Ruth Rosales
*** ******** **, **** *****, IL, ***44
847-***-**** / cell 513-***-****
email: ***********@*******.***
Global Business Transformation & IT Senior Executive -20 years experience – who specializes on defining business strategies and long term vision as well as leading/developing high performing organizations/process/projects to support business needs. Focus on integration of work processes, people and tools to drive competitive advantage and value to the company. Leader of IT Diversity recruiting strategy to create and maintain a healthy recruiting pipeline for minorities group.
Personal Profile
Envisioner Energizer Enabler Proactive Thinking Interpersonal Communication Skills Organized Self Motivated Flexible Professional Integrity Time Management Ability Multitasking Achiever Value Professional Quality Environment & Growing Potential Project Management Leader
Professional Achievement
Board Member for HITEC. Hispanic Information technology Executive Council.
Awarded as the 2009 Top 100 Hispanics IT Executives more Influential in the US business by HITEC
Member of the Information technology Recruiting Group. University of Cincinnati Recruiting team
NSHMBA IT Senior Recruiter – National Sociaty of Hispanics MBA to attract and retained the best diverse candidates.
Procter & Gamble Associate Director
Miami University Instructor Aug 11 – Aug 14 Oxford, OH
Teaching Global Marketing class. To sensitize the student to economic, political, and social/cultural differences among nations
as they affect the practice of global marketing;
Develop the student’s abilities to identify and evaluate global marketing opportunities;
Identify the philosophy behind, and the development of, global marketing strategies;
Develop student skills in gathering information about a firm’s global marketing strategy, drawing conclusions from that information, and presenting results; and,
Stimulate an appreciation for the importance of contemporary global events, and the impact of those events on global marketing strategy development
HITEC Board Member July 08 – July 10 Cincinnati, OH & New York, NY
Responsible for providing general governance and direction to ensure the development, growth and performance of the organization.
Developing and approving major policies and objectives to enable the organization to achieve its mission and goals.
Led the 100 Hisponics IT Executives program for 2010.
Monitoring performance, setting objectives and measuring management’s results against them, evaluating the accomplishments of management and their activities and being responsible for the selection and removal of officers
Establishing and delegating authorities to appropriate working committees
Information Technology Beauty Care division Associated Director at Procter & Gamble - Feb 09 – July 10 New York, NY
Responsible to define the business model and to leverage technology, innovation and services to transform Beauty Care business.
Led IT Information Decision Solutions for Global Hair Care business within multifunctional P&G senior leadership team – (General Managers & Vice-Presidents)
Created a Strategic IT Long Term Plan which enabled faster and better business decisions for leadership team.
Developed the eCapabilities and New Business Models to help the corporate Marketing, Consumer Research and Innovation Center to deliver P&G Digital Business Goals (increase 3% sales in eCommerce sales by FY 12/13)
Supply Network Solution Global Business Services Associated Director at Procter & Gamble Jan 06 – Jan 09 Cincinnati, OH
Successfully led IT Global Business Services for Health Care and Well being Supply Network Solution organization.
Developed and aligned long term IT Vision and Strategy with Product Supply organization to support manufacturing operations. During this role, I personally led the IT service costs strategy reduction, my group achieved more than 5% of the Total Manufacturing Cost reduction vs. originally goal of 3%.
Managed more than 100 global remotely IT employees at manufacturing sites. Specialized on mergers and acquisition -100% Gillette IT people+process+tools at manufacturing Sites satisfactorily integrated. Achieved reduction of $4MM of Inventory at Health Care sites. *Developed Back to Basic” program for IT division to enable the organization to perform at their peak. Led IT Global Business Services for Health Care and Well Being Supply Network Solution organization. Associate Director
North America Fabric & Home Care B2B Group Manager at Procter & Gamble Dec 03 – Dec 05 Cincinnati, OH
Responsible for delivering a competitive advantage to NA business through a unique combination of technology and services.
