Joab Abisai Escobar has over 15 years of experience leading technology and business teams across Latin America and the Caribbean for Kellogg Company and Unilever Company. He has a proven track record of implementing ERP systems, developing IT strategies, managing budgets, and delivering complex projects on time and under budget. His professional experiences include roles as an IT Director, CTO, IT Manager, Financial Manager, and Logistics and Manufacturing Planning Manager.
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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