Javier F. Salinas

Founder · Enterprise Implementation Leader

Javier F.
Salinas.

I turn complex operational problems into scalable systems — across enterprise platforms, AI-enabled workflows, and the ventures I build.

A decade of cross-sector experience in innovation, growth, and operations. I lead enterprise technology implementations, design products and workflows, and build practical AI tools — and I'm currently building Nidl, an AI-powered care-operations platform for primary care clinics. I pair an MBA in strategy and entrepreneurship with hands-on building, and I'm happiest turning messy organizational needs into dependable systems and measurable outcomes.

Vancouver, BC Founder of Nidl MBA · MSc Computer Science
10+Years across innovation & ops
17Enterprise platforms delivered
2Ventures founded
70+Countries served
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Ventures

Companies I've founded and built from the ground up — owning everything from the first idea to product, operations, and growth.

Nidl

Active
Founder

An AI-powered care-operations platform for primary care clinics in British Columbia. Nidl gives clinics an operational layer that reduces administrative load — so teams can focus on patient care instead of busywork. Built with deep respect for clinical workflow, privacy, and the realities of running a practice.

  • Health-tech
  • Applied AI
  • B2B SaaS
  • Primary care
nidl.ca

Bulko

2017 — 2019
Founder

An online wholesale store I built from scratch, generating $200K in sales over two years. I owned every part of the business — product selection, pricing strategy, inventory control, and customer-acquisition campaigns that kept revenue consistent.

  • E-commerce
  • Wholesale
  • Operations
  • Growth
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Experience

A decade across innovation, growth, operations, and enterprise delivery — most recent first.

  1. 2022 — Present

    Project Manager · Global Membership Organization

    Lead global digital transformation across CRM, billing, identity, integrations, collaboration, and AI workflows for a community of ~18,000 entrepreneurs in 70+ countries. Drove a 25% improvement in operational efficiency, a community platform that lifted active engagement 80%, and finance integrations that cut manual processes 50%.

  2. 2019 — 2022

    Director, Member Engagement · Global Membership Organization

    Built a five-year engagement strategy and a tiered membership + loyalty program. Lifted retention from 87% to 92% (+$2.1M in annual revenue) and grew membership 20% (+$850K in annual revenue), with BI solutions that cut decision-making time 15%.

  3. 2018 — 2019

    Global E-commerce Ops Lead · Donaldson

    Ran global e-commerce operations, growing online revenue 28%, and coordinated release management with software vendors to reduce downtime.

  4. 2013 — 2018

    Senior Technology Consultant · Cisco-Emerge · IBM–Morgan Stanley · TCS–Bank of America

    Delivered strategic technology projects across financial services and enterprise clients, driving up to 40% gains in operational efficiency through cross-functional team leadership, stakeholder engagement, and delivery in high-stakes environments.

  5. 2011 — 2013

    Quality Assurance & Business Analyst · Epicor · Softtek

    Supported product development cycles and market-launch readiness, and ran business analysis to identify process improvements and stronger project outcomes.

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Implementation projects

I implement enterprise technology platforms that connect strategy, operations, data, and user experience. Across a global membership organization I've delivered implementations spanning CRM, billing, identity, APIs, collaboration, community, analytics, AI workflows, and project portfolio management — turning complex organizational needs into scalable systems and measurable outcomes. Tap any card to expand the full detail.

Enterprise platforms
Monday.com Enterprise PPM
Stood up an enterprise project portfolio platform — intake, governance, RAG health tracking, executive dashboards, risk, and capacity planning.
Context

Led the implementation of Monday.com as the enterprise project and portfolio management platform, moving the organization off fragmented tracking across spreadsheets, separate team tools, and informal reporting toward a centralized system. The goal: track strategic initiatives consistently, give leadership visibility into project health, and help teams understand priorities, timelines, risks, ownership, and capacity. It became the foundation for internal project governance at scale.

What I did

Supported the project from discovery through rollout — requirements gathering, platform evaluation, process design, configuration, stakeholder alignment, and adoption. Defined how projects are captured, categorized, prioritized, and reported (intake, ownership, executive visibility, RAG status, timelines, sponsors, risks, PM updates, capacity, and priority alignment), and translated business needs into boards, automations, dashboards, views, and governance models.

