I am a curious data wizard with a love for data architecture design patterns in a constant quest to deliver architecture and artificial intelligence solutions.
Computer Scientist with over 22 years of IT experience in multinational, multicultural environments. Balanced on-hand technical skills and senior management experience. Recognized for innovative, creative and ethical work and high performance, lead by example personality.
AWS Solution Design and Deployment: Successfully orchestrated the design and deployment of numerous AWS solutions and data pipelines, powering analytics projects across Europe, the USA, and LATAM. Key focal points included the implementation of microservices, datalakes, data mesh, and data warehousing solutions.
Global Program Collaboration: Collaborated on a global scale within a strategic program, contributing expertise in various key areas, including:
Crafting comprehensive designs and data flow diagrams.
Preparing and delivering project documentation for architecture review boards.
Providing expert consultation on the implementation of technical architecture activities.
Actively engaging with the EPICX program community to validate and enhance the project implementation process.
Orchestrated Data Integration: Engineered multiple data pipelines, aggregating diverse data sources into the Data Warehouse, ensuring streamlined and efficient data processing. Optimizing data workflows and ensuring the continued efficiency of critical data integration processes using Talend Cloud platform.
Data Modeling and Dashboard Enrichment: Assumed a pivotal role in data modeling and dataset construction, creating of impactful commercial business dashboards hosted on AWS and presented through Tableau for insightful analytics.
Strategic AWS Deployment: Accountable for the successful deployment of five AWS solutions and data pipelines, bolstering analytics projects across the LATAM region, spanning Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina, and Peru.
Global Collaboration within the EpiCX Initiative: Actively engaged in a global capacity as a key contributor to the EpiCX project, offering expertise in various crucial areas.
Datalab Leadership and Data-Driven Innovation: Initiated the Datalab initiative at Tecnatom, serving as the cornerstone of our data-driven strategy. Led the design and execution of data and machine learning pipelines, orchestrated the establishment of DataLakes, and architected an analytics framework. Additionally, excelled in the development of AI solutions, with a particular focus on Computer Vision. Managed the cloud architecture and infrastructure on AWS for Tecnatom.
Cost-Efficient Migration and AWS Optimization: Successfully led the migration of applications and services to a new infrastructure, achieving a 40% annual reduction in AWS costs. Designed and implemented the complete AWS landscape, encompassing data and infrastructure architecture.
Exemplary Data Project Delivery: Demonstrated proficiency by designing and developing over ten "exceed expectation" data projects in the year 2020. These initiatives significantly contributed to the company's success and innovation within the data domain.
Designed and developed the technical solution for blueLake at Engie Corporation. BlueLake is a DataLake implementation that manages data integration between SAP, MS Dynamics, Salesforce, ServiceNow and a dozen other applications and delivers data solutions to customers via APIs and microservices.
Migration of Tecnatom's LMS infrastructure to AWS kubernetes EKS services, significantly reducing operational costs and enabling a much needed disaster recovery plan.
Produced a positive tangible impact on the bottom line by implementing several machine learning models to predict equipment failures and perform recommendations on the technical assistance business.
Sought-after internal senior consultant for designing on-premise and/or cloud applications, data, API and infrastructure solutions.
Designed and developed production AI solutions in the fields of computer vision (object recognition and class attention video analysis, NLP and comprehension, sentiment analysis in social media feeds and machine learning applications.
Software engineer with expert knowledge of SQL, PHP and Python. Ample experience in MySQL, SQL Server, ORACLE and Elasticsearch.
Hands on experience integrating Salesforce, SAP, MS Dynamics, ServiceNow and API capable applications using Talend Data Integration
Pre-sales solutions, presentations and collaboration
Completely and successfully restructured the technical department. Recruited and created a motivated team and greatly improved customer satisfaction by implementing a help desk.
Designed the technical solution and successfully managed the team that completed on time and budget a Real Estate intelligent, scalable application. Obtained a new large scale project from the same big-player customer in the Real Estate business in Latin America.