Led/Created the B2B e-connectivity breakthrough program between P&G and Suppliers. Defined stretch eConnectivity goals such as 98% increased of the information interchange to reduce raw materials cost up to 25%. As well as being an enabler to realize savings both in productivity, out of stock and cost. Achieved goals of industry benchmark savings up to 30$/transaction each at both P&G and Supplier.
Identified technologies trends for Fabric & Home Care market to support P&G data exchange. I doubled the number of P&G Strategic Suppliers under SMOI concept- Supplier Managing Own Inventories following 100% government regulations, industry trends and corporate standards-North America Fabric & Home Care B2B-Bussiness to Business Group Manager.
IT Latin America Fabric and Home Care Leader at Procter & Gamble Jul. 99 – Dec 03 - Caracas, Venezuela
Responsible for leading and building capability on IT organization; develop and sustain IT operations for the region.
Revamped core business system applications in collaboration with executive management, business users and technical personnel, ensuring the accurate compilation of business and systems requirements based on organization strategic choices.
Led and builded IT in three Organization areas: Fabric Care, Home Care and Product Supply LA. It includes operations across 8 countries.
Successfully identified/defined business needs to leverage IT tools, major focus on the alignment and resource allocation for work between GBS – Global Business Services organization and multi functional business partners (Vice-presidents and Directors Regional leaders).
Focused the organization on the right priorities as well developed capabilities to reduce 5% cost and drive up 10% productivity.
SAP Regional Implementation Leader at Procter & Gamble May. 94 –Dec 96 – South America countries
Responsible for managing the entire project for SAP rollout in LA, defined timeframes and scope, captured functional requirements, reviewed system issues, business impact, and prioritized phases to deliver the project.
Led 25 staff, identified work processes changes and designed technology transfer for the SAP implementations in Latin America; by Oct 96 100% success criteria business needs were meet.
Established and led the SAP faster rollout for Latin America - less than 8 months by country.
Identified Success criteria to meets business needs, 90% information flow were optimized.
Reduced distribution center losses associated to initiatives for 10%.
100% Startup team qualified at the project execution stage.
Increase Inventory record accuracy to 98%
Regional Telecommunication Leader at Procter & Gamble. Mar 93 - May. 94. Caracas, Venezuela
Responsible for guaranteeing reliability of telecommunications, to sustain operational excellence and network performance.
Led Telecommunications project for Latin America. Developed the outsource services which support and maintain P&G Latin America Telecommunication network.
Designed the Microwave Maintenance program, which included predictive, preventive and corrective strategies for the telecommunications system/network. It improved operational excellence scorecard measures up to 98% reliability.
Provided a competitive advantage to P&G through a best-in-class strategic outsource negotiation, it created a cost reduction up to 15% of infrastructure related expenses.
IT System Analyst at Procter & Gamble Jul 91 - Feb. 93 Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
As IT Plant Manager I was responsible for the whole IT operation, IT governance and IT practices of the manufacturing site.
Achieved best in class IT platform for manufacturing sites to enable 5% process optimization and losses reduction (Quality, Scrap, and Product Availability). *Launched successfully a pilot to deploy the Global Share Business Service model for a manufacturing site.
Built mapping process diagrams which encompassed the functional and system requirement documentation improving communication flow on top work processes.
IT Intern at Procter & Gamble Sep 90 - Jul 91 Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Intern the scope of my responsibilities was to identified major losses/failures in the Quality Assurance area of a manufacturing site.
Developed a process to gather data for Quality Statistic tools. It improved information reliability up to 98%.
Created a flow chart to understand process road map and information flow of the area.
Successfully lead analytical and modeling tools re-engineering for Quality Lab department, improving 10% of productivity.
EDUCATION * Bachelor of Computer Science Engineer 1991. 3.91/4.0 GPA UCLA, Venezuela
SKILLS * Corporate Trainer of IYPL – Improved Your Personal leadership
* Corporate certified trainer of Success Project Management.TPM (IWS) expert on AM, PM and FI implementation on high performance working systems
LANGUAGE * Spanish (native);
* English (Proficient)