Peña **** * B - ****

Buenos Aires – Argentina

PABLO F. CECHINI

acqyy5@r.postjobfree.com

****-****

(15) 5161-2005

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

More than fifteen years in IT management. Regional experience. Last eight years in Operations, General Management and Consulting.

MBA (E.S.E.A.D.E), Executive Program in Finance (E.S.E.A.D.E), Bachelor in Information Systems (C.A.E.C.E)

First level international companies experience. IT, Telecommunications, Engineering – Construction & Logistics, Retail, Banking and Pharmaceutical businesses expertise.

Special skills in regional multi-skilled teams management, project management, processes optimization, new technologies evaluation and effective negotiation.

Availability for travelling and an eventual abroad relocation. Passport and U.S. Visa up to date

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Daxa Argentina S.A. –Consulting and IT Solutions Manager 2014 – Current

Consulting, Pre-Sales and implementation team management. Responsible for the Oracle practice. Vendor Development (Oracle, HP, Dell and VMWare). Mainly focussed on traditional BI, Big Data, CRM, SRM Cloud and Engineered Systems. Consulting and Pre-Sales certifications in all related solutions. Experience supporting private and government deals. Due to the business growth and commitment with Oracle, we were recognized with the prize “Extreme Growth FY2014”.

Customers: MINSEG, PFA, GNA, PNA, GCBA, AYSA, Province Governments, Telecom, Telefónica, Metrogas among others.

Consulting - SR Consultant and Project Manager 2010 - 2013

IT consulting experience in defining business processes IS & IT strategy plans development. Project Management. Commercial strategy plans development and control. Finance and Administration departments’ reorganization. Operation planning definition and control. Digital Marketing plan, Corporative Websites and eCommerce Sites development.

Oracle products consulting and pre sales focusing in Big Data, traditional BI, CRM and SRM.

Customers: WPP Media Group (Kantar Group, Kantar Operations, Kantar Media, JWT y TNS), Gilbarco – Veeder Root, Store

Vision, Papermile, Innercom, Inprotur, ADIF, Defensa, Acumar, IOMA, GCBA, CEDAT, SAPSA, Roca and Valuarte.

Kayxo (Lauritzen Fund) - GM, COO, CIO and BDM (LATAM & Spain) 2005 – 2010

Start-up and Latam and Spain business development. Partner network development.

Software products development based in Microsoft and Apple technologies. Products for mobile devices. Budget planning involving priorities negotiation with headquarter stakeholders. Regional strategic planning. General administration and operations, HHRR, MIS and. Sub-vendors coordination for product development and testing. In charge of 60 employees.

Louis Vuitton Latin America & South Africa - Regional CIO & Supply Chain Manager 2004 – 2005

Projects: Retail migration project to RetailPro, Citrix, DataCenter, Stores and warehouses infrastructure coordination, JDEdwards, Cognos Business Intelligence, CRM, Telephony (Cel, local, DDI, IP, Call Backs), Networking (routers, switches, Frame Relay to IP-VPN migration), Active Directory, Firewall, Lotus Notes – Domino Cluster, Policies and procedures standardization for the whole region, Data Integration Management – interfaces analysis for the critical business processes.

SCM Projects: Coordination between central warehouse and the regions. Imports, packaging and spare parts processes reengineering, transport schedules and costs optimization. Budget and priorities negotiation. In charge of 10 persons and outsourcing management.

Andrómaco Laboratories S.A.I.C.I. - CIO 2002 – 2003

Projects: Negociation, Business Case, RFP and implementation plan for SAP R/3 (FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, QM, PM, SIL y HR), DataCenter, Mail Servers, VPN, Firewall, Loyal ISO CMS, Access Control, WebSite development, Department policies and procedures, Help Desk and projects workflows, Business Intelligence (Prescriptive, billing and profitability models), Sales Force automation systems implementation, Call Center, SLA’s with internal customers and external providers, IT Balanced Scorecard, applications based on Knowledge Management, PMO and KMO development. New technologies evaluation. In charge of 6 employees.

Wells Fargo Capital Finance (Finvercon) - CIO 2001 – 2002

Projects: Department reorganization, Strategy development and detailed IT Plan with the associated budget, CRM, BI, Loans origination and collections processes reengineering, Customer unique database, Data Cleaning, Extranet for pre-lending process, Accrual generation and daily portfolio, Campaign management, CMS, Applications arrangements to BCRA norms and procedures, DRP, new technologies evaluation, Negotiation with suppliers and resellers, Important telecommunications savings. Contract renegotiations. In charge of 11 employees.

