Marcelo Omar Fernández

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• 1999: M.B.A. in Management Information Systems. Universidad del Salvador, Argentina.

This M.B.A. has the same program that the equivalent M.B.A. in the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. Due to an agreement between Universidad del Salvador and the School of Business of SUNY, faculty members of SUNY teach some courses in Argentina.

• 1992: Licenciado en Informática (B.S. degree in Computer Science). Latin American School of Informatics (ESLAI), University of Luján, Argentina.

The Latin American School of Informatics (ESLAI) was created in 1985 as a joint project of the United Nations-UNESCO, the European Community, and the Argentine government. It acquired a solid reputation in the Computer Science community for excellence in education and research. The School was regularly visited by researchers from leading universities of the world, who taught courses and supervised dissertations in their areas of interest.
Each year, thirty five students from all the countries of Latin America were admitted; selection was based on antecedents and on the results of an exam.
The Diploma requires five to six years of course work, a four-month internship to further links with industry and a final thesis. Considering its requirements, it is between the B.S. and M.S. degrees of the American educational system.

• May 2002 - Present: Oracle/PeopleSoft/J.D. Edwards, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Project Manager - Latin American Consulting Division (2007-Present)

• Currently managing the upgrade project from OneWorld Xe and WorldSoftware A7.3 to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 for Aceitera General Deheza S.A. covering the following modules: GL, AR, AP, PO, FA, SOP, IM, WHS and TMS. The project team is constituted by 11 consultants.
• Managed the currency conversion project of Oracle Financials’ GL, AR, AP, FA, PO and iExpenses modules for McDonald’s Venezuela due to the local currency change. In this project, I was in charge of a team of 4 consultants.
• Responsible of defining the upgrade plan from OneWorld Xe to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 for Grupo Arcor. The project consisted in the definition of tasks, time, resources, deliverables and methodology to upgrade Purchasing, Inventory, Production and Planning processes implemented in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and USA. To complete this project I lead a team of 8 consultants.

Principal Applications Engineer/Team Leader - Applications Development Division (2002-2007)

• In several situations I temporarily replaced the manager in charge of the Argentina Offshore Development Center for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne product’s localizations. The supervised team was constituted by 14 members (team leaders and developers) reporting to the organization in the USA.
• Supervised a team of 4 developers to develop and support the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne product’s localizations (releases Xe, 8.0, 8.9, 8.10, 8.11, 8.11 SP1 and 8.12) for countries in EMEA, Asia and Latin America regions on Sales Order Processing, Inventory and Account Receivable modules. The major accomplishment were:
  • Successfully develop localizations for Chile, Peru, Russia, Poland, India, Czech Republic and Hungary
  • Add functionalities to Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Belgium and Ireland localizations to fulfill country-specific legal requirements
• Applied software engineering quality techniques to meet the requirements of ISO9001:2000 (iterative development model, design peer reviews, code reviews, etc.).
• Experience working in multidisciplinary, culturally diverse and geographically distributed teams.
• Developed custom applications for the customer Inversiones Centenario (Peru).
• Provided consulting on custom development to the customer Nuevo Central Argentino S.A.

• August 2001 - May 2002: Tradecom Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Project Leader

• Implemented e-Procurement platforms (Commerce One's Auction and BuySite products) in Banco Galicia.
• Developed e-Procurement projects proposals for Telecom Argentina and Grupo Clarín.
• Received training on e-Procurement tools (SAP's Enterprise Buyer Professional Edition and Commerce One's BuySite and Auction) and theirs integration possibilities with ERPs and Marketplaces.

• December 1996 - August 2001: Grupo ASSA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Senior Consultant

• Managed the Development Area of the Argentina’s Support Center of J.D. Edwards OneWorld, supervising a team of 7-10 developers in order to:
  • Support OneWorld’s Argentinean localizations (releases B73.2.1, B73.3.1, B73.3.2 and Xe) for more than 80 customers
  • Add new functionalities to the software
  • Generate and distribute software updates to customers
  • Ensure the use of the J.D. Edwards development standards and define procedures for the development team and for its interaction with the Call Center
• One-year temporary position in the J.D. Edwards' Headquarters at Denver, Colorado (U.S.A.) to work on the design and development of the OneWorld’s Argentinean localizations of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Sales Order Processing modules.
• Customized implementations of OneWorld on large customers like Shell and SanCor. In the SanCor project I led a team of 5 developers, comprising Grupo ASSA consultants and customers' employees, to design and develop OneWorld’s customizations.
• Received formal training in U.S.A. and Mexico on the OneWorld development tools (applications, UBEs and Business Functions in C programming language) and CNC (package built, ESU generation and installation, etc.).
• Trained Grupo ASSA consultants and customers in OneWorld technical foundation and development tools.

