Curriculum Vitae

Christian TerrenceEsguerra

Technical Director · Tassilo Digital

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Professional Summary

Technical Director and co-founder of Tassilo Digital, leading end-to-end delivery of web, eLearning, and platform projects for academic, government, and organizational clients. Manages engagements from requirements definition through deployment: scope and estimation, schedule and resourcing, risk mitigation, release management, and project financial performance.

Background spans enterprise software engineering, university systems and learning-platform operations, and a decade of technical teaching. Experienced across web and mobile application delivery, membership portals, and national-scale skills and learning platforms. Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and translating between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders. MS in Computer Science from De La Salle University; currently pursuing a Doctorate in Information Technology.

Core Competencies

Project & Delivery Management

  • End-to-end project lifecycle
  • Work plan and team structure definition
  • Scoping and estimation
  • Scheduling and resource allocation
  • Risk identification and mitigation
  • Deployment and release management
  • Project status reporting

Methodologies

  • SDLC (Waterfall)
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Iterative delivery and vertical-slice planning

Commercial & Financial

  • Project financial performance (PnL)
  • Budgeting and pricing
  • Proposal and contract scoping
  • Vendor and resource coordination

Stakeholder & Client Management

  • Client interfacing and expectation management
  • Cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration
  • Executive and non-technical stakeholder communication
  • Training delivery and user enablement

Technical Domains

  • Web and mobile application development
  • Backend architecture
  • Platform migration and overhaul
  • Membership and portal systems
  • Learning management systems
  • eLearning and game development

Stack & Tools

  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • C#
  • HTML/CSS
  • WordPress
  • MemberPress
  • Unity
  • Git

Professional Experience

Technical Director & Co-Founder

2026 – Present

Tassilo Digital — Metro Manila

  • Leads client projects from requirements definition through deployment, defining work plans, team structure, delivery approach, schedules, budget estimates, and risk mitigation for each engagement.
  • Owns project financial performance across concurrent engagements, including pricing, budget control, and margin management.
  • Delivered a national skills framework dashboard for the Royal Government of Cambodia, coordinating requirements, build, and deployment across international stakeholders.
  • Manages client relationships and stakeholder expectations for the full project duration across government, academic, and organizational clients, including the Cambodia National Skills Framework programme, Performance Studies international, and GrayMatters Psychological & Consultancy.
  • Coordinates internal and external resources — engineering, design, and content production — to keep projects within scope, schedule, and budget.
  • Selects and adapts delivery methodology per engagement, applying sequential planning to fixed-scope institutional work and iterative cycles to product and platform builds.
  • Reports project status to clients and internal stakeholders, escalating scope, schedule, and dependency risks early.
  • Handles proposal development, contract scoping, and commercial terms for new engagements.

Associate Lecturer

2022 – 2026

Dept. of Software Technology, De La Salle University

  • Supervised undergraduate thesis teams through full project cycles — scoping, milestone planning, delivery, and defense — under fixed academic deadlines.
  • Coordinated course delivery across multiple sections and contributed to curriculum development, working with faculty stakeholders to align outcomes and materials.
  • Delivered technical instruction in web application development, game development, and UI/UX to cohorts of undergraduate students.

Faculty

2022

College of Technology, Lyceum of the Philippines University

  • Taught undergraduate technology courses and contributed to curriculum planning and instructional materials.

Educational Technologist

2021 – 2022

DRLD Project, De La Salle University

  • Delivered multimedia learning assets on project schedules within a funded university programme, coordinating with subject-matter experts and production stakeholders.

Assistant Professor

2018 – 2021

Dept. of Software Technology, De La Salle University

  • Mentored and paneled undergraduate thesis research, guiding teams through requirements, scope control, and delivery.
  • Contributed to curriculum development and conducted applied research in interactive systems and learning technology.

Senior Programmer

2015 – 2017

Academic Support for Instructional Services & Technology, De La Salle University

  • Oversaw technical support operations for university-wide learning management systems, managing incident response and service expectations across faculty and administrative stakeholders.
  • Designed and delivered training programmes, seminars, and workshops for staff and faculty, driving adoption of new platforms.
  • Developed instructional software and the office website, managing requirements, build, and release.

Associate Software Engineer

2013 – 2015

Accenture, Inc.

  • Developed front-end web solutions and managed code deployment and release cycles for the corporate website within an enterprise delivery environment.
  • Monitored server performance and supported production stability.

Game Developer

2012

Nerdidea.com

  • Built and shipped mobile games, handling development and release end to end.

Education

Doctorate in Information Technology (ongoing)

2025 – Present

De La Salle University

Master of Science in Computer Science

2015 – 2018

De La Salle University

BS Computer Science, major in Instructional Systems Technology

2009 – 2013

De La Salle University

Certifications & Professional Development

  • Unity Certified Developer
  • CGArts Certified Instructor
  • Professional seminars in Leadership & Training, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, and Curriculum Development

Selected Publications

Intervention Strategies Leveraging Learning Record Store Using Experience API in an Affective Learning Role-Playing Game

C.T.B. Esguerra, A.B. Borra · 2018

Towards Photorealistic Rendering for Mixed Reality on Mobile Devices

C.T.B. Esguerra · 2018

Game for Learning: An Application of Tin Can API and Learning Record Store

C.T.B. Esguerra, A.B. Borra · 2018

References

  • Ms. Leah A. Macatangay — Learning Director, Thames International Business School
  • Dr. Jazmin Llana — Performance Studies international
  • Ms. Mary Grace Orquiza — GrayMatters Psychological & Consultancy, Inc.

Contact details for references are available on request.