Diego Salinas Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

- Partner with Executives to understand their business unit goals and needs for Data Governance.- Successful at building relationships and trust with C-Suite Executives and Stakeholders to facilitate Organizational Change Management and influence Data Governance adoption.- Lead discovery sessions to document end-to-end processes that facilitate the business understanding of Data Governance ownership and improve team efficiency by 30% when supporting the Americas. - Lead for Data Governance for Firestone Complete Auto Care ERP revamp project. - Manage Data Governance projects for Amazon fleet management project.- Enable and follow Agile methodology and Azure DevOps for all governance tasks, projects and improvements to enable KPIs to accurately measure the department’s results and find areas for improvement.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

- Developed and implemented data governance policies, compliance metrics, adoption strategies, data quality standards, KPI reporting, designed user interface, system validations, and system derivations.- Managed team of 5 developers and 2 analysts for implementation of data catalog, data dictionary, data warehouse and data literacy programs that successfully resulted in the successful implementation and adoption of a new ERP.- Provided team members with development, mentoring, education opportunities and removed barriers to guarantee the team's success.- Built and maintained relationships with C-Suite Executives to ensure Data Governance strategy was aligned with business goals.- Managed the parallel implementation of various Transactional automations that enabled team efficiency with Robotics Process Automations that allowed a shift of focus from inputting to analyzing data, data accuracy increased by 60% by reducing human error and 2 headcounts were optimized to work on further data optimizations.- Managed ERP project backlog following Agile methodology.- Managed Go-live SAP MDG deployment team of 3 direct reports and 10 implementation partners across Material, Vendor, Customer and Finance domains.- Managed support team for Post Go-Live Sustainment to be supported by Adoption task force.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

- Provided Data Analysis for strategic projects, negotiations of Raw Materials, MRO, Capital Equipment, Professional Services, Commodity analysis and Sustainable Procurement.- Owned data collection, database creation & administration, and data classification for the Americas with $140,000 yearly savings and saved 20 hours per month by migrating and automating end-to-end process in-house.- Project Owner of Latin America SAP BI/BW reporting integration and data translation (savings of $340,000 annually by leveraging automations).- Project Lead for SAP Master Data Governance implementation which increased Data Accuracy and Quality by 40%. - Developed departments automated with Alteryx and Tableau of monthly KPI Dashboard and Commodity Pricing Tracker - Project Lead for Firestone Complete Auto Care KPI Vendor Scorecard.- Led Raw Material SAP Outline Agreement monthly updates automation with Winshuttle interface which resulted in 40 hours per week savings.- Project Lead of Raw Material Negotiation Strategy Reporting automation with Alteryx and Tableau.- Project Owner for Procurement Cost Savings Tracker automation with Alteryx and Tableau.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

- Provided accounting and reporting support for metrics and strategic reporting for 16 Tire manufacturing plants across the United States.- Developed and maintained monthly reconciliation of materials, labor & overhead and GL accounts with a focus on P&L impact. Improved process by reducing reporting production by the department by 80 hours with automation.- Maintained and improved data by building Excel spreadsheets and Access Databases for Management analysis. - Calculated and monitored Costing for all new and existing work in process and finished goods in SAP.- Budget responsibilities included: Database support for all tire manufacturing locations, maintained and troubleshooted Manufacturing Budgeting Tools, calculation of Labor activity rates, Calculate Costing base for new and existing WIP and Finished Goods, forecast Fixed Assets depreciation, preparation of Americas manufacturing final submission for FP&A and preparation of justifications.- Address and resolve accounts payable issues between manufacturing plants and Vendors.- Calculate and report total monthly tire production for all Manufacturing Plants.

Wilson, Nc

- Provided analysis and support to Direct Materials Purchasing team with commodities comparison, freight supplier selection and ad-hoc reporting.- Responsible for KPI reporting for Monthly Department results, Plant Expense forecasting, Internal Audits and month-end closing.- Summarized and analyzed large amounts of financial data by building Spreadsheet models for Ad Hoc and monthly Reporting.- Managed Physical Inventory of Work in process materials and Finished Goods.- SAP support/guidance to customers (Production and Non-Production Department Managers)- Responsible for budget deliverables for Department Indirect Expenses, Tire Machine Requirements, Experimental Material Consumption, Raw Materials Valuation, Material Waste, preparation of final Budget presentation and Plant Management Reports.- Lead local Accounts Payable transition to Shared Services model and provide support to suppliers for accounts payable issues.