Alfredo Perez Email & Phone Number

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM Z Architect and Technology Consultant specializing in modernizing mainframe environments, accelerating delivery, and transforming legacy applications. I lead the design and architecture of comprehensive solutions on the IBM Z platform. I advocate for the client, guide technical teams in defining and shaping solutions that align with client needs and strategic objectives, and support large investment sales. My role encompasses the entire solution lifecycle, from understanding business challenges and stakeholder requirements to balancing trade-offs and constraints to systematically developing detailed architectural frameworks. I also provide direction on functional objectives and technology strategies to ensure successful implementation.

Garden City, New York, Us

Lead the modernization and cloud practice, helping organizations modernize their mainframe stack, accelerate delivery, and transform their legacy applications to a Cloud or a Hybrid delivery model.Provide product management guidance on new product development and manage partnerships and strategic alliances to grow and enhance the company's portfolio of products and services related to mainframe modernization.

Garden City, New York, Us

Spearhead the Mainframe product modernization and DevOps strategies.Build business plans to drive product roadmaps, identifying end target markets needs and translate it into actionable items, including product requirements, pricing tactics, competitor’s evaluation, and feasibility assessment. Defined positioning, message, collateral material, product requirements, demos, and sales training for different products.Manage cross-cultural relationships, interface to various levels of clients, and plan and stage marketing/technical development roadshows tailored to different cultures/markets.Sales support and project management functions of Batch performance, Cross-Platform Commander and Output Management products line, working closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. Translating Company's solution concepts into business value justifications; assisting responding to RFI and RFPBuild up, grow, and assist strategic relationships with distributors and sales partners in the Latin America and Iberia markets, considering cultural values, competition, and market size.

Architected and deployed JCL asset management products (JOB run-time simulation and data cross-reference) for multinational companies such as Citigroup, Daimler Chrysler, Banco Itau, and others. Revitalized the Latin American market—a key player in assisting Diversified Software partnership program, ensuring the company’s value proposition and directions. Set the service infrastructure in Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Led JCL client’s standards enforcement program development and product implementation.Researched and published (internal knowledge database) technology papers, e.g., z/Series update, PRO/JCL Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Z/OS Tracker Support, An Approach to Batch Performance Management, DB2 Catalog Management, and others.Directed Customer Success initiative in Latin America to ensure customer retentionas well as identifying and exploiting new business opportunities.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Senior IT consultant and SME for IBM mainframe operating systems, Unix Services, automated operations, and performance analysis fields. Managed implementation, deployment, and project management for the IBM Global Services mainframe team.Improved and deployed an automated z/OS build system. Increased agility and reduce provisioning time for new and existing clients.Developed an advanced automation solution. Improved operational efficiency by reducing downtime, preventing failures, scalability, and performance-related issues.

Caracas, Venezuela, Ve

Mainframe lead/coordinator for data center assessment studies and due diligence efforts to support the company’s outsourcing strategies for the Latin America market.Architected, designed, and deployed the Enterprise Automation infrastructure and processes for the entire IT organization. Address operability across heterogeneous platforms using high-investment technologies.