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Florida, United States

Purchase, NY, US

Purchase, NY, US

Purchase, NY, US

Purchase, NY, US

• Lead the relationship with key strategic partners in the Bay Area, helping them achieve outstanding results year-over-year across the globe.
• Innovative and creative thinker that lead the innovation of new solutions to help accelerate the innovation and evolution of our brand.
• Technical knowledge and understanding of the products/solutions has lead me to provide complex technical descriptions to non-technical partners in a very easy way. Taking ownership of data and analytical tools to.

Bogota, Bogota, CO

• Lead efforts for the creation of the business plan to provide increased visibility on the goals and objectives of the company.
• Improved the overall financial and analytical structure of the company.
• Defined a strategic growth plan for LATAM that will help generate revenues of $3M during the third year.
• Constant support to the CEO in day-to-day operations, solving critical problems while providing strategic solutions to the business.

• Started the Customer Success program at Cogniance. Lead all initiatives including strategy, process, KPIs, reporting.
• Headed the Subject Matter Expertise initiative to illustrate the specifics of different industries/markets in a simple way that could educate and create alignment among our marketing, sales, and technical teams on our.
• Developed multimillion dollar relationships with the starts up, small and medium business, as well as the Enterprise customers.
• Lead the day-to-day relationship with our key partners, with a direct relationship with executives, product, and engineering teams on the co-creation of the product.
• Excellent account manager with a track record for revenue growth year-over-year.

• Integrate Cogniance technical capabilities to optimize the development process of our clients
• Developed a strategic growth plan to support the relationship of seven clients, including two Fortune 500 companies.
• Managed 34% of the company revenue, leveraging a growth of 15% in the revenue stream.
• Lead the day-to-day operations of more than ten projects with responsibility for over 100 employees.

• Evaluated new prospects and startups companies on the East Coast.
• Attended events and created strategic relations with VC’s, Angels, Entrepreneurs and Startups.
• Developed the growth strategy to be followed for the East Coast.

Billund, DK

• Evaluated potential partnerships for the different categories of products in the USA.
• Generated metrics to evaluate the value of potential partnerships for Lego.

Bogotá, Cundinamarca, CO

• Created strategic alliance with all six wireless providers in Colombia, ensuring new revenue stream of USD$ 2 million in 2012.
• Developed a benchmark portal for wireless lines information, which generated 25,000 visits in 2012.
• Integrated marketing, design, finance and IT departments, to develop integrated telecommunications business unit.

• Wrote a business plan, developed the strategic approach, secured funding and introduced the company to the market as an office supplies service provider to small companies and university organizations; managed sales of.

• Integrated the ERP system of the stores, generating USD$ 1 million on international sales.
• Established a system to manage the creation of custom made jewels, improving the efficiency of workers, the management of raw materials and the quality of jewels, increasing production by 20%.

Dublin 2, IE

• Lowered impact of bottlenecks during USD$ 10M SAP implementation process as member of PMO implementation team; analyzed the development of applications to integrate the systems across the organization.
• Generated an induction program to help new team members familiarize themselves with the project in order to minimize their time of initiation from 2 days to 8 hours.

Madrid, Comunidad De Madrid, ES

• Created a team of leaders in charge of developing 10 macro-events, 4 continual programs and managing more than 300 volunteers a year.
• Managed sponsorships of more than $60,000 a year from companies such as DirecTV, Empresas Polar, Venevisión, among others.
• Performed events for more than 5,000 children and with more than 1,000 volunteers.

• Led Public Relations functions and upgraded the caliber of sponsors including: Gillette (P&G) and Puma, acquiring $60,000 in sponsorships.

• Implemented ERP software for control of sales and inventory, decreasing lost inventory by 20%.
• Created new approach for sales representatives, increasing sales by 15% and optimized customer experience.
• Reorganized the sales area, increasing the sales floor by 10% and incorporated 20 new products.

• Founded a franchise of Crepes for parties and events, managing sales of $30,000 in 2007.
• Established a brand in the market, with more than 4 events per week.
• Established 4 different wagons that could work independently.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Global Management, Entrepreneurial And Small Business Operations

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Production Engineering

Htx, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor In Science