RODOLFO PUERTOREAL

Brooklyn, NY • 917-***-****

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CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

Driving global strategy, planning, and execution to enable the scalability of organizations and support operational growth.

Strategic, collaborative, and business-focused executive technology leader with 20+ years of experience transforming information technology systems across enterprises by driving innovative, well-developed plans to enhance business performance. Establish and implement highly effective policies, protocols, and frameworks, forging the business' future success. Demonstrated expertise in building new technology verticals from the ground up and integrating state-of-the-art programs into existing business operations. Leverage technology expertise with forward-thinking strategies to modernize and elevate IT systems Change management leader, effectively navigating new landscapes and complex situations to maximize bottom-line results specifically within the financial industry.

Strategic Planning & Execution

Financial Systems

Hedge Fund/ Trading operations

Vendor Management

Business Intelligence

Stakeholder Alignment

C-Suite Communications

Business Analysis

Project & Program Management

PMS/OMS Implementation

Risk Assessment & Mitigation

IT Management

Budget Planning & Management

Azure/OKTA

GCP

Cyber Security

Agile Methodologies

Regulatory Compliance

Infrastructure Implementation

IT Governance

Disaster Recovery

Software Development

Investor Due Diligence

Team Management

Signature Strengths

Leverage data-driven metrics and business expertise to implement innovative IT strategies, enabling the achievement of KPIs and benchmarks.

Elevate operational performance by optimizing talent capabilities, designing and launching training, and providing support in complex situations.

Serve as a transformation strategist, identifying areas of opportunity and implementing lean, agile practices to improve bottom-line results.

Influential and engaging, communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders to gain buy-in, trust, and support of strategies.

Professional Experience

MARKETCAST • New York, NY • 2022 to Present

Vice President of Enterprise Technology (CIO)

Joined the organization to transform the IT department, providing structure, frameworks, and SOPs to ensure sustainability and reliability during periods of exponential growth. Focus on identifying areas of opportunity, ensuring resources and talent are aligned with business needs, provide 5 year strategy plan to enable business growth through M&A efforts. Lead the strategic and tactical execution of IT operations, including desktop, networking, process improvements, and cyber security functions.

Lead projects, including new office openings and office moves across the globe, by defining objectives, setting clear goals for employees, and establishing expectations to deliver on-time, on-budget.

Achieve cost savings by creating lean, efficient systems, successfully overhauling legacy programs and infrastructure with emerging technologies to enhance analytics, reporting and establishing KPI’s that align with organizational goals while reducing overall costs by 15%.

Support business needs by building a technology team increasing from 4 to 28 employees in less than 1 year ensuring high productivity within organizational technology mission.

Design and deploy an IT playbook to create SOP across all IT functions, successfully providing IT services across 11 locations

Work with Development team and enhance API integrations with SaaS offerings to optimize data flow and streamline business processes

Champion significant IT projects enterprise-wide that transform business operations, including:

oEnd-to-end Meraki refresh worldwide to establish an SDWAN environment.

oArchitecting and launching disaster recovery planning, resources, and tools to mitigate risks and downtime in operations.

Execute and lead cyber security initiatives and programs, including vulnerability assessments, threat detection, and dark web scanning, mitigating threats for high-risk targets, and improving the stability and security of the organization and leading SOC compliance controls. Completed two SOC2 reports and one ISO 27001

Manage various managed service providers to ensure SLA’s are met.

OPAL FUELS • New York, NY • 2021 to 2022

Head of Information Technology

Recruited to the renewable energy company to identify and implement new approaches for executing business process improvements, focusing on streamlining services, enabling the business expansion, integrating an ERP system, and adding additional business channels to the organization. Served as a trusted resource and SME in technology strategy to support the business vision and facilitate growth.

Transformed the business process by eliminating manual, antiquated processes and creating automated, digital systems by implementing an Oracle-based ERP system, increasing efficiencies and profitability margins.

Partnered with C-suite leadership to define the strategic vision, enabling the development of a multi-year technology roadmap prioritizing RNG facility expansion across domestic markets.

Executed multiple projects that enhanced the business strategy and supported the long-term vision, including identifying and on boarding ESG vendors to support SEC and SOC2 regulatory guidelines, Dynamics 365 PMS, Salesforce CRM implementation, and NIST cybersecurity upgrades.

DRAWBRIDGE PARTNERS • New York, NY • 2020 to 2021

Director of Information Technology

Served as the executive business leader in IT operations to support the business strategy, including infrastructure development, server implementation, and deploying virtual environments. Led multiple projects as the project manager for client accounts, overseeing the full lifecycle of projects, from proposal to launch of deliverables. Executed risk assessments, defining risk appetite and security positioning.

COLOREDGE • New York, NY • 2018 to 2020

Senior Vice President of Information Technology

Managed and oversaw all IT functions, leading the organization’s digital transformation while supporting projects and initiatives to further business success. Managed a team of 12 IT professionals.

Championed the transition from on premise to Cloud AWS, promoting stability, reliability, and modernization of the business.

Launched the opening of the LA office, defining and building the infrastructure, cybersecurity plan, and talent management strategies.

Integrated IT governance and risk mitigation strategies into the IT infrastructure to support data security across operations.

VISIUM ASSET MANAGEMENT• New York, NY • 2006 to 2018

Chief Information Officer

Served as a tactical leader during the initial phases of business operations and taking on appointments to lead and focus on developing talent, designing strategy, and elevating the execution of long-term hedge fund goals through technology processes. Supported M&A strategies, build-out of new office locations, and enterprise architecture. Managed 11 director-level employees.

Built out four data centers. Developed and implemented disaster recovery plan ensuring recovery times fell within the 20 minute business need.

Slashed IT costs by 15% during tenure by streamlining services, executing a digital transformation from on premise to Cloud, maximizing talent capabilities, and building mutually beneficial relationships with contracted partners.

Increased profit by 10% YoY by leveraging technology to drive revenue and business expansion.

Conducted regular meetings across front/ back office operations and investor relations, ensuring alignment with the business strategy.

Led SOX, FINRA, SEC and GDPR regulation efforts to ensure compliance standards are met.

Actively negotiated contracts with vendors to ensure SLA agreements were adhered to that delivered annual savings of more than 100K annually.

Planned and implemented cybersecurity systems that prevented cyber-attacks utilizing various vendors to provide consistent adoption of security policies, processes and procedures including yearly cyber security training.

Support and implement VMWare virtual networks along with remote access through Citrix to ensure remote capabilities globally for the firm.

Early Career

Guggenheim Partners • Network Engineer

Education

State University of New York (SUNY)• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Management

EMC VNX Unified Storage VNX Unified Storage Integration Implementing Dell Storage & Data Protection

ITIL v4

“Rudy was with us for a decade, from Visium's pre-spinout all the way through the major growth and wind-down, worked faithfully through complicated upgrades, office moves, and new tech development. He started as the sole tech resource and grew a team of people to support 175 professionals across NY, SF, and London. We suffered no IT downtimes, no security breaches, no holes - he even took responsibility for other facilities management, He implemented modern tech and services to support the organization and investors.”

Mark G., CFA, Founder & Director of Altium, Previous Director at Visium

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