After nearly 8 years in management consulting, I accepted the challenge to integrate the number one travel agent group in Portugal Springwater Tourism (previously ES Viagens) as Director for the Individual and Small and Medium Enterprise segments. Reporting directly to the COO of the group, in this job, I am responsible for the sales and management of 49 stores, 3 websites and an LTC (Leisure Travel Centre).From my past as a Management Consultant, I maintain the following specialties:Functional and technical specialties:- Program/ project management- Finance and accounting:--- Working capital optimization and cash management--- Finance transformation--- Analitics design--- Accounting close acceleration--- Record to report optimization--- Purchase-to-pay reengineering--- Financial planning and projection (economic and cash-flow budgeting and forecast)- Human resource stratagy and process transformation:--- Human resource governance--- Process design and reengineering- IT strategy and operations:--- IT governance--- IT process design and OAS- Startup economic viability evaluation and strategic planning in emerging countries- Revenue management (mainly airline)Industry experience:- Tourism and hospitality- Aviation and railway- Construction and real estate- Energy and resources- ManufacturingPublished article on Revenue Management in mainstream management magazine in January 2009 (see shared files)