CONTACT INFORMATION

Bordeaux, France
07.69.17.22.97
jaarechiga@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Master of Science: Winery and Vineyard Management, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, Bordeaux, 12/2024.

Bachelor: BA Business French, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 12/2007

LANGUAGES

Native English
Native Spanish
French (C1)

SKILLS

  • Certified Scrum Master

  • ITIL Foundations Certificate in ITSM

  • LEAN/Six Sigma Foundations

  • DFA1, 1st Degree, Paris Chamberof Commerce and Industry (CCIP)

  • Office (advanced Excel skills)

  • PowerShell

  • JIRA

  • Wiki

  • Power BI

  • R, Stata

INTERESTS

  • Data analysis, presentation, and how numbers tell the story you want

  • Love of wine, casual enthusiast turned to achieving a technical master's degree

  • Running, biking, soccer

Josue ARÉCHIGA

Data and research driven professional set on innovation and efficiency. Experienced, insightful, versatile.

Permis B, Trilingual, Authorized to work in France/EU

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

June 2024 - November 2024
MASTER’S THESIS WORK-STUDY, Chambre d’Agriculture de la Gironde, Blanquefort

• NOVANA Research project assistant, end of Master's study

• Thesis on adapting climate change-resistant and disease-resistant grape varieties to Bordeaux vineyards

June 2022 - November 2022
PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE – VITICULTURE AND VINIFICATION, Château Dauzac, Labarde

• Viticulture and Oenology Internship, first year Master's internship

May 2019 - August 2021
OPERATIONS MANAGER, Morningstar, Chicago

• Delivered monthly data production for 58 data feeds to over 150 clients

• Managed and schedule all upstream dependencies for data and methodology changes

• Catalogued and migrate over 2,000 data points to a centralized data base

• Automated legacy data feeds to remove manual production and QA

• Onboarded clients to self-serve online data delivery site

• Supported Client Service team technical questions regarding data and delivery

May 2017 - April 2019
TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER, Morningstar, Chicago

• Scrum Master for internal monitoring tools team. Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies for the team including Agile coaching

• Upgraded 1k agents to the latest version for AppD monitoring across 30 business services

• Migrated 1k transactions as part of monitoring clean-up across 3 applications

• Consolidated monitoring into one application enabling retirement of 47 servers, saving annual $84k

• Manage internal Wiki to facilitate dissemination of information and metrics

September 2015 - April 2017
OPERATIONS ANALYST, Morningstar, Chicago

• Led weekly cross-functional team meeting to review recent incidents

• Engaged all affected product teams and internal incident response teams to facilitate identification, communication, and resolution of live incidents

• Collected incident data to identify key areas for improvement, best practices and solutions

• Increased incident success rate from 50% to 78% in one year

• Trained all global product teams in the Standard Incident Management process

March 2013 - August 2015
ASSOCIATE QA ANALYST, Morningstar, Chicago

• Led level 2 incident management for the Advisor Workstation platform

• Coordinated bi-weekly scheduled releases to resolve live client bugs

• Managed inflow, outflow, and backlog for product tickets, about 50 issues per week

• Served as the point person for major incidents affecting live clients

• Administrated QuickBase, managed existing applications and created new ones

• Created and implemented dashboards for metric reporting

July 2011 - February 2013
PRODUCT CONSULTANT, Morningstar, Chicago

• Provided level 1 telephone support for a variety of print, online, and software products

• Answered an average of 70-80 phone calls a day

• Assisted in IT support for technical and non-technical users in English, French, and Spanish