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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Led a team that supports Xylem’s ERP (STEEB Commercial and Manufacturing system based on AS400 iSeries) and all the surrounding interfaces and applications for the USA and Canada.
• Migrated and integrated Canadian business operations to the USA ERP, with special emphasis on master data quality, realizing $500 thousand in annual savings.
• Implemented interfaces between ERP and Global Business Solution for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable third-party solutions.
• Implemented improved automated method to conduct SOX compliance reviews, reducing report generation time from hours to minutes.
• Led development of ERP system enhancements for detecting in advance possible inconsistency errors and eliminating them, avoiding data accuracy delays.
• Led development of ERP enhancements to eliminate manual work that reduced user time by 15%.

St. Louis Missouri

• The responsibilities in this position included the supervision of eight direct reports within the IT LATAM team which constituted handling several projects at the same time, coordinating corporate automation strategy.
• Coordinated implementation of new version of Hyperion including the planning module.
• Led development and roll out of mobility system that enabled the sales force to enter orders and automatically transmit to ERP system, resulting in reduced order processing time from hours to minutes.
• Led implementation of the disaster recovery plan, risk management and business impact.
• Coordinated migration from local servers in each country to an integrated hosted environment data center in the USA; the integrated infrastructure platform reduced maintenance cost by 30%.
• Led development of ERP enhancements to eliminate manual work resulting in 20% reduction in time invested by users.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Responsible for Information Technology Mexico Area and the iScala ERP for Latin America, reporting to the Latin America Regional IT Manager.
• Managed the design and development of interface between the local ERP and Hyperion Enterprise financial corporate consolidation system.
• Led the standardization of all nine instances of the ERP, each in a different country, to the same version allowing the business to produce faster solutions.
• Coordinated enhancements that allowed users to automate processes, so instead of processing documents one by one, the new process achieved the task with a single click, saving 90% of the previous time invested by the.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Responsible for all Energizer’s Information Technology operations in Mexico.
• Successfully integrated Schick’s business systems with Energizer’s when the brand was acquired.
• Implemented JDE manufacturing ERP system for a 1,000-worker production facility. Developed BOM application for cost accounting with several levels of products, which was subsequently deployed to all facilities in Latin.
• Implemented iScala ERP system and a statistical and BI information system.
• Developed several modules that customized and automated functions that originally were not included in the main ERP system.