Antonio Farias

Result-driven professional working more than 28 years in IT area adding value to Company Business. Currently serving as CIO and CTO of the Mobilize Financial Services. Iinterfaces with Nissan, Renault and Santander. Large experience in management of professionals at local and corporate headquarters in multiple remote locations as well. Trained in talent retention and employee motivation programs. Skilled in team and process integration for different countries and cultures. Strong SAP implementation knowledge especially in governance models, defining landscapes and general aspects of infrastructure. Expert in IT strategy versus budget control, especially for centralized operation with multi countries complexity. Advanced multi language professional: Portuguese (native), English, French and Spanish. Other Skills: APIs, Micro-Services, RPA, Cloud environments, Devops Agile Development (Scrum) BI Strategy Cloud, Big Data, Mobile Strategy. Network (Lan/WAN), Servers (HP, Sun, Intel), Storages (EMC) and Backups Architectures. Systems development and integration. Service deliveries (Help-Desk, Back office, Operations) with ITIL methodology. SLAs and Maintenance Contract Negotiation. SAP implementation, migration, upgrades and basis knowledgement. Technology research. Leadership of highlighted projects in the last 2 companies: Renault : From January until September 2013 led Salesforce Project implementation for Brazil. This project impacted all the sales pipeline for entire company. Interacted with pre and after-sales and mkt depts. Implemented the new strategy and training for the dealers. Served as project Focal point with Salesforce in France and USA. Mobilize FS : From August 2020 to April 2023, led and implemented the "Connect" program. This major project delivered all the functionalities from origination to after-sales of the financing process and services added to a vehicle through cutting-edge solutions that include connectivity between Renault, Nissan and Mobilize e-commerce, multichannel, 100% API , 100% Cloud, 100% microservices.