Ruben Dario Gonzalez Leal
**** *** **., *** ***, Washington D.C. 412-***-****
**.*****@*****.***; *************@******.***.***
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College, Pittsburgh, PA
Master of Information Systems Management (May 2014)
IT Strategy and Management Specialization
Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia.
Computer and Systems Engineering (March 2003)
Management Option, Marketing Concentration
SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS
Experience in SAP ABAP development consultancy; public and private sectors for different business sizes;
application design and maintenance on different scenarios, from full life cycle SAP implementation to post go live
support; experience on SAP integration with external tools
Project management knowledge, team management experience; involvement in projects with remotely located
co workers.
Experience interacting with final users, business experts, technical experts, IT and business managers.
Programming languages: ABAP, Java J2EE and .NET
Object Oriented programming; design principles and patterns; Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Methodologies RUP (Rational Unified Process. From Use Cases elicitation to execution) and ASAP
(Accelerated SAP).
Certified Solution Consultant SAP Solution Manager 4.0 Solution Manager Implementation Tools, January
2008
Certified ABAP Consultant, June 2005
Native Spanish speaker
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ATOS (Bogotá D.C., Colombia) November 2012 – April 2013
Senior ABAP Consultant
Project “ERP Salud” (ERP for Health System at National Ministry of Defense)
• Assessed requirements prioritization, providing improved time management among developers and facilitating
accomplishment of deadlines.
• Trained a Junior ABAP programmer helping the project continuity and future support adjusted to quality
standards at affordable costs.
May July 2012
SOFTTEK RENOVATION (Bogotá D.C., Colombia)
Senior ABAP Consultant
• Developed and adjusted ABAP programs to integrate external application reporting payments to SAP, for the
National Federation of Coffee Growers (“Federación Nacional de Cafeteros”)
• Designed and developed programs to collect information of registered wholesalers and retail markets from gas
stations to update in SAP, for Petrobras Colombia (Oil and gas sector).
June – October 2011
CONSULTORÍA ORGANIZACIONAL (Bogotá D.C., Colombia)
Senior ABAP Consultant
• SAP implementation project for JAMAR Furniture.
• Developed programs required for integrating SAP ERP and legacy applications; supported Go live.
• Success made possible repeated selling and long term relation with this customer.
September 2005 – June 2011
SYNAPSIS (Bogotá D.C., Colombia)
ABAP Senior Development Analyst
• Designed and developed solution to support legal requirement intended to improve tax collection from
contributors in default, under challenging and strict dead lines. This project was started on site with further
remote completion and follow up, for the Medellin municipality (public sector) for about six months.
• Supported existing custom ABAP programs and enhancements; entire life cycle for new programs at
“Gobernacion de Cundinamarca” (public sector) for over one year.
FTE assignment at ECOPETROL (NYSE:EC) for 4 years (2005 2010)
• Coordinated internal ABAP development team (4 people), in the absences of client side manager.
• Supported, maintained and developed custom ABAP programs to fit company needs.
• Led Support Packages management tasks: Previous assessment, impact management on standard and
custom developments.
• Contributed from Ecopetrol side in ABAP development projects managed internally and with third parties
participation, including:
MM SD integration with measurement equipment for product delivery tracking
Inclusion of legal tax in SD pricing and SD FI interface for billing.
Project SWIFT: Integration with banks to provide real time information about third party payments and
accounts balance to improve investment management in Treasury (CFM module). Designed and
implemented this solution which manages information of the highest daily cash flows in the country.
ABAP technical leader from ECOPETROL team in Upgrade project SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 carried on in
coordination with SAP Global Delivery work team on site and at remote locations.
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA August September 2005
Junior ABAP Consultant
• Under the “Research Project for integrating SAP ERP with the Computer Integrated Manufacturing system
(CIM) for the Industrial Automation Technological Center of Engineering Faculty”, designed and implemented
the required solution which integrates enterprise SAP planning to the CIM, where a robotized plant executes
and sends a response to SAP PP module, confirming each order and updating inventory.