Profile

 

·         Agustin is a Project Leader with 13+ years Industry experience including 10+ years with Oracle Applications.

·         Experience in functional and technical leading roles.

·         Expertise in Oracle Applications modules including Accounts Payable (AP), Inventory (INV), Purchase Order (PO), Fixed Assets (FA) and General Ledger (GL) modules, with strong knowledge of Cash Management, Accounts Receivable (AR), Advance Collections, Cost Management, iProcurement and Advance Desktop Integrator (ADI).

·         Strong full life-cycle implementation experience with in-depth knowledge of localization requirements.

·         Core competencies include business requirements gathering and definition, gap analysis, mapping, systems and environment set-up, testing, end-user training, post production support.

·         Excellent interpersonal and communication capabilities.

·         Extensive experience in dealing with people from various organizational levels and diverse cultural backgrounds.

·         Involved in projects in Mexico, US, Chile, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Argentina and Costa Rica and Canada.

·         Industry experience including: Consumer Packaged Goods, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics.

 

 

Professional History

 

09/2006 - To Date   Caribbean Financial Group, Puerto Rico

Mexican Localizations Oracle Financial Consultant

• Lead Purchasing and Fixed Assets Oracle Financials Implementation
• Lead CRPII for procurement cycle
• Lead Training Process
• Quality Assurance for implementation deliverables
• Review and validate Mexican fiscal user requirements
• Review and validate B10 Mexican Assets government localization
• Define Fixed Assets security structure for multi organizational environment
• Review and validate configuration for Mexican localizations
• Define workarounds for nonstandard Oracle functionality

 

 

12/2005 - 08/2006   GE Lighting, Mexico

Finance SWAT Consultant

• Post Implementation SWAT TEAM strategy project
• Provided support for Year-End Close, helping accounting people on reconciliation tasks and bringing them the reports and query tools to ensure a complete closing process.
• Quality Assurance for project closure working as a communication bridge between the development team in India, and the end users in Mexico. Managing of the communication gaps and adding value through recommendations based on previous Oracle implementations experience.
• Participated in a SWAT Team strategy to identify unsatisfied user requirements and create the design documentation to be used by the ICC (Indian) team. After this process, take charge of testing process to ensure user satisfaction.
• Modules: AR, AP, PO, Inventory, Cost Management, GL Transfers.

 

11/2005 - 12/2005 Digicel, El Salvador

Quality Assurance Consultant

• Provided functionality and training assessment.
• Provided analysis to identify personnel training gaps through interviews with end users, first and second level managers according with the activities driven into the Oracle Applications.
• Performed analysis of current processes, benchmarking with the Best Practices suggested by the Oracle philosophy and identifying possible gaps.
• Leadership of financial reengineering workshops to generate specific action plans for the business area and the applications set-up.
• Generated Quality Assurance Statements divided in short and long term objectives.
• Modules: AP, AR, PO, Cash Management, Inventory, GL, ADI.

 

03/2005 - 10/2005 Intermex-Televisa, Mexico

Income cycle Project Leader

• Implementation of Oracle Financials.
• Leadership of technical and functional design for “Liquidaciones” module that involved  keep knowledge of AR and Advance Collections.
• Leadership of front desk development, considering that Oracle standard functionality did not fit 100% with what the client management proposed to Intermex, division of Televisa, providing the end user a custom tool that can be interfaced with the Oracle database.
• Provided leadership of the implementation tasks of the Intermex branch roll-out.
• Leaded the interface implementation with 9 custom developments around AR, according to end user requirements, and ensuring at the same time keeping the best practices philosophy driven by the Oracle Applications.
• Generated all the documentation related with the custom developments around AR.
• Provided support to the AR (including Advance Collections) users and module owners, and becoming a bridge between the development staff and the end users.
• Coordinated development resources in order to accomplish time commitments and business priorities.
• Modules: AR, Advance Collection, Inventory Management, iCollections.

 

03/2004 - 02/2005 Movistar- Telefonica Española, Mexico

Support Leader

• Oracle Financials Support.
• Provided leadership for the technical and functional designs of new custom developments around the Oracle Applications, as well as quality assurance in the go-live phase ensuring the complete satisfaction of users’ requirements.
• Generated all the documentation related with the new developments.
• Provided support to the Accounts Payable, Accounting, and Purchasing Departments in order to analyze, correct, and perform data.
• Worked as a communication bridge between the development team located in India, and the local consultants to accomplish the project objectives.
• Modules: AP, AR, FA, and GL.

 

11/2003 - 03/2004 PROA Group (Chopo Laboratories), Mexico

Procurement Project Leader

• Description: Oracle Financials Implementation.
• Worked as Project Leader of Procure to pay cycle for the four companies, including the inter-companies transactions, and generated the technical design for the new developments required.
• Designed the best strategy to work with the government information requirements that were a key issue for PROA.
• Provided technical support to Mancera Consulting team, who lead the reengineering process phase.
• Modules: PO, AP, Inventory Management, iProcurement.

 

04/2003 - 11/2003 Gates Rubers, Mexico

Oracle Financial Support

• Worked as the Project Leader of the Procure to Pay cycle, ensuring the correct understanding of users’ requirements by the Hitachi Consulting team who leads the whole implementation.
• Coordinated the interaction between the Spanish spoken users and the English spoken Hitachi consultants and developers.

 

06/2002 - 02/2003 Pepsi (BRET Group), Mexico

Cost Benefit Consultant

Cost- Benefit Analysis

• Performed a Solution Assessment to detect areas of opportunity, benefits, and return of investment calculation, as a previous phase of the Oracle ERP implementation. This analysis included the Financial and Logistics areas, according with the client requirements and the Pepsi Co. policies.

 

06/2000 - 02/2001 Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, MI, USA

Oracle Financial Leader for Mexico

• Leader of the model creation for the financial suite (AP, AR, and GL), including the development of the IMI, Empac and GEMMS interfaces with the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) solution.

 

Assignment History 06/2006 - 12/2006 COMEX / PPI, Mexico

Project Leader

• Project Description: Pre-implementation Blueprint Definition.
• Performed analysis of current processes, benchmarking with the Best Practices suggested by the Oracle philosophy and identifying possible gaps.
• Lead oracle and client resources to generate As-Is deliverables at Client Relationship management (CRM), Distribution and Transportation areas.

 

 

Courses and Training

• Oracle E-Business Suite Implementation Champion for Financials. May 31th, 2006
• Oracle E-Business v. 11i
• SAP Solution Manager Certification (2007)
• SAP FI Certified Consultant (2007)

 

Education

• Diploma in Balance Scorecard, ITESM-SF, Mexico, 2003
• Certification Diploma in Project Management, ITESM-CSF, Mexico, 2002
• Bachelor in Computer Systems, ITESM-CEM, Mexico, 1992

 

Languages

• English Fluent
• Spanish Fluent
• Portuguese Basic