Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Zid is an eRetail enablement company that enables any retailer or merchant to move from traditional retail to modern retail. Zid enables retailers to set up their online store in a few clicks and integrates directly with payment, warehousing, and delivery providers, as well as access to professional service providers.
• شركة زد، شركة متخصصة في قطاع التجزئة رؤيتها الأساسية تطوير قطاع التجزئة وتحويل التجار من التجزئة التقليدية إلى التجزئة الحديثة عن طريق تقديم مجموعة من الحلول مثل : حلول التجارة الالكترونية، الشحن والتوصيل والدفع. مصحوبة بـ حزمة من خدمات التمكين والدعم

May 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• From May I have taken the Managing Director role as well as holding my Group CTO role for Fursan Travel Group leading the development and expansion of our OTA business in the GCC region. Improve business contribution margin by 100%.

Feb 2020 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• As responsible for the Technolgoy & Product my role involves ensuring the Digital and Product Strategy for Frusan Travel Group is executed rightly to allow our business to grow, bring new travel innovation to the market, and ensure a seemless experience for our customers.
• Fursan Travel was founded in 1980. As Saudi Arabia’s leading travel services company with a stellar reputation of 36 years built on market knowledge, expertise and technology, we specialise in travel services for individual travellers, local and multinational companies as well as government institutions.
• Achievements so far: New operating model for Technology & Innovation launched in the first 3 months | Achieved savings of 1M USD in the first 3 months through contracts renegotiation and operating model improvements, improve team empowerment and accelerated decision making by 100% which meant velocity acceleration by 30% in time to market.

Sep 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs · Argentina

• As an investor and non-executive Board member my responsibility is to support the international growth of our company and reach more markets. We believe in long term relationships and our focus is to keep clients protected. We have products and services including Online Training SaaS tool completely customisable to clients, Ethical hacking, Web Application VAPT, Infrastructure and network VAPT, Cloud Security Assessments, Red Teaming, among others.

Apr 2019 – Dec 2019 · 8 mos · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Apr 2018 – Mar 2019 · 11 mos · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Senior Manager and APAC Travel Services Lead in Technology Consulting with special focus on:
• Business Strategy
• Technology Strategy
• Digitalization & Business transformation
• Enterprise Architecture definition
• Software Engineering & Agile implementation
• Governance and strengthening the processes between Business & IT
• Program & Project management
• Development strategies and agile methodologies
• Program and Project management (PMP & Agile)
• SME for Technology Consulting in Travel and Hospitality
• Achievement: Recovery of a lost account in 5 months and contributed with 2M USD sales in 1 year on the account.

Dec 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 3 mos · Worldwide

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 · 11 mos

• Led the integration of Hotelbeds, GTA and Tourico. Building the foundations of the IT processes, the architecture definition, systems layout, culture and programme transformation definition to ensure a smooth transition from 3 platforms to 1. I was also responsible for the management of the synergy plan and the full roadmap definition, design and execution. A few key aspects of the integration’s challenges:
• 3 businesses with 900 employees in Technology and 3 platforms (each business with 500+, 130, 200 Technology people)
• 3 different main cultures (Spain, UK, US)
• Teams with different programming languages (JAVA, AngularJS, NodeJS,.net, C#, etc) and technology stacks (Jenkins, GitHub, Confluence, JIRA, etc) and Infrastructures (Cloud AWS, Azure, On prem,etc)
• More than 100 applications / services including off-the-shelf applications, built inhouse and customised. (SAP FI/CO, HR, CRM, SRM, Salesforce, Dynamics, own distribution platforms, contract repositories, P2P, etc).
• Value creation and synergies being build top-down with the responsibility for the bottom-up definition and detailed planning.

Jun 2012 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Responsible for the Technology team in a newly created business unit Transfers & Activity Bank (part of Hotelbeds Group division within TUI Group) having a double reporting to the MD of Transfers & Activity Bank.
• Coordinate a team of 62 people. Focus on general management decisions covering Demand and Capacity Management; Incident & Problem Management; Arquitecture and Developments; Infrastructure Operations; Programme and Project management; Innovation strategy; IT Strategy; among others.
• Responsible for setting up a new team, giving an entrepreneurial approach and delivering value to the business and its forecasted CAGR of approximately 30% revenue for the next 5 years.
• A smart approach to deliver value to the business and set a complete new state-of-the-art technology framework and team to not only support growth but also enforce efficiencies in the way the IT team works. Smart approach to involve business and make them participants of the development process. Innovating in management styles constantly towards obtaining substantial resultS. Deliver solutions on time, quality, budget and according to expectations.
• Accountable for decision making on new high availability systems, CMS, Mobility to support and contribute to business units; Distribution, Contracting and Operations, Customer Relationship Management and Commercial Strategy.
• Member of the Transfers & Activity Bank Board and also the Hotelbeds Group IT Boards.
• Award winner in 2014 for Innovation in MiddleWare. Award given in San Francisco, USA on Oracle Open World Conference.

