JORGE
VILLAVICENCIO
Jorge Villavicencio / Miami
My work spans product, payments, risk, operations, and technology. I learn how the system really works, find what is holding it up, and help teams make the next move.
I also write and make music. I’m interested in what technology makes possible—and in preserving the judgment, personality, and taste that make the result human.
IT Project Manager, BankUnited — payments and technology delivery (contract via K2 Partnering Solutions)
Bank of America · Citi · Seacoast Bank · Apple · Blizzard · SunTrust
Payments & ISO 20022 · Product delivery · Risk & controls · Program architecture
FLD-000 / Discernment
I pay attention to the facts, but also to the story people have built around them. If a team keeps solving the same issue, I want to know what the accepted explanation is hiding.
Work records / Selected situations + independent builds
I’m less interested in making a complicated situation sound impressive than in helping the people inside it decide what to do next.
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Current professional chapter / BankUnited
My current work is with BankUnited. As an IT Project Manager, I support payments and technology delivery across Treasury and Product, application support, testing, operations, risk and compliance, and vendor dependencies.
Current engagement — public detail is intentionally limited. The Journey covers what I can share.
View the current chapter: 2023–now ↗Payments / product / risk & controls
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AML remediation and controls
At Citi’s International Personal Bank U.S., I helped build the first-line practice for periodic EDD reviews, translating regulatory requirements into systems changes, procedures, job aids, training, and assessments. The work established a repeatable process from the ground up, connecting procedures, training, controls, and review practice.
Read the AML and controls case note ↗AML / EDD / control design
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Startup operations
The company had more ambition than money, time, or attention. I reorganized priorities, workflow, and ownership around what the team could sustain, turning budget limits into sharper operating choices.
Read the startup operations case note ↗Startups / operations / focus
Live / Public alpha BLD-001 / Independent build
A working tool for seeing what survives when a payment changes languages.
I built it to trace postal-address data across legacy and ISO 20022 representations—what was preserved, collapsed, misplaced, truncated, lost, or added—using synthetic examples and selected public guidance.
Synthetic examples only · Browser-local processing · Not a production compliance platformArchive / Active index
Banking, startups, training, writing, music, and systems work have all sharpened the same instinct: understand what is happening before deciding what to change.
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Field notes / Ideas
Questions in view
I remember the internet before the feed, before the smartphone, and before every spare moment became inventory. That memory feels useful now.
Getting the right answer once is not the same as knowing how to produce it reliably. The difference is process.
If automation really gives some time back, I want to know what people make, learn, and care for when work no longer occupies every hour.
Sound object / SND-001
Adrian V / Active
The older records belong to another period of my life. I don’t want to recreate that period. I’m interested in what happens when I pick the thread back up now.
Listen on BandcampOrigin file / About
I came of age while the public internet did. I remember dial-up, early online worlds, and a time before the feed. That gives me a long view of technology: what it opens, what it obscures, and what people must choose to keep.
I’ve worked in game support, Apple’s developer ecosystem, web systems, financial crime, startup operations, product, and payments. That may look nonlinear from the outside. To me, it has been a long education in how people adapt when the system changes around them.
The more capable the tools become, the more important it is not to let them sand people down. Personality, humor, attention, judgment, and taste are the fingerprint. They should survive the tool.
Parallel practice
Open channel / Contact
I’m glad to hear from people making, building, or trying to understand a complicated idea—and equally glad to hear about roles, projects, and collaborations.
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