Manager Project

BRIAN GIL GONZALEZ SAGULILI

Certified in Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT), PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL v3.0) Foundation, and Oracle Professional-DBA (OCP DBA)

Mobile: +63-917-***-**** (Globe)

Email: *****.********@*****.***

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Program/Project Management • Managed Services delivery (onshore/offshore)

• Capability/Competency and Capacity • Project work product and technical reviews/audits

• Risk analysis of pipeline/incoming projects • Stakeholders and People Management

• Vendor Management • Oracle Solutions (E-business Suite, Database, & Development)

• Portal and Web Sites development • Continuous improvement

• Enterprise Access Management • Telco/WiFi Solutions

• Technology Refresh

Countries visited (business): USA, India, and China

Sectors/Industries exposure: Manufacturing, Retail, Telecom, Banking, Information Technology, and

Public/Government.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATION

Experiences/Accomplishments

Over 23 years of total IT experience, of which more than 17 years are Program/Project Management experiences, People/Resource Management, Vendor Management, and 3.5 years of Leadership experience.

Program/Project Management experiences:

Fixed a number of troubled program/projects previously managed by other Program/Project Managers..

Managed Project Managers under a Program.

Managed team(s) of offshore/onshore resources in managed services project on Package (ERP-Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing and CRM) application implementation, migration or maintenance/support, and software development projects that are using Java, Visual Basic, and Oracle “PL/SQL, Forms and Reports”. Recent projects are User eXperience (UX) portals, Enterprise Access Management (EAM), Network/Wi-Fi, Technology Refresh, Divestiture, and Tax Reporting.

Drived towards operation and delivery excellence resulting in timely incident resolution, reduced backlog, controlled KPIs/SLAs, and enhanced user satisfaction.

Established project governance and change control process, regularizing communication, managing escalations, aligning on-shore/off-shore delivery model, and proactively mitigating overall program/project risk.

Managed and collaborate on the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of a software development or implementation/migration/upgrade project.

Provided forecasting, metrics, reports, and analyses to drive key business decisions.

Managed Project financials.

Managed Vendor delivery performance.

Managed People/Resource development and performance.

Senior Leadership experiences:

Led business growth of Oracle ERP practice (E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft, and Retek) in IBM Solutions Delivery, Inc. to more than 320% growth, from January 2012 to January 2015. Had grown DBMS practice (non-ERP core Oracle DBA and PL/SQL developer) to more than 250% growth from January 2012 to June 2013; and, enabled new service offerings such as Hyperion HFM/Admin/Planning/Essbase, Oracle Transportation Management, Customer Care and Billing, and SOA/Fusion middleware administration.

Provided inputs to Solutioning team to draft Proposed Solution, participated in Solutioning calls and client orals, and conducted presentation on PH technical capability and capacity during client visits.

Participated in leadership/management meetings to discuss on planning, resources’ utilization, training and performance, delivery/project performance, supply and demand, opportunity pipe, build plans, solutioning, and critical issues.

Participated in lead generation, pre-sales activities, solutioning and development of technical proposal/bid. Partnered with Business Leaders and Solutioning Team in other countries to bring opportunities to IBM Solution Delivery, PH.

Provided advices/guidance or was advisory Project Manager to troubled /challenged projects.

Led project health check, product/code review, ‘Process, Methods and Tools’ usage review.

Led initiatives for existing and new Project Managers and practitioners to use/implement of Process, Methods, Tools, and continuous improvement through skills enhancement and buildup of assets/accelerators.

Other Leadership experiences:

As hiring manager, I reviewed and approved salary package for candidates, and assist recruitment teams and vendor/recruitment partners to strategically source candidates from market. At same time, I lead the organic growth for making skills available in the service line.

As Oracle Technology Assembly Center (TAC) Leader, I championed the use of assets/accelerators, and adoption of Process, Methods and Tools in Projects. I trained and formed a Team of SMEs that conducted project and technical/deliverable health checks. I provided inputs to Solutioning managers on leveraging TAC structure to support Solutioned projects.

As People Manager, I provided career guidance, consultation and performance assessment, including recommendation for employee promotion, regularization, or performance improvement plan.

Technical and Functional experiences:

As Business Analyst/Functional Consultant, I implemented and provided technical and functional support on the following Oracle E-business Application modules: Payables, Receivables, Payables, Assets, Order Management, Inventory, Purchasing, Process Manufacturing, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Sales module.

