Bi-Lingual (Spanish) Senior Information Technology Executive

Jose "Emilio" Gamboa

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Bi-Lingual (Spanish) Senior Information Technology Executive

IT project manager yielding 7-figure outcomes targeting large global oil

and gas companies

"The right leaders in your IT department transform it from a cost center to

a revenue generator"

Career history of driving projects to facilitate company expansion, save

money and gain multi-million-dollar income opportunities. Solutions-

focused, director of IT, offering 15+ years expertise in business strategy,

growth and acquisition planning. Develop, track, and control information

technology annual operating and capital budgets of $10M+. Background

includes successful design of highly cost effective data center, utilizing

new technology to accommodate continued business growth. Proven success in

restructuring IT Departments to boost productivity and raise morale.

International business etiquette from extensive experience supporting

worldwide teams. Entirely fluent in English and Spanish.

Specialties and Skills

- System & Enterprise Network Planning

- Merger and Acquisition Leadership

- IT Project & Program Management

- IT / Business Alignment

- Team Building

- Strategic Sourcing

- Risk Mitigation & Customer Impact

- Financial Information Systems

- Data Center Migration & Consolidation

- IT High Reliable Organizations (HRO)

- ITIL v3.0/ COBIT 4.1

- ERP Implementation & Upgrades

Technical Repertoire

Database Management: (MS Access) Microsoft SQL Server 2008R2, MySQL,

Oracle, Cloud Computing

Desktop Publishing: Adobe products (InDesign), Microsoft Office

Publisher

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 7 Server 2003, 2008, 008R2, 2012

Unix: IBM, AIX

Linux Distributions: Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE, CentOS, DOS, Windows

OS, Lifecycle

Network: Cisco certifications: Cisco, CCNA, CCDP, CCIE, CISSP

Client Platforms: Mac OS X,Windows 7, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V 3,

Citrix systems: XenApp, XenDesktop

Devices & Security: Tablets, Mobile devices, Email information security

Professional Experience

SHASA USA LLC; Houston, Texas

Large woman's apparel retailer generating $250M in sales operating from 2

distribution centers and 90+ stores in USA, Mexico, Honduras and El

Salvador.

Director of Global IT March 2011 - Present

Manage global P&L for $1.5M budget. Drive execution of IT initiatives

while managing 15 direct reports. Develop, maintain and facilitate

reliable, integrated IT architecture including data centers, help desks

and communication channels. Minimize down-time, safeguard integrity of

intellectual property and ensure continuity of all systems.

V Saved close to $750K in annual costs. Stopped outages and achieved

99.98% internet and ERP connectivity uptime. Redesigned LAN and IP

structure at headquarters to guarantee a sit on the subnet pool,

spending less than $5K by maximizing in-house talent.

V Led and managed complex consolidation project combining 2 databases

while upgrading to MS Dynamics NAV 6.2 in USA. Successfully managed

communication between internal Spanish team and Iceland based partner.

Created consistency between finances and operations, enabling executive

team to make business decisions based on accurate data and sustain

business through anticipated growth.

V Restructured fragmented IT department to improve efficiency and

increase morale. Developed a high discipline and high performance team

through effective coaching and dynamic leadership.

V Successfully implemented fully functional, low cost test environment

for QA team by adding 700 GB of space to current array. Gained ability

to stress and land large-scale projects, with minimal impact to daily

operations.

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CONTINENTAL ENERGY SERVICES LLC; Houston, Texas

Mid-sized provider of pipeline maintenance, installation, and project

management services with 1,000+ employees, 7 locations in Texas, Oklahoma

and Missouri, yielding annual revenues of $500M.

Corporate IT Director April 2008 - January 2011

Managed $10M budget and led team of 11 in the strategic and operational

planning of IT projects designed to foster innovation across organization.

Executed appropriate, cost-effective investment of financial resources

in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and

in-house development.

V Completed ERP integration project with zero downtime, enabling business

to track day-to-day status of all active projects as well as review the

profitability of future projects. Resulted in more than $100M in cost

savings with the ability to identify projects with highest ROI.

V Successfully centralized all IT services in 3 months. Led to

improvements in response time and system reliability. Saved on MRC by

$500 to $750.

V Implemented $1.5M Server Virtualization Technology Infrastructure

necessary to accommodate projected growth within 6 months. Built

highly cost efficient data center, providing ability to successfully

deploy full ERP solution.

V Increased efficiency by 25% after initiating policies, procedures and

standards which provided complete visibility of new and current

businesses resulting in cost reduction of new equipment and INTEGRATED

PRODUCTION SERVICES LLC, Houston, Texas

INTEGRATED PRODUCTION SERVICES, LLC; Houston, Texas

North America's leading provider of completion, workover & production

optimization services & products operating in 23 sites in US plus 4 in

Mexico.

IT Director January 2003 - April 2008

Accountable for global $7M P&L budget. Built networks and maintain

external and internal web presence, led IT projects, including organizing

and negotiating the allocation of resources. Installed, configured and

maintained LAN and WAN. Managed networks (3Com Switches, CISCO

Routers/Firewalls).

V Created and launched WEB portal based on SharePoint Services for El

Paso Productions which allowed access for all Flow back/ Production

Testing daily reports. IPS became the 1st oilfield service company in

South Texas to provide such comprehensive service and was able to

secure a 2-year $1B contract with ElPaso production.

V Designed and implemented first stage of network infrastructure to allow

communication from main office with remote yards to facilitate company

growth from 3 sites in Texas to 24 sites in 7 states within 4 years.

V Successfully implemented Linux based server as a WEB and email server

which consolidated 3 domains and homogenized the image to customers.

V Upgraded Windows Terminal Servers (WTS) to a Citrix environment;

accommodating rapid expansion of employees and number of office sites

from 9 ERP users in 3 sites to 150 users in 24 sites.

SCHLUMBERGER NETWORK SOLUTIONS; Reynosa, Tams. Mexico

Desktop Support Engineer April 2001 - January 2003

Served as Network Administrator in addition to providing technical support

to internal staff members and troubleshoot PC's and Networks (Cat 5),

phone lines and cabling. Enforced Information Technology Security while

functioning as a Site Security Office (SSO).

V Deployed Windows 2000 in more than 300 workstations using imaging

technology to standardize the OS from a Windows 95/98 environment to a

single OS.

V Initiated the migration from Windows NT by successfully installing the

first Windows 2000 Server in the Latin America North Region.

Education and Professional Development

Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Engineering

UNIVERSIDAD VALLE DEL BRAVO; Reynosa, Tamps, Mexico

PMP Certification (In progress)

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