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Àlex RQ.

Project Manager & Institutional Relations

Àlex Rubio i Quintana

I help public administrations and complex organizations transform how they work, with technology that holds up in real operations.

Specialised in applied AI, digital transformation, the public sector, Facility Management, university teaching

FAMA (a Cuatroochenta product)·Barcelona, Catalonia

Àlex Rubio i Quintana speaking at a public event

About.

I believe technology makes sense when it improves people's everyday lives. That idea guides every project I take part in. My work sits at the border between technology, management and the public sector.

As Project Manager and Institutional Relations lead at FAMA (a Cuatroochenta product), I help public administrations and complex organizations drive their digital transformation and modernize how they manage their assets and infrastructure. I work with teams that need technology to coexist with real operations, regulation and public service.

Computer Engineer with a Master's degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Associate Professor at FIB-UPC BarcelonaTech, chartered member of COEINF and member of the Project Management Institute. My time in politics as City Councillor for New Technologies gave me an inside view of the public sector that I apply every day as a consultant.

These days I spend part of my time exploring how applied AI can deliver real value in these environments. Outside work you'll find me singing, travelling, at the theatre or behind a coffee (sometimes decaf).

Experience.

  1. Jul 2025 — present · Barcelona

    Project Manager & Institutional Relations

    Cuatroochenta

    End-to-end leadership of FAMA software implementation projects and institutional representation of the brand.

    • End-to-end project leadership: scope, milestones, deadlines and quality, from analysis to go-live.
    • Translating business needs and regulatory requirements into tailored technology solutions.
    • Multi-level stakeholder management: leadership, technical teams, clients and institutional counterparts.
    • Writing technical proposals for public tenders.
    • Defining and tracking KPIs to make decisions with data.
    • Building strategic relationships with public and private institutions and representing the brand at sector forums.
    • Facility Management
    • Project management
    • Public sector
    • Institutional relations
  2. Mar 2023 — Jul 2025 · Barcelona

    Software Implementation Consultant (FAMA)

    Cuatroochenta

    Responsible for FAMA software implementations, guiding clients from the initial phase through to go-live.

    • Guiding clients through the full technology-adoption cycle: from requirement to daily operations.
    • Configuring complex systems around each organization's operational reality.
    • Designing and delivering training that turns users into autonomous administrators.
    • Functional and technical documentation that lasts: architecture, functional analysis and technical design.
    • Quality assurance and post-implementation support (Loadrunner, Jira, ValueEdge).
    • Facility Management
    • Consulting
    • Software implementation
  3. Jun 2025 — present

    Board Member

    Catalan Facility Management Association (ACFM)

    Promoting and consolidating Facility Management as a key discipline for the efficient management of services, infrastructure and workplaces in Catalonia.

    • Fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing and the professionalization of the sector.
    • Contributing to making the ACFM a national and international reference centre.
    • Facility Management
    • Professional associations
  4. Sep 2024 — present · Barcelona

    Associate Professor

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

    Lab classes in the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Informatics Engineering at FIB: information systems, ICT management, digital transformation and applied AI.

    • DGSI (Master's): building and managing information systems with generative AI, agents, RAG and LLMs.
    • SIO and CSI (Bachelor's): information systems in organizations, processes and decision-making.
    • Teaching
    • Applied AI
    • Information systems
  5. Jun 2019 — Jun 2023 · Puigcerdà

    City Councillor for New Technologies, Communication, Culture and Festivities

    Puigcerdà City Council

    Politically responsible for the digital transformation of a local government, with a team and budget in charge.

    • Leading the digitalization of administrative processes: efficiency, transparency and sustainability.
    • Assessing, prioritizing and deploying citizen-service, document-management and collaboration platforms.
    • Governing cybersecurity and regulatory compliance (ENS, GDPR).
    • Managing teams and the area's budget lines.
    • Crisis management during COVID-19: emergency remote working for council staff, new digital citizen-service channels, support for vaccination and screening campaigns, and closing the digital divide for vulnerable groups.
    • Public sector
    • Digital transformation
    • Local government
  6. Nov 2021 — Dec 2021 · Barcelona

    Research Intern

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

    Study of the management systems and technologies used by the museums of the Natural Science Museums Network of Catalonia (XMCNC).

    • Assessment of the technological gaps and strengths of the network's museums.
    • Identification of shared improvement areas and opportunities for joint action.
    • Research
    • Culture
  7. Mar 2021 — Sep 2021 · Barcelona

    Engineer Trainee

    Barcelona City Council — Institut Municipal d'Informàtica (IMI)

    Support, analysis and strategy definition for the emergency management system of Barcelona's city police (GUB) and fire and rescue service (SPEIS).

    • Public sector
    • Emergency services
    • Systems analysis

Teaching.

FIB — UPC BarcelonaTech

I teach lab classes in Bachelor's and Master's courses in Informatics Engineering related to information systems, ICT management, digital transformation and the practical application of artificial intelligence in organizations.

DGSI

Development and Management of Information Systems

Master in Informatics Engineering

Building and managing real information systems from a technical and organizational perspective increasingly shaped by AI: requirements, design, testing, quality, deployment, operations and decision-making, with hands-on generative AI — vibe coding, prompt engineering, assistants, agents, RAG, embeddings, vector databases and LLMs.

SIO

Information Systems for Organizations

Bachelor in Informatics Engineering

The role of information systems within organizations and their application to improve processes, coordination and decision-making.

CSI

Information Systems Concepts

Bachelor in Informatics Engineering

Fundamentals of information systems and their role in improving organizational processes.

Escola Sert — Architects' Association of Catalonia (COAC)

Postgraduate Programme in Facility Management

Lecturer in Catalonia's reference postgraduate programme in Facility Management, aimed at architects and professionals from the public and private sectors.

M5

Digital transition as a driver of FM transformation

Module 5 — Technology and Digitalisation in Facility Management

How digitalisation underpins the evolution of Facility Management: trends, opportunities and impact on the management of assets, services and spaces.

M5

FM software

Module 5 — Technology and Digitalisation in Facility Management

An overview of Facility Management software (IWMS/CMMS): typologies, selection criteria and application to real cases.

My teaching goal: helping future engineers develop technological judgement, organizational vision and the ability to apply technology — AI included — in a useful, critical, responsible and impact-oriented way.

Agenda.

Upcoming

Past

  • June 5, 2026Applied AI: how and what for · AI-block round table · 480 Con: Verbena (Cuatroochenta internal event) — real-world experiences with Ekamat, FAMA, Sofistic and R&D
  • March 21, 2026“Qui està programant el món?” · Talk at IV Cyber Cerdanya (Grup de Recerca de Cerdanya) on technology habits and how they shape everyday life · Biblioteca Comtat de Cerdanya, Puigcerdà

Projects.

FAMA by Cuatroochenta

FAMA rollouts in complex organizations

Managing and implementing the FAMA Facility Management software for public administrations and large organizations: from requirements gathering to go-live, training and support.

  • Facility Management
  • IWMS
  • Public sector
  • QA

Puigcerdà City Council

Digital transformation of Puigcerdà

Modernizing local government: digitalized procedures, citizen-service platforms, cybersecurity (ENS, GDPR) and an urgent digital response during COVID-19 — remote working, vaccination campaigns, screenings and bridging the digital divide.

  • Local government
  • Digitalization
  • COVID-19

Barcelona City Council (IMI)

GUB · SPEIS emergency management system

Analysis and strategy definition for the development and operation of the emergency management system of Barcelona's city police and fire and rescue service.

  • Emergency services
  • Strategic analysis
  • Smart city

UPC — Natural Science Museums Network of Catalonia

Technology assessment of the XMCNC

Study of the collection management, visitor and ticketing systems of the network's museums, identifying gaps, strengths and opportunities for joint improvement.

  • Research
  • Museums
  • Technology consulting

FIB — UPC BarcelonaTech

Applied AI in the classroom

Designing and delivering labs where generative AI is integrated into the information systems lifecycle: agents, RAG, embeddings and LLMs applied to real organizational cases.

  • Generative AI
  • Teaching
  • RAG
  • LLMs

Education.

2022 — 2024

Master's degree, Informatics Engineering

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

2016 — 2022

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Skills.

Management & strategy

  • Project management (PMI)
  • Digital transformation
  • Senior stakeholder management
  • Institutional relations
  • Public tenders
  • KPIs & reporting

Technology

  • Applied generative AI — LLMs, agents, RAG
  • Information systems
  • Facility Management (IWMS)
  • Functional & technical analysis
  • QA — Loadrunner, ValueEdge

Public sector

  • e-Government
  • ENS & GDPR
  • Local government
  • Digital public services

Languages

  • Catalan · Native
  • Spanish · Native
  • English · Advanced (C1)
  • French · Elementary

Off the clock.

Song of the month · October 2026

Pathos

Ludovico Einaudi

The song on repeat this month.

Listen on Spotify →

Reading pick · October 2026

The Analyst

John Katzenbach

A psychological thriller: a psychoanalyst receives an anonymous letter and has fifteen days to work out who wants to destroy his life.

About the book →

Contact.

Shall we talk?

Is your organization thinking about its next step in digitalization? Drop me a line — talking always adds up.