Responsible for the leadership and support of digital information, education, public speaking, consulting, business intelligence, and research the global and online retail markets. This includes global coverage of Latin American markets, International Retailers, eCommerce, and Online along with major process areas of retail, CPG, and manufacturers such as category management, supply chain planning, and store operations.In addition I am certified in Business Intelligence and act as the company’s resource on the evaluation and use of technology enablers in CPG and Retail.Within all of these knowledge areas I am both and educator and professional speaker for client on-site events and general conferences speaking on topics such as Process Change, Geo-Political impacts, Mass Population dynamics, Customer Relationship Management, and Data Warehouse design in addition to more primary areas of coverage. These speaking engagements are internalized back to my research team for framing global retail trends and supporting infrastructure enablersKantar Retail is part of the Kantar Group within WPP plc (http://www.wpp.com/wpp/companies/ )

Responsible for industry and management support, development, and leadership within the advanced analytics team across all industry lines in particular Retail, CPG, Transportation, and Government.More and more business leaders are looking at Analytics and Information Management Technologies as critical enablers to outperform. Wipro leverages its KPI backwards approach, deep industry expertise and experience in handling complex analytics and information management engagements, to deliver differentiation at the front and standardization at the core. Wipro solutions bring together the combined expertise of process, analytics and data to orchestrate business insights to assist our customers Do Business Better.Our services include: - Business Analytics - that empowers organizations with actionable insights across aspects concerning their customers, products and services. - Business Intelligence and Performance Management - that enables businesses to improve operational efficiencies and drive transformation and change management initiatives. - Information Management - that provides a competitive edge through improved management of information and lowers business risk.

Responsible for the support of digital information, education, public speaking, consulting, business intelligence, and research for Retailer in the Americas. This also includes global coverage of Walmart International, Value Discount, Consumer Electronics, eCommerce, and Online. As part of these responsibilities I have a team of direct reports of directors, analysts, and third party field supports in Latin America. In addition I am certified in Business Intelligence and act as the company’s resource on the evaluation and use of technology enablers in CPG and Retail. Within all of these knowledge areas I am both and educator and professional speaker for client on-site events and general conferences. I also speak on other topics such as Process Change, Geo-Political impacts, Mass Population dynamics, Customer Relationship Management, and Data Warehouse design. These speaking engagements are internalized back to my research team for framing global retail trends and supporting infrastructure enablersNote: Kantar Retail is the recent fusion of five WPP companies: Management Ventures, Inc (MVI) Glendinning Consulting Cannondale Consulting Retail Forward RedDotSquareto create a global group dedicated to the needs of retailers, manufactures, financial institutions, and marketing with broad and deep experience and knowledge. For more information please visit: http://www.kantarretail.com/Sample of public speaking from "Seminario Como Trabajar Exitosamente con Walmart en Chile" May 2008 (http://www.xpgconsultnet.com/videos.htm)

Participated and lead in almost all areas of expertise in retail and CPG with an emphasis on Business Intelligence and Change Management, both of which was certified by IBM. Have been either a primary member or lead in multiple consulting engagements from 1996 - 2003 that were global in coverage. In 2003-2004 was the business lead modeler for the IBM Retail Date Warehouse solution. 2005 - 2006 was the information management sales lead in the Americas covering retail and manufacturing accountsWriter of a number of position papers related to retail and data warehouse technology the most recent on the information requirements of a SOA strategy was accepted by the IBM Academy of Sciences.

Global responsibility for the development of BI solution, methodology for deployment and use along with implementation covering Retail, CPG, and Travel industries. During this time was part of teams that designed and implemented very large CRM, Supply Chain, Category Management, Merchandising Planning, Shopper Insights, and Financial solutions. Was business lead for the development of the IBM Retail Enterprise Data Warehouse and the Makoro Category Management tools.

Project and team management of complex consulting engagements with financial and client-facing responsibilities

Team lead for the development of IBM's Retail Data Warehouse solution. Defined business and reporting requirements with expansion of existing data models to meet those needs. End result was a product that came in under budget and exceeded expectations.

• In-Store Merchandising which included integrated space management across the whole store, pricing, promotional positioning and the overall layout of stores through-out the chain• Managing a team of merchandising specialists• Category Management to monitor, guide and insure that all categories in the stores were mutually supportive of the company’s strategic vision. This covered all departments including those normally covered by the process such as meat, deli, and produce• Data management and reporting of scan and loyalty card data to support the above and to create innovative views into information for the decision making within the chain such as the introduction of private label, sku reduction, and relationships between logistic standards and store execution