Ivan L.

Experience

• 

  Johnson Controls

  Sept 2004 - Jul 2007

  IT Coordinator

  Coordinator of the IT department for a JIT Plant. As a coordinator I ensured the business operation for Infrastructure and communications, as well as cost reduction and savings increase with Six Sigma projects.Remarkable.- Six sigma. Green belt certification. Generate projects to reach Hard and Soft savings.- Provide Intranet services on web to improve communication for employees.- Real time monitors on shop floor and Web interface to display plant operation status.- Launch 100% Wireless environment to reduce costs of layout changes for Networking on shop floor.- Launch of new plant layout including infrastructure and Networking communications. Show less

• 

  Magna International

  Aug 2007 - now

  Lead Greenfield/Brownfield, M&A, Close-Out/Divestiture/Carve-Outs, JV and SWAT projects in the Americas region:• Manage the regional GF/BF services (IT service and process related topics)• Support business activities in the region for any IT and business process related topics• Coordinate all project parties (internal and external) to obtain successful outcomes• Support business hiring proper IT personnel and provide Magna Global IT conform training• Maintain the Know-How for the relevant domains in the region and share it with other regions• Roll-out and develop global standards, processes and methodologies with the proper tool-kits and know-how's• Identify resource or training gaps in the divisions / locations• Execute and force audits in line with Magna Global IT Standards• Understand and consult interfaces (in & out of product)• Create and maintain project budgets and manage cost & revenue, quality of deliverables and timeline• Manage GF/BF services in alignment with the global strategy• Manage the design, maintenance, development and evaluation of GF/BF methodology / processes / solutions in the region• Track and monitor performance of processes & services within the region• Responsibility for proper project controlling, billing and reporting• Understand business expectations• Keep and stay up to date with services of other Global IT domains• Stay in close contact with Operations and Business Relationship Management• Identify opportunities, risk and constraints for IT to enhance the business• Provide input to and force the continual improvement of services Show less Experience of 4 years in management position in which the main role is to ensure the streamlined operation of the IT Department in alignment with the business objectives of the organization at 4 locations, 3 plants at Toluca, MX and 1 plant at Puebla, MX. The role of the IT Business Unit Manager is to plan, coordinate, direct and design IT-related activities of the organization to provide administrative direction, as well as ensuring the support for daily operational activities of the department.Remarkable.- Management. Project Management - PMi Methodology. Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance. Organizational Structure with RASI Matrix. Succession Planning. Local policies. - Enterprise Resource Planning. EDI, MRP, Shop Floor control within the ERP and Satellital System. Systems for inbound and outbound logistics. Supplier Web Services.- Sequencing System (JIT) and Repetitive Manufacturing Operations. Live Broadcast. Disaster Recovery Plans for every scenario of failure.- Infrastructure. Wireless solutions. High Availability and Critical scenario backups. EMC / SAN / Clustering / Mirroring solutions. RFID. Extended Life Program for Hardware (Preventive and Corrective Maintenance Programs). Virtualization services empowered by VMWare and NetApp.- Communications. Hybrid PBX IP/Voice over VPN tunneling. Virtual Private Networking and MPLS (Corporate Networking). RF Connectivity. Emergency Communication Backup Systems. Secured WLAN isolated for visitors. Migrate from 2 Mbps to 30 Mbps on MPLS, VPN and Internet services.- Scope. 4 plants (3 at Toluca, MX. 1 at Puebla, MX.) 10 people reporting to the IT Business Unit Manager. Toluca Support coverage, 2 scenarios at different locations: 24 hrs x 7 days a week coverage support /19 hrs x 6 days a week coverage support. Puebla Support cover: Infrastructure and maintenance programs. Show less Coordinator of the IT Department for 2 plants and 2 launches during the same year. As a Coordinator, I provided project management for the launch of 2 plants in 6 months to reach customer operations for JC49 program including Infrastructure, communications, ERP within 10 people internal and 6 external consultants.Remarkable.- ERP. Reach Electronic Invoice process standards as a customer requirements, it helped reduce collections from 6 months to immediately.- ERP / Infrastructure. Scanning process for Receipts and Shipping processes to improve Inventory Accuracy, it helped reducing time of operation and accuracy on the information.- ERP / Infrastructure. Provide support for materials and operations through direct follow up with supervisors on Inventory transactions and reach at least 98% of accuracy on the inventory.- Infrastructure. Render through intranet services and web applications important and critical information as releases, FG and WIP Inventories for managers and supervisors.- Management. Guarantee the support 7 x 24 on manufacturing operation, situation that helped operation to provide double requirements on customer increases by avoiding shutdowns by IT.- Internal MAGNA SOX Audit requirements accomplished. Show less

  • Program Manager

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Senior Project Manager

    Jun 2019 - Jan 2023

  • IT Business Unit Manager

    Feb 2010 - Dec 2022

  • IT Coordinator

    Aug 2007 - Feb 2010