About

Ricardo Avila, smiling, with the Austin skyline behind him

I am a Senior Technical Program Manager with 10+ years leading large-scale, cross-functional technical programs, and 15+ years in enterprise IT, across healthcare technology, fintech, and SaaS. I repeatedly turn chaotic, at-risk programs into predictable, on-time delivery: enterprise platform transformation (CRM/CCaaS, EHR/EMR), Agile at scale, and single-source-of-truth portfolio visibility that leadership uses to make decisions.

In March 2026, I founded 512AI, a live AI automation SaaS with paying clients. I ship production software with Claude Code, MCP, and agentic workflows, and I price and bill it myself: tiered pricing, usage metering, Stripe and more.

Right now

AI Strategist and Builder 1-Month Intensive at Harvard Data Science Review, in progress, September to October 2026.

Certifications and training

Education

Skills

Program and portfolio: technical program management, portfolio and program delivery, product roadmap and strategy, vendor evaluation and RFP, risk and dependency management, executive and stakeholder communication, go-to-market planning, OKRs and KPIs, change management

Agile and PM tools: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, SDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, Jira, JQL, Jira Automation, Tempo Timesheets, Confluence, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, ServiceNow, Asana

AI and automation: Anthropic Claude (Claude Code, MCP, agentic workflows), OpenAI GPT-4o, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, production AI chat and voice agents, prompt engineering (PRDs, RAID logs, stakeholder reporting), Zapier AI, NotebookLM

Cloud, data, and web: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, SQL, Python, Google Apps Script, Next.js, React, Docker, Optimizely, Datadog, PagerDuty

Healthcare and compliance: EMR/EHR (NextGen), HL7, HIPAA, PHI, SOX, ITIL

How I work

The full resume (PDF) has the role-by-role detail.

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Austin, Texas. Fully remote. Available now.