Adriana Pavón Navarrete

• Accountable of managing a diverse portfolio of projects and programs, driving the CFO organization’s growth and operational excellence, delivering substantial value in efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation fostering collaboration and long-term partnership. • Provide end-to-end oversight for strategic initiatives covering business and technology programs bridges the gap between strategic vision and project execution. • Identify and prioritize issues or risks and define recommended action to mitigate risks, resolve issues, and minimize negative impacts on escalated projects. • Executive reporting and close collaboration through projects with Business Unit Leads including the Execution Success Office Reporting.

• Manage global projects across Hitachi Vantara's Business Units. From strategic initiatives focused on revenue generation and cost improvement to solutions implementations to simplify, improve, update and standardize processes and policies across the globe. Including planning, German Works Council approval process submission and follow-up, stakeholder management, hosting sessions, security roles, training for speakers and reporting. • Executive reporting and close collaboration through projects with Business Unit Leads including Hitachi Vantara President, COO, CFO, Chief of Staff, VPs and other senior roles including the Execution Success Office Reporting. • Coach Junior resources from the PMO Team including waterfall, agile and hybrid methodologies, stakeholder management, technical aspects on software implementations, process improvement, project management tools (MS Project, JIRA, Planner and others). • Expand Project Management Office processes, templates and best practices across the team and other areas through networking. • HOLA! ERG Extended Council member and Culture Pillar co-lead. Hispanic and Latin ERG at Hitachi.

• Strategic deal management support from the opportunity, deal closing until project execution to accomplish customers Digital Transformation including operational and organizational objectives. • Analyze and provide recommendations on project structure and performance from a financial perspective to CFO, controlling and sales. Ensure that deal proposals are competitive and compliant withing the business including an accurate cost estimation. • Manage process, system and local and regional team members to release global process optimization and tool implementation (CallidusCloud CPQ). • Financial trusted advisor working closely with sales, pre-sales, delivery teams, risk management and legal department to deliver a successful value proposal. • Safeguard compliance and ensure efficient administrative processing of the deals (IFRS15 and SOX).

• Project Manager accountable of cloud and on-premise solutions delivery including projects de-escalation (Project Budget from 350K USD to 1M USD). • Lead and develop cross-functional and cross-cultural project team, manage resource assignments (10+ members: internal, external and third-party suppliers) to reach customer projects success applying best practices and personalized recommendations. • Manage budget, schedule, travel expenses and project costs, and deliver project forecast (Improve project margin up to 4% per project). • Ensure high-quality deliverables following methodology, procedures and tools scope to ensure customer satisfaction. • Identification, analysis, mitigation and monitoring of risks and issues and communication to C-level stakeholders and Project Management Office. • Develop and execute plan to de-escalate project and return to normal operation with lowest costs. • Design of Sales Executive Presentations to key Accounts (Deal Model Award 2013) and executive reports. Solutions On-premise and SaaS: • Human Resource Management System (SuccessFactors) • Business Intelligence and Analytics (BusinessObjects Cloud) • E-commerce (Hybris Commerce) • ERP (SAP ERP) • Customized Solution (RICEFW) Customer Industries: Consumer (CPG), Public Sector, oil and gas. Main Customers: Coca-Cola FEMSA, El Palacio de Hierro, Mexichem, MABE and Azul Concretos. Methodologies: Agile, waterfall, hybrid, SAP ASAP, SAP RDS Methodology and SAP Activate. 

• Member of the strategic planning team, support forecasting, scheduling and monitoring groups. Leader of the Academic Quality Committee of the Department. Including design, development, implementation and documentation of processes. • Project leader of the Environment, Health and Safety standards implementation on laboratories. • Perform Excel reports, executive presentations and media-communication adviser.

ITIL Systems Engineer in Network Operations Center (NOC) and responsible of Service Desk Remedy. Team leader in process design and implementation of best practices of ITIL project. Train to other team members on ITIL best practices and design of KPIs to measure related processes.

Implement best practice methodologies such as ITIL and COBIT to improve management of existing IT processes.

The program covered the following Modules: • General Business Administration • Management Accounting • Financial Accounting and Taxation • Investment and Financing