Highlights:15+ years of experience in the banking sector as a programmer, supervisor, and manager. Serve as a liaison and give support between stakeholders and technical areas, helping in translate business needs into functional requirements and business solutions. Manage projects from conception through implementation and closure using project management skills, knowledge, and best practices. The responsibilities with the team include a request for proposal/information (RFP/RFI), contract negotiation, business process mapping, requirements gathering, system documentation, and manage a project plan, budget, scope, resources, schedule, testing, and go-live tasks. 8+ years of experience in debit/credit card payments processing, EMV Certification support, and Card Personalization Validation (CPV). Participate in multiples positions for each project: Project Leader, Business Analyst, Technical Support Analyst, Card Payment Specialist, Business Application Tester, Web Application tester, Mobile Application Tester, and Programmer Analyst. Lead and participate in multidisciplinary teams (vendors and external partners) to ensure delivery on time and with quality. Sound knowledge in IT Project Management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Scrum methodology (Agile). Ability to communicate effectively with a technical and non-technical audience. Analytical thinker with structured problem-solving skills. Ability to assess technical problems, troubleshoot, and analyze the root of the cause. Work independently with limited direction and day to day supervision.

Skills:ISO8583, EMV, cobol, smartcard, nfc, postilion, core banking, Mastercard, Visa, ATM POS icc, project management, QA, UAT, analysis, design, Scrum

Goal:IT Engineer with 15+ years of experience and solid knowledge in Banking Systems. Practical experience in project management, analysis, implementation, and support of mid- and large-scale information systems. Extensive experience in system integration with design, development, programming, and implementation of IT solutions as well as in modeling, optimization, and automation of business processes.

Certification:Scrum Product Owner - SPOPC by Certiprof.com. Date: September 09, 2020. Scrum Foundations - SFPC by Certiprof.com. Date: August 28, 2020. https://www.youracclaim.com/users/carlos-andrade.9fae3161 English Certificate C2 by EF SET Date: August 24, 2020. https://www.efset.org/cert/Cpzuc2 Professional Scrum Master - PSM I by Scrum.org. Date: July 7, 2020. https://www.scrum.org/certificates/554664 COBOL Programming by Expertrating.com. Date: Abril 11, 2020. http://www.expertrating.com/transcript.asp?transcriptid=3803762

IT Project Manager 04/2011 - current
Girobank NV, Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles
Industry: Bank
Lead software deployments/upgrades, technology refreshes, infrastructure, and software development. Oversee projects through project lifecycle; from initiation and planning execution and control through to project close.
Participate in multiples positions for each project: Project Leader, Business Analyst, Technical Support Analyst, Card Payment Specialist, Business Application Tester, Web Application tester, Mobile Application Tester, and Programmer Analyst. Lead efforts among internal lines of business and external vendors to simplify project planning and budget allocation. Developed comprehensive business requirements documents, field mappings, project plans and, testing requirements Accountable for trailing and detailing all program releases. Perform and coordinate Test: Smoke, Functional, Exploratory, Security (Authorization and Authentication, Session Management Encryption), regression testing. Browser compatibility (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera), Network testing (Wi-Fi, 3G, Offline). Organize and execute for 8+ years the projects for card payment processing. Such as Issuing debit cards with EMV and EMV dual interface, Acquiring of EMV cards in the ATM and POS, Acquiring of EMV cards with the series 2BIN and completes the mandates released by Visa and MasterCard. Negotiated and coordinated the implementation of the system S1 Postilion version 5.3 in the local facilities of Curacao. The project includes ATM and POS driving, authorizations with the core banking, and acquiring Visa and MasterCard thru the processor company Evertec, and MDS. Manage the changes and improvements in the core banking system for the modules of Customer, Retail Accounts (DDA, Now and Saving), Deals Accounts (Time Deposit and Loan), Debit Cards Issuing, Batch Authorizations, Security, Access Log, Maintenance Logs, Online Banking, Authorizations for ATM/POS, and Mobile Banking. Manage the remote project for the development of the first banking app for Girobank: one company in India for the APP in Android and iOS and one company in Panama for the interface with the core banking. Perform all types of tests for the internal and external certifications of the POS PAX Terminals.--
IT Manager 04/2006 - 04/2011
Girobank NV, Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles
Industry: Bank
• Coordinate with the IT resources and external support the changes and improvements for the developments, testing and certifications in the banking system ICBS for the modules of Customer, Retail Accounts (DDA and saving), Deals Accounts (Time Deposit and Loan), Recurrent Payment (Standing Order) and Authorizations for ATM/POS for Cashnet.
• Coordinate with the Operations resources and the external support the changes for the developments, testing and certifications in the banking system ICBS for the project of dollarization on the island of Bonaire. This project implied the conversion of all bank accounts in the Bonaire branch from ANG currency to USD. The project was executed after midnight on December 31, 2010, as was established by the Central Bank of the Netherlands. The numbers of accounts converted were for 2,500 customers. • Managed and completed the implementation of the system S1 Postilion version 4.3 outsourced for the company Evertec in Venezuela. This system will replace the system Tallyho in the mainframe AS400. Postilion will drive the ATM, POS, and the interfaces to the host for the authorization with the system ICBS. • Assisted and completed the implementation of the system for the Short Message Service (SMS). This system will allow the customer to receive an SMS for any financial transaction in the accounts. Also, the customer will inquire about the available balance in his/her accounts. Finally, the customer can receive the same information for the financial transaction in his/her email account.--
IT Manager – Systems, Analysis and Programming 08/1993 - 06/2001
Interbank, Caracas, Venezuela
Industry: Bank
• Mentored and supported all the financial/banking systems that were in the mainframe type "A-Series" of Unisys. The programming languages were WFL, Algol, COBOL, and LINC with the Database DMSII.
• Developed and programmed the interface to connect the system Base24 and the banking system SFB. The protocol used was Base24 ISO8583-Host Interface. • Developed and completed for four (4) years the projects of issuing new Maestro Debit Card, the new network of Points of Sale (POS), the integration in the network Conexus, in the network MDS (Mastercard), and with the processor of credit cards GM Group (Evertec). • Developed and programmed the interface between Bank Miranda and the bank Interbank, both companies negotiated one platform for cross-sale of products via Branch Teller. • Developed and programmed the first automatic merger with bank Latino, this merger represented 100,000 new customers, the data converted was the Customer Information and Address, the Account information and Balance, the Last six (6) months of statements history, and the Pending Checks. • Architected and programmed the second automatic merger with bank Miranda, this merger represented 1,000,000 new customers, the data converted was the Customer Information and Address, the Account information and Balance. • Programmed the changes, during the performance testing on the mainframe A-series, in the testing facility center of UNISYS in Philadelphia, United States, in the years 1997 and 1998. For one week we were guided and mentored for the engineers of Software and Hardware with changes in the configuration to accomplish the better performance in the main computer. • Managed and mentored the third automatic merger with Bank Mercantil. The company Accenture was assigned for the Monitored and Control of all the merger process, this merger represented 3,000,000 new customers for the Bank Mercantil, the data converted was Customer Information and Address, Accounts Balance and information, Pending Charges per account, Taxation History per account and customer for the last five (5) years, last twelve (12) months of statements, Balance and Interest Information per Time Deposit, Balance and Interest Information per Loan, Schedule Payment per Loan.--

Universidad Alejandro de Humboldt 06/2001 - 06/2004
Caracas, , Venezuela
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Computer Engineering
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