IT Consulting Director
Top performing hands on IT Director with 20 years experience in IT Software
Management related to business processes, ERP Implementations, BI, IT
Governance and Sales.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
. Twenty years IT manager/director experience in a variety of industries
including nine years in Services and Manufacturing and 3 years in
insurance and health care. Expert level on industry standard business
processes
. Manage multi-million projects for ERP Rollout and new Implementations
. Develop relationships and network with IT Managers/Directors, CFOs,
CIOs and CEOs to expand IT scope, cultivate new business and follow up
the sales process.
. Develop business cases to implement recent technology and systems to
help the companies to enhance their performance using IT as strategic
alliance.
. Develop Key Performance Indicators aligned to Business Goals.
. Understand finance impact from business operations
. Solid knowledge of Business Areas (Finance, Manufacturing, Logistics,
CRM, HR)
. Entrepreneur and Innovative thinking to solve issues
. Multi-task and time management oriented
. Team building for long work relationships.
. Coordinate data centers relocation and centralization
. Standardize Business processes and Sox Oxley implementation
. IT Governance implementation and auditing design
. Fluent on Spanish, English and Portuguese for both speaking and
writing
EDUCATION
Computer Sciences Bachelor
Public Accountant
Master in Quality Control
Large experience in ERP Software Functionality and Implementation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
IT Applications Manager America & Asia Pacific April 2008 -
Oct 2010
Harsco Metals & Harsco Minerals 1500+users Monterrey,
N.L.
Harsco Metals is a worldwide steel mills services provider
. Coordinated IT Applications implementation and enhancements in the
region
. Implemented A9.2 in Brazil with less than 50% of budget planned by
IT Director
. Built Off-Shore JDE services team in India
. Coordinated JDE implementation in USA in 3 operations to
consolidate them in JDEdwards A9.1
. Training in JDE E1
. Negotiation with vendors and eliminated consultants with lower
level than required
IT Manager Mexico / Applications Manager USA April 2005 -
Apr 2008
GstAutoleather Inc. 700+ users Southfield,
Michigan
GSTAutoleather is world leader in leather car seats manufacturing.
. Coordinated IT Support
. Developed IT team to increase their JDE knowledge level to decrease
support time and use the time improving business processes
. Implemented JDE A7.3 in 2 operations in Mexico without consultants
and coordinated 2 implementations in China
. Re-Trained more than 300 users to grow their level using systems
. Standardized business practices between the operations
. Saved more than 2 million by year suggesting team reorganization
. Implemented inventory control processes to save 180,000 USD/Month
. Implemented key performance indicators on real time
. Implemented Program Life Cycle management
. Implemented Help Desk tool
. Relocated IT sites from Europe to Americas and from South America
to Mexico
Owner / Consulting and Customer Care Director July 1996 -
April 2008
Kosmos Consultores 5000+ users Monterrey,
Mexico
Kosmos Consultores is an IT Consuting Firm based in Monterrey Mexico
. Built JDE Practice with 35 permanent consultants trained by myself
. Helped customers to Implement JDE A7.3, OW and E1 in Europe,
Americas and Asia
. Trained more than 5000 JDE users and IT professionals
. Coordinated projects up to 80 team members for global
implementations
. Developed customer relationships to expand contracts and cultivate
new businesses
. Lead ERP development for small companies
. Responsible of P&L impact
Systems Implementations Leader July 1993 - July 1996
CEMEX - 3000+ users Monterrey,
Mexico
Cemex is the second largest cement company in the world
. Implemented and Coordinated JDE implementations in Mexico, USA,
Colombia, Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, Spain
. Helped customers to Implement JDE A7.3, OW and E1 in Europe,
Americas and Asia
. Coordinated training and trained more than 1000 JDE users
. Trained more than 100 IT professionals to build new consultants
globally
. Built IT implementation teams in Venezuela and Spain to decrease
travel expenses and improve local support for new implementations
. Built JDE practice for external customers
. Implemented QA for JDE customizations
PERSONAL INFORMATION
. Date of birth: Jan, 23rd, 1970
. Citizenship: Mexico
. Languages: Spanish (Native) - English (Advanced) - Portuguese
(Advanced)
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
. Hardware: PC's, iSeries, RS6000, Routers, Switches,
Bridges, Phone systems, Polycom, Windows servers, Data
collection devices
. Software: JDEdwards World, One World, Enterprise One,
SAP, MSSQL Server, MS Visual Studio, Crystal Reports,
Kronos, Cognos, Soxlock, TLAsfhord, Acom, Createform. Now
learning Oracle E-Business Suite.
. Networks: Microsoft, DSL, VOIP, ISDN, Frame-Relay, TCP/IP
. Languages: RPG400, RPGILE, Visual Basic, HTML, XML, Java,
PHP, C, C++, Cobol[pic]