Gabriel Blanco is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft. Colleagues describe them as "Gabriel and I worked at Toyota for Global Payroll implementation for Mexico. He was one of the few consultants that dual capped as a Project Manager at Toyota. Being an Engineer he has very good analytical skills and came to Toyota with a solid background of working with the team that developed Global payroll product at PeopleSoft. He is definitely a Team player, very organized and good time management skills. He introduced the world of Global payroll and Absence management to me and has been an awesome mentor. We had lots of stressful, challenging and fun times implementing Global payroll HCM suite. I will always remember the late nights comparing results, re-working formulas or figuring out missing timesheet data." and "Gabriel is coupled with excellent functional and fabulous managerial skills. Very customer focused, process oriented and great at suggesting and implementing innovative solutions for process improvements. He is very energetic, dedicated, sport and a great team player. All his qualities make him a great manager to work for many times."