Application Infrastructure Manager at Petrobras Energia
Argentina
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- Application Infrastructure Manager at Petrobras Energia
- Past
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- Project Leader - Technology Architect at Petrobras Energia
- System Engineer Consultant at Pecom Energia - Grupo Perez Companc
- NOC Responsible at Sys Informatica S.A.
- Sys Admin at National Technology University - Bahia Blanca
- Education
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- Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
- Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires
- Internal Company Course
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
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Martin Mendez’s Summary
Master change agent bringing vision, strategy, leadership, and management necessary to transform inexperienced or underachieving IT organizations to exceeding business expectations by delivering on commitments for timely business solutions, and reliable, cost effective service delivery operations. Accomplished in building effective working relationships and credibility with business leaders resulting in aligning business and technology strategies and priorities. Talented in balancing conceptual business, product/service, infrastructure, and service operations strategies and risks while defining pragmatic, timely, and cost effective processes and solutions. Reputation of being trustworthy, mentoring and leading people, managing and exceeding business expectations, selling winning ideas, solving root cause of problems, improving processes/productivity, and reducing business and technology unit costs.
Martin Mendez’s Specialties:
To lead projects and work teams to obtain successful results. Technological vision with center in the necessities of the client or business. Development of strategies for the implementation of technology projects and innovation. Investigation and start-up of new tools of information. Medium and long term strategy planning and projects execution. Projects lead to obtain operative reduction costs and improvements.
Martin Mendez’s Experience
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Application Infrastructure Manager
Petrobras Energia
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Currently I manage Petrobras Energia's application infrastructure for Argentina and Latin America serving 8000 users. We are responsible for designing/architecting/managing and operation applications that are core to running the organization.
In charge of a staff of 50 people that cover Windows, Unix, Databases, Lotus Notes, Core Business Applications, Enterprise Architecture Integration, etc., and responsible for ensuring the continuity and evolution of technology architectures application of the company. -
Project Leader - Technology Architect
Petrobras Energia
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PZE; Oil & Energy industry)
July 2003 — March 2008 (4 years 9 months)
Senior leader and engineer of IT projects to take care of the necessities of the internal clients made up of all the business units of the corporation in Argentina, Brazil and Latin America.
• I managed a portfolio of technological projects with an order of annual investment of U$S 5.500.000 in average.
• I led the implementation of technologies projects with clear return of the investment and generation of savings. In 2004/5 I obtained a ROI of 9 months and U$S 230,000 of savings under a strategy of novel consolidation of processing in Latin America.
• In charge of work teams of projects, multidisciplinary, of up to 30 people.
• Personal leadership between the 2005 and 2007 for Technological Infrastructure front-end for the implementation of a project of standardization of processes cross-company for the international area of Petrobras based on the implementation of SAP as ERP with reach in Latin America, Europe and Asia reporting directly to the Direction of the company. -
System Engineer Consultant
Pecom Energia - Grupo Perez Companc
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)
February 2000 — July 2003 (3 years 6 months)
Member of technology team responsible for evaluate solutions and implement projects in system, telecommunications, networking, security and relatives aspects of involved infrastructures.
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NOC Responsible
Sys Informatica S.A.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 9 months)
Personal leadership in the implementation of web servers and email for local and regional clients.
Participation in different networking projects about different operative platforms being directly involved in the technological field of problem solving. Training of the personnel in different ISP (Internet Service Provider) in the use and administration of Linux, Solaris and Windows NT 4 Server.
Performing of tasks of implementation of Cisco equipments: routers and access servers. After sales and customer service holder, dealing with the needs of the clients during the working period in this company. -
Sys Admin
National Technology University - Bahia Blanca
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
February 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 6 months)
In charge of tasks as administrator of the web server of this University and its implementation over the operative system Linux. Administration of the web site of this institution , participating in a group in the development of the its home page.
Participation in different research groups in projects dealing with the use of computing tools used for problem solving in the digital processing of signals (DSP) run by the CRIBABB- Conicet Bahia Blanca Regional Centre of Basic and Applied Research).
Martin Mendez’s Education
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Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
MBA / MoT - Master in Strategy Management and Technology , Master in Business Administration focused in the technology industry , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
Based in the Massachuset Institute of Technology - MoT (Management of Technology). Dual magister by ITBA in Buenos Aires and Spain EOI Business School.
Begining in 2008 - expected end at middle of 2010. -
Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires
Innovation and Technology Foresight & Planning Program , 2007 — 2007
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Internal Company Course
2004 — 2005
• Leadership Program of the Petrobras Directorate of Services (July - December 2004): Leadership of the being, coaching, ontology of the language, vision, mission and processes of innovation.
• Leadership Program and Conscientious Evolution (Patricio Villalonga and Asociados) (2005).
• Project Management based in PMI methodology. -
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Electronic Engineer , System and Telecommunications , 1991 — 1999
Additional Information
Martin Mendez’s Interests:
Blogging, Web 2.0, Social Media, IT and new technologies, entrepreneurship, professional networking, Marketing, Branding and Personal Branding
Martin Mendez’s Groups:
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Member, Computing, Information Technology and Communication Societies.
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Endeavor -
SSRN Community -
Latin-American Recruiters & HeadHunters -
Start Me Up Argentina -
Palermo Valley -
Escuela de Organizacion Industrial (EOI) Alumni -
ITBA - Posgraduate Alumni Group -
Management 2.0 -
ITBA - Centro de Emprendedores -
DET 2008-2009 - ITBA & EOI -
BizAgi Professionals Group -
Innovation Management Institute -
The Global CIO & Executive IT Group (An MIT Sloan CIO Group) -
The liquid CIO -
Gestión de Valor Inversiones IT -
TEDxBuenosAires -
I ❤ Social Snack -
MIT Sloan Management Review
Martin Mendez’s Honors:
VMware Server Consolidation Success Latin American Case - Virtual Infrastructure Lowers Costs and Increases Scalability for Petrobras Energía
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/petrobras.pdf
5th Congress of Exploration and Develop of Hidrocarburates organized by the I.A.P.G (Argentinian Oil and Gas Institute) -
Mar del Plata, from October 28 to November 2, 2002.-
Award to the best work in the Geotechnology Day: "The Virtual Engineer: a practical telepresence application".
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