Daruin O. Solano
Marietta,GA
Summary
Experienced information technology and systems manager, as an IT director with more than 25 years of progressive IT infra and system decision maker, project management practices as well as team leadership experience. Develops and implements IS policies and procedures, enforcing organization strategies along with vendor and budget management best approaches. Manages functional and technological application support thru the service team. Meticulous and accurate when applying strategic direction, practical implementation enforcing best and common project management practices, and support to accomplish corporate IT and data security initiatives. Problem solver that sees an opportunity in every crisis.
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
1
1
PMP certification from PMI , PMP® #201875
Work History
Director of Information Technology
Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Santo Domingo, DR, Distrito Nacional
07.2022 - Current
- Demonstrated skills in completing IT plans to support operations that covered all areas of infrastructure, systems and future IT services.
- Transform IT team, experience and perception of staggering, into a high-performance and delivery team. Releasing into production 5 new projects within a 4-month timespan.
- Motivate IT system developer team in the creation of a Digital transformation project in order to empower students on self-service for basic academic transactions thru a mobile app, transforming completely the internal architecture and delivering important and basic functionality in record time.
- Create a unique user experience for the app and web, renewing the web app for students and core functionality in order to have an omnichannel experience for all students.
- Reduce paper consumption by 50% in campus by putting in place a workflow approval solution (BPM) to process all documents that need executive check-marks.
- Complete review of data strategy and analytics, along with IT team, in order to overturn the discontent of users and data reliability. Creating an entire DWH/BI/Data Quality strategy, in order to provide reliable reporting and decision-making data models.
- Analyzed department and job-related functionality requirements to align technology priorities with business needs.
Director of Information Technology
Grupo Read
Santo Domingo, DR, Distrito Nacional
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Undertook needed assessment and preparation of IT blueprint for IT organization's strategic planning.
- Formulated process vision and design, enhancement strategy, and transition strategy of IT architecture with the purpose of transforming the system services into a health audit and authorization platform for the health insurance ecosystem in DR.
- Developed and deployed key execution strategies across businesses
- Implemented project plans within pre-set budgets and deadlines
- Negotiated SLAs for large and medium-sized business transformation projects.
- Drove business operations to outperform annual objectives by 30%, lowering time to market of new products and services.
- Possess broad competence in strategic management of different functional areas with the distinction of launching and driving new IT initiatives, designing corporate infrastructures, and contributing towards the achievement of organizational objectives.
- Adept in IT Infrastructure Management, Technology Resource Administration with experience of establishing vendor / outsource partner selection with structured service levels within pre-set budgets and timelines.
- Deployed, monitored and maintained system installation, upgrades and network integration within control, reducing downtime of systems in 70%, thru the enforcement of release management policies.
Project Director
Visa International, Visanet
Santo Domingo, DR, Distrito Nacional
08.2019 - 07.2020
- Facilitate payment terminal deployment in buses along with government engineers, enabling nearly 100 buses in 2 months.
- Integrate technology in the back office to enable Visanet in the processing of MTT transaction methodology for VISA and Mastercard.
- Leverage secure methods in the terminal to comply with VISA and MC certification level 2 by using VSAM from Planeta Informatica, Brazil.
- Manage the certification process for both brands with the QA teams, securing the reliability of payment transactions on buses for all financial institutions
- Devised deployment of recharge functionality for the closed-loop card, through Visanet middleware, and the Recharge server for closed-loop cards, based on capabilities of Mifare card cryptogram
- Orchestrated structure for an entire transportation project, achieving all goals for the multi-vendor, multicultural project with four different countries spanning several time zones.
IT Planning & Administration Director
Banco Santa Cruz
Santo Domingo Este, Distrito Nacional
10.2016 - 09.2018
- Planned strategic project proposal for IT efficiency, budget management, license management, and suppliers’ management
- Managed demand culture evangelization with application development teams
- Engaged in IT purchase, contract management and project bidding operations
- Provided oversight and direction to the IT Team in the development of the Bank IT project portfolio for the 5 years vision and strategy of the organization.
