German Hernandez Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

The TMT&S America's team supports our Firm clients across the region with the most complex leadership challenges in the area of Telecommunication, Media, Technology and Professional Services. Our engagements as trusted advisors allows our clients to have a clear sounding board to make best decisions about current and future talent chalenges.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for the Operations of Spencer Stuart in Mexico as well as the Technology Media and Telecommunication (TMT) Practice in Mexico and the Andean Countries, Central America and the Caribbean

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for Technology, Media and Telecommunication (TMT Practice) in the Andean Countries, Central America and the Caribbean.

Advisor to the Minister of Telecommunications, Information and Technology in Colombia and the next generation of education platform. Includes the definition of the HW and Applications platforms that will be deployed in 2013 and 2014 across all country by “Computadores para Educar”

Austin, Texas, Us

Responsible for the creation and consolidation of Freescale Operations in Mexico; driving the spin off of Motorola (2004) setting up, in conjunction with support areas, the proper infrastructure in the country. Lead an effective key account team in order to adequately support the diverse requirements of OEM and distributors in the region. Chartered with the day to day management of the account including: sales objectives, business planning and forecasting, operations, inventory management, credit line management, dispute resolutions• Define the strategy for Mexico as part of the overall Freescale Strategy.• Establish relationship with government officials at state and federal level, securing after the spin off more than 7.5 MUSD in grants to promote local R&D, BPO and IT functions for the corporation.• Manage the growth of the organization from 28 persons to 260 at the end of 2009 building a synergistic environment across functional teams to ensure customer satisfaction and achievement of financial goals• Act as corporate leader in Mexico with more than 260 indirect reports and more than 115 direct reports distributed across Latin America• Mitigate Latin America political/economical risk with proper distribution strategies and customer relationships• Achieved outstanding sustainable Design Wins growth with key design centers in the region achieving more than 100 MUSD a year with growth over 300% in 5 years • Achieved significant expense reductions with the integration of the sales organization in Brazil into Latin America region in 2006• Designed and implemented new distribution initiatives that increased sales in 18% in LAS region in 2008• Ranked as “Outstanding Performer” for 2004 and 2006 and “Excellence Performer” from 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009• Elected for Freescale Leadership Forum in 2008 (80 top executives of the company)

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for the operation of the Motorola Sector in Latin America North including: Sales (OEM, EMSI and Distribution), technical support, customer service, quality and business development. Design, implement and follow up effective key account strategies to adequately support the diverse requirements of demand fulfillment and demand creation customers and distributors.• Met and exceeded the sales goal consistently from 2001 to 2004.• Maintained the controllable expenses within assigned budgets implementing efficient processes.• Built a synergistic environment across functional teams to ensure customer satisfaction and achievement of financial goals• Consolidate the operations in 3 sites in Mexico (Juarez, Chihuahua and Guadalajara) plus redeployed resources in other regions to increase sales, quality, service and technical support coverage• Consolidate the Demand Creation activity surpassing for the first time in 2004 20MUSD• Achieve 330 MUSD in revenue in 2004• Ranked as “Outstanding Performer” for 2001 and 2003 and “Excellence Performer” in 2002.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for the deployment of the Wireless Subscriber Solutions Group and the Standard Embedded Solutions Group portfolios in Latin America including the development the current customers base and the discovery on new ones across the region.• Trained and rollout the Demand Creation Process to the sales and staff in the region. • Identify 2 key partners for consumer projects and cell phone platforms

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for the research, the development of a strategy and the implantation the deployment of the Semiconductor Products Sector in the Andean Countries (Colombia, Venezuela, Perú y Ecuador). Responsible for the sales in the four countries those are part of this region. Responsible for the development of new business opportunities based on the deployment of solutions developed for other countries and customers within the region. Search for possible synergy between customers (EMSI, Distributors, and Electronic companies) across the Caribbean and the Andean countries.• Grew market share from low 10% to 60% in Colombia• Selected to be transferred to Guadalajara, Mexico, in January 2001 to drive a cultural change from demand fulfillment into demand creation• Elected for GOLD (Global Leadership Development Program) representing Latin America in 1999 (120 top executives of the company)• Ranked as “Outstanding Performer” for 1998 and 1999 and 2000.

Reston, Va, Us

Responsible for the consultancy group performance in five main areas: Customer Satisfaction, Financial Targets, Business Development, Internal Improvement, Innovations and learning• More than 2.5 Million Dollars a year in services• Lead the training process of the Common Operating Environment project for BP in Colombia• More than 30 employees in the software development and services• Negotiated with BP Exploration in Colombia and Venezuela the first consultant agreements• Drove the first projects for PEDEVESA in Venezuela• Ranked as “Outstanding Performer” for 1997

Reston, Va, Us

Responsible for the Coordination of all British Petroleum IT investments in the field for the Piedemonte Phase 1 Project, the latest oil well discovery in Colombia and one of the biggest British Petroleum sites in the world ($2.5 billion in investment). • Managed IT Projects for $1.6 MUSD in the field in software and IT infrastructure • Developed the IntraNet, Document Archiving, Incident Reporting, Action Tracking System and Operations Hand Over as key systems to be used by the users in the project• Coordinated all networking and over 100 desktop facilities in two sites: Bogota’s headquarters and Yopal’s exploration site.• Provide linkage between the Business and the Service Delivery Organization and ensure that the Service Level Agreements are accomplished.

Colombia, Bogotá, Co

Responsible to define, monitor, and evaluate the objectives of the subjects belonging to the curriculum of Electrical Engineer program and first dean of the program after the separation of departments and careers. Involved in different research projects in the area of microelectronics and drive the establishment of key partnership with industry to increase their presence in the university campus.

Colombia, Bogotá, Co

Participated in the design and development of software applications to control generation and measurement instruments using HPIB (Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus). (TELECOM (Colombian State Company of Telecommunications) sponsored project) and act as lead professor for several classes in the program

Mba, International Trade

Bs, Electrical And Electronic Engineer