugging Face

Notebook App screenshot

ReneWind Predictive Maintenance

Neural-network classifiers on wind-turbine sensor data to predict component failure before it happens. Seven architectures compared on precision/recall trade-offs; production recommendation by use case (cost of inspection vs. cost of a missed failure).

Deep LearningTensorFlow / KerasClass imbalanceF1 0.83

Notebook

Helmet Compliance Detection

Computer-vision pipeline for industrial safety: custom CNN baseline, then ResNet50 transfer learning with augmentation and regularisation to classify helmet compliance on site imagery — directly applicable to OT/Industry 4.0 shop-floor monitoring.

Computer VisionCNNResNet50Transfer learning

Notebook

Hotel Booking Cancellations

Supervised learning on hotel reservation data to predict cancellations: lead time, price and booking complexity emerge as the main drivers, translated into pricing and overbooking policy recommendations.

Machine LearningFeature engineeringDecision treesBusiness insights

Notebook

Visa Certification Decision Support

Ensemble learning on OFLC labor-certification data: bagging, random forest, AdaBoost, gradient boosting and XGBoost, tuned with grid search on F1 to balance false approvals and false denials. AdaBoost selected; recommendations on wage competitiveness, experience and education to pre-screen and fast-track applications.

EnsemblesAdaBoost · XGBoostHyperparameter tuningF1 optimisation

Notebook

Landing-Page A/B Test

Statistical evaluation of a new landing page vs. the existing one: assumption checks (Shapiro, Levene), two-sample t-tests on time-on-page, chi-square on conversion and language, all at a 5% significance level — with a plain-language verdict for the marketing team.

Hypothesis testingA/B testingt-test · χ²Python · SciPy

Notebook

Full-stack engineering — MIT xPRO

Restaurant Ordering Application

MIT xPRO capstone: Next.js/React front-end, Strapi GraphQL backend on MongoDB Atlas, email + Google OAuth authentication, cart and Stripe checkout — documented API, architecture deck and deployment videos.

Next.jsStrapi · GraphQLMongoDB AtlasStripeOAuth

Repository

Bad Bank · CI/CD Pipeline

React/Vite banking demo (accounts, deposits, withdrawals, history) wired to a GitHub Actions pipeline: automated tests on every push and deployment of the production build to an AWS S3 bucket.

React · ViteGitHub ActionsJest testsAWS S3

Repository

Real-Time Bus Tracker

Live tracking of MBTA Route 1 buses between MIT and Harvard, consuming a public REST API and rendering positions and headings on a map.

JavaScriptREST APIMaps

Live demo Repository

Let's talk

Board-level technology leadership, CIO / CDO / CAIO roles, digital transformation programs, SAP S/4HANA and Data & AI strategy, or advisory on IT governance and enterprise architecture. The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn or email.

Liderazgo tecnológico a nivel dirección, roles CIO / CDO / CAIO, programas de transformación digital, SAP S/4HANA y estrategia de Datos e IA, o asesoría en gobierno de TI y arquitectura empresarial. La forma más rápida de contactarme es LinkedIn o correo.

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