Rene Denis Email & Phone Number

Santa Ana, San José, Cr

In my most recent role, I am providing strategic leadership and direction in the carve-out process of IT while architect and lead the effort to build and establish a new organization and implement innovative systems, methodologies, and infrastructure. I recruit, develop, and manage a strong team of multi and cross-functional disciplined over 90 professionals to strengthen human capital and help achieve company's strategic goals. I deliver a new data lake approach for the real time access of data to company's information, allowing for new functionalities and analysis capabilities. • Authored tactical action plan and innovative process to migrate infrastructure to the cloud which saved implementation cost by $1M+ and $1.2M a year.• Devised and instituted a new core system and components in the cloud (AWS) with a focus on achieving improved and reliable technology, highly optimized time to market, and a capable organization that complied with the product structure and strategy of the company.• Pioneered the development and inclusion of a novel e-commerce platform with a website which increased customers' visits by twofold and improved key performance and customer metrics by more than 50%.• Partnered with company executives to execute strategic IT transformation and carve-out plans and technology focus by instigating a complete new technological ecosystem that deliver technology services to corporate customers and partners.• Led the successful application of DevOps, agile, and new generation security systems which minimized the time-span of digital products development cycles to half to meet the ever-changing consumer needs.• Led design, development, and deployment of machine learning tools for overall monitoring and security requirements.

Bogotá, Co

In this role, I was playing a lead role in the airline's in-house consulting division, partnering with the team engaged in analyzing, developing, structuring, and implementing the company's key business initiatives to drive innovation and velocity and optimize efficiency. I distilled and administered processes, promoted project management and business analysis and development, and directed and coordinated multiple team efforts of finance, tax, legal, loyalty, and consultants.• Challenged with the responsibility to spearhead LifeMiles final separate business unit phase, leveraged existing utilization to surpass goals, and brought an external investment of over $343.7M by Advent, an American Private Equity firm.• Championed the management and deployment of a new aircraft maintenance system and led the process restructuring and integration of 5 different airlines' operations into a single core operation while achieving NPV of over $100M.• Established a small system for inventory management and distribution strategy with estimated saving cost of ~$10M annually.

Here, I was leading all activities of the IT and e-commerce department from initial strategy planning to final execution. I combined and interconnected with 2 fully integrated independent airline systems and business logics along with fostered constructive relationships with over 15 financial and commercial partners.• Directed a high performing multidisciplinary team of 40+ members involved in the designing and integration of systems and improved employee morale, teamwork, and productivity through improvement, communication, and inclusion.• Successfully integrated a new website which enhanced redemptions by 10 fold while achieving 80% of total transactions.• Conceptualized, developed, and launched STAR Alliance, a 28 members airlines, for LifeMiles while integrating and employing STAR's components and restructuring LifeMiles processes to align with tactical business objectives and goals.• Headed the integration of two separate programs and amalgamated into a single 4M members based loyalty platform with a single set of rules and a new website.

San Salvador, San Salvador, Sv

Managing more than 35 reports across 6 countries with a responsibility of 12M annual operating budget to regulate and coordinate all communications and IT support within the company. Transforming working team and restructuring telecommunications infrastructure in all main sites.• Successfully deployed a new Telecommunication network and VoIP infrastructure in 110+ locations to improve reliability.• Spearheaded and managed a complete network restructuring and RFP process and secured savings of $7M in a 3 years.• Formulated and applied a new support strategy for the company, combined and coordinated outsource support with a strong in-house presence in major stations that enhanced support quality and coverage within keeping low cost structure• Envisioned, planned, and updated all stations to VoIP communications with the recovery of initial based investment within a year with a total value of over $2.5M and brought significant improvement in communications capabilities.

Cio Certification, Information Technology

Ms Communications Engineering, Engineering

Ingeniero Electricista, Ingenierias

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