Eduardo Cortes
Who I am
IT Engineer, specialized in delivery of services for multinational customers. Always surrounded by a talented team whom I can rely on for high quality services.
Full-time employee for a great company of 15K associates, where my role consists of deliver what was promised, and believe me, it’s a challenge.
Profile
Computing Engineer, with experience in medium size software development projects.
Certified as Project Management Professional since 2011.
15 years delivering IT services for US customers, either as an assigned contractor or as manager of a team.
Accomplishments
3 times awarded as representative of the 0.1% of the outstanding employees.
Increased the operation size of my biggest account by twice in 2 years, to include 2 countries.
Standardized the project tracking of the services under my control, that aligns expectation of my reports, and includes the 5 main areas of health of each service delivered.
Increased the customer satisfaction from complaining from committed services to “the best and smoothest transition ever”
Contributions
Developed an Excel tool to model cost and time planning for contracts, which changed the behavior of the whole company, the profitability, and the mindset from the financial perspective.
Digitized a set of quality trainings (Six Sigma & LEAN) so they be available for my whole team.
Developed a role that assists managers and encapsulates management and financial activities, this would allow managers to focus more on things that matter.
Standardized the Knowledge Transition process and topics for service Managers so every change flows with less gaps.
Skills
Project Management methodology (PMP) under PMI.
Application of ITIL for the services delivered.
Executive reporting of projects and services.
Basic understanding of Agile Scrum methodology.
Escalation and conflict resolution.
Teaching to team-members and team-leaders, sharing knowledge across anyone who may need it.
Management of an account of up-to 120 team-members.
Soft Skills
Communication
Conflict resolution
Facilitation of meetings towards reaching actions.
Other Skills
SQL
Visual Basic for Applications
Visual Basic Scripting
MS Power BI
MS Power Query
Blender Video Editor and 3D modeler
FreeCad
MS Office
Education
Bachelor’s degree in computing engineering.
Improvement of Management Competencies, Business Administration and Management
Certifications
Project Management Professional - PMP
ITIL - Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
Six Sigma Green Belt
Hobbies
Design and construction of digital and analog electronic projects.
3D Printing with a printer built by myself of type FDM (Fused Deposition of Material), that includes PLA and ABS.
3D Design of pieces to be 3D printed, with the use of FreeCad and Blender software.
Running half marathons.