• November 1994 - December 1996: Banco del Buen Ayre, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Senior Software Analyst/Developer

• Analyzed and redesigned bank's internal processes.
• Designed and developed client/server applications using object oriented programming language (MS Visual C++) and SQL on Windows platform.
• Defined standards for the bank's LAN administration (security, backups, etc.).
• Administered the bank's LAN consisting of 3 Novell servers and about 150 Windows users.

• May 1992 - November 1994: IBM Argentina S.A. (Government and Public Services Division), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Systems Engineer

• Conducted a project in Ministerio de Salud y Acción Social to install a LAN network with RISC System/6000 servers and terminals.
• Designed and developed a communication software (using the C programming language and TCP/IP sockets) between RISC System/6000 and a mainframe platforms for the project Administración del Padrón de Aportantes in Dirección General Impositiva.
• Provided pre-sale support of GIS (Geographic Information System) software.
• Provided technical support for the GIS software Spans GIS, Spans MAP and VISION* to customers (CONICET-Grupo OIKOS, Catastro de la provincia de Mendoza, etc.).
• Developed GIS pilot projects in Dirección General Impositiva and Dirección General de Inmuebles de la Provincia de Salta.

• Mayo 1991 - Mayo 1992: IBM Argentina S.A. (Computer Research and Advanced Applications Group - GICAA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  Group Director: Ph.D. Jorge L. C. Sanz (IBM Almaden Research Center, U.S.A.)

Research Assistant

• Developed distributed applications on RISC System/6000 with AIX (Unix) operating system using the C programming language and TCP/IP and UDP communication protocols.
• Designed and developed a distributed Programming Environment and Run-Time Support for compute-intensive jobs on workstations networks.
• Developed novel techniques for optimizing compilers used in massively parallel programming languages.
• Co-authored several papers that were published on important international conferences (Information Processing Letters, 9th IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium, 2nd ACM Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-Time Environments for Distributed Memory Multiprocessors, 18th Latin American Computer Science Conference and 21st Argentine Conference on Computer Science and Operations Research).

• Geographic Information Systems
  University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1^st and 2^nd, 1992.

• Geographic Information Systems
  University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, September 23-25^th, 1992.

• Compilation Techniques and Optimizations for the Occam Programming Language
  21^st Argentine Conference on Computer Science and Operations Research (JAIIO'92), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 11-14^th, 1992.

• Oracle Project Management Summit 2008
  (training program for Oracle Latin-American’s Project Managers)
  IAE Business School, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008.
   
• SAP20 - R/3 Overview
  SAP50 - R/3 Basis Technology
  LO020 - Processes in Procurement
  SAP Argentina S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, Año 2001.

• OneWorld Change Management
  J.D. Edwards Training Center, Mexico City, Mexico, 2000.

• OneWorld Architecture and Configurable Network Computing
  OneWorld Common Foundation
  OneWorld Development Tools
  Business Function Programming
  C Programming for Business Function Development
  OneWorld Report Writing
  J.D. Edwards Training Center, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., 1997.

• VISION* Distributor Training Course
  GeoVision Training Center, GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Canada, 1993.

• Systems Integration Fundamentals
  Project Administration School, Latin American Education Center, IBM Argentina S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994.

• Projects Administration
  Project Administration School, Latin American Education Center, IBM Argentina S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994.

• Efficient Management of Multiple Outstanding Timeouts, Guillermo A. Alvarez and Marcelo O. Fernández. Information Processing Letters, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 139-145, Ed. Elsevier-North Holland, May 1995.

• Run-Time Support for Asynchronous Parallel Computations, Guillermo A. Alvarez, Marcelo O. Fernández, Rogelio A. Alvez, Sylvia Rodriguez, Julio A. Sánchez Avalos and Jorge L. C. Sanz. 9^th IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS'95), Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A., April 1995.

• Distributed Run-Time Environment for Data Parallel Programming, Rogelio A. Alvez, Marcelo O. Fernández, Julio A. Sánchez Avalos, Guillermo A. Alvarez and Jorge L. C. Sanz. Accepted as a POSTER presentation in the 2^nd ACM Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-Time Environments for Distributed Memory Multiprocessors, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., September 1992.

• Optimizing Compilation for Occam on a Time-Sharing System (in Spanish), Guillermo A. Alvarez, Daniel O. Bandinelli, Marcelo O. Fernández and Gustavo A. Rosini. 18^th Latin American Computer Science Conference (PANEL'92), Las Palmas, Spain, August 1992.

• Compilation Techniques and Optimizations for the Occam Programming Language (in Spanish), Guillermo A. Alvarez, Daniel O. Bandinelli, Marcelo O. Fernández and Gustavo A. Rosini. 21^st Argentine Conference on Computer Science and Operations Research (JAIIO'92), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1992.

• Spanish (native language).
• English (very good written and spoken communication skills).