Melisa Avila

Current

• Project Management/Project Coordinator in Business Intelligence Area at Infosys Technologies Ltd

Past

• Business Objects Analyst and Developer at Softtek (GE Capital Energy Financial Services)
• Release Manager and Business Analyst at Softtek (GE Commercial Finance)
• Consulting at Deloitte

• Software Developer / Systems Administrator at GE Ddemesis

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Education

• Kanazawa Institute of Technology (JAPAN)
• Instituto Tecnologico de Aguascalientes (ITA)

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Industry

Computer Software

Melisa Avila’s Summary

Primary Profile: Business Analyst and Project Manager (for Business Intelligence technology - Business Objects 6.5 and XI R2)

Secondary Profile: Process Definition and Management Activities; Audit and Sox compliance

Melisa Avila’s Specialties:

Project Management Course (Aguascalientes, Mexico January 2009)
Green Belt for 6 Sigma Class (Aguascalientes, Mexico February 2008)
IDM Administration (Aguascalientes, Mexico November, 2007)
Security and audit for Oracle Financials and More by MIS Training Institute (Michoacan, Mexico July 2006)
SQL Server ( Aguascalientes, Mexico April 2005)

Languages

Spanish native
English – TOEFL: 531, TOEIC : 820
Japanese intermediate level
French – Basic Level

Melisa Avila’s Experience

• Project Management/Project Coordinator in Business Intelligence Area

  Infosys Technologies Ltd

  (Public Company; INFY; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2009 — Present (3 months)

• Business Objects Analyst and Developer

  Softtek (GE Capital Energy Financial Services)

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 1 month)

  Responsible of gathering requirements for reporting creation of 6 financial applications utilized at GE Capital Energy Financial Services to bring the business closer to the business critical information that they need to make timely and accurate decisions.
  
  Maintenance of the universes using Business Objects Designer, in order to establish a basis for reports creation.
  
  Participation in the upgrade from BO version 6.5 to BO XI R2 adapting the existing reports to the new in-built functionalities in the XI version.
  
  Responsible of providing operational status to the client as the project leader.
  
  
  Functional Experience: Project Manager, Business Analyst, Developer and Process Oriented for tracking of maintenance activities.
  
  Tools: Business Objects 6.5, Business Objects XI R2, PL/SQL Developer, SVN Repository, Caliber, Star Team, MS Project.

• Release Manager and Business Analyst

  Softtek (GE Commercial Finance)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  Responsible of managing the integration of the Sox Level 1 and Mission Critical Applications into IDM, these apps. are relevant due to the financial impact at GE Commercial Finance. The IDM application permits the compliance with the Sarbanes Oxley Law. The activities for these roles involve: provide status to the GE Customer about the progress of the project to accomplish requirements and goals, assure the resources for this project, customer and user satisfaction, among others.
  
  Responsible of the Release Management activities based on ITIL concepts. The activities performed are coordination and controls revision for: QA, Stage and Production Releases; Technical Acceptance Testing and User Acceptance Testing; Go Live activities readiness in order to assure successful implementation of new application and enhancements in IDM.
  
  Participation in the Implementation process of new application into IDM as Business Analyst in the Requirements Gathering phase understanding the As-Is Process in order to design the To-Be process based on IDM Solutions.
  
  6 sigma project to reduce the rework in the IDM rollout process.
  
  
  
  Functional Experience: Project Manager, Release Manager, Business Analyst, Systems Maintenance
  
  Tools: Identity Manager from SUN, MS Project Management, MS Visio, SVN Repository, Clarify, Tortoise

• Consulting

  Deloitte

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 3 months)

  Responsible of the revision for the Corporate Governance regarding Sarbanes Oxley (404) in an international electronic manufacturing company, and an international Call Center.
  
  Responsible of the General Computer Controls revision, supported by AS/2 methodology and for different government and private industries.
  
  Participation in projects for Antimoney Laundering revision and Due Diligence in order to develop the report on the application of agreed-upon procedures for National and International Brokerage Houses.
  
  Development and implementation of the report on the application of agreed-upon procedures for fraud detection in an application system for a domestic pharmaceutical company.
  Participation in projects for Sarbanex Oxley Readiness; development of automatic test controls in an important airline Company
  
  Functional Experience: General Computer Controls Infobase based on COBIT and SOX methodology
  
  Tools: ACL- Audit Command Language, RACK - Risk and Controls Knowledgebase and Infobases

• Software Developer / Systems Administrator

  GE Ddemesis

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2001 — January 2004 (2 years 4 months)

  Supervision and Development of Data Warehouse projects for GE Treasury in the data extraction phase (ETL) using Informatica for data maintenance and transformation, and also in the presentation of business information to support better business decision making using Business Intelligence Tools (Power Play and Business Objects)
  
  Supervision and Development of Web Applications for GE Power Systems using JSP's, Tomcat and data bases like SQL Server and Oracle
  
  Project Control, Maintenance and Support, Quality Help Desk Reviewer for GE Power Systems, responsible of the development for the Score Card Web Application; entering information pertain to a Help Desk in order to measure the service provided based on 6Sigma Measurements; Maintenance and Administration of the application and customer contact.

Melisa Avila’s Education

• Kanazawa Institute of Technology (JAPAN)

  Research Work , Computer , 2004 — 2004

  Training Curse in Computer ( Research Work) as a JICA Student

  Activities and Societies:

  Project Research development using metadata from ETL applications to provide meaningful data using a front end built in JAVA.

• Instituto Tecnologico de Aguascalientes (ITA)

  Bachelor in Computer Science ,

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