IT Director

IVAN ESPINOSA CUELLAR

Dynamic Technology Executive 18+ years with experience in multinational companies. Diagnosis and redesign of business processes applied to IT, project design & ERP implementation. Technology Roadmaps and development global standardized architectures. Mexico City, Mexico / Mobile: +52-55-550*****,777-***-**** / Email: ****.********@*******.***.** CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER (CIO), SENIOR IT LEADERSHIP IT Best Practices - ITIL / Transformation IT leadership / IT Strategy / Budgetary Management Organizational management and improved IT departments, helping business to align their vision with IT solutions in different industries like Health Care, Food and in recent years audit, business consulting and outsourcing services. Bilingual: Spanish & English

Ability to analyze, restructure and streamline implemented technologies.

IT Cost Optimization (Telecom, Datacenters, Licensing, etc.).

IT Policies & Procedures including related to security.

IT Project design & client management.

Delivering, integrated and centralized Enterprise Voice, Video, Instant Messaging and Videoconferencing communication platform.

Good Team Mate IT Contract Negotiation Experience Strong and Analytical Focused Results IT Service Management Collaborative Consistence Service Attitude Work well under pressure Dedication to Quality PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / PREVIOUS POSITIONS

SALLES SAINZ, GRAN THORNTON, S.C., Mexico City, August 2007 – May 2015 Audit, Business Consulting and Outsourcing Services IT Director (CIO-Chief Information Officer) / IT Manager

Business Challenges: Led the Firm to a new level of technology standardization and efficiency, focused on customers including budgets, assets control and licensing administration management.

Actions and Results:

o Establishment a real IT Strategy with common standards and negotiated vendors benefits programs.

o Define and optimize internal processes & good practices to ensure successful programs implementation and support to internal & external clients. Establishment and optimization of SLA's (Service Level Agreements)

o Participation in proposals for services to customers primarily in outsourcing business unit.

o Design, planning and supervision changes Technology Architecture of 8 offices of GT Mexico, working with our 12+ IT employees supporting 870 employees, including the enterprise network (WAN/LAN/WIFI), datacenters and cyber security infrastructure. o Reducing IT costs by 35% approx.

o Participation in some IT committees of Grant Thornton International “GTI” representing Latin American Member Firms

o Head of IT in ISO 9001-2008 certification processes. Prepare and begin the tasks required for ISO 27001 certification.

Information Systems:

o Epicor ERP optimization.

o Analysis of implementation Microsoft Dynamics AX (Axapta) ERP. SMITH & NEPHEW, S.A. DE C.V., Mexico City, May 2001 – July 2007 / May 1996 - April 2000 Health Care Services

IT & Processes Manager

Business Challenges: Implemented and development the IT department. Designed, analyzed and defined operational and administrative processes.

Actions and Results:

o Design and supervision implementation networks (LAN/WAN/WIFI) and cyber security infrastructure.

o Define the strategy for the ERP implementation including business processes and system life cycle.

o ERP Implementation (General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Inventory Control – Including Loan Service Warehouse & Asset Management Modules).

o Operations officer for a period of two years.

Information Systems: iScala 2.2 ERP Implementation - Design, Analysis, Testing & Training. Bare Code, BI (Business Intelligence) reports & Intranet development. COMERCIO MAS, S.A. DE C.V (esmas.com TELEVISA), Mexico City, May 2000-April 2001 Web Services

Administrative Systems & Help Desk Manager

Business Challenges: Implementation of Televisa Group Administrative Systems in a record time. Redefined, control and management Help Desk area. DISTRIBUIDORA DE ALIMENTOS EXCELSIOR, S.A. DE C.V., Mexico City, March 1991 – April 1996

Food Industry

Administrative Manager

Business Challenges: Management and Coordination of the areas of Human Resources, Credit and Collections, Accounting, Logistics and Warehousing. Local network & Systems implementation.

OTHER KNOWLEDGE

MANAGEMENT: Acquisition Integration, Vendor Negotiation, IT Controls, Telecom (Vpn Site to Site, MPLS), CCTV.

MICROSOFT: SQL Database, Azure (Cloud Services), Email, Messaging, SharePoint, Lync, Hyper V Server Virtualization, OS Servers.

CISCO: Routers, Switching, Collaboration Systems (Audio & Video) and UCS Servers. HP: Blades and Servers.

SECURITY: Firewalls (Palo Alto Networks, Cheqpoint, Juniper), Antivirus (Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton)

EDUCATION

Computer Engineer. Degree in Finance & Accounting. (Inst. Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico - ITAM). Degree in Business Management (IPADE Business School) COURSES OR WORKSHOPS

CISCO C-LEVEL (Ipade – Mexico City) – DEGREE IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

WRITING QUERIES USING MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2008

(2011, 12 Hr. Salles Sainz Grant Thornton, Mexico City)

ITIL FUNDATIONS V3

(2010, 30 Hr. Intelmex, Mexico City)

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS

(2008, 20 Hr. Grant Thornton International, Copenhagen, Denmark)

STRATEGIC PLANNING

(1998, 10 Hr. Smith & Nephew, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City)

ANALYSIS & TAKKING DESITIONS

(1992, 24 Hr. Kepner & Trigoe, Mexico City)

NETWORK MICROSOFT ADMINISTARTOR

(1991, 20 Hr. Infonet, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, Mexico)

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