• General Motors Corporation

Responsible for giving IT directions to Latin America, Africa Southern and Middle East regions , through the essential duties:

― Assigned to be the Owner of SAP IT security processes related to Governance, Risk and Compliance regarding the segregation of duties, users profile management, conflict resolutions through the newest security tool released by SAP known as “Virsa”.

― Manage technology solutions for BPO off-shoring initiatives.

― Regional GM IT representative to support the company business resumption plan.

― Identify Quality Assurance required to efficient operation of GM Financial Shared Services Centers, through the following job description:

• Lead and coordinate all GM activities identified in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Service Level Agreements (SLA);

• Manage IT needs of GM Quality Assurance team and facilitate technical resources (of third party providers) needed in support of day-to-day business operations of the Shared Services Centers;

• Ensure appropriate oversight and follow up by the GM infrastructure team of GM and third party changes;

• Operation’s performance;

• Jobs and transactions handling;

• Change management;

• CAB (Change Advisory Board) meeting;

• IT security policies;

• Release management;

• Disaster recovery monitoring & controlling.

• Brink’s Inc — IT Program Director for Latin America & Canada

Reporting directly to the CIO at the IT head quarter in Dallas (Texas) and the Corporate Board in Richmond (Virginia), but based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Responsible for giving IT directions for 9 countries in Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and Venezuela) and Canada, through the essential duties:

― Improve a deeper project management culture, through regional standards.

― Conduct regional IT conferences on a quarterly basis.

― Be the Senior IT Advisor and Business Counselor & Visionary to the Country Managers on the quality of their IT Organizations.

― Plan and deliver three year technology plan for Latin America & Canada.

― Develop and maintain communications roadmaps, manage global vendor relationships, attend regional IT project meetings.

― Maintain strong project status communications with IT managers, directors and executive management team.

― Improve and optimize the relationships of the Latin America & Canada IT community.

― Enhance information security awareness and compliance in conjunction with Sarbanes Oxley standards and policies.

― Improve purchasing in regards to Global Contracts working with global Support team.

― Plan and deliver global telecommunication services.

― Develop and maintain communication roadmaps, manage regional vendors, plan and manage IT projects.

― Mapping hardware, software and IT services to establish new policies and strategy for each country.

― Implementing Oracle (ERP) for all countries in the region.

― Provide strategic planning and implementation of new technologies in order to meet Firm and client needs and support strategic business plans

― Ensure that there is strategic alignment between the business and the IS department and that IS remains adaptive and responsive to the needs of the firm and its clients by maintaining strong relationships between IS and its users.

― Develop best-of-breed solutions that are delivered on time and on budget where required to meet the needs of the business based on approved business cases.

― Lead the IS staff throughout the Firm including personnel (hiring, performance reviews, team building, training, mentoring) and financial management (budgets and contracts).

― Direct the daily operation of the Firm’s IS department which requires the support of multiple information and communications systems and projects (e.g. data, voice, security, networks, etc.).

― Develop and maintain an enterprise architecture that provides for a fully integrated suite of applications and data at the conceptual, logical and physical levels and allows for alignment of business needs, information, processes, security and infrastructure.

― Ensure that the IS infrastructure is secure and protected and there is an approved and operational plan for disaster recovery and business continuity.

― Exercise solid prioritization, decision-making, and communication skills to resolve conflicting priorities and resource allocation issues in a prudent manner work with vendors as required, understanding technology trends and direction and assessing their applicability to enhancing the services that IS delivers.

― Remain available to the department on a 24/7 basis and ensure the provision of user support outside of regular business hours by the department.

― Demonstrate initiative in maintaining current awareness of technological and related business trends by attending conferences, reading updates and subscribing to memberships with related industry associations.

•  Synova ― General Manager

Responsible for setting up the company in Brazil, encompassing the following accomplishments:

― Working with the attorneys to regularize and legalize the company in Brazil as well as notifying the Banco Central do Brazil (The Brazilian Federal Reserve) the financial connection between the headquarter in the USA and the business office in Brazil.

― Implementing administrative routines and processes such as general Ledger; accounting payable and receivable; HR management, recruitment, payroll and clerical services in order to run start up the operation.

