Faustino Medrano Email & Phone Number

Laredo, Texas Area

• Supporting any IT needs of administration and warehouse departments. A lot of times just having meetings with the Warehouse Managers or Customer Executives Managers to review how to handle new projects or new customer requirements. They invite me to provide ideas of how to use the current systems capabilities or to consider changes to our systems to support these needs.• Developing numerous .Net WEB, desktop, and Windows Mobile and Android applications using SQL SERVER databases. Recently developed and implemented 2 main warehouse Android apps using Kotlin JetPack Compose for receiving, revise and shipping merchandise. This project is part of a current effort of migrating all of our Windows Mobile apps to Android. • Before the Android platform dominated the handheld computers industry I had to designed a solution to automate all warehouse operations using the Windows Mobile platform for handheld scanners. Since then, Texas Forwarding Services (TFS) is now more confident in all warehouse operations. All these new applications were designed reviewing the current processes and identifying opportunities where handheld computers could provide significant improvements.• Assisted in ISO9000:2000 efforts as an internal auditor to help the TFS company to become certified.• Developed all the internal Desktop and Mobile applications to support the Walmart 3PL account. Designed solutions to automate the clerks 3PL manual processes and simultaneously use our warehouse systems to track and validate the entire 3PL operation, despite restricted communications with the customer systems due to the client's policies.

Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico

• Supported for 7 years numerous systems for the Finance departments and 6 years the Materials departments systems (a total of 26 systems using COBOL).• Evaluated and updated multiple migration projects, always considering not only the IT impact, but helping the customer understand how business procedures would be impacted.• Estimated project delivery dates as required, managed a team of 6 members and delegated project responsibilities. * Leadership and Delegation• Assigned as backup Supervisor Leader in their absence.• Distributed projects/tasks among 6 engineers in my team during 4 years.• Relocated resources to comply with project due dates.• Developed programs with COBOL, VB6, VB.Net, SQL server.* Project Management:• Calculated team working hours and delivery date for my projects.• Anticipated risks and any issues that could impact delivery dates.• Negotiated project delivery dates with clients according to new requirements or urgent needs.* Accomplishments:• Evaluated IT and business aspects of the migration to a new system for warehouse operations.• Developed the customization and migration plans with the EDS technical leader of the new system.• Served as a team member of the implementation and initial support team for the PARTS system; this effort took approximately 7 months for 5 people. • Helped clients with identifying tangible project benefits (i.e. money, working hours).• Developed quality working instructions for developer teams in Mexico.• Exceeded customer expectations, above 80% of the worked hours.• Invited by client to assist in decision-making processes.• Developed IT solution for the payroll system to calculate vacation benefits for agreements with the Union under different contracts; this solution was included in the new payroll system for all East and West Mexico Plant Operations.

Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico

• Invited by the Systems Engineering Department Chief of the University to join his team due to being elected as best in class and part of the 200 best students of Mexico in 1991.• Taught COBOL, PASCAL, Programming I, II and III courses.