Key workstreams
  • Intake & governance
  • Portfolio board config
  • RAG health reporting
  • Timeline & milestones
  • Sponsor visibility
  • Risk & issue tracking
  • Capacity tracking
  • Executive dashboards
  • Change management
ImpactA standardized, transparent way to manage strategic work — better visibility into major projects, stronger prioritization and accountability, and the backbone for later dashboard and capacity-planning initiatives.
Executive Portfolio Dashboard
A leadership-facing dashboard connecting active projects to organizational priorities — health, timelines, risks, sponsors, and PM effort in one view.
Context

After the portfolio platform went live, expanded it with an executive-facing dashboard built to answer practical leadership questions: what's active, what's at risk, who owns it, which priority it supports, current status, where the gaps are, and how much PM effort is needed. This shifted reporting from static updates to a dynamic portfolio view.

What I did

Designed and built the dashboard structure from portfolio data, creating and refining fields like project health, stage, planned vs. current timeline, organizational priority, sponsor, PM effort, gaps, risk register, budget, and charter. Worked through how data should be grouped, filtered, visualized, and maintained so the dashboard drives decisions rather than just reporting.

Key workstreams
  • Dashboard design
  • Portfolio data model
  • Health indicators
  • Timeline comparison
  • Risk & gap visibility
  • PM effort tracking
  • Priority alignment
ImpactOne place to see the full portfolio, a clearer link between projects and priorities, and a meaningful step toward a more mature portfolio-management model.
Microsoft 365 Enterprise
Led the productivity and collaboration rollout — migration, Teams and SharePoint adoption, governance, training, and legacy tool retirement.
Context

Managed the Microsoft 365 enterprise implementation to modernize the digital workplace — how teams communicate, share documents, and collaborate across departments and geographies. At global scale this was a workplace transformation involving migration planning, change management, governance, security, and adoption.

What I did

Coordinated the rollout across stakeholders, users, technical resources, and vendors — rollout planning, migration coordination, training, communications, risk management, and change management — and connected it to broader needs like collaboration standards, document management, Teams adoption, and retiring older tools.

Key workstreams
  • Rollout planning
  • Teams adoption
  • SharePoint / docs
  • User migration
  • Change management
  • Training & comms
  • Security & governance
  • Legacy transition
ImpactA standardized collaboration environment, reduced reliance on legacy tools, and a stronger foundation for remote, cross-functional work.
Legacy Collaboration Retirement
Planned and executed migration off a legacy collaboration platform, consolidating onto Microsoft 365 and Monday.com.
Context

Supported migrating away from a legacy collaboration platform and coordinated its retirement as part of digital-workplace modernization and tool consolidation. Retiring a legacy system meant carefully handling files, workflows, institutional knowledge, and entrenched user habits.

What I did

Coordinated migration and decommissioning — communications planning, migration timelines, team coordination, dependency identification, and ensuring users had alternative tools and processes in place before shut-off.

Key workstreams
  • Platform assessment
  • Migration planning
  • Stakeholder comms
  • Decommission planning
  • Tool transition
  • Dependency tracking
ImpactA simpler collaboration ecosystem and a cleaner shift toward standardized platforms.
Retired Dec 2024
Core business systems
CRM Implementation
Took a CRM implementation through launch and stabilization — vendors, testing, training, reporting dependencies, and handoff.
Context

Took over the CRM implementation at a critical stage and led it through launch, stabilization, and handoff — part of modernizing member data, CRM capabilities, and operations. At this scale a CRM touches membership operations, chapter support, reporting, integrations, staff workflows, and member experience.

What I did

Stepped into the project mid-flight to bring structure, coordination, and delivery focus — stakeholder management, vendor coordination, UAT support, issue tracking, launch readiness, communications, and operational dependencies — and aligned it with downstream reporting, analytics, support operations, integrations, and post-launch ownership.

Key workstreams
  • Delivery management
  • Vendor coordination
  • Stakeholder management
  • Launch readiness
  • UAT support
  • Issue tracking
  • Training coordination
  • Post-launch stabilization
  • Handoff to support
ImpactLaunched successfully and transitioned ownership to the technology support team — modernizing a critical system and creating a foundation for stronger member-data management, reporting, and future integrations.
Live Feb 2026
Chargebee Billing
Led the billing platform implementation and multi-chapter rollout, modernizing finance operations and reducing manual billing work.
Context

Took over and led the Chargebee implementation to modernize billing, payments, and subscription processes — work that sits at the intersection of finance, membership, chapters, operations, and member experience, requiring strong coordination across technical teams, finance stakeholders, vendors, and business users.