― Implementing a long-term sales strategic plan for the business development on a 3 years basis.

― Expected revenue close to USD$5 Million in 2004.

― Implementing a sales strategic plan for the business development on a 3 years basis.

― stablishing partnerships and local alliances to increase the business opportunities.

― Establishing a strong commercial relationship with IBM to allocate more than 200 IT professionals working exclusively for IBM’s projects in the USA and Brazil, taking the off shoring contract modality.

― Responsible for recruiting and growth of the consulting organization at the regional level.

― Responsible for staff/account management, prioritization and forecasting.

― Coordination with regional sales management and consulting management.

― Develops and maintains relationships with channel partners.

― Supports and implements regional and corporate initiatives.

― Provide delivery management to ensure customer satisfaction.

― Meet professional services revenue and profit quotas.

• Gartner Group

Responsible for Benchmarking IT analysis and consulting for large clients in Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela, considering advises, diagnosis and strategic plans counseling, concerning investments, budgets and management policies for supporting the C-level (high management) of Embratel, Banco Central do Brazil (The Brazilian Federal Reserve), Bank Boston (Argentina), Orbitall (Brazil), Tubos e Conexões Tigre (Brazil), Escelsa (Brazil), Siemens (Argentina), Quilmes Beer (Argentina), Asea Brown Boveri (Brazil), Suzano Paper and Cellulose (Brazil), Petrobrás (Brazil), Unilever (Brazil), Petrol of Venezuela (PDVSA), Pecon Energy (Argentina), Brazil Telecom (Brazil), Ambev – American Beverages (Brazil), Bell South (Venezuela), Aracruz Cellulose (Brazil), Petros (Brazil), Mc Donald’s (Brazil), Portugal Telecom (Brazil), Randon (Brazil) and Fras-le (Brazil), making over USD$4½ Million for Gartner.

• IBM

These were the main duties and responsibilities:

― Responsible for the overall project P&L, including authorization of payments to subcontractors and vendors based on the timely delivery of achieved milestones, deliverables for a $50m plus project.

― Full responsibility for delivering the scope of work, as agreed, within the fixed price budget as well as the day to day operational management of a team of 180 plus personnel, consisting of a multi national workforce to ensure they meet the contractual milestones.

― Implementation of project governance and controls.

― Management of all vendors and subcontractors (full responsibility for contract until completion).

― Responsible for being the companies’ senior representative to the Customer/ Client.

― Provided leadership to the project steering group.

― Responsible for the production of weekly and monthly project status reports for the senior management team.

― Responsible for holding the ultimate responsibility for the health and safety and welfare issues of project staff.

― Leading the development, implementation and maintenance an appropriate management structure to support the efficient running of the project.

― Establishing sound communication channels with all parties to ensure the vision is established and maintained.

― Providing motivation and direction to ensure a cohesive approach from all associated parties.

― Achieving overall project quality as defined in the project quality plan.

― Setting up project management system and set project standards as well as arranging project quality assurance reviews.

― Responsible for the IT area of the Financial Division including Distributed Computing, Databases, Data Center (Mainframe), Application Development and Support, Help Desk, Centralized Systems and Servers and Wide Area Network.

― Lead day-to-day business execution of achieving business targets as assigned.

― Responsible for supporting go-to-market execution through appropriate investment in selling activities

― Responsible for managing delivery risk in area of responsibility to minimize impact of troubled contracts

― Driving consulting business management processes to accurately reflect the company’s forecasting and achieving key business measurements (Revenue, client satisfaction, risk management, etc.)

― Drive consulting business and results through risk management practices.

― Responsible for the IT area of the Financial Division including Distributed Computing, Databases, Data Center (Mainframe), Application Development and Support, Help Desk, Centralized Systems and Servers and Wide Area Network.

― Lead day-to-day business execution of achieving business targets as assigned.

― Responsible for supporting go-to-market execution through appropriate investment in selling activities

― Responsible for managing delivery risk in area of responsibility to minimize impact of troubled contracts

― Driving consulting business management processes to accurately reflect the company’s forecasting and achieving key business measurements (Revenue, client satisfaction, risk management, etc.)

― Drive consulting business and results through risk management practices.