Successfully redirected company strategy and goals thus boosting board of directors confidence and securing future investment funding for new hires and acquisitions.
Lead R&D to apply machine learning algorithms for innovative products to solve everyday problems. Create blueprints for data management systems to integrate, centralize, protect and maintain data sources.
Order Tracking Solution: Designed and developed a sophisticated, multi-process, and multi-system order tracking application for Rockwell Automation. This large-scale project seamlessly integrated various systems, including SAP, MFG/Pro, and external carriers, enhancing order management and tracking capabilities.
Content-Based Recommender System: Created the design and implemented a content-based recommender system for a valued customer in the food industry based in Germany. Leveraging advanced classifier machine learning algorithms, this system delivered personalized and data-driven recommendations, significantly enriching the customer's user experience and engagement.
MFG/Pro Expertise and Latin American Expansion: Prior to the successful MFG/Pro implementation in Venezuela and Colombia, served as the MFG/Pro expert consultant for Argentina and Chile. Responsibilities encompassed server sizing, MFG/Pro installation, standardizing LA processes, executing bolt-on Progress programming, and conducting comprehensive training.
HCM SAP Data Migration: Led the successful data migration from HR legacy systems across 13 countries to the corporate HCM SAP platform, a pivotal achievement within the GPT R8 project. Recognized with the Rockwell CTM award for consistently exceeding expectations during the conversion.
MFG/Pro Server Consolidation and Clustering: Led the IT initiative for consolidating MFG/Pro instances across 12 Latin American countries, centralizing operations in Milwaukee's (HQ) data center. This effort was personally recognized with a CTM award.
Implemented Electronic Invoicing for RA Chile: Led the implementation of MFG/PRO electronic invoicing (paperless) for the RA Chile subsidiary ahead of legal deadlines, revolutionizing the billing process and ensuring compliance with tax regulations.
Multi-Faceted IT Leadership: Held a pivotal role in managing, designing, and implementing a diverse portfolio of medium to large IT projects throughout Latin America. Notable projects include:
Latin America Data Warehouse (LADW): Designed and served as the technical lead for an enhanced version utilizing SQL Server, Java, and Cognos technologies, providing senior management with crucial sales and financial data.
SAP R8 HCM Latin America Legacy Systems Conversion: Functioned as the data developer (ETL) responsible for migrating HR legacy systems to SAP HCM across all Latin America sites.
Monterrey Payroll IT Leadership: Oversaw the implementation of META4 payroll outsourcing in Rockwell's new Monterrey plant.
Automated Marketing Event Registration System: Designed and developed a fully automated marketing event registration and tracking system, earning commendation for this achievement.
Web Access IT: Led the development of new features and orchestrated the migration of the legacy web application utilized by Latin America distributors.
Dispatch to Invoice (D2I) Project Management: Managed a Six Sigma project aimed at reducing invoice processing time by 300%, significantly improving Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) from over 180 to 30-60 days.
Strategic IT Leadership in the Andean Region: Orchestrated the IT infrastructure and business applications teams, overseeing operations for Rockwell Automation's RA subsidiaries in the Andean region, spanning Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru. Notable achievements included regional standardization initiatives and the successful migration of ERP systems to MFG/Pro, transitioning email systems to Lotus Notes, and optimizing networking through Novell Netware.
On-Site IT Consultancy at Rockwell Automation: Contributed as an on-site IT consultant at Rockwell Automation, where responsibilities encompassed a broad spectrum of tasks, including desktop support, LAN management, database analysis, and application development. Demonstrated expertise in providing essential IT services. Sold my shares for a profit to accept a Regional IT Manager position at Rockwell Automation.
Entrepreneurial Ventures and Consultancy Leadership: As a co-founder and director of a company, leveraged extensive IT and IS experience to offer external consulting services to a range of small to mid-sized companies, with a primary focus on the civil engineering (construction) industry. The company's notable achievement was the development of a Construction Project Control System, recognized with an award from the Venezuela Engineering School as one of the top three Civil Engineering programs of the year in 1993.