Driving IT excellence and innovation in support of business solutions...
IT Strategy and Direction
‘I strategize at the highest level without losing sight of the company’s culture and people side, positioning information and technology services as strategic assets and delivering shareholder value and the expected outcomes with the right pace, certainty and agility.’
- Large Global Program Management
- Start-up, Mergers and Acquisitions
- Outsourcing and Vendor Management
- Strategic Planning in Global Markets
- SDLC Management
- IT & Business Planning and Diagnosis
IT Expansion and Re-engineering
‘I believe that IT has to be the main enabler for the organizations to meet its needs and expectations at the right cost and in compass with growth plans. IT capabilities must be designed and built to keep company: at par with world-class organizations; enabling capitalization on emerging growth prospects; high levels of IT efficiency and; position the IT organization and business for the future.’
- Scaling IT organization by bringing it into alignment with the company’s cutting edge global IT facilities and best practices.
- Hiring and motivating 450 technologists, supporting 3,000 colleagues and 2 million customers through more than 11,000 distribution points
- Representation to the Western Europe IT Committee
- Ensuring disaster recovery and business continuation for the entire business, countrywide.
IT Global Management
‘I am solely focused on helping my clients to achieve their goals and become high-performance businesses, through unique information technology, quality and management services.’
- Driving investment optimization and prioritization processes.
- Overseeing activities of four Regional Vice Presidents, and directed the Systems Development and Deployment Teams.
- Driving the IT component of US$ 490M franchise effort in Latin America
- Performing due diligence and franchisee selection as well as P&L responsibility.
Merger, Acquisitions, Franchise Joint Ventures and Alliances
‘Adept at building IT support for a variety of business vehicles, I position information technology, quality and management services as strategic assets.’
‘Adept at building IT support for a variety of business vehicles, I position information technology, quality and management services as strategic assets.’
- For a $40M USD joint venture initially, mastermind the design, acquisition process and installation of IT department, including data center, computer systems and telecommunications.
- Hired, developed and directed a team of 60 IT professionals with IT budget US$ 6M.
- Leading the IT portion of the acquisition of Citibank card business in Portugal a
- Managing integration into the preexisting card business (€610 M deal/ 400K card accounts/180 employees).
- Designed and negotiated 3-year transitional services agreement and service levels while a new global card-processing platform was developed.