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01 / Personal siteMexico

Luis Martínez Parra.

A bulldog with a stuffed orangutan on its head.
In good companyPersonal archive

A way
of seeing.

I work in technology. I also write, take pictures and hit a punching bag.

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01 / Photography

The eye pauses.

The sea, buildings and things you almost walk past. I photograph them as Trash Art.

Series A

At water level

Wood, foam and the last of the sunlight.

Wooden steps lead down to the sea at sunset.
01Steps to the seaSea
Sunlight reflects on a beach in San Blas, with foam around a rock.
02ShoreSan Blas
Golden rays break through the clouds above the sea.
03GleamSea
A structure is reflected in still water at dusk.
04StillnessLandscape
Series B

The shape of places

Stone in Guadalajara and Rome. Iron in Paris. White walls at the end.

Gothic vaults in black and white, with rose windows and circular lamps.
05VaultsGuadalajara
The Eiffel Tower in black and white, seen from below.
06IronParis
The Colosseum’s arches glow yellow against the night sky.
07Lit archesRome
Two white walls hung with photographs in dark frames.
08Between wallsInterior
Series C

What catches the eye

A flamingo spreads its wings. Two birds fit inside a life ring. A shadow crosses the table.

A pink flamingo spreads its wings among other flamingos.
09Wings spreadWildlife
Two birds on the water at sunset, seen through a life ring.
10Life ringDetail
A curved sculpture emerges from a black background.
11Night figureDetail
A white shoe in the foreground, with a shadow falling across a table.
12After the mealInterior
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02 / Writing

Poems and reflections.

One poem for my mother. Another for my father.

Poem / 01

Bolita

Read the poem in Spanish
Poem / 02

El niño mas fuerte del mundo

Read the poem in Spanish

03 / Career

Teams and technology.

Team leadership and service operations in telecommunications. Earlier work in IT management and process improvement.

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Portrait of Luis Martínez Parra wearing glasses.
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  1. Telecommunications

    Amdocs

    Business Unit Director

    Led telecommunications teams and services. Investigated production incidents and coordinated corrective action.

  2. IT operations

    Global HITSS

    Managed the US business unit’s IT budget and worked on operations and process improvement.

  3. Continuous improvement

    GE

    Process improvement projects and in-house Six Sigma training.

04 / Projects and impact

Improvement in practice.

Production incidents

Reconstruct what happened, identify the cause and agree on measures to reduce the risk of another incident.

Process improvement

Find where a process broke down and define a fix that addresses the cause.

A hammock in El Jején’s palapa, with the garden and sea beyond.

Personal project

El Jején: Beach house

A house on the Pacific, on Matanchén Bay in Nayarit.

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Black-and-white silhouette of a boxer facing a punching bag.
Training
Two boxing gloves on a gym floor, in black and white.
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05 / Interests

Outside work.

Boxing

I train in boxing. The bag doesn’t talk. That helps.

Photography

I photograph buildings, everyday scenes and the sea. I go back to the same place when the light changes.

Kayaking

Paddling and seeing the coast from the water.

Mountain biking

Trails, dirt and climbs.

Sociopata culinario

I cook and photograph my dishes. I call that archive “Sociopata culinario”.

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06 / Contact

In other spaces.