What I did

Assumed ownership during implementation and drove it through launch — planning, vendor coordination, stakeholder management, issue tracking, rollout planning, testing support, and executive updates — then coordinated continued rollout for chapters beyond the initial launch.

Key workstreams
  • Delivery management
  • Vendor coordination
  • Billing process alignment
  • Testing support
  • Launch readiness
  • Chapter rollout
  • Executive comms
ImpactLaunched on time and continued into further chapter rollouts; contributed to finance-systems modernization and reduced manual finance work — this type of integration has been associated with up to 50% less manual effort.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Connected CRM data to dashboards and reporting, turning a system replacement into a broader analytics and decision-support upgrade.
Context

Connected to the broader CRM modernization — a CRM is only valuable if the organization can turn its data into usable insight. This work linked CRM data to dashboards and reports that could inform leadership and operational teams.

What I did

Coordinated requirements, validated reporting needs, aligned stakeholders, and ensured analytics tied into the CRM implementation; planned how dashboards and reporting would keep serving the organization through system changes, preserving existing reports, data connections, and executive needs.

Key workstreams
  • Reporting requirements
  • Dashboard validation
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Data-connection planning
  • CRM reporting
  • Continuity planning
ImpactEnsured the CRM was part of a larger data and reporting modernization, supporting faster and better-informed decisions across business teams.
HubSpot Service Hub
Implemented centralized service management and ticketing — improving support visibility, request tracking, and accountability.
Context

Led implementation of a centralized service-management platform using HubSpot Service Hub — moving from informal support channels toward centralized ticketing, clearer service processes, and better visibility into support work, maturing toward a trackable service-operations model.

What I did

Managed the workstreams to launch — stakeholder coordination, process alignment, testing, training, communications, and rollout planning — and designed ticketing workflows to support operational teams, improve follow-up, and create accountability for requests.

Key workstreams
  • Ticketing implementation
  • Service workflow design
  • Stakeholder coordination
  • Testing & launch
  • Training & comms
  • Post-launch stabilization
ImpactCentralized support operations, improved request tracking, and better visibility into service demand and response workflows.
Live Sep 2025
Architecture, identity & integrations
MuleSoft API Integration
Delivered an API-led integration layer connecting CRM, billing, community, identity, and analytics — replacing fragmented point-to-point integrations.
Context

Managed the MuleSoft implementation to support enterprise integration strategy. As the technology ecosystem grew, a scalable, API-led layer was needed to replace fragmented point-to-point integrations and enable cleaner data movement, interoperability, and a stronger foundation for future transformation.

What I did

Coordinated across business stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors — timelines, requirements, dependencies, and integration planning — and managed cross-platform concerns: data flows, system ownership, testing, governance, and long-term maintainability.

Key workstreams
  • API planning
  • Vendor & technical coordination
  • Integration requirements
  • Cross-system dependencies
  • Data-flow coordination
  • Governance & scalability
ImpactA more scalable integration foundation and cleaner architecture across CRM, community, billing, identity, and analytics — demonstrating enterprise-architecture awareness and technical program management.
Auth0 Identity & SSO
Implemented enterprise identity and single sign-on across digital tools, improving security and login consistency.
Context

Managed the Auth0 implementation for stronger enterprise identity, authentication, and single sign-on. Identity is one of the most important layers in a digital ecosystem — it affects security, user experience, platform access, and integration across systems.

What I did

Coordinated delivery across technical teams, vendors, and stakeholders — implementation planning, timeline management, risk tracking, communications, testing, and launch coordination — with close attention to UX, since identity directly affects how members and staff access tools.

Key workstreams
  • Identity implementation
  • SSO coordination
  • Vendor management
  • Testing & launch
  • Security & access
  • Cross-platform dependencies
ImpactA more secure, consistent, and scalable login experience across the technology ecosystem.
Live Feb 2025
Canva SSO
Brought brand and design tooling into the enterprise SSO model, standardizing secure application access.
Context

As part of broader identity and application-access work, supported SSO for Canva — a smaller but meaningful application-level integration that connected brand and design tooling into a more secure enterprise access model.

What I did

Coordinated the work — dependency tracking, alignment with technical teams, and managing timing against competing priorities across other concurrent implementations.