As Database Administrator, installed and maintained a number of Oracle E-business Applications. Other Oracle implementations include installation of 9i Application Server, setup and configuration of Logical and Physical standby database (using Oracle Dataguard), installation and setup of Real Application Cluster (RAC)

As Developer, analyzed and (coded) developed a number of applications/webpages using Foxpro, Clipper, Visual Basic, Progress SQL, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, and Oracle PL/SQL.

Sales/Pre-sales experiences: Not a full time role but I was given the chance to be involved in sales opportunities where I was able to close sales on Electronic Cheque Clearing Solutions to Equitable Bank, PSBank and Philippine Veterans Bank amounting to more than ten million pesos, while employed in RSL enterprises, Inc. Pre-sales experiences include presentation of Oracle and Trend software products to various resellers and their clients.

Certifications and Training

Certified in Axelos Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT).

Certified in PMI Project Manager Professional (PMP).

Certified in STAT-A-Matrix Six Sigma Black Belt.

Certified in EXIN Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3.0 foundation.

Completed executive trainings on IT Project Management, Risk Management, Business Planning Series and Strategic Negotiation that were conducted by Asian Institute of Management (AIM). Completed trainings on Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking that were conducted by deBono Thinking Systems.

Completed 20-week Managers Course from the University of the Philippines, Institute for Small Scale Industries. Earned 14-units from Ateneo de Davao Graduate University Master of Business Administration (MBA) program.

Completed various leadership and performance training from Franklin Covey-Center for Leadership & Change, Inc.

Certified Oracle Database Administrator (OCP-DBA) which covers PL/SQL, Architecture and Administration, Performance Tuning, Backup and Recovery, and Network Administration) Exposures and experiences include Oracle 9iDB, 10GDB, Real Application Cluster (RAC), Dataguard, and Oracle 11i/12 E-business Applications.

WORK HISTORY

1)

Wells Fargo Enterprise Global Services, LLC - Philippines

Duration: November 28, 2016 to Present

Title: Sr. Project Manager (PM4)

Ongoing Project:

CEO Portal BAU, <$1M

CEO Portal Demos BAU, $1M

Secure Delivery Document, Operationally Funded

Completed/Transitioned Projects

1.Project: Tax Reporting (regulatory compliance); Budget: $4.9M

Completed first release of this Project. I was then moved to another Group called Enterprise Portfolio Management Solutions (EPMS) to be assigned to CEO Portal projects.

2.Project: BBODS Tech Refresh: Budget: infra/SW were under TROG expense; Aug 2018 to Mar 2019. Started and completed this project end to end.

3.Program: Identity and Access Management (IAM) Program; Budget: $10M); Nov 2016 to Jul 2018 - completed

As its Project Manager,

oI was the Project Manager that managed the Team that migrated the most number of qualified and prioritized applications to IAM Solution (IES) for its four LOBs. I also had the most number of complex migrations.

oCollaborated with Business Partners and Application Technology Teams on the development, documentation, and migration of assets/application to IES.

oProvided forecasting, reports, and analyses to drive key business decisions.

oManaged cost, schedule, scope, change request, issue, and risk.

oManaged to complete delivery of Stakeholder Analysis, BRD, FSD, Implementation Readiness, and Lessons Learned.

oManaged Vendor delivery performance. I also documented Statement of Work (Vendor) that was shared to other Project Managers struggling to provide this.

oDocumented the Project Statement of Work (Project), and Communication Plan (Project) by request from former Program Manager.

oProvided orientation to Application Team members on Identity and Access Management Program

Was assigned as temporary Program Manager 1.5 months prior to Program closing. As its temporary Program Manager,

oManaged four sub-LOB projects under Consumer Lending Group LOB.

oArranged weekly calls with US business partners, and the Program’s Project managers to discuss Project and Package health status, package/application pipeline, risk, issues, concerns, change request, and financials.

oProvided Program status reports to US Portfolio Manager.

oHosted change requests meetings.

oAssisted and guided Project Managers to recover their Packages back to healthy (green) status.

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Yondu, Inc. (assigned in Globe Telecom, Inc.)

Duration: April 1, 2016 to October 6, 2016

Title: Consultant - Business Project Manager for Globe Telecom.

