María JoséMenéndez

Operations, strategy, and the technical glue in between.

I'm the person who makes sure the best ideas actually get done. For four years I've turned creative ambition into structure — aligning teams, guiding decisions, and leading projects across operations, UX, and development. I take client and user input, turn it into action, and keep everything focused, effective, and on track.

María José Menéndez
Who I am

I'm hard to put in one box — but if I had to, it's this: Operations & Strategy. The person who makes ideas actually happen.

In four years I've run project management, UX, business development, operations, and marketing — sometimes all in the same week. I've closed B2B deals in El Salvador, coordinated dev teams across Ireland, Asia, and the Americas, restructured an EdTech platform for a new market, and built tools to make my own work faster.

The common thread: I walk into something disorganized and leave it running. Then I automate it so it runs without me.

Bilingual (Spanish/English), seven years in Ireland, now based in El Salvador and working remotely with teams around the world.

Selected work

One person, many lenses.

Pick a lens. Everything below is real work — filtered by how you want to see it.

Project Management

I keep distributed teams aligned and moving. I coordinate development across time zones, manage product launches, and turn founder priorities into shipped work — at iRevise (platform redesign) and HouseBuild (PM tool + Partner Program launch).

UX & Design

I was thrown into a redesign project that was completely new to me — so I took a six-month UX course at University College Dublin and learned by doing. I led the iRevise platform redesign: onboarding, class creation, and subject selection flows, working closely with developers on implementation and QA.

Operations

I build operational infrastructure where none exists — processes, systems, HR workflows, accountability. At COENERGY I built the entire operational backbone of a multi-line clean energy company from scratch. At iRevise I run day-to-day operations across customer communication, onboarding, and CRM.

Business Development

I open relationships and close deals. At COENERGY I owned the full commercial process across solar, biodigesters, and electrical infrastructure — running win/loss analysis and closing B2B contracts, then feeding insight back into pipeline strategy.

Marketing & Communications

I translate products into messaging people understand. At HouseBuild I lead strategy, content systems, and campaigns across channels — turning product updates into partner- and customer-facing communication.

iRevise — Platform repositioning
Irish EdTech SaaS · 2022 – Present
Took a consumer EdTech platform and restructured it for a new market, with a new design to match. I continuously develop and design new features within the web app.
OperationsProject MgmtUX
HouseBuild — Product & Partner Program launch
Irish Construction Tech · 2025 – Present
Joined when it was a regulation reference site. Helped launch HouseBuildPM (project management SaaS for builders) and the Partner Program directory across Ireland and the UK.
Project MgmtMarketingOperations
COENERGY — Operational build from zero
Clean Energy · El Salvador · 2024 – 2026
Built the operational and HR infrastructure for a multi-line clean energy company. Owned the commercial pipeline, advised leadership on hiring and org design, and presented quarterly business model proposals.
OperationsBusiness Dev
Euro Languages College — Partnerships & coordination
Galway, Ireland · 2022 – 2024
Led the business development side while staying close to operations — building international school partnerships, talking directly with parents, and organizing the logistics of course delivery.
Business DevOperations
My favourite part

Things I've built.

I love AI and automation, and I build it into everything I do.

Regardless of my role, I end up building workflows that make my team and me faster. The solutions I build for myself, I've ended up selling to clients — because they work.

Live
RENOVA — Solar Cost Calculator
Designed, coded, and deployed end-to-end on Cloudflare Pages. A guided multi-step flow gives instant solar system estimates from a customer's energy bill — with an automated lead pipeline (Make.com → Google Sheets), so no sales call is needed to get a number.
UX & flowCustom codeCloudflareMake.com
Live
COENERGY — Sales Performance Dashboard
A full sales-control dashboard so leadership could see quotes, sales, conversion, and commission targets across every business line — solar, biodigesters, civil, electrical materials — in one place. Replaced scattered spreadsheets with quarterly and monthly goal tracking by area.
Dashboard designKPIsMulti-areaReporting
Live
Quote engine
Internal Quote Calculator
Replaced manual spreadsheet pricing for the COENERGY sales team — faster, consistent quotes across solar and biodigester product lines.
Live Tech Studio — WhatsApp sales bot landing page
WhatsApp Sales Bots
Built with n8n + AI for small businesses — bots that ask the right questions, qualify leads, and hand over quote-ready information automatically. The product line behind Tech Studio (below).
Daily toolkit: ClaudeClaude Coden8nMake.comHubSpotBrevoFigmaShopify
Founder · Side venture

Tech Studio

The automation work became its own thing. I founded Tech Studio to bring AI automations to small businesses and solo entrepreneurs — WhatsApp sales bots, lead qualification, and workflow systems that let a one-person business respond like a full team. The same instinct I bring to every role: build the system, then make it run on its own.

The early days

Nobody talks about this part. They should.

Before the SaaS roles and the dev teams, there was a Starbucks counter. I worked there through college — there was never a semester where I was just studying. I always did both.

And I didn't just clock in. I represented Ireland in the EMEA Barista Championship. Coffee was a real passion then (I prefer to just drink it now).

That's where the discipline came from. If you take something simple seriously — if you stand out doing the small, hard, unglamorous work — you'll take everything seriously.

8 yrs
in customer-facing roles since 2017

Starbucks · call centre · cafés. The unglamorous jobs are where work ethic is built — and why I can talk to any client, in any room, without flinching.
Let's talk

Open to remote roles & freelance projects.

Operations, project management, strategy — or building the thing that makes it all run faster.