Antonio José Sáenz-Albanés is the ICT e-Infrastructure Operations Coordinator of LifeWatch ERIC. He received a Diploma of Advanced Studies of the Official Postgraduate Program in Engineering and Technology of the Information of the University of Seville. He has 29 years of experience in IT in both the private and public sectors. He was for ten years project manager of the "Centro de Gestión Avanzada" (CGA) for IT-supported educational centres in Andalusia. From its inception and planning to fully operational capabilities (hundreds of thousands of distributed computers, thousands of distributed servers and centres, and more than a million daily users.) Deploying the complete ITIL services stack, standards-based security operations, large-scale continuous integration and deployment of software, services and hardware, and implementing DevOps operations. He was for ten years CTO of a private company, responsible of all the ICT teams (~250 in-house and world-wide distributed) managing every aspect of production and operations such as recruiting, training, strategic selection of technologies and partners, development and services methodologies, (ISO 9001:2000 using RUP-agile, ITIL, ISO 27000, CMMi) and the management of the projects portfolio. Also he coordinated the R+D+I and defined the strategy and partner selection. He deployed several virtual research environments: nation-wide electric grid planning, improvement and adaptation of the biological station of Doñana to LifeWatch, and scenario-based water innovation and research laboratory (continental waters management). He was also Associated Lecturer in the Languages and Information Systems Department of the University of Seville.