Served in pivotal position as head of IT for South-West region in Europe, including Spain, Portugal, and Mediterranean countries. Expanded business in new countries, steered several significant projects, conducted Datacenter Consolidation into Tier IV vendor and set up infrastructure and production centers in Turkey, Israel, and Morocco. • Spearheaded all aspects of Information Service area as per corporate policies for legal entities and business divisions while executing Global IT function in Berlin within matrix organization with direct reporting to region business directors. • Provided vital support in executing global IT outsourcing (infrastructure and applications) projects across all regions. • Boosted performance and quality of IT Services by successfully driving IT catalog, SLAs, employment off-boarding, and project execution in compliance with ITIL standards.
Establish Global IT Operating Model to restructure entire area of information and technology that insourced core activities as product development and formulate technology strategy for next five years. Integrate previously isolated areas and develop new value creation for company (SaaS products, B2C platforms) by designing and implementing innovative global technology functions. Execute strategic initiatives, including RFPs, insourcing, and vendor evaluation that generated 20% cost reduction in OPEX. • Controlled profit and loss procedures for IT ranging from 1.2M€ to 3 M€ in 2022 to ensure greater revenues. • Built comprehensive playbook to incorporate average of one acquisition per year by facilitating M&A activity, resulting in increased workforce capacity from 900 to 1600 employees. • Drove successful transformation of development teams into Scrum squats across different products (From 10 to over 140 FTEs, from 1 squat to 7) for greater productivity, cohesion, and resilience. • Optimized online product selling process by deploying innovative B2C digital platforms ElParking.com and Imbric.com (after M&A operations) with more than 2.000.000 digital users in 2022. • Propelled business growth by signing first international SaaS contracts in America that included Ecuador, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, and USA. • Enabled implementation and selling of products in prompt and agile manner while migrating company's core products to Amazon web services and replacing legacy products. • Designed risk-based cybersecurity program aligned with IS27001 standard and maintained strict adherence to cybersecurity processes and applicable industry standards, leading to achieve ISO 27000, 27001, and PCI certifications. • SOC implementation