CRISTINA CARNERO FRAGUAS

Chapel Hill, NC, 275**-***-*** 6970 ac7ted@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-carnero-41568a8/

Vice President, Strategic Projects & Business Relationship Management

Vice President, Global SAP Roll-Outs and Applications

Director, IT

SUMMARY

Global Information Technology Leader with 22 years of experience, 18 of them in management, overseeing several Global IT functions across the world, managing and monitoring project management, ERP implementations, Global Infrastructure, QA and development practices, facilitating Merges and Acquisitions and partnering with the business to drive innovation and change through the understanding of the current and future IT capabilities

CORE COMPETENCES

Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others. Superior analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Strong strategic and business mindset. Solid understanding of data analysis, budgeting and business operations. Excellent staff management skills with a focus on delegating assignments, setting expectations and monitoring delegated activities, mentoring team members. Ability to develop project plans and manage complex projects to completion on time and on budget. Ability to lead presentations and group meetings

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Revlon, Oxford, NC 2014 – 2018

Vice President, Strategic Projects and Business Relationship Management 2016-2018

Reporting to SVP, IT Worldwide (CIO). Main responsivities:

Drive and provide direction to the ERP Project Management Office, Non ERP Project Management Office, Quality Assurance and Regional IT leaders to improve efficiency, productivity and quality, focused in internal customer service

Direct key initiatives to support business objectives and requirements, including all IT medium-large projects, e-commerce projects and corporate strategic plan re-structuring and synergy projects after new acquisitions

Responsible for the biggest part of the IT budget (+26M CAPEX, +30M OPEX per year)

Implement several initiatives to improve IT stability and maturity focused on increasing productivity, including lead the SAP implementation program across the overall organization

Define plan for 3 year cost saving initiatives to support mission of best service and lowest cost

Lead the development of IT governance framework including policies and procedures

Lead of establishing a Business Continuity Plan which includes routinely tested disaster recovery plans

Manage global relationships with vendors and consultants

Vice President, Global SAP Roll-Outs and Applications 2014 -2016

Reporting to SVP, IT Worldwide (CIO)

Prepare and follow-up the SAP roll-out plans with the General Leader Team of Revlon as well as the rest of the Global Applications

Responsible for the biggest part of the IT budget (23M per year)

Identify trends/changes in business practices and technology and expand professional knowledge

Manage SAP vendor relationship for SAP in Revlon

Direct reporting to the CFO in regards strategic plans

Provide leadership and vision for achievement of strategic initiatives through a high performing Information Technology department

Provide strategic and fiscal direction for innovation, implementation, and advancement of technology investments that most closely align with the agreed priorities of the business

Prioritize IT resources and spending for projects and technology initiatives against overall business plan

Hire local resources to participate in each project (local IT and Key Users)

Implement and Monitored Change Management

Member of Steering Committee of the projects

Manage Relationship with vendors

Manage the connection between the user departments

The Colomer Group (Colomer B.P.P), Barcelona Spain

Director, IT USA 2012 – 2014

Reporting to SVP, IT Worldwide (CIO), supervising the Technical Support Manager, Service & Support Manager, Local System Analyst and SAP Consultants. located in California, Denver and Jacksonville.

Provide leadership and vision for achievement of strategic initiatives through a high performing Information Technology department

Identify trends/changes in business practices and technology and expand professional knowledge

Provide strategic and fiscal direction for innovation, implementation, and advancement of technology investments that most closely align with the agreed priorities of the business

Prioritize IT resources and spending for projects and technology initiatives against overall business plan

Establish and maintain culture of service excellence

SAP roll-out Program Manager, 2008 - 2012

Leading the global IT team (22 people), 4 Process Owners, local project leaders, and n Key users (“n” depending on the roll-out) to implement in all subsidiaries, Global SAP templates. The implemented modules are FI, CO, MM, PUR, SD, PP, DP, PI, WM and BI

Prepare and follow-up the SAP roll-out plans

Prepare and follow up the budget assigned to each implementation (Annual figures: 2M-2,5M Euros)

Look for the correct local people to participate in each project (local IT and Key Users)

Organize the IT competence center and Process Owners work

Plan and monitoring the Change Management

Be part of the Steering Committee of the projects

Relationship with vendors

Ensure the infrastructure team achieves the communications projects on time

Participate in the management vision

Take care of the systems information coherence

Manage the connection between the user departments

SAP- BI Competence Center Manager 2007-2008

Leading a team of 6 people, in charge of creating the reports and dashboards templates implemented during the SAP roll-outs as well as create reports for subsidiaries outside SAP. Responsibilities:

Organize and assign the work, ensuring the technical and management aspects are met

Prepare and follow-up the project plans and budget, local and international ones

Functional analysis

Drive the introduction and parameters of the integrated systems

Define and take care of the technology used in each case

Plan the key users or end users training

Relationship with vendors

SAP- SD Competence Center Manager & Development Manager 2005 – 2006

Participate during the whole cycle of implementation, from blueprint to go-live

Be part of the steering committee of the project

Organize and assign the work between the SD team and programmers ( 9 people)

Configure

Functional Analysis

Plan and train the end user

Deal with 3rd parties

Analyst – Project Leader 2000 – 2005

Lead team of 6 programmers, responsible for the analysis and implementation of AS400 programs and ASP, Lotus notes, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro applications in Spain, Jacksonville and Italy

MULTISENSE 1998 - 2000

Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic Programmer

Escola Universitaria Politecnica de Vilanova i la Geltru (E.U.P.V.G) 1998 - 2000

Visual Basic 6.0 y SQL Server 7.0 Teacher

TRANSPORTES GAMA 1997 - 1998

Visual FoxPro Programmer

Escola Universitaria Politecnica de Vilanova i la Geltru (E.U.P.V.G) 1996 - 1998

Visual FoxPro Programmer

EDUCATION

Bachelor in Telecommunication Engineering (Specialty: Electronic Equipment)

U.P.C. – E.U.P.V.G. Escola Universitaria Politecnica Vilanova i la Geltru

Postgraduate in information systems management - 2003

TRAINING

People and teamwork Management Program - 2008

Business Intelligence (B.I. 7.0) - 2007

Management Overview Internal Master - 2006

Lotus Script – 2002,Lotus Domino 5 Designer, Domino Application Security and Workflow R5, Domino Application Architecture R5 – 2001,Power Play & Impromptu – 2000, AS400, Basic, DbaseIII+, Clipper, Turbo C++

LANGUAGES

Spanish: Native

English: Fluent ;Galician: Fluent; Catalan: Fluent

French: Intermediate

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