RAÚL NEGRÓN
Torre del Mar APT ****, Condado San Juan, PR 00907-Tel. 787-***-**** EMAIL: ************@*****.***
Dynamic, competitive Information Technology Professional with over 30 years’ experience. Visionary goal oriented IT
manager with demonstrated experience in planning, Proposal, developing, and implementing cutting edge information
solutions to address business opportunities. Possess strong technical and business qualifications with an impressive track
record of more than 30 years hands-on experience in strategic planning, business unit development, product/project
management (agile/scrum/sure step methodologies), and system engineering strategies. Proven ability to successfully
analyze an organization's critical business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop
innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing competitiveness, increase revenue, and improve customer service.
EXPERIENCE
COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS CORP., Guaynabo, PR 2003-Present
VP & Information Technology Manager
In charge of overseeing the management and day-to-day operations. Responsible of the Programming &
Development, Infrastructure Management, Vendor Management, Network Architecture Design, Project
Management (Agile/Scrum/Methodologies) and Quality Assurance Strategies. Managed over 60 resources in
order to achieve projects successful, reduce operating expenses and increase profitability. Interfaced with
supply partners and large clients (ERP) in developing a cohesive plan to meet the project target dates, and
prepare win-win proposals laying the foundation for maintaining a long-term business relationship. Experience
in outsourcing and consulting services, enterprise resources planning, cloud computing, mainframe and
window programming, and data center design. Over 10 years helping companies IT departments to support a
business process and managing the IT service at the requested performance.
BANCO POPULAR, San Juan, PR 1993-2003 .
Assistant Vice-President/Programming And Development Manager
As the Programming Manager, I supervised 40 employees (3 Supervisor) in order to achieve project deadlines
assigned by Senior Management. Strong Knowledge in mainframe languages such as; Object Oriented
Programming, COBOL, SOX, CICS, DB2, EASYTRIEVE, ORACLE, ASSEMBLER, RPG, Java Framework (Spring,
JSF,etc), AWT, JavaScript, J2EE, JBOSS, EJB 3.0, Swing, Ruby, C++, CASE TOOLS, Operating systems knowledge,
IBM MVS, Tandem, OS, UNIX (Solaris), LINUX (Red Hat), SQL Server, MS Dynamic A/X and Windows Operating
Systems. Programming applications knowledge; Lending, SAP, CRM, Oracle Data Base, Base 24, EDI,
Installment Loans (Shaw System), ACAPS, Deposit, EDI, ACH, Payroll, Finance (Oracle Financial), and Real Estate
System (FIS). I was responsible for implementing new technological strategies (Agile/Scrum) that would create
new customer products, automate manual procedures that lower operating expenses. Responsible for
controlling the assigned budget, perform yearly evaluations and monitor productivity.
BANCO POPULAR, San Juan, PR 1985-1993
Project Manager/ Scrum Master
In charge of implementing new projects assigned by senior management. Managed over 30 successful projects taken from
inception to completion meeting the assigned implementation target dates. As a result of continuously implementing the
projects on-time without any major significant problems, I was awarded five (5) “Banco Popular Achievement Awards”.
As “Project Manager”, I was responsible for developing a “Requirements Document” containing the functions and features
required by the User Department. Evaluate 5 to 10 products to determine, which product best meets the functions and
features required. Develop both a project implementation and migration plan to successfully implement the new
application. Manage the assigned project resources and track the project plan (Agile/Sure Step Methodology) to insure the
successful implementation of the application.
EDUCATION
Universidad de Metropolitana The George Washington University Universidad Interamericana
Master’s Certificate in
Recinto de Bayamón Recinto de Cupey, San Juan PR
BBA in Computer Science Project Management MBA in Finance
(1987) (Dec/2002) (Not Completed)
REFERENCES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST