Senior professional with over 15+ years of experience in IT and in Project Management, in multinational / multilingual corporate environments. Managed projects or programs and teams in different geographical locations (USA, Latin-America and Africa) for large global companies like: Baker Hughes, Shell, Anadarko Petroleum, FMC, Chevron-Texaco, Repsol, Weatherford, Schlumberger, United Airlines, EDS and CEMEX.

Fluent in English and Spanish: can speak, read, write and also certified to translate between them. Can also read Portuguese and moderately understand spoken words.

Project Management (PMP Certified #1399276), Agile / Scrum & Waterfall methodologies, ITIL Training, PWA, SQL, Microsoft Office Suite (Project, Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, SharePoint, Access and other). AutoCAD, Revit, Acrobat, Photoshop / GIMP, Public Speaking (Toastmasters).

University of Houston       Bachelor’s Degree (BBA)                                                                 Houston, Texas

Graduated in Business Administration, with a Major in Management of Information Systems (MIS).

San Jacinto College           Microcomputer and Communications Technology              Pasadena, Texas

Microcomputer Architecture, Voice/Data Communications and Electronic Engineering Technology.

Oct/2015 - Jul/2016            United Airlines                                                                                     Houston, TX

Sr. IT Infrastructure Project Manager

• Prepared budgets, plans, estimates, risk assessments and cost/benefit analysis for C-level audiences.

• Reviewed and prepared project related plans, technical diagrams, as well as solution designs.

• Managed the design / deployment of customer-facing airport / airline related solutions and systems.

• Managed Datacenter infrastructure deployments/moves including servers, network hardware, Wi-Fi, copper/fiber cabling, electrical wiring / grounding, UPS, raised floors & voice/data communications.

• Managed the deployment of IT infrastructure needed by mobile and other home-grown applications that had dependencies or interactions with database platforms and mainframe-based legacy systems.

• Managed projects to support home-grown applications (SDLC / Agile) and related IT infrastructure.

• Managed IT staff, other PMs, contractors, service providers, plus related procurement and contracts.

• Worked on PMO process improvement (creation of documents, forms templates and other).

Jun/2012 - Oct/2015          Anadarko Petroleum                                                                          Houston, TX

Global IT Infrastructure Project Manager

• Developed IT project budget estimates of up to $3.8 Million dollars, performed benefit / risk analysis and provided weekly status reports to sponsors, managers, key stakeholders and C-level executives.

• Managed IT infrastructure projects that included servers, copper/fiber cabling, UPS, electrical wiring & grounding, racks/cabinets, network equipment, wireless towers, Wi-Fi, Cisco phone systems, raised floors, security systems, precision A/C, as well as plant automation, monitoring & control.

• Managed projects to develop or upgrade CRM or ERP systems/applications, as well as home-grown software (SDLC / Agile), with database back-end platforms like SQL, Oracle, Couchbase and other).

• Organized and conducted physical and virtual/remote project team meetings, as well as multi-party video/conference calls covering different geographical locations (USA, Latin-America and Africa).

• Reviewed / created PMO related documentation (process diagrams, documentation and templates). On average managed about 20 concurrent projects of all sizes and at different stages / phases.

Jul/2010 - May/2012          Baker Hughes                                                                                       Houston, TX

Global IT Infrastructure Project Manager

• Managed IT infrastructure projects in the USA and throughout Latin-America, with budgets up to $2.5 Million dollars. Mostly related to business office/shop/plant build-outs, remodels or expansions and related to the integration of the “BJ Services” merger (while following Baker Hughes Standards).

• Managed the design and build-out of Data-Centers, IT-rooms, MDFs, IDFs, AV and control Rooms.

• Managed the design/upgrade/deploy of IT infrastructure in industrial sites, camps and office facilities including: servers, network gear & cabling, UPS & electrical wiring/grounding, voice/data, circuits, phones/communications, A/C & fire-suppression systems, raised floors, security systems, and other.

• Saved the Baker Hughes over $500,000 by carefully validating project requirements, re-defining the project scope to better match business needs and by carefully auditing vendor proposals and invoices.

• Analyzed and reviewed business requirements, proposed solution designs, requested/reviewed vendor quotes (in English, Spanish and Portuguese), developed budget estimates for AFE approval.

• Performed cost/benefit and risk analysis, prepared presentations/reports (in English and in Spanish, as required) for sponsors, stakeholders and C-level executives in different geographical locations.

• Reviewed, negotiated and approved vendor contracts, service agreements, expenditures/procurement, as well as proposals; both domestically (USA) and internationally (Latin-America).

• On average managed about 18 concurrent projects of all sizes and at different stages / phases.