LUIS ALBERTO CHACON URBINA

Experience

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  PDVSA Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.

  Jul 1991 - Dec 1996

  Project Leader and Programmer

  * Como líder de proyectos realice el levantamiento de requerimientos, el diseño, desarrollo e implantación de las aplicaciones corporativas requeridas por PDVSA Servicios en la Función de Ingeniería y Proyectos, para cubrir los procesos asociados a las fases de Ingeniería Básica y de Detalles, Procura, Contratación, Construcción y Arranque de proyectos.* Como programador, lidere el desarrollo de los siguientes sistemas en PowerBuilder contra base de datos Oracle en tecnología cliente / Servidor : Sistema de Estimación de Costos SICOST, Sistema de Control de Obras SCO, Sistema de documentos de Construcción, Ingeniería y Procura DOCINP, Sistema de Control de Materiales SCM, Sistema de Accidentes e Indices de Seguridad AISEG, Sistema de control de calidad de Construcción, Sistema de Información Gerencial de Gestión de Proyectos IGG. * Adicionalmente fui instructor en el CIED del taller de planificación y control de proyectos. Show less

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  INTESA (Joint Venture PDVSA- SAIC)

  Jan 1997 - Dec 2002

  IT Project Manager

  * IT Project ManagerAs Application Project Manager for Puerto La Cruz's Gas Refining and Processing clients, he managed a team of approximately 25 people and was responsible for the execution of application projects agreed with clients annually in the project portfolio ($1 million). Among the main responsibilities were the development of work plans, the recruitment of staff, procurement, quality control, risk management, scope control, control of time and costs, integration with other organizations or functions and management of the relationship with customers. The technology involved in system development are WEB (HTML, Java, XML, Corba, J2EE), Client/Server (PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Oracle Tools, etc.), Unix Servers for Oracle Database, Windows NT for File&Print and Application Servers.* Business SpecialistAs a Gas Refining and Processing business specialist for PDVSA, he was responsible for knowledge of the processes of these clients in order to generate an IT plan that would support these processes in the medium term in addition to the annual project portfolio. In 2001 and 2002 this portfolio was approximately $1 million.* Project controllerAs an application project controller, he was responsible for monitoring running projects in the East of the country, alerting them to deviations in work plans or budgets as well as consolidating and generating monthly reports on their implementation. An average of 40 projects and a budget of ($4 million) were handled in the east of the country.* SAP Proposal Consultant* IT Consultant in the PDVSA Transformation Project* Technical leader of the Primavera Project Planner (P3) Implementation project at PDVSA.July 1991 – December 1996. Pdvsa. Anzoátegui- Venezuela. Project Leader and Programmer Show less

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  SIDOR (Techint Group)

  May 2003 - Dec 2004

  Project Manager Officer (PMO)

  As the leader of the project office the main responsibilities and achievements were the formation of the PMO, i.e. the definition of roles and responsibilities, planning and control standards, the recruitment and training of personnel as well as the planning, control and monitoring of a mega project that covered different platforms, such as SAP, Mainframe, Datawarehouse and WEB Applications, The system covered the entire business and industrial cycle and in it worked more than 200 people in more 15 work fronts and a $4 million budget. Show less

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  PITS

  Dec 2003 - Nov 2011

  Director and Founder

  Among the main achievements are the coordination and realization of the first International Project Management Congress in Anzoátegui 2010 where I was president and exhibitor, obtaining and managing the project "Designing the methodology for estimating costs of exploration and production surface installations" for Repsol / YPF in Argentina, the training of almost 100 PMP through more than 12 training programs, advice and training in Project Management to recognized companies in different industries, such as, Banking (Banesco), Steel Making (SIDOR), Engineering and Construction (Inelectra, Vepica, ABB, etc.) of Software (Xpectra), oil companies (Fertinitro, PDVSA, AMERIVEN, etc.) among many others. Show less

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  MEDITOTAL

  May 2011 - Oct 2011

  AIT Corporate Manager

  Among the main achievements are the rapid implementation of adaptations to the inventory and sales system of the 27 pharmacies of the consortium, to adapt to urgent changes required by the national government, the start of the implementation of service tickets at help desk, solution of communications problems of the consortium's clinics with corporate systems and was given a significant advance in the project of implementation of SAP FI-CO-MM in the corporation.

