Luis Carrasco

Current

Manager at Delphin Project Hunting

Past

EMEA IT Services and Infrastructure Manager at Seminis (Monsanto Group)
Manager at Accenture

Education

APICS - American Production and Inventory Control Society
EAE Escuela Administración Empresas Barcelona
Universidad Politécnica Cataluña

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Luis Carrasco’s Summary

Business results oriented mindset with a broad vision of technology as enabler of strategies and business processes of companies.

Strong technical and managerial background and more than 15 years of experience in IT, most of them selling, launching and managing complex projects in the Consumer goods, Services, Retail, Real State and Pharma sectors.

I'm now interested in Social Media, SaaS, Cloud Computing, agile methodologies, new trends... applied to Enterprise and Business Information Management Systems.

You may contact me by:

e-mail ---> luiscu[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Skype ---> luiscu
GTalk --> luiscu[AT]gmail[DOT]com
My Blog --> www.nodoTIC.com

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Luis Carrasco’s Specialties:

ERP • BPM • IT management and Governance • IT Services • Project Management • Outsourcing • Technology • Information Systems • Process Improvement • eBusiness • CIO • CTO • OpEx and CapEx Management • Cost reductions • IT International Executive • Internet • Social Media • Web 2.0 • Cloud computing • SaaS

Luis Carrasco’s Experience

Manager

Delphin Project Hunting

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

Consulting and Project Management
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Learning a lot about:
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* Sales of complex Projects
* Customer Management
* Process Improvement
* Cost reduction
* Outsourcing
* Information Systems and Technology.

In projects of:
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* Selection and implementation of Business Information Systems: ERP, CRM, HCM, BPM, ECM
* IT costs reduction
* Employee Portals
EMEA IT Services and Infrastructure Manager

Seminis (Monsanto Group)

(Privately Held; Biotechnology industry)

January 2004 — December 2005 (2 years )

Regional EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa ) IT Manager in charge of a team of 15 people spread out in 5 countries responsible of IT services to 900 users spanning 15 countries. Reporting to Regional VP and (dotted) Worldwide IT Director.

I learned a lot about:
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* Manage a multinational team in a very dynamic organization
* IT Services Management and Organization
* IT Infrastructure
* Sarbanes&Oxley and IT Audit
* IT Budgeting
* IT CapEx and OpEx management

In projects of:
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* Development of a IT Profit Oriented service model for the EMEA Region
* Unification of the hardware equipment purchasing across EMEA Region
* Design and set up of a unified IT budgeting model across EMEA Region
* Sarbanes&Oxley IT audit of Asia-Pacific and North America Regions of Seminis
* Improvement and maintenance of IT infrastructures
* IT setup for new locations in The Netherlands and Kenya
Manager

Accenture

(Public Company; ACN; Financial Services industry)

March 1992 — March 2003 (11 years 1 month)

Sales and management of business consulting projects.

I learned a lot about:
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* IT Outsourcing and cost reduction.
* Organization, Process Improvement, Systems and Technology.
* Launching of eBusiness new companies and Projects.
* Information Systems Development and roll-out Projects.
* Team and Customer Management

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Luis Carrasco’s Education

APICS - American Production and Inventory Control Society

CPIM Certification , Production and Inventory Management , January 1994 — December 1997
EAE Escuela Administración Empresas Barcelona

Executive MBA , Business Administration , September 1995 — December 1996
Universidad Politécnica Cataluña

Engineer , Telecommunications , September 1984 — June 1990