German Hernandez Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Assist TENARIS North America organization as the Industrial Systems Leader applying best IT and Management practices for high-profile initiatives related to the company manufacturing process and several other endeavors. In addition, now responsible for the Industrial Systems daily support demands coming out of three of the major North America Plants (Hickman, McCarty, and TCT).

Houston, Texas, Us

Achievement Highlights:• A significant 15-million-dollar business benefit, based on uplift-increase in production and operational cost reduction, by the elimination of production loss due to failures on telecommunication and network components supporting data polling and process control, enabling more than 500 unconventional oil wells to work under an Operate-By-Exception mode of operation.

Houston, Texas, Us

Achievement Highlights:• Significantly reduced the company unquantifiable level of exposure to legal actions and liabilities for mishandling Human Resource (HR) sensitive electronic data by reengineering the access control processes and mechanisms, and the incorporation of database-encryption and data-storage technologies to some of the company unstructured and structured data repositories. This achievement ensured compliance and alignment with the Company Data Protection Policy, which was considered a critical business demand for a company with around 17,000 employees, and with footprint in more than 27 countries.• A significant 3-million-dollar cost avoidance by defining precise technical and resource needs, as well as, a befitting strategy for a timely implementation of the SAP financial components to support the Colombia 2014-2016 Exploration & Production (E&P) Calendar of Event, and its related contingent routes. This approach incorporated the tradeoff between the risk of no compliance with the Colombian GAAP regulations and Statutory reporting requirements, and the cost of an unnecessary early SAP implementation. It also included a workaround solution for a quick implementation of reporting features, through a third party service, to temporarily meet the Colombia regulations and Statutory requirements.

Houston, Texas, Us

Achievement Highlights:• A dramatic reduction of the risk of business lethargic response to threats (not operational resumption), by the provision of resilience capacity (disaster recovery capacity) to more than 36 enterprise critical integrated systems, with the highest architectural complexity. This effort included the creation and implementation of the company IT resilience program, and the elevation of resilience awareness to the company leadership teams.

Houston, Texas, Us

Achievement Highlights:• A rapid and vital 8.6 % improvement of commercial system availability, resulting in the elimination of an estimated $1.3 to $2.6 million-dollar average loss per day. The Commercial systems support transactions with total exposure round in about $30 billion average per month, including 5 commodity trading centers around the globe.

Houston, Texas, Us

Achievement Highlights:o Interpreted IT Shared Service organization (ITSS) new role and responsibilities derived from the operating model under implementation. Clearly stated the gap with existing role and responsibilities (AS-IS state), and created course of actions path to close the gap and get in compliance with the new model initiative (TO-BE state). o Created and incorporated a graphical representation of the company IT framework and architecture, and conducted several “Technical terms and definitions & quality objectives” informative sessions, which significantly enhanced team communication, and helped achieve consistency. o Identified overlapping efforts between the ITSS Leveraging and the Process Improvement initiatives-a double-dipping company cost reduction efforts. Analyzed their planned goals and objectives, published achievements, and the methodology utilized by both initiatives. Identified overlapping steps, and proposed course of actions to ensure expected outcome while eliminating redundant steps.

Houston, Texas, Us

Achievement Highlights:• A successful interpretation of the technology related needs of a 7-year Exploration and Production (E&P) life cycle endeavor- a $750 MM offshore capital investment in Venezuela- for an accurate reengineering of the existing IT support model, which represented a compelling case for improving performance by capitalizing on low wage rates and local services, and incorporating physical infrastructure and transportation difficulties into the success formula. Counting on 5 direct reports and more than 60 annual-lifecycle contractors, within an operating budget up to 10 million dollars, resulted in the delivery of a very effective and efficient project work, and executing strategies. Recognitions were continuously issued by business leads and management.

Incanal is the Venezuela official institution sanctioned to design, build, and maintenance all of nations' navigation channels, which are critical factors for the nation local economy. Founded in 1952 as part of the country's oil and mining, and infrastructure development ministries, and counts with an extensive experience, and deep knowledge, in fluvial Hydraulic technologies. Incanal possess a large dredging capacity which has been extended to several projects within the South American region, as well. I started as a computer programmer back in 1987, followed by an interestting and very educational career path up to the highest leadership postion in IT, which involved a significant patrimonial-asset management responsibility with an organisational umbrella of more than 150 IT proffesionals.

Bsc, College Of Engineering, Computer Science

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