- Saved over $100K USD in telecom infra for the collection team at Call Center by reviewing the facilities in place and invoicing from the telecom provider.
- Saved over $40K USD a year by transforming licensing strategy on Microsoft and other solutions.
- Re-engineered data backup infrastructure and saved over 40K USD
- Enhanced performance and saved delivery time by migrating Data Storage Management system from EMC solution to Pure Storage.
- Devised effective IT strategies to attain digital transformation, proposing changes in the central IT architecture and service layers by adopting the use of Microservices, middleware y automated process approval platforms.
Project Director
Freelance
Santo Domingo, DR, Distrito Nacional
09.2014 - 10.2016
- Planned projects for food companies to fulfill the baseline plan to build the whole factory
- Mitigated risks involved in the project by suggesting procedures to the executive staff
- Envisioned the QA strategy, data sets and test scenario for migration activities
- Devised strategic plan and methodologies for data and system migration for UNIPAGO core systems
- Determined the data quality methodology to transform the destiny DB.
Project Manager / DWH-BI Senior Manager
Orange Dominicana
01.2007 - 01.2014
- Facilitated transformation of the Call Center Management System; saved the cost of calls to 50% at the starting cost of 1USD at a final volume of about 200K daily calls
- Developed the very first MVNO in the region through Banco de Reservas and Orange business alliance
- Managed process around 300KMM of daily records and delivered decision information to the financial teams and executives
- Set-up the first private label telecommunication brand without owning a telecom networks (MVNO)
- Managed Strategic Information and Data Management Projects with analytical and BI systems
- Project Manager for EDWH Planning, execution and roll out
- Managed more than 20 international consultants
- Manage a budget around USD1.5MM
- Project Director for state-of-the-art Call Center for Orange Dominicana, 200 agents, Work force management and CRM integration.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Planning Diplomat
Universidad Católica Madre Y Maestra (PUCMM)
Santo Doming, DR08.2005
Master of Science - Project Management
University of Quebec
Quebec, Canada08.2004
Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering
Universidad APEC
Santo Domingo, DR09.1994
Skills
- IT Cloud Strategy
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Technology Integration and Deployment
- Vendor Management
- Service Delivery
- Budgeting & Cost Control
- Architecture Planning
- Team Management
- Infrastructure Management
- IoT Designing
- IT Process Management
- Technical Skills
- C /C (App and Embedded), Python (Intermediate), SQL (Basic), Scrum, KANBAN
- Continued…
Accomplishments
- Leveraged tools to include VISA and MC acceptance in the Buses of OMSA
- Won the “Leslie Warner Award” for technical expertise and innovation.
Certification
Project Management Professional Certification from PMI Scrum Master certification training with Kanban framework specialization.
PMP® #201875
Badge:
https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/5e404f3a-638f-466d-b4d7-d8205c3a20b5?source=linked_in_profile
Timeline
Director of Information Technology
Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña
07.2022 - Current
Director of Information Technology
Grupo Read
01.2021 - 01.2022
Project Director
Visa International, Visanet
08.2019 - 07.2020
IT Planning & Administration Director
Banco Santa Cruz
10.2016 - 09.2018
Project Director
Freelance
09.2014 - 10.2016
Project Manager / DWH-BI Senior Manager
Orange Dominicana
01.2007 - 01.2014
Associate of Applied Science - Planning Diplomat
Universidad Católica Madre Y Maestra (PUCMM)
Master of Science - Project Management
University of Quebec
Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering
Universidad APEC
Project Management Professional Certification from PMI Scrum Master certification training with Kanban framework specialization.
PMP® #201875
Badge:
https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/5e404f3a-638f-466d-b4d7-d8205c3a20b5?source=linked_in_profile
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