• Auditing and compliance of vendors’ groups’ policies and procedures.• Monitoring and administrating group reports and sales contracts and sales closing documents.• Responsible to address service requests, new orders requests/cancellation, and other assigned projects as needed.

Auditing, financial analysis, credit and collections, process improvement and control of business operations for Brazil and Mexico

•Legal auditing in the Corporate, Real Estate and Contract areas •Analyses and compliance of supply, purchasing and services, licensing contracts, NDAs•Responsible for the administration and coordination of all the Corporate Law matters working with diligence and accuracy in the implementation of corporate reorganization, incorporation, transformation and company’s branch implementation and liquidation in accordance with Brazilian laws.•Creation and preparation of contracts, power of attorneys, and auditing reports

• Reports directly to the Legal Department Director and Legal Representative for the Company’s foreign only partners in Brazil, assisting in the compliance and analyses of supply, purchasing and services contracts with clients such as IBM, Telefonica, Vivo, Telemar/OI, Telmar-NT, Embratel, Petrobras, Infovias and others in the private and public sectors.• Coordinates, supervises and assists in regards to new projects, such as the sale of some of Nortel’s Real Estate in Brazil; Labor, Civil, Administrative and Taxes litigations under the responsibility of Outside Counsels, preparing necessary documentation and all the changes that will impact the Company’s Articles of Association in accordance with the Brazilian laws.• In less than three months working for Nortel, received a recognition award from Trade Compliance Manager in the USA for the efficient coordination and preparation of important documents to the Company’s Customs Broker in Brazil.• Responsible for the coordination of all the Corporate Law matters, working with the Outside Counsel with accuracy the implementation for corporate reorganization, incorporation, transformation and company’s branch liquidation.• Responsible for the creation and preparation of monthly and quarterly reports for the Legal Department which allows the control and budget definition for following periods. Also responsible for the maintenance and update of the Company’s system that stores all the executed contracts in Brazil and abroad that are referent to the Latin America region.• Coordinates all the administrative activities for the department in a very independent and pro-active manner.• Attendance to important meetings in Portuguese and English with the primes of various departments such as Operations, Taxes, Trade Compliance, Real Estate, Finance and others, referent to new and on-going businesses and projects.

• Project coordinator to a start up telecommunications company doing business in Brazil;• Coordinated and managed multiple projects, such as business registration, trademark registration, partnership with foreign companies, tax regulations, legal documentation, compliance within the telecommunications government agency in order to obtain required authorization to operate in Brazil; • Researches, analyzes, and advice regarding to different areas of each business project to insure accomplishment of specific goals.

• International Collections and credit limit management and evaluation of financial reports• Reported directly to the Financial Department General Manager and interacted with Sales Directors of South Asia, Europe, Latin America and all direct billed foreign customers including distributors.• Responsible for the international payments negotiations including letters of credit• Created a new letter of credit payments inter-company policy making it possible to have more control upon the terms negotiated, receiving our payments faster and reducing expensive Bank fees.• Managed AR balance inherited by new acquisitions or mergers.• Administered all foreign accounts and the release or not of new orders to be shipped out depending on account status. • Researching and monitoring of economical and political situation of all the countries where the Invitrogen was maintaining business relationship for the purpose of risk management and decision making.

• Responsible for reviewing, auditing and processing UCSD vendor invoices that reference campus low and high value purchase orders and personal reimbursements• Proficient with IFIS, Target and IDocs finance applications used in researching/recording such transactions • Preparation of weekly reports and monthly encumbrance and USE tax correction journals• Knowledge of California Sales and Use Tax Regulations, and Campus policies and procedures related to accounting.• Serve as liaison between Disbursements and campus customers.

• Technical interpretations and translations, researches and analyze of regulations and new laws/decrees and preparation of specific documents for the certification of products.• Assisted with the hiring processes for new employees to work at the Brazilian branch• Translation and interpretation of Brazilian laws referent to the telecommunications area.