LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvarofeliperivera/
Address: Cra. 4a #10-04, Casa 21, El rodadero, Santa Marta, Magdalena, COLOMBIA I am a goal oriented senior Project/Program manager with over 20 years of working experience in enterprise software development and SAP implementation in varying industries such as retail, fashion retail, transportation, utilities, public sector, oil and gas, cement, among others. As a Project Manager embedded member of your team, I will:
Make things happen within planned budget, time and customer quality expectations.
Manage complete Software Life Cycle Development under SOX compliance.
Plan and execute the project from presales to post support deployment.
Control and monitor cost, time, and quality.
Facilitate/Lead development project teams in an Agile environment.
Effectively manage communications and relationship with project team including customer and partners
Deliver the implementation of SAP products.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Company Rol, Country implemented, General Responsibilities AEVITAS IT
(Jan2023-
June2024)
Senior Enhancement SAP Delivery Manager
Leading the new enhancements support team for Business Units of Liberty Latin America. In charge of making things happen within the planned time, cost, expected quality, and SOX compliance. Leading an offshore team to develop the activities required to implement from the initial business requirement, using SAP ACTIVATE framework and SOX standards, the IT business needs of Liberty Latin America. Michael Page
(May2022-
Jul2022)
Senior IT SAP Program Manager 4 for ECOPETROL
SAP IT Technical Leader:
STORM Program: Made things happen for rolling out SAP S4HANA for ECOPETROL AMERICA (EALLC) in Texas USA, and national GAS Distribution in Colombia from ECOPETROL Technical side. HOLCIM
(May2021-
Sept2021)
Service Delivery Planner for Firestone Building Product Services USA – IT Separation from Bridgestone Americas:
Collaborate/Lead a cross-cultural development team of 15+ people remotely. In charge of all Applications (179) supporting FSBP business in 8 Countries around the world. Including SAP ECC, ARIBA, Dynamics, Vault, Onesource, among others. Leading a team of 63 people involved in the migration of the IT systems including Infrastructure from source data center to Companies Data center. SAP
(2107-2020)
Senior Project Manager
Colombia – Client: Crystal (Fashion Retail)
System Implemented: Model Company for S4/HANA Fashion Retail, FI Best Practices, CAR. Launched the first implementation of S4HANA Model company for fashion retail in Colombia which is expected to increase 65% of efficiency in their business processes saving more than 1MUSD yearly. Lead a cross-cultural development team of 15+ people remotely
Successfully led a team of 16 consultants including partner and client’s resources during the execution of the activities of the project. Lead a cross-cultural development team of 15+ people remotely.
Guatemala – Client: CEMPRO (Cement)
System Implemented: S4/HANA LSO Currency Conversion
Successfully prepared the FI accounts in legacy systems to be migrated to SAP HANA DB in their road to SAP S4HANA.
Led a team of 10 people multi country from India, Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia. Lead a cross-cultural development team of 15+ people remotely CHOICE
Technologies
(2015-2017)
Senior Project Manager
Colombia – Client: EPM (Utilities company)
System Implemented: Revenue Intelligence Systems
Successful Implementation of Revenue Intelligence system on SAP HANA, having the company saving up to 80% of losses due to electrical fraud.
Successfully led a team of 9 consultants including client’s resources during the execution of the activities of the project Project Manager
SABMiller
(2013-2014)
Senior Project Manager
Guatemala, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia, Panamá, El salvador SABMILLER (brewery company)
System Implemented: Business Intelligence Systems Launched Regional BI systems on HANA for 6 countries facilitating regional financial executive decisions.
Successfully led a team of 40 people distributed in different countries. Lead a cross- cultural development team of 15+ people remotely.
AMDOCS
(2011-2013)
Project Manager
Panamá, Colombia – Client: CLARO
System Implemented: AMDOCS
Launched AMDOCS systems for 2 countries facilitating regional financial executive decisions.
Successfully led a team of 30 people distributed in different countries Lead a cross- cultural development team of 15+ people remotely
SOPHOS
Solutions
(2007-2011)
Senior Systems Analyst
Colombia – Client: Banco de Occidente (Banking)
System Implemented: ORACLE FLEXCUBE
Successfully implemented core banking ORACLE FLEXCUBE all modules in Banco de Occidente using Oracle Stored Procedures, JAVAscript, in Unix.
Launched the first implementation Of ORACLE FLEXCUBE in Colombia managing 25 resources located in India, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. COBIS Corp
(2004-2007)
Junior Software Developer
Colombia – Client: Banco Agrario (Banking)
System implemented: COBIS
Implementation of saving and current account interests
Development in C, VB and Stored Procedures for SA and CA
:
Software Development Life Cycle, Design Thinking, Business Digital Transformation, Risk Management, Lead Project Management Office, IT Business Processes Analysis.
• SCRUM MASTER Guide (Certification Date expected by 09/22)
• Mechatronics Engineer from Military University NUEVA GRANADA (Dec./2002) (GPA 3.8/5)
• Project Management Professional PMP® from the Project Management Institute (PMI®).
• ITIL V3 Foundation.
• Oracle training in core banking platform FLEXCUBE for 3 months in Bangalore (INDIA).
• Six Sigma White Belt Certified
• SAP Activate Project Manager
• SAP Customer Experience - SAP Marketing Cloud
• SAP Advanced Deployment – Essentials
• E257 Customer Experience Boot Camp in NSQ (C4/HANA)
• High Proficiency in UNIX, WINDOWS 10, IBM AIX 5.1
• Proficiency in C, C++, COBOL, VB.6.0, PL/SQL, SYBASE’s STORED PROCEDURE
• Proficiency in ORACLE 8i, 10g, SYBASE 12.5,
• Knowledge Tuxedo components, Python
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• Spanish
• English - Fluent - scoring 7 out of 9 in IELTS test
• Portuguese - Basic
:
Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, Read historical books, Music, TV, going to the beach.