Experience

Caja de Valores S.A.

• Argentina
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Gerente Divisional de Informática (CTO & CIO)

  • 2007 - Present

  Caja de Valores S.A. is the custodian and depository for securities (bonds, stocks, and other trading instruments) for Argentina. Besides its core activity, Caja de Valores' IT staff gives general technical services to the corporate members of Buenos Aires Stock Exchange. Responsible for o In charge of the following business units : - Custody and securities depository - Base IT services provision for Buenos Aires Stock Exchange and brokers (networking, ISP services, e-mailing, hosting, call center). - Market data streaming for Buenos Aires Stock Market. - Stock trading systems for Buenos Aires Stock Exchange. IT staff managed: 180. Main duties and responsibilities : - IT strategy definition. - Human resources management and development. - IT project planning and execution. - Introduction of new and improved cultural values. Accomplishments: - Construction and start-up for the new main datacenter. - Start-up for the disaster recovery site. - Construction and start-up for the IT staff facilities. - Redesign of communications networks, isolating layers and services according to SLA's. - Core applications migration, from mainframe to Linux architecture (applications size is 6 million lines of code). - Consolidation of processing environments. - Significant IT budget reduction, through intensive use of open source, virtualization and commodities technologies. - IT governance redefinition, extending the scope of existing ISO certifications (Request & Incident management) and using ITIL v3 framework Show less



Red Link S.A

• Application Development Manager

  • 1995 - 2007

  Red Link S.A. is a bank consortium-owned company, focused on providing full outsourced EFT services to over 60 financial institutions in Argentina Business units in charge: - ATM network - HomeBanking - Internet corporate banking - Electronic bill payment - Invoice payment acquiring network and settlement back office. - ACH (checks, transfers, payments) IT staff managed: 70 Main responsibilities included: - Technical support for identification and definition of strategic businesses and implementations of innovative solutions. - Cost and budget focused resource management. - Customers relationships, as a key factor for seizing new opportunities. - Sponsoring and leadership on highest complexity projects. Accomplishments: - Led a re-engineering project for the ACH solution (formerly based on a standard package on fault-tolerant mainframe) targeting to a in-house solution running on open-server platform solution. Costs decreased over 80% and the new solution's flexibility for new functionality set a standard for the business evolution in the country. - Led the Bill Payment unit launch, offering a low TCO solution designed to fit with a wide range of acquiring points (from small neighborhood shops to huge marts). - Technical sponsor of the Corporate E-Banking launching project. Show less



Banelco S.A.

• Software project leader

  • 1989 - 1995

  Position included usual Project Leader activities, focused on requirement definition, planning, control, and post-implementation follow-up; as well as software development activities (from functional to technical analysis and design, on HP NonStop environment). Main accomplishment: implementation of an "in-house" distributed solution for POS-style transaction capture; running on a 13 HP NonStop Servers network architecture. Position included usual Project Leader activities, focused on requirement definition, planning, control, and post-implementation follow-up; as well as software development activities (from functional to technical analysis and design, on HP NonStop environment). Main accomplishment: implementation of an "in-house" distributed solution for POS-style transaction capture; running on a 13 HP NonStop Servers network architecture.