About Me
Hi! My name is Juan Manuel Merlos and this is my personal webpage.
I was born in Spain, but I have lived in Croatia, Taiwan, India, Panama and United States. Now, I enjoy the awesome weather of Nairobi (Kenya).
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I hold an MBA degree from the Indian School of Business thanks to a full grant of Fundación "laCaixa". I am a telecommunications engineer and I have a postgraduate on web technologies.
Currently, I am proudly working for the United Nations pushing the Digital Public Goods within UNICEF's Digital Centre of Excellence in Nairobi (Kenya). Earlier, in this organization, I was designing and leading the development of internal global enterprise applications.
In the past, I created from scratch and lead the user
experience team of the foremost bank of Panama,
Banco General, I founded
a startup company,
I worked as mobile app project
manager for BBVA,
and I was part of
the UX team of one of the largest mobile operators
in the world,
Telefónica Movistar.