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Journey
The professional and personal evolution of Jose.
Learn. Build. Lead. Give back.
Career snapshot
More than 25 years in technology.
Four organisations built.
More than twenty years living and working abroad.
International consulting across Europe.
Home, at different times:
Madrid ↓ London ↓ Bern ↓ Berlin ↓ Málaga
This isn’t the story of changing jobs.
It’s the story of changing what success means.
==================================================== Today
Málaga, Spain
Technology Advisor Entrepreneur Builder Still curious.
Helping organisations solve difficult problems where technology creates real impact.
Today I choose projects differently.
To understand why…
keep reading.
==================================================== 2025
Choosing projects with intention.
The question changed from:
“What can be built?”
to:
“What is worth building now?”
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | Founder | | Childhood Cancer Foundation (under constitution) | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
Not another organisation.
Another mission.
==================================================== 2024
Málaga, Spain
Personal turning point.
My son’s leukaemia changed the way I measure success.
I still enjoy solving difficult problems.
I simply choose different ones.
==================================================== 2023
Málaga, Spain
Returning home.
After more than twenty years living and working internationally, I came back to Spain.
Not because Spain had changed.
Because I had.
==================================================== 2021
Berlin, Germany
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | Founder & CEO | | Globe Testing → Izertis | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
Globe Testing became part of Izertis, a publicly listed technology company.
A company continued its journey.
Its founder started a different one.
==================================================== 2010 → 2021
Berlin / Bern
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | Founder & CEO | | Globe Testing | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
Built one of Europe’s specialised Software Quality consultancies.
More than one hundred professionals.
Projects delivered throughout Europe.
Software Quality Test Automation Performance Engineering Security DevOps Technology Strategy
At some point, building software stopped being the job.
Building people became the job.
==================================================== 2009
Bern, Switzerland
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | Founder | | Globe Testing | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
One simple belief.
Software Quality deserved its own company.
==================================================== 2005 → 2009
Bern / Madrid
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | Managing Director | | Testhouse Consultores S.A. | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
Built an international Quality Assurance consultancy.
Projects delivered throughout Europe.
Eventually became part of UST Global.
One lesson stayed with me.
Building a company and owning a company are not always the same thing.
==================================================== 2002
London, United Kingdom
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | Senior Consultant | | Testhouse Ltd | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
Learning how international consulting works.
Different countries.
Different cultures.
The technology looked remarkably similar.
People never did.
==================================================== September 2001
London, United Kingdom
Computer Science Engineering completed.
A suitcase.
A one-way flight.
The biggest professional decision of my life.
I thought I was leaving Spain to build a career.
I was actually changing the way I would understand technology, business and leadership.
I wouldn’t really return to Spain for more than twenty years.
==================================================== 1996 → June 2001
Madrid, Spain
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | Computer Science Engineering | | Universidad Nebrija | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
Engineering during the afternoons.
Working during the mornings.
Learning all day.
1998
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | Trainee Graphic / Web Designer | | Moredi S.L. | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
First professional experience.
Design.
Web.
Creativity.
1999
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | System / Database Administrator (Part-time) | | Banco Espírito Santo | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
Enterprise infrastructure.
Oracle.
SQL.
2000 → 2001
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | Database Administrator | | Audatex España | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
Enterprise software.
Oracle.
Large-scale information systems.
The final year of university was already closer to professional engineering than student life.
At the same time…
+–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+ | Founder | | Contact Infogestión S.L. | +–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––+
The first company.
Built while finishing university and working full-time.
No investors.
No roadmap.
Just curiosity.
The first entrepreneurial lesson:
You don’t need permission to start building.
The company lasted two years.
Financially, I broke even.
The lessons I took away have been paying dividends ever since.
==================================================== Beginning
Looking back…
it wasn’t really a journey from
Madrid → London → Bern → Berlin → Málaga.
It was a journey from
building software…
to building organisations…
to building impact.