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Technology from the ground up
Servers, networks, databases and code. Knowing from the inside what is being built lets him lead technical teams in their own language.
The author
From building networks to managing projects with AI
Javier Navarro Cerdá has worked in technology for more than twenty-five years. He started out repairing computers and setting up networks in his own company. He then managed software projects in travel, mobility and aviation. Today he works as a project manager and as a specialist in applied artificial intelligence. This page tells that story and what each stage left behind.
25+ years in technology3 companies foundedProject manager since 2011PMBOK · Agile · AI
The common thread
Learned on the job
It is not a straight-line career but a set of layers. Each role added something the next one took for granted, and his books put that learning in writing.
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The bottom line
Running his own companies for over a decade taught him what no course explains: balancing staff, customers and cash flow at the same time.
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The customer at the centre
Implementations, requirements and production support. A project ends when the customer uses it, not when it is delivered.
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Deciding with data
Business intelligence, financial reporting and dashboards. This is the foundation of data and judgement that applied AI now rests on.
Career
Six stages, one craft
From the earliest to the current one. Each stage shows the book that grew out of it.
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2000 – 2011 · Tech entrepreneur
Founding and running technology companies
XIPS Menorca · DUB Solutions · MAC Baleares
He left his computer engineering degree at the University of the Balearic Islands to start a business. He was partner and technical director at XIPS Menorca, an Apple service provider with revenue of around one million euros. He founded DUB Solutions, which built web applications on open-source software (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript) and offered hosting and domains. He also ran MAC Baleares as managing and technical director: an Apple service provider with a team of five to ten people.
This is where he learned to plan a team's work, share it out fairly and hit targets every day. He learned it before he knew it was called project management.
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2011 – 2016 · Project manager
The move into project management
Juniper Consulting · travel booking engines
He joined Juniper as a project manager in the travel industry. He handled requirements analysis and the customer relationship, as well as .NET development, XML connections and server configuration. He was still writing code, but now he answered to a customer for a project.
In this stage he saw that customer trust is earned by communicating. Planning exists to support that communication.
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2016 – 2017 · Data
Business intelligence and reporting
Sunhotels · hotel booking engine
He moved to the data side as a business intelligence consultant at Sunhotels: internal sales and financial reports, data analysis, accounting BI and a blockchain implementation to improve booking accuracy.
He learned that a decision is only as good as the data behind it. Every artificial intelligence project needs that same foundation today.
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2018 – 2021 · Product and consulting
Integration, product and senior technical projects
Juniper Consulting · Juniper HUB
He returned to Juniper as product manager and technical consultant for Juniper HUB, the XML web-service connectivity layer with third-party partners. There he combined project management with sales consulting. In 2020 he became a senior project manager: product implementation, planning, monitoring and solution consulting.
Integrating other people's systems forces you to document well, define data contracts (XML and JSON schemas) and manage dependencies you do not control.
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2021 – 2024 · Product and operations
Process automation and implementations
OK Mobility · Loqus Group
At OK Mobility he was senior product manager for supply-chain needs, focused on designing and automating processes. At Loqus Group he was the project manager in charge of software implementations and ongoing (BAU) customer support.
Automating a badly designed process only makes it fail faster. That is why design always comes before the tool, and he now applies the same rule to AI agents.
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2024 – today · Aviation and applied AI
IT consultant and project manager in a critical environment
World2Fly · Iberostar Group
At World2Fly, the Iberostar Group airline, he is IT consultant and project manager for the software used by the aircraft maintenance department. He supports the team and maintains the business intelligence layer in Qlik. It is a regulated environment, where traceability and risk control are mandatory.
Alongside this, applied artificial intelligence has become his second specialism. It covers cybersecurity against autonomous agents, the EU AI Act, risk management, AI literacy for teams and AI in connected devices. This is the consulting line of the site.
Skills
What he does, where he learned it and where he writes about it
The skills that weigh most in his current profile, matched with the experience behind them and the book that develops them.
| Skill | Where it was built | Where it is written |
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| Project management PMBOK and agile frameworks |
Juniper, Loqus Group, World2Fly · University expert diploma, University of the Balearic Islands | Project management collection |
| Applied artificial intelligence Regulation, risk, training |
Process automation and BI; AI consulting | Technology and AI · AI consulting |
| Data and business intelligence Power BI, Qlik, reporting |
Sunhotels, World2Fly | AI consulting |
| Systems integration SOAP web services, XML and JSON |
Juniper HUB | IoT, edge y sistemas embebidos |
| Software development PHP, JavaScript, .NET, Java, PowerShell, Bash |
DUB Solutions, Juniper | Dirección de proyectos en equipos técnicos |
| Systems and networks Windows Server, Linux, macOS |
XIPS Menorca, MAC Baleares | Ciberseguridad y la Revolución de la IA |
| Business and product Product, sales, marketing and costs |
His three companies, OK Mobility | Business and economics |
Education
Formal study and learning on the job
The academic part is short and the practical part is long. He started a computer engineering degree and left it to found his first company. Years later, already managing projects, he formalised that craft with a university expert diploma.
- University Expert in Project Management University of the Balearic Islands. A project management programme based on the PMBOK standard.
- Computer engineering (technical degree) University of the Balearic Islands. Started and left to become an entrepreneur.
- Three working languages Native Spanish and Catalan, and advanced English (B2). His project management manuals have English editions, and the site is published in all three languages.
The professional books
What experience has put in writing
These are the manuals that come straight out of his work. All of them are on sale as PDFs in the shop. Both project management manuals and IA Aplicada also have English editions; the rest are in Spanish only.
Project management
PMBOK 8 and Scrum for technical teams
Dirección de proyectos en equipos técnicos and Manual de dirección de proyectos con Scrum. Both are published in Spanish and English.
See the collection →Technology and AI
Useful, secure AI
IA Aplicada, for work and everyday life, and Ciberseguridad y la Revolución de la IA, on Zero Trust and autonomous agents.
See the collection →AI consulting
AI in the organisation
Four volumes: the EU AI Act, AI security and risk, AI literacy for teams, and IoT and embedded systems. Spanish only.
See the collection →Business and economics
What running a company teaches
Emprende tu proyecto and El Libro de los Negocios grew out of his years running three companies; Los 200 mejores negocios desde casa and Cómo gestionar mi economía personal complete the collection. Spanish only.
See the collection →
Works by line
His fifteen works, by line of work
A quick map of the catalogue. Each line links to its collection, with the full book pages. Titles are given in the original Spanish.
| Line | Works | Focus |
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| Project management | Dirección de proyectos en equipos técnicos Manual de dirección de proyectos con Scrum | PMBOK 8, Scrum and governance |
| Technology and AI | IA Aplicada Ciberseguridad y la Revolución de la IA | Useful, safe AI |
| Business and economics | Los 200 mejores negocios desde casa Emprende tu proyecto Cómo gestionar mi economía personal El Libro de los Negocios | Starting up, managing and saving |
| Society and critical thinking | Trabajo, clase social y bienestar laboral en España Manual de pensamiento crítico Manual de lucha contra la desinformación | Data, reasoning and verification |
| AI consulting | Regulación y marco legal de la IA en la Unión Europea Seguridad y gestión de riesgos de sistemas de IA Formación y alfabetización en inteligencia artificial IoT, edge y sistemas embebidos | Compliance, risk and training |
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