Dishwasher at Harvard University Now A Tech Executive Yilcian Castell www.cicicastelli.com

Yilcian Castelli, known in the world as “Cici,” was a dishwasher at Harvard University when she first came to the United States as a first-generation immigrant. She started from nothing! She put herself through school and changed careers throughout her life while being a single mom. Currently, she is a technology executive and thought leader in the travel and hospitality industry. Currently, she holds the position of the director of digital deployment at one of the top companies in travel and hospitality industry, where she has been since 2010 and has held over 10 different management and leadership roles. She has traveled to 75 countries and worked in Miami, Boston, California, Madrid and Shanghai.

Cici is a productivity strategist and high performance coach to entrepreneurs, small business owners, professional men and women, and C-Suite executives.

As a Strategist, she provides high level thinking, planning and helps her clients execute their strategies to get their stuff done by improving both their personal and professional productivity and lives. Many of Cici’s students have gone on to dramatically improve doubling their bottom lines, their productivity, resulting in an increase their job compensation, revenue streams while achieving balance and personal happiness.
Throughout her career, Cici has become a role model in the technology industry and has a great reputation for getting things done. Cici’s diverse experience spans project and finance management in information technology, shipboard technology, business
development, infrastructure solutions, telecommunications, highway tolling, linguistic translations, and medical services. Cici has experience leading small start-ups to large publicly traded companies, privately held companies, and public-sector organizations. Cici has also been an independent consultant to large and small private organizations and has owned and operated her own business.

Prior to her career in technology, Cici was the director of interpreter services in two major hospitals in the Boston area for 11 years. Cici was keen enough to identify and capitalize on an opportunity to grow into the newly emerging technology industry and chose to pivot her career into technology and moved to California during the beginning of the dot.com period. Cici’s ability to plan ahead and see the future for both her personal and professional growth and achievement led her to a rewarding 20+ year journey in technology.

A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Cici graduated with a master of science degree in project management from Boston University, a bachelor’s degree in business management from University of Phoenix, and completed the deaf studies and American Sign Language program at Northeastern University. Cici has two children, Bianca and Giancarlo, and a beautiful dog, Loki. When Cici is not working, she is often enjoying a glass of wine with good food, exercising, traveling the world, mentoring and speaking to others, or planning her next adventures.