AIG Consumer Finance Group (CFA) - CIO and Organization Manager 1997 – 2001

Projects: Department reorganization. IT Plan and budget development. New technologies evaluation. Fiserv ERP implementation, Datacenter, Development applications for consumer loans, savings accounts, credit cards, fixed term deposits, portfolio acquisition, money laundry, credit bureau and chambers information requests automation, regulatory information module for BCRA, Datacleraning, BI, EIS, Processes workflow with branches, Promotions Management System, Documents digitalization (COLD), Customer fidelity program, Y2K arrangements, Corporative WebSite, Call Center for Telemarketing and Collections, Banking processes reengineering, CRM evaluation and implementation, Salesforce mobile solution, resellers and suppliers contract negotiation for cost reductions, in charge of BCRA audits, Information backup and security controller, DRP, Due diligence: IT departments evaluation, HHRR analysis, assets valuation, and take over strategy and tactics definition. 32 persons team.

Telecom Argentina Stet - France Telecom S.A. - Project Leader 1995 – 1997

Projects: Multi-platform systems integration, Worlflow for content management, Commercial and billing processes optimization, Functional analysis for JDEdwards branches implementations, Commercial management and billing processes improvement proposals, Functional support and training coordination, BI analysis and management, new technologies evaluation, Resources optimization using TQM, Negotiation with local and international suppliers. In charge of 9 analysts team, and indirectly, around 100 persons in a unique customer database project.

P&O Ports - Functional Analyst SR 1993 - 1995

Projects: Import and export processes reengineering, administrative and business flows redesign. Billing System for Fiscal Warehouses redesign. Containers, equipment and goods tracking system development. In a team with 4 analyst and programmers.

Techint Compañía Técnica Internacional S.A.C.I. - Functional Analyst SSR 1992 - 1993

Projects: Business process reengineering for requests and purchasing flows. Development and implementation of parts and materials management system. Purchasing System Redesign in order to optimize its functionality. 2 programmers in charge.

NCR – AT&T - Functional Analyst & Programmer JR 1991

Projects: Banking Systems Analysis and Design. Assessment and analysis of Cashiers System for Galicia Bank. Design of multiple interfaces to integrate different systems on different platforms. Products and solutions presentations to different companies.

Freelance Projects 1988 - 1990

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

MBA - E.S.E.A.D.E (1997), Executive Program in Finance - E.S.E.A.D.E (2008), Bachelor in Information Systems - C.A.E.C.E (1993) and Bachelor - Colegio de La Salle (1985).

Native Spanish, fluent English and a basic French and Portuguese.

SPECIALIZED SKILLS AND ABILITIES

DB (Oracle, Access, DB2, SQL Server, Adabas, RdB, Universe, Informix, Sybase) / CRM (Oracle Fusion, Siebel, Sharepoint, Pivotal, Vantive, Onix, Omnia, Drupal, Sugar) / ERP (SAP, JDEdwards, Fiserv, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials, Epicor) / Retail (RetailPro, MicroSiga) / CMS (Aldon, Turnover, SourceSafe, Jira) / Tools (MS Office, MS Project, Visio, Exchange, Lotus Notes, Citrix Metaframe) / Audit and Statistics (ACL, GPSS, Focus) / Networking and Communications (VPN, Frame Relay, PaP, Vsat, Cisco, HP, Cabletron, 3Com) / CASE Tools (IEW, Excellerator, Synon, Rational Rose, Genexus, Designer) / BI (Oracle BI, Endeca, Microstrategy, Cognos, Business Objects, Pilot, Genio) / COLD (Docuware, COLD 400), Programming (.Net, Java, Cocoa, Cobol, RPG, VB, Clarion, VFoxpro, Xbase, C, ASP) / Mobile / Hardware (Intel, RISC/CICS, HP, SUN) / Call Center (Genesys, NICE, IVR Omnivox e Intuity, Sistemas Estratégicos, Engage) / PBX (Cisco, Meridian, Lucent, Siemens) / Middleware (MTS, EDA, Tuxedo, STF y Mirror) / Components (COM, DCOM, XCOM) / Community Management (Google AdWords, Google Ranking Methodology, Sites Metadata Tagging, Social Networks API’s, Wordpress & Joomla Customization) / Monitoring (HP OpenView, SMS, BMC, ArcServe, Unicenter) / Firewalls (Checkpoint, Raptor, MS ISA Server, Linux, Cisco) / Process Optimization (TQM, Reengineering – BPR, Six Sigma, PNC) / Methodologies (PMI, UML, PNC, Scrum) / Knowledge Management (Sharepoint, Loyal ISO, Nonaka) / Quality Control (ISO, IBEC, PNC, GMP) / Due Diligence (Portfolio analysis, IT asset valuations, strategy and tactics for IT departments taking over) / Management and Consulting (MIS, EIS, FODA, development and quality productivity metrics, budgets, project feasibility, development methodologies, capacity planning, DRP, downsizing, outsourcing, SLA’s, KM).

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Born on December the 11th 1967 in Buenos Aires, married, 4 children

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