José Santos

Chief Digital Information Officer in charge for Abrasives Saint Gobain business managing the following IT areas - Digital Manufacturing- Industry 4.0 - Data Office - Power BI , Data Mesh and Self BI - ERP SAP Governance & Change Management - Partnership with Global Digital Organization to support and Sustain IT digital initiatives - supporting IT regional Manager on on going support application and infrastructure - IT Financial Budget Governance - IT Application Portfolio Management - IT PMO

Provide executive leadership and strategic direction for the overall Information Technology organization to ensure that the company meets its growth and business objectives, focusing on HR Systems Operations and Development and LATAM IT ERP Dev/Ops. Accountable for the delivery of IT solutions to support the changing needs of the business while also providing leadership in the IT ecosystem while maintaining our corporate cybersecurity, compliance and data privacy standards. Continuously improve and sustain an inclusive culture in which diversity provides deeper customer insights and creates a competitive advantage in the markets we serve. Build an organization that celebrates difference, learns from diverse perspectives, and values inclusion as a core foundation of our company culture. Also ERP Regional LATAM leader supporting Oracle/SAP operations and Local ecosystem.

Reporting to the GE RENEWABLE Global CIO and HYBRID Renewable global IT CIO Reporting locally LATAM to GE RENEWABLE CEO and GE BRASIL CEO Accountable globally for IT Support and Sustain for HYBRID ENERGY business in GE Renewables ( Solar , Storage , DES ) on top of my responsibilities as LATIN AMERICA Leader to support GE Renewables business ( Hydro , On Shore Wind and GRID energy distribution ) working covering the following areas under my role ERP SAP Functional Design and Development ERP SAP Operations and Development ( Change Management, Release Management, Service Support ) ERP SAP Program Deployment Leader Globally I Worldwide Implementation Template ) Project Portfolio Management for GE RENEWABLES LATAM and GE HYBRID RENEWABLES Business Project Financial Management for GE RENEWABLES LATAM and GE HYBRID RENEWABLES Business Project Delively Management LATAM infrastructure/infosec and compliance process and management LATAM Plants ( Hydro and Wind On Shore ) Innovation Process management , Board Team Members IT Budget Cost Management for LATAM IT , HYBRID business over +50M$ , managing cost out/productivity actions and tracking monthly/quarterly results. Support ERP frameworks on the Supply Chain , Logistics , Financials , Sales and Engineering areas SALESFORCE demand management process leadership Responsible for overseeing and managing Hybrid business to rollout ERP Oracle Cloud and SAP for 11 Solar business countries worldwide implementation financial, supply chain and manufacturing functionalities and capabilities. Member of Global CIO Staff , supporting and leading global initiatives around business strategic plan to IT innovation, global applications rollout , archiving initiatives and security and control process.

Currently in charge for SAP Development , Support and Sustain environment managing daily basis operations for GE RENEWABLE business. - Deployment new LE and Company Codes in SAP though Agile Methodology process engaging design and configuration teams. - Deployments improvements through a complex change management process to support localization and specific business process model enhancements. - Support SAP with L1 , L2 and L3 support levels team in 3 differents regions ( Americas, Europe and Asia ) tracking SLA , Problem MAnagement and Service Request Management. - Manage the ERP budget , demand management process, financial gap analysis and optimization cost plan, - Application Simplification process coordinator to harmonize apps across the business , producing some cost reductions, sinergies and resource support optimization. - Handle the ERP PMO Process monitoring end-to-end project cycle through CA PPM tool , intake process board and factory process.

As member of the Global Information Systems IS EXECUTIVE COMMITTE, I am responsible for the Renewable Power information systems Management Office Director, In this position, I contribute to Sector development and to the improvement of its operational efficiency. In particular I: - Support to elaborate the sector IT STRATEGY and the functional and business roadmaps - Implement and run the IT GOVERNANCE - Oversee large programs such as the implementation of SAP solutions - Contribute the Group IT TRANSFORMATION program aiming to add more value to the business, improve the QUALITY OF SERVICES and COSTS REDUCTION - Integrate and separate the IT of the acquired and sold units - Manage the impact of the IT workstation upgrade (Window 7) project on business applications - Participate to the OUTSOURCING of the data centers and application support (Level 2) projects - Managing PROJECT PORTFOLIO and PMO office for the entire sector IS - Budget of 50M€ - Manage the SECURITY and COMPLIANCE team to drive SECURITY and COMPLIANCE Methodology , Controls and Management. - Manage MULTICULTURAL teams in 9 different countries Key words: IT strategy | As-Is and To-Be landscape | PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | PMO | Enterprise and application ARCHITECTURE | APPLICATION PORTFOLIO RATIONALISATION | SaaS | Data centers | Product Life cycle management | Dashboard KPI

In• Since 2009, starting in the IS Hydro Business Manager for LATAM , responsible for all IS&T operations ( Infrastructure and applications support services and project implementation ) with Latin America scope. • 2010, get more responsibilities became a IS Americas Manager , responsible for Canada, Mexico, USA and LATAM regarding IT operations ( Network, Security , ERP Support, Service Desk , others IT services ), implement time booking systems, warehouse management solution , tax & regulations requirements apps ( GRC , etc…) • 2011, ERP SAP implementation leader for all Alstom LATAM business group working in local and global team , more than 25 Key Users, 30 solution specialist and many business people an one year project.

Technical Solutions development for Outsourcing and IT Services offerings at Brasil and Latin America. Development technical and commercial proposals ( BID ) and build a cost figures in order to support sales team. Responsible to manage the portifolio of products from Atos Origin globally and make a market account plans to work with Sales People.

• Team member representing LAM in the Outsourcing implementation between Kraft Foods and EDS. • Leading as infrastructure scope the mergers between Kraft Foods and Nabisco through especific short term project for Telecomunication and Datacenter. . • Leading the Windows Server Migration ( NT to 2000 ) and implement IT governance support and SLA. • Coordinate the Security , Compliance and Project Management Office team to support business initiatives, internal and external audit , security process and PMO approach. • Support the SAP project implementation as Steeco member and responsible for Infrastructure environment for operations, sustain and maintenance.

Leading IT Team to support 23 units in Brazil.