Lead IT Director seeks new challenge in technology strategy
1. Joab Abisai Escobar MOBILE: (502) 5203 6340
Personal Objective
To lead, develop and consolidate a long-term strategic vision for a solid business organization as an IT Director, CTO
expanding leadership capabilities, improving organizational ability and exceeding corporate goals.
Professional Profile - Kellogg Company
Proficient Background in Technology:
- Create technology strategy and plan´s supporting different business strategy whit different business
models, in Central America, Caribbean, and Latin America.
- Develop and implement SAP R3 in Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and Caribbean.
- Lead different team in Latin America about infrastructure.
- Lead process change and create a new business process use TOC theory.
- Pringles integration to Kellogg in CA (Lead Technology).
- Management the governance and security strategy. Based in cobit and ITIL standards.
- Implementation Business intelligent.
- Implementation of WMS for distribution center in Guatemala and Panama.
- Development disaster recovery plan for eleven-country whit different business model.
- Development the police information security, access control, e-mail, Internet, and social network uses.
- Definition of switching, routing, and proxy’s standards.
- Definition of the classification the information each business area.
- Implementation voz/Ip in Central America. Reduce $.50k in international calls.
- Development and implementation application to manager overhear budget for Latin America.
From Strategy to Execution:
- Implemented regional/local diverse Platforms about IT application and infrastructure technological.
Participated in major Organizational Changes:
- Create a new organization in Costa Rica, implement the new business process
- Create a new organization in Panama, implement the new business process. Saving 2.1M-tax
reduction.
- ERP implementation in Guayaquil Ecuador, and change all about the business process aligned to
Kellogg
Standards, SAP implementation in Costa Rica, panamá, Ecuador, and Perú.
People - Led different Teams in Latin America and Caribbean:
- Managed and developed multiple technology and business teams across LATAM.
- Managed different teams third partners like Accenture, IBM, Wipro, Cisco infrastructure team,
AT&T
Telecommunication team, Desca, GBM, Tigo.
Experience at Kellogg Company
IT Commercial Manager LA June 2015 – Jan 2016
- Create IT commercial strategy LA
- Lead LA commercial project.
- Distributor management LA. Seventy distributors implemented on time and on budget
- Rout to market project LA. To increase coverage sixty thousand to ninety-two point of sales
- Management expense budget IT commercial LA
- Management capital budget IT commercial LA
IT Manager Central America & Caribbean April 2008 – June 2015
- Lead CariCam team, Leadership Team, and Strategic Direction
- Lead all about technology need around Central America and Caribbean
- Management expense budget per year $.12MM
- Management Capital budget per year $.5MM
- People management CariCam, 19 employees.
- Experienced international
- Delivery of complex projects
- Infrastructure projects (VoIP, virtualization server’s) all in the cloud.
Kellogg Company achievement
- ERP Implement in Ecuador. 1.2 Million of benefit in production cost
2. - New business model implement in panama 2.2 Million of benefit in tax model
- To increase coverage in 32 thousand new point of sale mexico city “Changarros”
- $.60k reduction in business travel, implement video conference model
Professional Profile – Unilever Company
Strong Finances experience across Central America and Caribbean:
- P&L analysis and interpretation
- Planning and reporting process
- Create and administration Budget
- Knowledge of sox regulation, practices and process implementation
- Management credit department
- Management planning and reporting department
Consolidated Business Management Panama:
- Responsible create a new business model in panama.
- Distribution whit a third party to own distribution
- Production plant closing Panamanian company oils
Regional & Country Logistics and Manufacture Planning:
- Administration the Replenishment about four hundreds sku´s the 6 different countries
- Administration the four distribution center
- Production planning
- Margarine Mirasol plant
- Maisena Plant
Experience at Unilever Company
IT Manager Guatemala May 2005 - Mar 2008
- Management annual budget for IT
- Management and administration of contracts with local and regional suppliers
- Implementation model to support users with the concept of support services desk ITIL standards
- Manager of Guatemala projects
- Administration and handling of the technical team for support to user.
- Project manager for infrastructure and application
Financial Guatemala April 2004 – May 2005
- P&L analysis and interpretation
- Planning and reporting process
- Create and administration Budget
- Knowledge of sox regulation, practices and process implementation
- Management credit department
- Management planning and reporting department
Logistics and manufacture planning May 2003 – April 2004
- Lead logistic whit four different distribution centers
- Management two manufactures plants
- Implement a new co-manufacture process for bonus pack
- Control of supply to Central America
- Management importation and exportation
- Lead implementation demand planner process
Credit Manager
Feb 1998 - April 2003
- Management credit department
Education
Master in Business and Administration (MBA) Guatemala City
Preston University
System Engineer Guatemala City
Mariano Galvez University
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