Project Manager Management

LUIS CASTRO, PMP

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PROJECT MANAGER

. PMP and ITIL certified Project Manager with relevant experience in IT

implementations and product development projects, mainly in the

banking/financial services industry.

. Successfully delivered both small to big projects managing teams of up to

20 members.

. Effective communicator who easily interfaces with project stakeholders

and liaise between business and technical areas.

. Bilingual English/Spanish. Culturally literate contributor with

international experience in Latin America and Europe.

Skills

> Personal: Analytical, critical thinking, organized, problem solver,

decision maker, excellent communicator.

> Technical: MS Project, Excel, Access, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, SAP Business

Objects, Plan View, Quality Center.

> Languages: English (proficient), Spanish (native), Catalan (native).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

(Moved to New York, December 2012.Work Permit issued on April 2013.)

CODEIN - Project Manager San Salvador, El Salvador

01/2012 - 11/2012

*CODEIN is a consultancy company specialized in community development

projects.

Implementation of best practices and standards in project management as

well as managing several projects.

. Successfully contributed to the advancement of project management

maturity by scaling and formally implemented PMIs PMBOK processes in the

company.

. Managed 3 concurrent projects from initiation to closure all delivered

within triple constraints of time, cost, and scope.

. Identified key performance indicators and developed a monitoring and

evaluation system to ensure effective information sharing and elaborate

quality progress reports.

. Supervised and provided guidance in the creation of historical

information and lessons learned knowledge base.

CITIBANK - Project Manager San Salvador, El Salvador

11/2010 - 11/2011 Project Manager of the Central America O&T Regional

Office assigned to a project to implement a new online retail banking

platform.

. Managed a team of up to 20 members distributed among 6 different

countries in Central America.

. Collaborated, consulted, and negotiated with other cross-divisional

leaders to establish agreed upon project goals.

. Proposed a revision of the UAT test cases that resulted in a 20 % UAT

test time reduction.

. Facilitated workshops and meetings to gather requirements, understand

business needs, define workflows, and to analyze gaps and opportunities.

. Composed, reviewed and edited written materials including project plans,

project reports, business requirements documents, issue logs, project

status documents, change requests, and test plans.

. Successfully resolve project issues and problems.

(Independent travel in Latin America. Relocated to El Salvador.)

ACCENTURE - System Integration Analyst Barcelona, Spain

02/2006 - 03/2009

Through several projects, assisted financial services industry customers in

the in developing and integrating both custom built and packaged

applications to meet their requirements and needs.

. Developed and implemented, as a member of a team, a tailored core banking

solution to calculate the credit risk capital under Basel II norms.

. Created a SAP Business Intelligence application to extract the

information from the corporate DWH and deliver dashboards.

. Gathered requirements and creating both functional and technical

documents.

. Identified existing gaps and drove the creation of new solutions to fill

these gaps.

. Created clear and concise step by step manuals for internal processes and

workflows.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

. ITIL Foundation

2012

. Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI

2012

. MS and BS in Chemical Engineering

1998-2004

Instituto Qu mico de Sarri , Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain

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