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  GALO OIL & GAS Asignado a Pacific Rubiales Energy

  Nov 2011 - Sept 2013

  Project Advisor assigned to Pacific Rubiales Energy

  Among the main achievements as an Advisor in the Center of Excellence of the Vice Presidency of Projects, are the development of the Investment Cost Estimation Methodology (CAPEX), the evaluation of existing technologies in the market and the contracting and implementation of the corporation's technology platform in the area of cost estimates, the development of E-Learning for training in the cost estimation process and the obtaining of recognition for innovation corporate university (WUAO Effect). Show less

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  Halliburton Latin America

  Sept 2013 - Feb 2016

  Project Manager / Principal Consultant

  Among the main achievements in the Production Book project for Ecopetrol's Vice President of Production are the effective coordination of a multidisciplinary team consisting of 13 people in Colombia, 10 in India and 7 in Houston in a $3.4 million contract, the implementation of the collaborative solution of production and injection management, subsurface operations management and volumetric management, carrying the monitoring of more than 11,000 Wells, the implementation of 9 Workflows based on Good Practices, GENOMA Processes and DOF Models of industry. More than 600 national staff were trained and recognized as a 2015 technology project throughout Halliburton. Show less

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  GPROTEC

  Feb 2016 - now

  Director and Founder

  Among the main achievements are the conduct of talks and workshops on project management to various companies in the construction sector, talk of assertive communications to the Colegio Minuto de Dios, conference on Project Management at the international education congress organized by Travel & Education (T&E), dictation of the Spring P6 and Primavera Risk Analisys courses from Oracle to Petroecuador and participation as a teacher in the program of preparation for certification as a PMP University of the North in Barranquilla. Show less

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  Smartools

  Aug 2016 - Nov 2020

  Project Manager / Scrum Master

  Among the main achievements in the teaching evaluation application development project for the Ministry of Education are, improve the speed of the development team through the implementation of improvements in the process of defining user stories, the process of change control and acceptance criteria, definition of performance indicators of the different roles of the team, improve reporting and communications with the customer, restructure the team, improve overall team performance and customer satisfaction. Show less

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  Teaching & Living / Travel & Education

  Aug 2017 - Mar 2019

  General Manager

  Among the main achievements are: the definition of marketing channels with price and commission schemes (Groups, Masses, Branches and Business), The signing of alliances with Fedemunicipios, Telefónica, Avianca, Colsubsidio as well as Wholesale and Travel agencies, the implementation of CRM HubtSpot for the centralization of customer databases and tracking to leads and sales prospect, the migration to the cloud of business information for sharing, the definition of new business units, Teaching & Living and Travel & Culture to diversify revenue and share operating costs, the structuring of business holding, the creation of the VP of operations, among others. Show less

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  Primestone

  Jun 2019 - Mar 2021

  Among the main achievements are the restructuring of the software factory to transform it into the Agile area of Research and Development (R&D). The R&D was conformed with the agile PMO area, who was responsible to assign the people with the Scrum Master and/or Project Manager expertise to the projects, the area of Technical Solution Architecture where development was initiated with unit testing and following Scrum methodology, the area of Business Architecture that assigns the Product Owners with business expertise to the projects and the coordination of Quality Assurance where the area of automation of functional tests was implemented. I led the largest and most important area of the company, responsible for the development of all projects since the estimation, planning, and execution of them worldwide (NAM, LATAM, and Global Markets). In 2020 we achieved CMMI Dev Level 3 certification and prepared for ISO 9001 and 27001 certification, moved forward in the Re Architecture project for the creation of MDM (Prime Analitycs +) as a cloud service (AWS) targeting the residential market with AMI meters and we won a lot of deals in the US and Latin America markets. Show less

  • Project and Technology Director

    Jun 2019 - Mar 2021

  • Director de proyectos de TI

    Jul 2019 - Nov 2020

  • Lider de Proyectos

    Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
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  Near Shore Latam - CHUBB

  Jun 2021 - Jan 2022

  Project Manager

  Responsable por la planificación, ejecución y control de Proyectos de desarrollo a través de metodologías tradicionales y marcos ágiles.

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  Emida

  Jan 2022 - May 2022

  Software development & QA Manager
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  Globant

  May 2022 - now

  Project Manager Sr.