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Last update: 16.08.2023

Senior IT Project Manager / Program Manager / interim CIO

Company: CARLOS GARCIA MOLINA
Graduation: BSc. Computer Science
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: English (Full Professional) | Spanish (Native or Bilingual)

Attachments

Carlos-Garcia-Molina-Resume_160823.pdf

Skills

Extensive experience in developing, leading and executing technology and digital strategies aligned with corporate strategies,I have made substantial contributions in piping for building & infrastructure systems, dairy products, insurance, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and FMCG sectors.

I collaborate with other senior executives to prudently leverage technology to transform and simplify business processes while delivering significant bottom line benefits.

With a background in CIO, Chief Operating Officer, Senior Project Manager and Program Management roles, I have proven to be an influential strategic thinker and leader in organisations undergoing significant change. A hands-on IT expert when needed, and a technology passionate who considers it as the best tool to help business grow. Able to bring IT strategy to tactical and real solutions.

Project history

08/2019 - Present
Senior IT & Business Project Manager / Program Manager / interim CIO
Freelancer (Internet and Information Technology, < 10 employees)

Advice and project management providing solutions in various areas. I am currently finishing implementing a B2B portal for an industrial multinational in EMEA (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany…). The ERP system is SAP. Previously I have carried out other projects in different businesses.

I have carried out the implementation of an e-Learning solution for a dairy manufacturing organization. I designed the IT & Business strategy plan for a BPO entering the insurance business from banking services. I also played the role of interim CIO for wine business company and implemented various e-commerce solutions.

02/2018 - 08/2019
Chief Operating Officer (COO leading digital transformation)
IMA

Digital transformation and change management of Operations in Spain and Portugal. Providing 24/7 services in English,
Spanish, French and Portuguese to customers of Auto, Home, Healthcare and Travel, both in the Iberian Peninsula and
globally. Member of local Board.

* Designed strategic plan to automate business processes using semantic voice recognition (NLP - Lex AWS),
omnichannel contact center with ASR/TTS (Nuance), BPM (Bonita Soft) and RPA (Nice). Executed first phase.
* Rolled out MS Power BI as a complementary tool of Business Objects to achieve a better visual analysis and reporting
and implemented a multimedia e-Learning system.

07/2015 - 09/2017
Head of Operations
AEGON

Led back office teams (184 FTE including consultants and temporary staff) working on: Pension funds, Life, Disability,
Home, P&C and Health insurance. Managed a total budget of €8M (excluding FTE costs) in more than 2.6 M operations
per month delivering services to 915K customers through various distribution channels: Direct, Agents, Brokers, Branch
offices and Bancassurance (Banco Santander and Liberbank)

* Designed and implemented back office strategic plan aimed at boosting effectiveness, quality of service, people
management and customer experience - operation effectiveness increased 47.2% between 2015 and 2017 by
implementing Lean Management and digitalizing processes.

07/2009 - 03/2015
Service Operations Director and IT Director
CIGNA

Led a team formed by 65 FTE. Member of local Board. Report to General Manager.

As Information Technology Director (CIO):
Led Cigna Digital Transformation (web portal, delivery of SMS, emails, electronic docs, reimbursement claims through
web portal, electronic network provider book...) to both increase customer satisfaction and reduce operating costs.

* Designed and implemented IT Strategic Plan.
* Introduced IT Governance model based on: Project Management methodology, SLAs, and KPIs.
* Implemented Big Data and Business Intelligence solutions.
* Created an omnichannel platform using Salesforce (CRM) and Hermes-Vocalcom (Contact Center) tools, to support
Customer and Sales Call Centers.
* Led Roll out of alliance in Spain between Cigna and ING NN both from a technological and operational level.
* Built and kept continuously updated a BCP, performing 2 real tests per year.
* Established a BPM tool to manage business processes, set up KPIs and SLAs follow up.

As Service Operations Director (COO):
Drove consistent and more integrated performance standards with 48% increase in operations productivity during last 3
years, while maintaining quality higher than 99.5%, handling 1.4M claims per year, total cost of €59M and managing 28K
network providers.

* Built a multilingual back office center to deliver customer support worldwide.
* Reduced backlog up to 78% in 4 years achieving 'zero backlog' several times.
* Designed and implemented the Fraud Prevention and Detection Unit and Claims Recovery Costs Unit.
* Set up policies enrolment and fulfillment in less than 24 hours, dispatched policies T&C documents in less than 48
hours, customer's reimbursement in less than 3 working days, payment to network providers in less than 10 days and




Call Center abandonment calls less than 4%, all these in accordance with customer's SLAs.

02/2007 - 03/2009
Organization and Information Systems Director
AstraZeneca

IT and Organization Director leading a team of 50 FTE with direct report to General Manager and with dotted line to
International Markets CIO. Managed an IT budget of €6M. Member of local Board.

* Designed and oversaw implementation of IT Strategic Plan: Siebel as CRM, SAP as ERP, Documentum as electronic
document management system, Business Intelligence and Data warehouse (Analytics, Business Objects, Cognos).
* Implemented IT Governance model: Project Management methodology, IT Services Catalogue and SLAs.
* Carried out a mobility solution (VPN, smart phones, UMTS / 3G...) for connecting 700 sales agents.
* Liaised with Corporate IT to institute global projects (CRM, Data warehouse).

02/1997 - 05/2006
South Europe Information Systems Director
Serono

Positions included (all them with a dotted line to Serono Group CIO):
- South Europe IT Director. Reported to Vice-President of SE Region (Jun 2002 - May 2006)
- Iberian Peninsula IT Manager. Reported to General Managers (Oct 1999 - Jun 2002)
- IT Manager of Serono Spain. Reported to Finance Director (Feb 1997 - Oct 1999)

Main functions:
Designed and implemented an IT Strategic Plan. Led a multi-cultural IT Team. Managed insourced (20 FTE) and
outsourced resources to execute projects, both at a national and a multinational level. Managed IT budget of €3.5M.
Continuous negotiations with IT vendors - Corporate (Serono Group) and third parties (local and global ones).

Local Availability

Only available in these countries: Spain
Willing to move abroad. English and/or Spanish speaking countries
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