Oct 2010 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

• HOTELBEDS was owned by TUI TRAVEL PLC
• My responsibility is wide in regards to the IT Strategy, IT Governance, Programme and Project Management, Demand Management and Security.
• I am accountable for the creation of the IT Strategy for our B2B division together with the Head of IT B2B department. Additionally, I am activily supporting the Sector IT Strategy Committee as a member of it.
• Also, during the last year we have been creating a new role within the organisation: the Information Security Officer who started to take responsibility for all Security matters as well as the coordination of all auditos in our more than 40 businesses acrros the globe.
• As part of my responsibilities in the last year has been the creation and enhancement of the internal IT Governance department focusing on increasing the level of maturity as well as setting up the best practices needed to reduce innefficiency.
• In regards to Project Management, my team and myself are responsible to project manage our division Strategic and compliance projects. For example, I am personally responsible to manage projects which are between 500k and 1 M euros budget.
• Finally, Demand Management in regards to Projects, Change Requests and incidents is managed within my team. We have implemented over the last year and half a new Change Management and Incident and problem Management tool while also implementing (with the PMO support) the Microsoft Project Server tool to automated and support our project management and IT project management methodologies.

Oct 2009 – Oct 2010 · 1 yr

• HOTELBEDS was owned by TUI TRAVEL PLC
• My main objectives were focused to coordinate all business requirements and act as the Programme Manager for the IT department. Additionally and together with the IT Governance Manager we are focus on improving and making the IT department more efficient to successfully and actively achieve better results and requirements from the business and markets.

Apr 2008 – Nov 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• As part of TUI Travel Group I’ve been involved in different type of engagements surrounding the IT & Business environment. From planning to end to end fieldwork and managing all relationships with companies’ senior management I’ve been able to deliver results in time and in multi-cultural environments around the world.
• Some of the reviews performed include: IT General Control Review; Risk assessments; Entity reviews; Project Management and IT projects review; New systems implementation review; Business gap analysis; Application security review; Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning; Policies and procedures; Security Standards; Data Analysis, JE, AP CAAT; Tender process review; ROIT analysis.

Mar 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 10 mos · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dec 2004 – Mar 2008 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Buenos Aires, Argentina - Dallas, TX USA

• Senior IT Auditor of the Technology and Security Risk Services (TSRS)
• (*) I was temporary transferred to Ernst & Young Dallas for diversified projects in U.S.A.
• In E&Y I have been involved mostly in external audit. However, I have also performed consulting projects, such as SOX compliance, Data analysis (CAATs), and act as ISO for BAYER and Prudential Financial Inc.
• Some of my work in E&Y:
• Remediation of SOX observations within Change Management for Metrogas. Testing of SOX controls for Change Management.
• SOX Application controls and testing for Cía Minera Polimet (Member of COEUR)
• SOX IT General Controls for Gillette (now Procter & Gamble). All work and documentation made in English.
• Data Analysis for CableVisión, using ACL software, including the revision of the company’s aging.
• Data Analysis for TELMEX, METRORED and TECHTEL, using ACL tool
• Assistance to the IT Management in security matters including developing security policies, procedures and standards for Prudential Financial Inc.
• Audits works following EY GAM Methodology in Bco Centro Mundo (Ecuador), Banco MM Jaramillo Orteaga (Ecuador), CLOROX, CTI, Microtune (Dallas, TX), Carreker Inc (Dallas, TX), American Marazzi Tile Inc. (Dallas TX), Glencoe Group (Dallas, TX), Western Refining (El Paso, TX).
• Integrated Audit (404), in many of the clients listed above.
• Assistance to IT Management in Windows 2000, XP and 2003 Security, supporting the definition, development and implementation of security policies and standards for Prudential Financial.
• Assistance to the actualization of a BCP (Business Continuity Plan) for BAYER. Including the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) evaluation and AS400 recovery process.
• Information Security Advisory Services for BAYER ConoSur.
• JE CAAT for ComStock.
• SAS70 for EDS

Jan 2004 – May 2004 · 4 mos · Buenos Aires, Argentina

• In Kapeluzs I was responsible for the marketing and promotion for first level educational books.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr · Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Some of the activities that I performed: QA and application testing; Product development and marketing promotion; Second level HelpDesk for e-Learning products.

Jan 1999 – Dec 2003 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Buenos Aires, Argentina

• In GreenFull SRL I was responsible for: Management assistant; Revenue, Stock, Debt collecting and vendor management;

Jan 1998 – Nov 1998 · 10 mos · Buenos Aires, Argentina

• General activities associated with the requests that were given.