Accomplishments/Responsibilities:

Program: Telco Infra and Service Portal Free and Paid Wifi Platform

Troubleshooted and successfully cutover/RFS a project that "was moved/delayed a number of times, had out-of-scope items, had a number of major defects, and where its operational support was not fully prepared to take in the coming launch.” Managed two Globe Project Managers (infra PM and IT PM) and two Vendors, the project is about deployment of free and paid WiFi service portal, network infrastructure, and video accelerator/caching mechanism to speed up video downloading to Globe selected partner sites so partner' clients can initially use free WiFi for a limited time and will an option to purchase additional WiFi time/cap when it want too.

Project: Migration of Existing Portals to Content Management System Platform (UX)

Handled vendor negotiation, training, and provided schedule and work plan for a UX-driven deployment of existing and new portals project using Adobe Enterprise Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as platform and Agile/Scum approach.

3)

IBM Solutions Delivery, Inc.

Duration: July 7, 2011 to June 15, 2015

Title: Service Line Leader/Senior Project Manager

Accomplishments/Responsibilities:

Q4 2012 Awardee in quarterly IBM Bayanihan awards and first awardee from PH GDC Service Line Group to earn an award in IBM Bayanihan.

As a Senior Project Manager, I managed the following projects:

1) Oracle Applications upgrade for HHGregg (managed service); and,

2) Applications upgrade, maintenance and support for DHL (managed service).

Successfully recovered the project back on healthy track after delays in positioning resources.

Successfully delivered Project documentations such as Project Plan, Quality Plan, Change management Plan, Configuration Plan, Risk and Issue Management Plan, among others.

Successfully delivered Project deliverables such as final program codes, setup scripts, test cases, and documentations.

On time update of Project logs: change, decision, risk, and issue. On time submission of status reports, metrics, and communication updates to clients, and to Delivery Leaders.

As Service Line Leader, I accomplished the following:

Actively participated in leadership/management meetings to discuss on utilization, supply and demand, build plans, solutioning pipeline, and critical issues.

Grown Oracle practice (E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft, and Retek) to more than 320% growth from January 2012 to January 2015 and grown DBMS practice to more than 250% growth from January 2012 to June 2013. The strategies that I applied to sustain the fast overall growth in the Service Line are organic growth for new resources, continuous building of new and in-demand skills/SMEs, and timely and aggressive hiring.

Enabled new technical skills/SMEs: Hyperion Admin/HFM/Planning, Customer Care and Billing, Oracle Transportation Management, Fusion Middleware administration and SOA development, in addition to growing existing capability: E-business Suite, Retek, Peoplesoft and Brio. For non-package skills, I was able to grow the number of Oracle, DB2 and MS SQL DBA practitioners and their skills in supporting high availability, scalable and secure middleware and database environment.

Led the IBM's first ever Oracle technical event for Oracle and non-Oracle practitioners, and also arranged the first Oracle business update sessions for Delivery Leaders and Technical Solutioning Managers.

Collaborated with Business Partners in other countries to bring new opportunities to IBM PH.

Conducted Method Adoption Workshop for new and existing Oracle projects.

Spearheaded continuous improvement in the Service Line through skills enhancement and assets buildup.

Enabled SMEs to be part of team to conduct interviews, support assistance to troubled projects, perform competency work, and becoming more expert in their fields.

Responsible for planning, budgeting, coordinating, executing Oracle trainings with assistance from Learning Team.

As hiring manager, I reviewed and approved salary package for candidates, and assisted recruitment teams and vendor/recruitment partners to strategically source candidates from market.

As Oracle Technology Assembly Center (TAC) Leader, I championed use of assets/accelerators, and the adoption of IBM Process, Methods and Tools in Projects. I trained and form a Team of SMEs to perform Project and Technical health checks. I provided inputs to Solutioning managers on leveraging TAC structure for solutioning Oracle projects.

As People Manager, I provided career guidance, consultation and performance assessment, including recommendation for employee promotion, regularization, or performance improvement plan.

4)

EMERSON Network Power (ENP)-Embedded Computing and Power (now Artesyn Embedded Power) LTD-ROHQ, is worldwide and leading supplier of standard, modified standard, custom AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies from 1 watt to 18,000 watts. A wholly owned subsidiary of Emerson (EMR:NYSE), the parent company.

