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April 20, 2015

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GEORGE SARABIA

Allen, TX.

972-***-****

aco98g@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/georgesarabia

IT Executive

Dedicated, direct leader with 18 years of experience in multi-company and multi-divisional projects for

domestic and international businesses through Information Technology services and solutions. Excels at

leading teams in faced-paced environments to achieve project excellence in challenging projects. Deployed

ERP systems, integrated ERPs from divisions, and built Project Management Office and methodology.

Proven record of achieving results while able to communicate and influence leaders at all levels. Technology

Savvy with both Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science.

Areas of Expertise Technologies

• Technology Implementation & • JDE, Oracle, PRMS

Optimization • QAD MFG/Pro, SAP

• Project Management Office • Great Plains, Navision

• Compliance & Risk Management • Sage100/MAS200

• Talent Management & Development • Infor, APA

• Strategic Planning & Execution • MSSQL/PLSQL/DB2

• Budget & Vendor Planning, and • Cognos, MSBI, Hyperion

Management

• SalesPulse, Kirby, Saleforce.com

• Systems Development & Infrastructure

• SharePoint, Exchange, AD

Management

• Unix/Linux/Mac, iSeries, Windows Server

• Innovation Fostering

Professional Experience

Stryker Corporation, Dallas, TX 2003-2015

IT Director, Business Operations and Transformation, US (2012-20015) – Oversight of Enterprise

Systems for sites across US supporting divisions representing more than $2.2B of Stryker’s revenue located

in the following states: Michigan, Florida, Utah, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. Currently supporting Projects

and day-to-day operations of the ERP, MES, and Reporting systems, as well as the supporting technologies

and processes.

• Systems supported: ERP, Business Intelligence/Reporting, MES, and back-end operations systems.

• Led the ERP deployment of JD Edwards at the Medical division. A project done on time and under

budget representing immediate business performance improvements of 15%.

• Implemented the MDET (Medical Device Excise Tax) project as part of Government mandate to pay

additional taxes and reported on it for all US divisions.

• Completed Wave 2014 of the UDI (Unique Device Identifier) project and worked on Wave 2015, a

multi-year government mandate to standardize medical device ID numbers.

• Led divisional team currently going through ERP upgrade to Oracle EBS R12 and supported the

early stages of the project.

• Worked on the transformation of the business from a change management perspective as the

business processes were being revisited as part of the ERP implementation.

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• Transformed the IT team and positioned members to grow careers as team gained the Oracle skillset

during the project.

Stryker Corporation Dallas, TX (2008 – 2012)

Regional IT Director -- for fast-growing Stryker division: Latin America division.

In charge of IT department spanning 6 branch offices located in 5 countries throughout Latin America, and

doing business in 32 countries.

• Featured in Industry Week article (http://www.industryweek.com/companies-amp-executives/med-

tech-firm-finds-rx-multi-office-reporting). Article describing related to how Stryker Corp. finds a

short cut to centralize data collection across incompatible ERP systems and five different time

zones.

• Managed implementation of Product Registration system for tracking and follow up of registration

status at the country level.

• Led the Business Intelligence Project which brought the reporting level visibility, traceability and

efficiency to savings of 20%.

• Applied leadership skills in development of reporting Intranet, Extranet, and generation of near real-

time reports.

• Directed creation of a system for tracking and reporting of toolkits, which improved efficiencies in

logistics and operations by lowering inventories by 30% and reducing the purchase of expense kits

by 25% while improving change controls and segregation of duties.

• Managed and negotiated contracts with outsourcers and contract teams; lead team, which

implemented DVPN architecture fully managed and monitored.

• Created the PMO (Project Management Office) at the division, establishing formal and repeatable

project management practices based on the PMI methodology.

Set an example company-wide and have been asked to speak at various conferences through the organization

on the many achievements from a technology and a systems perspective where the focus has been in business

efficiencies led through IT initiatives. SOX and HIPPA Compliance achieved.

Stryker Corporation Miramar, FL / Dallas, TX (2003 – 2008)

Regional IT Manager for Stryker Latin America division overseeing rapidly growing business. Led number

of projects and initiatives, which positioned the business for effective growth:

• Standardized the Active Directory structure by consolidating the multiple sub domains into a single

domain across the countries.

• Implemented a robust DR structure to prepare the division for better business continuity.

• Ran ERP upgrades of QAD’s MFG/Pro for Chile, Argentina, and Mexico; and implemented new

ERP in Brazil and newly opened Colombia office.

• Implemented quality tracking and alerting system, which synchronized information from

transactional systems quality system.

• Improved operations and distribution departments with a system-follows-the-process approach to

establish and customize the ERP to adjust to the needs of the business.

Raytheon Systems Plano, TX (2000- 2003)

Software Engineer Lead/Network Administrator Lead -- for the Visualization and Simulation Lab. Key leader

in implementation of application software and Network maintenance of Defense Projects for the Electronics

Division of Raytheon. Worked on Application Software development, project management, and process

improvement to deliver projects and initiatives on time and under budget. Worked closely to engage teams

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through the SDLC and CMMI processes improvements and improved delivery times, cost, and project

quality.

• Lead Engineer in Web-Based project management -knowledge-base application developed with PHP

and SQL.

• Lead Engineer in the Compos-able Integration Test-Bed for Requirement Analysis (CITRA) Port.

• Developed reused and integrated code on Onesaf Test-Bed Semi-Automated Forces (OTBSaf); also

served in configuration and build manager duties.

• Developed sensor systems for the Command and Control Future Combat Systems (C2 FCS) Project.

• Oversaw backup of systems for the various projects and Coordinated system upgrades and

maintenance.

• At CMMI level 5 and ISO 9001 compliance. Hold Department of Defense Secret Security

Clearance.

Siemens ICN Boca Raton, FL (1997-2000)

Software Engineer -- for the Administration Development group of the Information and Communication

Networks division

Responsibilities included requirements, analysis, development, and maintenance of client-server software

going through the software lifecycle process taking the Object Oriented approach. Design performed on

UML, while the implementation included C++ and embedded C/SQL for the server and Java for the client;

also maintained Database servers, Unix servers, and Exchange servers. Work performed covered setup

programming development and support of the telecom switches and PBX systems.

Applications were client server management tools for telecom PBX configurations such as the Hicom 150

and Hicom 300. ISO 9001 compliant.

Education

University of Texas at Dallas (Dallas, TX)

Master of Science in Computer Science with Major in Software Engineering

Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL.)

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science

Skills

Leading change and transformation in large organizations

Business Systems Application Development

Budget approval and procurement; Technology Vision

Enterprise Systems deployments (ERP, BI, Web-Based, B2B, B2C)

Staff development and Talent selection

Business-focused systems initiatives and Project Management

Management of IT infrastructure environments (LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN)

Enterprise Systems Configuration, Customization, Storage, and Backup Solutions

Enterprise Systems Security, Compliance, and Risk Assessment

Distributed Networking Architecture and Object Oriented Software Engineering

Multi SW and HW platform Support (Unix, Linux, Windows, VMS, OS X, iSeries/AS400)

Virtual Platforms (VMWare, Citrix XenApp, Microsoft App-V)

Leadership and Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers' Computer Society

Association of Software Engineers

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Languages

Also fluent in Spanish (read and write)



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