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* Leading the Architecture Review Board (ARB) for International Operations Digital teams.* Performing architecture reviews and evaluating vendors to ensure alignment with organizational goals.* Providing technical expertise in designing robust and scalable solutions.* Coaching and mentoring technical leads, architects, and developers to foster professional growth.* Championing the adoption of architecture principles, technology standards, and guardrails.* Engaging with stakeholders across all levels of the organization.

Responsible for managing the solution architecture and design for Chevron’s cross-functional Asset Management team, pursuing the global design, implementation, and deployment of a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Asset Performance Management (APM) and Master Data Governance (MDG).* Rapidly acquired skills in the SAP S/4HANA ERP technology ecosystem and developed business knowledge in Facility Integrity and Reliability business processes.* Engaged with internal customers such as product owners, product managers and solutions managers, facilitating fit-gap analysis workshops, capturing functional and technical requirements, modeling business processes and supporting backlog refinement and prioritization of over 2000 requirements.* Engaged with 3rd party product teams from SAP, AVEVA, Prometheus Group and OpenText to document and submit over 100 feature requests to improve products and minimize customizations.* Developed clear presentations to business and IT senior managers articulating alternatives, trade-offs and total cost of ownership (TCO) securing approvals to buy and build fit for purpose solutions.* Led more than 30 complex technical designs and software evaluations to extend SAP S/4HANA with custom and commercial software, as well as integrate it with existing enterprise applications like Workday, Smart by GEP, Azure Active Directory, Fieldglass, and Documentum.* Developed an Architecture GAP Analysis tool with Microsoft Power Platform and ServiceNow CMDB to support analysis of current versus target architecture, helping to identify redundancies in the application landscape and solution building blocks for the target architecture.* Trained more than 100 employees in the use of modern application and data integration patterns, including REST API, Events, Messaging, Data Lake.

+ Responsible for managing a global team of 8 employees and 10 contractors to deliver project consulting services and Level 3 operational support for SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams and other Office 365 products. + Responsible for leading the TechShare initiative aimed at enhancing digital skills company-wide.Key Accomplishments* Led a digital skills training initiative for 300 Buenos Aires employees in IT, Finance, and HR, resulting in $1 million cost savings through internal training, partner agreements and process optimization.* Coordinated 3 Microsoft Power Platform Hackathons, training 60 employees from IT, Finance and HR and guided participants to deliver 12 real-word MVPs, cutting manual work by 3000 hours/year.* Trained 50 employees from Upstream Business Unit in SharePoint Online, OneDrive and Teams.* Collaborated with Microsoft's product teams to test SharePoint Online preview features and contribute to the development of the product roadmap by submitting requests for new features from business units.

+ Responsible for providing support to internal customers in implementing information management systems. Focus areas included document and project management utilizing Microsoft SharePoint and Project Server.Key Accomplishments* Created a .NET Azure web application streamlining the self-service provisioning of SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams sites, accelerating enterprise adoption and reducing 4000 hours/year in IT Support.* Developed web parts and scripts to migrate 300 on-premise SharePoint and Project sites to Office 365.* Facilitated a requirement gathering workshop with senior IT leaders and led a scrum team in developing a SharePoint website for skill assessment and development within Chevron's IT department, benefiting 3000 global employees.* Effectively coordinated the change management process for upgrading on-premise SharePoint 2010, 2013, and 2016 farms, resulting in zero incidents or unplanned downtime.

+ Responsible for defining application architectures for Web and SharePoint based applications and perform code reviews to maximize the quality of software products implemented across the company.Key Accomplishments* Developed an IT Architecture knowledge base portal in SharePoint to promote the use of service-oriented architectures, design patterns and software engineering best practices.* Designed application architectures for web intranets, data pipelines, and SAP integrations, aligning them with specific business requirements and IT strategy.* Led a proof of concept to integrate a SharePoint application with SAP via REST APIs.* Conducted 4 training sessions aimed at building custom web applications using Microsoft SharePoint.

+ Responsible for developing applications using Microsoft .NET framework and Web technologies.* Led a development team to implement a new intranet portal using Microsoft SharePoint technologies.* Created a batch process to synchronize delta changes in Active Directory with intranet applications that relied on employee master data.* Created a SharePoint solution to enforce document retention policies for contractual documents.* Developed an integration to link SAP with SharePoint 2010, allowing SharePoint users to choose metadata based on transactions and master data managed in SAP.