Ricardo de Fuente

About Ricardo de Fuente

Excellent management, negotiation and decision making skills in support of business goals - Skilled at building effective relationships with area executives, staff and customers- Strategic decision maker in applying the appropriate technology solutions to meet business needs- Effective management of large international IT operations across multiple geographic regions- Experienced integrator of domestic and international companies - Relationship builder with General Managers in countries with cultural and language diversity

Experience

1. Senior Vice President, Architecture and Technical Specifications

   Banco Sabadell

   Jul 2015 — Present

   Design solutions for strategic international expansion initiatives, including global communications, Cloud infrastructure (IaaS) and Disaster Recovery solutions (DRaaS).• Effectively negotiated with Cloud providers to migrate internal virtual environment to a pay-as-you-go model; allowing a flexible and elastic approach to manage technology in full alignment with business growth.• Reduced capital investments and operational costs by designing a model to move colocation and private data center infrastructures.• Initiated project to build a Master Data Model to integrate data and report information to Corporate Headquarters.• Initiated negotiations to externalize Service Delivery.

Education

• Florida International University

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

  1994 — 1997

Skills

• Pre-Sales
• Voip
• Data Center
• Storage
• Virtualization
• Team Leadership
• Security
• Project Management
• Managed Services
• Integration
• Itil
• Vpn
• Management
• Strategy
• Telecommunications
• Outsourcing
• Linux
• Cloud Computing
• Disaster Recovery