Pablo聽Destefanis
Vice President & CIO at PhRMA
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPablo Destefanis is a seasoned technology executive with 16 years of IT leadership experience, currently serving as Vice President & CIO at PhRMA after leading digital transformation as CIO at the Associated General Contractors of America. He combines strategic vision for enterprise architecture, cloud migrations, security, and data-driven automation with hands-on delivery鈥攈aving overseen CRM/AMS revamps, Office365/SharePoint deployments, and multi-cloud migrations to Azure and AWS. Comfortable in both international development and large association settings, he has run global IT operations spanning headquarters and 20+ international sites and built resilient hybrid/private-cloud environments. An advocate for practical digitalization, he pairs a Master鈥檚 in Technology Management with deep roots in systems engineering and has contributed to open-source internationalization work on the notable Ushahidi mapping platform. Known for aligning technology roadmaps to mission impact, he brings a pragmatic focus on scalability, security, and measurable operational improvement.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master鈥檚 Degree Technology Management, Master鈥檚 Degree Technology Management at Georgetown UniversityMaster's and Bachelor's degree Information Systems Engineering, Master's and Bachelor's degree Information Systems Engineering at Universidad Tecnol贸gica Nacional
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (5)
i18next10
php10
internationalization10
localization10
localized10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web
Jan 2010 - Jul 2012
Ushahidi v2. A platform that allows information collection, visualization and interactive mapping, allowing anyone to submit information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Pablo's primary contribution involves adding language tags to PHP files within the `application/controllers/admin/` directory and the `application/views/admin/` directory. Additionally, the user added missing strings to `i18n/en_US/ui_main.php`, `i18n/es_AR/ui_main.php`, and `application/i18n/en_US/ui_admin.php`, and other language files for i18n purposes. This suggests a focus on internationalization and localization within the Ushahidi platform. The user also fixed a mismatched string in `en_US/ui_main.php`.
pythonphonemobile-phoneweb-formtext-messaging
ushahidi/Ushahidi-Localizations
Dec 2011 - Jul 2012
Contributions:22 commits in 7 months
translationsvisittranslationinternationalizationup-to-date
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