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Jorge Esteban Montoya Cano

CIO - Chief Innovation & Digital Transformation Officer at Avista

Jorge Esteban Montoya Cano has a diverse work experience. Jorge Esteban is currently working as the Chief Innovation & Digital Transformation Officer at Avista, where they are responsible for implementing digital financial products for institutional payroll and public pensioners. Jorge Esteban has defined the digital roadmap for payroll products and implemented a cloud-based digital underwriting process.

Prior to Avista, Jorge was the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at DOC-IA from June 2019 to March 2020.

Before that, Jorge worked at Bancolombia in various roles. As an IT Manager - Innovation Architecture, they implemented the architecture innovation strategy and the open-source program for the company. Jorge Esteban also implemented the Techlab to accelerate the adoption of new cloud-based technologies. In their role as an Enterprise Architect - Cloud & Artificial Intelligence, Jorge was awarded for their work in combining machine learning models and cloud services for fraud detection. Jorge Esteban also led the definitions and implementations for the R&D architecture in multi-cloud environments. Additionally, they worked as an R&D Innovation Architect and a QA Lead for the change of core banking systems, where they were involved in core banking implementation and automation projects.

Jorge also has experience as a QA Engineer and has worked as a Researcher and Assistant Professor at Universidad EAFIT.

Jorge Esteban Montoya Cano has an extensive education history. Jorge Esteban obtained their Bachelor of Science in Production Engineering from Universidad EAFIT in 2014. Following that, they pursued a Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from the same institution, completing it in 2016.

In addition to their degrees, Jorge Esteban Montoya Cano has acquired numerous certifications. In 2015, they obtained the ISTQB Foundation level certificate from the International Software Testing Qualifications Board. In 2016, they completed the "Innovación para todos" program offered by Ruta N Medellin.

Continuing their professional development, they completed several online courses. In 2018, they finished courses on "Machine Learning" from Stanford University, "Innovation Strategy: Developing Your Fintech Strategy" from Copenhagen Business School, and "Machine Learning A-Z™: Hands-On Python & R in Data Science" from Udemy.

In 2019, Jorge Esteban Montoya Cano obtained the AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification from A Cloud Guru and the "AWS SageMaker and Certified Machine Learning Specialty" certification from Cloudera. In 2020, they graduated with honors from the DS4A/Colombia 2.0 program offered by Correlation One.

More recently, in 2021, they obtained several certifications related to Agile methodologies, including the Agile Coach Professional Certificate, AgileExpert 4.0 certification, OKR Professional certification, Scrum Master Professional Certificate (SMPC®), Scrum Product Owner Professional Certificate, and Agile Business Owner certification. These certifications were obtained from institutions such as CertiProf and CertiOrange.

Overall, Jorge Esteban Montoya Cano has a diverse and comprehensive education history, combining formal degrees with professional certifications and continuous learning through online courses.

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