Experience

4finance

• Latvia
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• IT Director LATAM

  • Oct 2015 - Jan 2021

  Miami, FL Mandates:  To search, select, implement external Loan Management Software solutions.  To establish cloud infrastructure operations for external Loan Management Software.  To establish operations; recruit, onboard and manage Latin American team members.  Global IT Procurer of IT Services.  To select and identify in-country software and IT providers.  To ensure adherence to company’s rules of engagement, instructions, and standards guides.  To create business… Show more Mandates:  To search, select, implement external Loan Management Software solutions.  To establish cloud infrastructure operations for external Loan Management Software.  To establish operations; recruit, onboard and manage Latin American team members.  Global IT Procurer of IT Services.  To select and identify in-country software and IT providers.  To ensure adherence to company’s rules of engagement, instructions, and standards guides.  To create business continuity strategies to minimize outages and maximize service availability. Achievements:  Capitalization: Partnered with CIO to implement IT Governance and project capitalization. Added on first year €6-8M in capitalized projects in support of asset-recognition– CapEx/OpEx – a corporate strategy for improved P&L and company valuation.  Savings: Realized cost reduction of 20-30% per team member vs EU development centres by identifying and gaining executive approval to establish near-shore team option.  Operations: Navigated 7 LATAM countries’ regulations and earned executive approval for LATAM expansion IT development plan, and subsequently established operations and service delivery foundations – infrastructure, tech support, installations, and upgrades.  Documentation: Conceived and led creation of centralized Wiki documentation and onboarding, Wiki for CIO Office for IT governance, and CapEx/OpEx guidelines and documentation.  Change Management: Influenced acceptance of change by highlighting undeniable corporate benefits (audit documentation); developed and trained IT development teams (CapEx and OpEx).  Business Continuity: Act as Regional Business Continuity Manager/Planner, critical in region with significant political and geographical risk.  Governance: Work with Office of CIO to improve IT Governance and SOW audit documentation.  Security: Averted major risk, identifying and notifying global offices of DdoS worldwide attack. Show less



Wyndham Vacation Ownership

• United States
• Hospitality
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer III

  • Nov 2012 - Sep 2015

  Orlando, Florida Area Internal developer in charge of converting data from unsupported system to new technology servers, managing work of outsource team during acceptance phase, and migrating to Credit Card Tokenization. Technical Environment:  Java J2EE, JSP, HTML, CSS, Struts, Spring, Ajax, Hibernate, JQuery, JSON, JUnit, Bootstrap, XML, SOAP Web Services, ClearCase, Ant, Oracle and SQL DB, DB2, WebSphere 7.0/8.6 deployment and administration. Key Accomplishments:  Corporate Project: Supported… Show more Internal developer in charge of converting data from unsupported system to new technology servers, managing work of outsource team during acceptance phase, and migrating to Credit Card Tokenization. Technical Environment:  Java J2EE, JSP, HTML, CSS, Struts, Spring, Ajax, Hibernate, JQuery, JSON, JUnit, Bootstrap, XML, SOAP Web Services, ClearCase, Ant, Oracle and SQL DB, DB2, WebSphere 7.0/8.6 deployment and administration. Key Accomplishments:  Corporate Project: Supported successful acquisition of 40 properties with effective technical modernization/risk reduction in a tight 4-week timeline: migration to WebSphere, 8.1, new technology servers, and Oracle DBs from AS400 systems WebSphere 4.0/DB2; also converted obsolete content management to mix of static and JS frontend, Java backend, 3rd party services.  Leading Edge: Improved payment and personal information security, managing migration to credit card tokenization web service. Show less



Simsol Software

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Java Lead Developer

  • Apr 2007 - Sep 2012

  Orlando, Florida Area Simsol provides adjusters and insurance carriers with a complete end-to-end solution for the electronic assignment, estimating, claim documentation and data management for property claims. Our suite of integrated adjusting software tools enables our clients to pick-and-chose the right solution for themselves and the companies for which they work. Highlights ContentsClaims.com – Sole developer web-based application for casualty claim and mobile field adjusters. Technical… Show more Simsol provides adjusters and insurance carriers with a complete end-to-end solution for the electronic assignment, estimating, claim documentation and data management for property claims. Our suite of integrated adjusting software tools enables our clients to pick-and-chose the right solution for themselves and the companies for which they work. Highlights ContentsClaims.com – Sole developer web-based application for casualty claim and mobile field adjusters. Technical Environment: Java J2EE, JBoss, JSP, HTML, CSS, Spring, Ajax, Hibernate, JSON, XML, JBoss, Ant, JUnit and Oracle DB. CVS, Git Show less



Siemens

• Germany
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Java Lead Dev. Consultant (Contractor)

  • Dec 2006 - Apr 2007

  Orlando, Florida Area



Marriott Vacations Worldwide

• United States
• Hospitality
• 700 & Above Employee

• WebSphere Lead Dev. Consultant (Contractor)

  • Sep 2006 - Nov 2006

  Orlando, Florida Area



Orange County Government

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• E-Government Consultant (Contractor)

  • Jan 2000 - Oct 2003

  Orlando, Florida Area  Highlights: Retained to assist in phased roll-outs, well beyond initial 3-month contract, in recognition of results in developing department-specific Internet eGovernment and eCommerce applications; Designed and developed 3x award-winning eGovernment platform.



SunTrust

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• FDIC Y2K Consultant (Contractor)

  • Jun 1999 - Dec 1999

  Orlando, Florida Area



Danka Office Imaging

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Latin America IT Program Manager

  • Jul 1997 - Jun 1999

  Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area Key Accomplishments:  Corporate Project: Supported successful acquisition of 40 properties with effective technical modernization/risk reduction in a tight 4-week timeline: migration to WebSphere, 8.1, new technology servers, and Oracle DBs from AS400 systems WebSphere 4.0/DB2; also converted obsolete content management to mix of static and JS frontend, Java backend, 3rd party services.  Leading Edge: Improved payment and personal information security, managing migration to credit card… Show more Key Accomplishments:  Corporate Project: Supported successful acquisition of 40 properties with effective technical modernization/risk reduction in a tight 4-week timeline: migration to WebSphere, 8.1, new technology servers, and Oracle DBs from AS400 systems WebSphere 4.0/DB2; also converted obsolete content management to mix of static and JS frontend, Java backend, 3rd party services.  Leading Edge: Improved payment and personal information security, managing migration to credit card tokenization web service. Show less



AT&T

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• UNIX C/S Development Manager

  • Jun 1983 - May 1997

  Orlando, Florida Area  Highlights: Reported to CFO; managed up to 15 staff; responsible for strategic planning of systems architecture and change control, data transport module application, release control and distribution (SDLC and PMO), performance and stress test, BUGLE UNIX porting and testing, budget management workbench, interactive data entry application, and inventory system.



Contaduría Mayor de Hacienda - Camara de Diputados del Congreso de la Unión de Mexico

• Director of IT

  • Apr 1981 - Mar 1983

  Mexico City Area, Mexico



KPMG México

• Mexico
• Accounting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Supervising Sr. Consultant

  • Jan 1979 - Mar 1981

  Mexico City Area, Mexico From an early engagement as Supervising Sr. Consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick’s Mexico City office, I added a unique business focus, atypical for an IT leader, through wide, multi-industry experience. More recent engagements have admired my ability to present influential business cases and proposals, which I attribute to this earlier jump-start and ensuing experience