Duration: March 3, 2005 to June 24, 2011

Title: Project Manager for Oracle EBS Projects - 2005 to 2011

Technical Service Manager (TSM) for Oracle EBS Shared Services (India Team) - 2009 to 2011

Responsibilities/Accomplishments:

Earned Citation from Emerson Network Power (ENP) Vice President, through a monthly Webcast, as the Project Manager who completed R12 Ebusiness Suite upgrade project on time with zero cost (no hiring of external consultants) in one of broadcasted town hall to all ENP offices. The project, which is the migration of Production instance from 11.5.9 CU2 to 11.5.10 CU2, involved 40+ superusers/SMEs, 10+ developers, and seven-7 Database administrators from different departments and in different countries (US, UK, HK and PH)

Completed projects:

Implementation of Advanced Collections, CRM Sales, and Advanced Product Catalog.

Rollout of Purchasing, Inventory and Order Management.

Upgrade of Oracle E-business Suite to R12 version.

Oracle Application regression testing activities including scheduling of patch deployment from multiple test/development environments to production.

Development project of test automation and load performance scripts using Mercury QTP and Loadrunner for E-business application.

As TSM, I managed EMERSON’s IT Shared Services (ITSS) third party provider, Wipro by monitoring, reporting and tracking of issues which includes logging Incidence/issues tickets, coordinating with ITSS, scheduling the activities, meeting with “users, other support groups, and ITSS”, escalation of issues, and providing metrics. Monitor and track requests and activities assigned to ITSS such as patching, cloning, and performance tuning.

5)

Enterworks Philippines, Inc.

Enterworks, a subsidiary of a US-owned company, Telos Corporation, is an Independent Software Vendor providing software solutions for integration, security and procurement requirement of its clients. Some of its prominent clients in the US private sector are Motorola, Honda and General Electric. For the public sector, its clients are the US air force, US army and US Navy, among others.

Duration: October 18, 2004 to February 25, 2005

Position: Project Lead for Software Development projects

6)

KPMG Consulting Philippines, Inc. (company closed, 2006)

KPMG Laya Mananghaya Consulting, a spin-off company of KPMG Laya Mananghaya Inc. and KPMG Consulting International, Inc. provides various IT consulting services including project management, change management, risk management, system integration, and implementation of packaged or customized financial applications, CRM and data warehousing, among others.

Duration/Position:

July 1, 2004 to October 10, 2004 (2nd employment) - Project Manager/Sr. Consultant for EBS applications and Oracle Databases

May 2, 2002 to Jan 31, 2004 (1st employment) - Project Manager/Consultant for EBS applications and Oracle Databases

7)

MSI-Digiland, Inc. (now MSI-ECS)

MSI-Digiland is one of the country’s leading distributors of popular Information Technology and Communication (ITC) products such as Oracle, Cisco, IBM, HP, Sony, EMC, Trend, Microsoft and Apple, among others.

Duration: February 2004 to June 30, 2004 (2nd employment)

January 12, 2001 to April 30, 2002 (1st employment)

Position: 2nd employment- Assistant Project Manager for Oracle e-Business Suite Financials implementation (internal implementation)

1st employment- Technical Consultant for Oracle ERP, Middleware and Database Products.

Award : Best employee (monthly) for several months

8)

RSL Enterprises, Inc.

RSL is a provider of Electronic Cheque Clearing System (ECCS) and document/imaging solutions of the banks.

Duration: June 15, 1998 to January 12, 2001

Position: Manager/Project Manager, Customer Service and Support Division (CSSD)

9)

Mindanao Economic Development Council (MEDCo) (now Mindanao Economic Development Authority (MEDA))

MEDCo serves as the technical arm of the office of the Presidential Assistant for Mindanao. The council, which also served as the umbrella organization of all government agencies in Mindanao, helped catapulted the economic growth on Mindanao during the term of ex-president Fidel V. Ramos administration.

Duration: February 1996 to June 15, 1998

Position: Senior Economic Development Specialist

(Management Information System Division – Information Technology Unit

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10)

JSGaisano, Inc./Weblinq. Inc

Duration: November 1994 to February 1996

Position: Programmer-Analyst – JS Gaisano/Technical Support – Weblinq, Inc.

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