Key workstreams
  • SSO dependency tracking
  • Application-access coordination
  • Technical alignment
  • Security & governance
ImpactSupported standardizing secure application access and reducing fragmented logins across enterprise tools.
Digital member experience
Hivebrite Community Platform
Supported the community platform build across profiles, directories, CRM sync, SSO, APIs, events, payments, migration, branding, and rollout.
Context

Supported the Hivebrite implementation modernizing the digital community platform — profiles, directories, events, groups, communities, content, branding, and engagement. For a global member organization, the community platform is core to how members find each other and engage beyond their local chapters.

What I did

Supported multiple workstreams — profile and directory functionality, CRM sync, SSO, API connections, events, payments, migration, training, content, branding, chapter websites, permissions, marketing setup, groups and communities, stakeholder rollout, and sub-persona experiences — plus user testing and feedback analysis to respond to real input before and during rollout.

Key workstreams
  • Profiles & directories
  • CRM sync
  • SSO
  • API connections
  • Events & payments
  • Migration
  • Content & branding
  • Permissions
  • Groups & communities
  • User testing
ImpactA more modern digital community experience; this community-platform work has been associated with a significant lift in active user engagement (referenced at ~80%).
Conversational AI Search Prototype
Designed a concierge-style AI search that lets members find people, chapters, events, and communities through natural conversation.
Context

Built an AI search prototype to help members discover relevant experiences, people, chapters, communities, and opportunities through natural conversation — a concierge-style experience giving personalized recommendations based on profile data, interests, region, language, events, and community data.

What I did

Defined the product concept, system behavior, data structure, and search logic, using a large language model as the reasoning engine over a web input connected to mock data. Worked through interpreting different query types — event discovery, people search, staff lookup, community matching, industry search, and personalized recommendations — and refined the system prompt. Introduced query-type filtering so the system selects the relevant dataset before reasoning, avoiding sending unnecessary data to the model.

Key workstreams
  • AI product concept
  • Conversational search
  • Prompt engineering
  • Profile personalization
  • Mock data architecture
  • Query-type routing
  • Token optimization
ImpactShowed how AI could turn a static directory into a personalized discovery engine, and laid groundwork for future knowledge-base, discovery, and concierge experiences.
Tiered Membership Model
Implemented a digital-first membership model that challenged the traditional chapter-first approach, supporting stronger growth, engagement, and retention.
Context

As Director of Member Engagement, implemented the Tiered Membership Model — one of the most significant business-transformation initiatives I led. It challenged the traditional chapter-first model with a more digital, scalable, and immersive membership experience, letting entrepreneurs engage with the global organization more flexibly. It questioned a long-standing organizational assumption and required alignment across leadership, membership, chapters, operations, and digital experience.

What I did

Helped design and implement the model — member journey, value proposition, stakeholder alignment, digital-first onboarding, and operational implications — moving it from concept to execution and building support across teams by influencing without relying on authority alone.

Key workstreams
  • Membership redesign
  • Digital-first onboarding
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Member-journey design
  • Operating model
  • Change management
  • Value proposition
ImpactA more scalable path for entrepreneurs to engage; connected in performance materials to retention improvement (87%→92%), ~$2.1M added annual revenue, and ~20% membership growth (~$850K annual revenue).
Loyalty Framework
Built engagement and loyalty programs around the member lifecycle, backed by BI — contributing to measurable retention and engagement gains.
Context

Alongside the tiered model, led member engagement and loyalty work to improve retention, increase engagement, and create a more structured approach to the member lifecycle — understanding what drives member value and building programs, insights, and operating models around it.

What I did

Designed and implemented engagement strategies, loyalty concepts, and business-intelligence approaches that connected strategy, data, member experience, and operational execution.

Key workstreams
  • Engagement strategy
  • Loyalty framework
  • Retention analysis
  • Lifecycle planning
  • BI implementation
  • Executive reporting
ImpactContributed to measurable retention and engagement improvements (retention 87%→92%, ~$2.1M annual revenue) and faster decision-making through BI.
AI & workflow innovation
AI User-Testing Assistant
Built an AI workflow that categorizes, de-duplicates, summarizes, and prioritizes user-testing feedback — turning raw comments into decisions faster.
Context

During community-platform testing, created an AI-powered workflow to streamline analysis of user-testing feedback. Testing generates a large volume of comments, bugs, suggestions, and duplicates — reviewing it manually is slow and inconsistent.

What I did

Designed a workflow to ingest feedback and transform it into structured outputs — identifying themes, grouping similar comments, separating bugs from enhancements, summarizing sentiment, and supporting prioritization and implementation decisions. A proactive contribution that used AI to improve the delivery process itself, not as a separate initiative.

