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Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

The role will assist in the development of long-term security strategies and manage its execution to ensure the IT services and functions meet all mandated security standards & policies and effectively assess & control security risks. Main activities are: - Supporting IT Internal Controls (MCS - Minimal Control Standards). - Security action coming from internal and external Audits report and follow up. - Ensuring that compliance is measured, reported and implemented across the… Show more The role will assist in the development of long-term security strategies and manage its execution to ensure the IT services and functions meet all mandated security standards & policies and effectively assess & control security risks. Main activities are: - Supporting IT Internal Controls (MCS - Minimal Control Standards). - Security action coming from internal and external Audits report and follow up. - Ensuring that compliance is measured, reported and implemented across the I&O scope. Including: security standards and procedures, regulatory compliance and certification standards. - Establishing constant vigilance over critical information assets together with Global and Group (Corporate) Applications Security - Managing security risks and threats associated with information assets - Preparing the basis for security relevant management decisions - Providing information security support for projects and enquiries from other functions/stakeholders Show less

Madrid Area, Spain

Coordination of geographically dispersed Build teams for EMEA, APAC and Americas. Ensure the new business requirements turn into new build IT infrastructures, also in time and cost. Remote management and coordination of 3rd party teams. Interface between architecture, delivery and implementation teams. Quality assurance of low level designs, documentation and implementation on the new systems when transitioned to production/operations.

Madrid

Project Management & Engineering in the IT infrastructure departmentManaging international projects (coordination, cost control and time control) in Europe, Middle East and Africa related to: - Data center migration and consolidation project. Moving more than 150 applications, I was mainly focused on the LAN, WAN , Proxy and firewall part to ensure connectivity after cut-over. - Building infrastructures for a centralized service center supporting more than 15 countries -… Show more Project Management & Engineering in the IT infrastructure departmentManaging international projects (coordination, cost control and time control) in Europe, Middle East and Africa related to: - Data center migration and consolidation project. Moving more than 150 applications, I was mainly focused on the LAN, WAN , Proxy and firewall part to ensure connectivity after cut-over. - Building infrastructures for a centralized service center supporting more than 15 countries - Analyzing, defining and deploying improvements on business networks for more than 150 sites - Analysis, plan and deploy of the infrastructure standardization initiatives. Show less

Madrid Area, Spain

- Migration and consolidation’s design of the email infrastructure under Exchange 2007. The goal was to move near than 85,000 mailboxes sitting on more than 100 locations, to just 4 datacenters, by also reducing the amount of hardware required to near 50%.- 110,000 mailbox migration to the cloud (Gmail) evolving the current on site email infrastructure to something that fits better the business needs.- Email platform reduction. These includes the several email and archival platforms… Show more - Migration and consolidation’s design of the email infrastructure under Exchange 2007. The goal was to move near than 85,000 mailboxes sitting on more than 100 locations, to just 4 datacenters, by also reducing the amount of hardware required to near 50%.- 110,000 mailbox migration to the cloud (Gmail) evolving the current on site email infrastructure to something that fits better the business needs.- Email platform reduction. These includes the several email and archival platforms spread around the company. Matching then legal requirements of different countries was key.- Overall engineering of the global email environment to support, maintain and improve its functionality: from the internet gateways, to the end user email delivery, going through several layer of email hygiene. Third level support to the operation guys was also included.- Proactively support other parts of the team to integrate other “messaging and collaboration products” into the email infrastructure: Microsoft Messenger / Lync, BlackBerry servers, etc.- Project management and quality assurance roles within the “Messaging and Collaboration” group. Show less

Barcelona And Madrid

Project Lead assigned to Holcim (Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2006) - Design and coordination of the new client and server platform (Win2K3 + XP) deploy at EMEA level. - Deploy, document generation and training on the new procedures to be applied on the entire EMEA region. Basically focused on Hungary, Morocco, Croatia, Italy, France and Germany. - Main contact and coordinator between the client and the project team.Project Manager assigned to “la Caixa” (sep. 2000 – mar. 2005) -… Show more Project Lead assigned to Holcim (Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2006) - Design and coordination of the new client and server platform (Win2K3 + XP) deploy at EMEA level. - Deploy, document generation and training on the new procedures to be applied on the entire EMEA region. Basically focused on Hungary, Morocco, Croatia, Italy, France and Germany. - Main contact and coordinator between the client and the project team.Project Manager assigned to “la Caixa” (sep. 2000 – mar. 2005) - Technical management and team leader for the supporting operations on about 180 windows servers in charge of a team that grows from 5 to 10 people. - Implantation, integration and maintenance of Microsoft products on the server platform. Coordination with the rest of departments involved in the changes. - Migration and consolidation from OS/2 to Windows 2000. That reducen the necessary hardware in around a 75%. - Exchange migration (20000 mailboxes) from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003. - Resource and budget managing of the previously mentioned projects. Selection, coaching and training of the new consultants assigned to the project. - Sales department Support in generating and following up presales, related to this and other projects, within this client. Show less

Barcelona Area, Spain

- IT and network solutions design and deployment for medium and small corporations using all the technology around Windows NT 4.0 (Servers, Internet Connectivity, email, etc.).- Coordination and support of the technical team (3 people)

Barcelona

- Responsible of the infrastructure area reporting to the “Organization and IT director”.- Systems administration, setup, maintenance and improving of a WAN build up in 52 different locations (branches) using Cisco Routers and Frame-Relay lines.- Delivering to more than 300 users, basic services of domain validation (NT 4.0), email (Exchange Server 5.5), web pages for the intranet (IIS), Internet connectivity (Proxy Server), internal video-conference (Net Meeting) and access to the… Show more - Responsible of the infrastructure area reporting to the “Organization and IT director”.- Systems administration, setup, maintenance and improving of a WAN build up in 52 different locations (branches) using Cisco Routers and Frame-Relay lines.- Delivering to more than 300 users, basic services of domain validation (NT 4.0), email (Exchange Server 5.5), web pages for the intranet (IIS), Internet connectivity (Proxy Server), internal video-conference (Net Meeting) and access to the corporate applications.- Build up and maintenance of the corporative Internet site.- Document and user manual generation in coordination with the Quality Assurance department. Show less

Barcelona

- “Help desk” to end users.- Laptop and Workstation maintenance at hardware and OS level (Windows 3.11)- Network installation and maintenance on the branch offices (thin Ethernet RG-58).- Computer inventory.

Technical Engineer, Computer Science

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