SUMMARY:

• Trilingual Portuguese, English, and Spanish Senior Information Technology Professional with over 25 years’ solid experience as Project Manager, Business Analyst and Business Relation Manager.
• Worked in Multinational Organizations, with proven outstanding results on projects within South America, Central Americana, Mexico and USA country, as well as, numerous smaller countries in Caribbean.
• Experience in managing teams on site and offshore in India.
• Managed overall plan for the business related activities (MS Project Plan)
• Control Budget, cost of the project and Schedule to ensure project is deliver on Time and not over budget.
• Managed a complex migration from Solaris/AIX to Linux environment for 22 countries and 200 applications.
• Managed project related to Data warehouse, migrating from Datoteca to Teradata.
• Experience in Business Relation Manager internally and with external vendors.
• Project Management experience in functional, in technical systems; assign team(s) to ensure timely and effective project execution.
• Ability to lead and influence within a team
• Lead projects around product development and enhancements with large experience on New Products Development and Infrastructure.
• Good Leader with Business Analyst Experience in writing functional design specifications and communicating these requirements to technical developers and end business users.
• Providing day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer
• Experience in project Status and Upper manager steering Committee
• Knowledge of Cloud services delivery strategies for Cloud VM and Oraas Oracle Database Cloud as Project Manager.
• Experience in Service now
• Outstanding reputation for remaining calm under pressure while delivering practical solutions to complex enterprise systems on time, and on budget while negotiating vendor contracts.
• Known for developing dashboards/milestones and conducting status report updates of success delivering which keep teams focused on deadlines and critical issues.
• Readiness to travel on regular basis depends on Project

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframe Operating Systems: MVS, ESA, JCL, ISPF, ROSCOE, TSO, CHANGEMAN

Computer Languages: COBOL I and II, CICS, NATURAL/II, SAS, PL/1

Databases: VSAM, ADABAS, SQL and DB2

Others: MS - Excel, MS-Word, MS-Project (Office/Plan), Lotus Notes, Outlook, Epic (based upon Method 1), Clarity ((based upon SDLC), VISIO, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Plainview

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program/Project Manager

• Project Manager for Infrastructure initiatives for Latin America & Mexico at Citibank.
• Managed multiple projects, with cross-functional impact or significant impact in a single functional area.
• Ensured that projects remain aligned with strategic initiatives, providing updates as necessary to sponsors/committees and ensuring adequate resources are available.
• Managed overall plan for the business related activities (MS Project Plan)
• Control Budget, cost of the project and Schedule to ensure project is deliver on Time and not over budget
• Ability to identified critical paths for large projects, including the sequencing of events.
• Orchestrated and drive the successful and timely completion of Projects scope to achieve the business goals, including the identification and resolution of risks and issues, which affect project delivery.
• Worked collaboratively with extended the technology team to develop comprehensive project plans based on approved funding. Project plans typically include scope, schedule, cost, quality, roles and responsibilities, communication, staffing, risk and issue management. Obtain commitment to the plans.
• Managed a complex migration from Solaris to Linux environment for 22 countries and 200 applications. It had a great successful and very transparent to the end customer. It considered an extraordinary coordination and endless patience through miles & miles of procedures for many different teams.
• Managed project related to Data warehouse, migrating from Datoteca to Teradata.
• Provided executive status reporting, risk and issue management, scope change management, program schedule, dependency management at the project level and coordinate the steering committee with upper managers.
• Ensured all stake holders within TI properly aligned as required by the project governance and influenced dozens within IT LATAM.
• Current Managing Program for Mexico Infrastructure Migration, program with 10 projects under, plus more 4 Minor projects in parallel

Confidential

Project Manager

• Working on a Regional Data Center Strategy project to ensure that all regional systems and data are hosted in secure, compliant and standardized facilities
• Responsible for optimizing the investment dollars spent on our data centers/server rooms and ensuring Confidential is compliant with all regulations and standards that govern technology solutions and their placement in compliant facilities
• Responsible for RDCS LAC financial
• Project with a budget over $1.2MM

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Project Manager Throughout Latin America projects with particular emphasis in Brazil
• Have acted as Point of Contact for all major projects involving migration of services to the Internet and provided solutions and Subject Matter Expertise to impact multiple business areas, technical teams and business partners.
• Have strong ability to multi-tasks with sense of urgency providing a good support and better answers to Business
• Managed vendors and tracked all applications through on-time project delivery on a geographically distributed team (UK, Phoenix, India, Australia, Brazil)
• Reviewed 3rd party vendor capabilities as required
• Project Manager and key player on delivering over 50 projects for the Global Network Services (GNS) partnership with Bradesco Bank in Brazil
• Led project team E2E implementing highly successful new corporate Card in Brazil market
• Total project cost around $1.5MM
• Successfully drove implementation of a new online reportingtool; this robust solution became the basis for all future markets with minimum maintenance costs and excellent potential savings
• Led Bradesco Web migration of front end pages from AE to Bradesco achieving high customer satisfaction and first application be migrated on time from Amex to Bradesco Bank. Budget $1.6MM with 15 impacted applications and 3rd party companies
• Subject Matter Expert for production support and system assurance for Internet applications
• Supported any global changes in MYCA (Website system) doing follow up, participating in tests to assure the successful rollout without any impact to the Final Customer (Card Member)
• Key player for the Brazil market on NGI (Next Generation Interactive) migration (Servers upgrade)
• Implemented change on the method of file transmission to Bradesco, reducing delivery time from 8 to 1 hour; this eliminated all government fines for delay in data transmission for Bradesco
• Implemented first highly successful Revolving Credit Card (Blue) in Brazil
• Saved $300K by negotiating license fee for the version of “tumbleweed” file transfer software required for Bradesco

Confidential

Programmer

• Worked for the Millennium conversion for all applications for Brazil.
• Responsible for the code changes and tests

Confidential

System Analyst

• 8 years’ experience in Saving account system
• Programmer in PL1. Natural, CICs and Adabas and JCL
• System Analyst
• Project Coordinator
• Worked in several Legal Projects from the Government.
• Developed new products

Confidential

System Analyst

• Project coordinator.
• Implement New Saving account