Key workstreams
  • AI workflow design
  • Feedback categorization
  • Duplicate grouping
  • Bug / enhancement classification
  • Theme identification
  • Prioritization
ImpactReduced manual review effort and moved the team from raw comments to actionable insight faster — a practical example of AI applied inside delivery.
Custom Portfolio App (Monday.com Vibe)
Designed a custom app on top of the portfolio board to give executives a cleaner, more usable project and portfolio interface.
Context

Building on the portfolio work, designed a custom Monday.com Vibe App for a more tailored, intuitive project-management experience — moving beyond standard boards and dashboards toward a purpose-built interface.

What I did

Designed the concept connecting to the existing portfolio board and presenting information more usably; defined functionality around real needs (summaries, status updates, risk visibility, sponsors, timelines, capacity, portfolio filtering); and guided technical direction on how the app should use connected data, how users interact with it, and how to display information in a cleaner, executive-friendly format.

Key workstreams
  • Product concept
  • App design
  • Data-connection planning
  • UX definition
  • Portfolio interface
  • Risk & update visibility
ImpactExtended the platform from project tracking into a more customized portfolio-management product — adapting internal tooling to fit real workflows instead of forcing teams around generic tools.
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AI & agentic builds

Hands-on AI building is central to how I work. Beyond Nidl, I've built a range of independent agents and automations — turning unstructured input like voice and images into structured, useful output that plugs into the systems businesses already use.

AI·01

WhatsApp Voice → CRM Lead Creator

An agent that turns a WhatsApp voice note into a structured CRM record. Speak a new lead's details and it transcribes, extracts the key fields, and creates the entry in any connected CRM — eliminating manual data entry in the field.

How it works voice note → transcription → field extraction → CRM write-back via API.

  • Voice AI
  • WhatsApp
  • CRM
  • Agentic
AI·02

Painter Estimate Generator

Upload photos of a space and get an instant painting quote. The tool analyzes the images to gauge scope and returns a structured estimate — built to remove the guesswork and back-and-forth from quoting paint jobs.

How it works image upload → vision analysis of scope → structured estimate output.

  • Computer vision
  • Estimation
  • LLM
AI·03

Quote & Estimate Automations

A family of automations that generate quotes and estimates from minimal input, built for service businesses and trades. The painter estimator is one example of the pattern applied to a specific workflow.

How it works minimal inputs → rules + AI reasoning → ready-to-send quote.

  • Automation
  • Quoting
  • Ops
AI·04

Natural-Language Search Tool

A search experience driven by plain-language queries — users ask for what they need and get relevant results without navigating filters or menus.

How it works plain-language query → intent parsing → targeted results.

  • Semantic search
  • LLM
  • NL interface
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Education & recognition

A foundation spanning business strategy, computer science, and engineering — plus focused certifications, and recognition for entrepreneurship and early-stage building.

Degrees
  • Warwick Business SchoolMaster of Business Administration — Strategy & Entrepreneurship MBA
  • Heriot-Watt UniversityMaster of Science — Computer Science MSc
  • Tec MilenioBachelor of Engineering — Industrial Engineering BEng
Licenses & certifications
  • Scrum Product Owner
  • Google Analytics — Advanced
  • Product Management — eCornell
  • Innovation Management
Awards & recognition
  • Premio Emprendedor CoparmexWinner — Regional Entrepreneur Competition
  • Best Startup — Global Silicon Valley LabsSelected through the accelerator program
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What I work on

The areas I bring depth to — spanning product and strategy, delivery and operations, applied AI, and leadership and transformation.

Product & Strategy
  • Product Management
  • Product Lifecycle
  • Go-to-Market Strategy
  • Market Research
  • Business Finance
  • UX Design
Delivery & Operations
  • Enterprise Implementation
  • Change Management
  • Systems Integration
  • Business Analysis
  • Requirement Gathering
  • Sales Funnel Management
AI & Data
  • AI Workflow Design
  • Agentic Tooling
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Data Analytics
Leadership & Transformation
  • Digital Transformation Strategy
  • Strategic Portfolio Management
  • Operating Model Design
  • Executive Stakeholder Management
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Governance Design
  • Organizational Change
  • Executive Reporting

§07 — Get in touch

Have something worth building? Let's talk.

Whether it's a partnership, a role, an advisory conversation, or you just want to compare notes on building with AI — my inbox is open.