Jose Maria
Puerta Gonzalez

Home Address: Palma, Majorca
D.O.B.: June 16th, 1969 (Madrid)
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SUMMARY
  • With nearly 20 years of working experience, I am a customer-facing and service oriented professional, with a high level of technical expertise and an extensive knowledge and experience in enterprise-wide processes.
  • I have an excellent ability to transform business demands into efficient solutions. I consider myself hardworking and flexible, with strong communication and team-working skills. Regarded as a good leader and a reliable and confident co-worker, I am able to quickly learn new skills.
  • My three favorite projects are my children and my preferred partner, my wife.
SPECIALTIES
  • Creating solutions, Project Management, Resource Management, Empowering people, Team Leading, Budgeting and forecasting and seasoned negotiation skills.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2012
February - Present
BARCELÓ VIAJES, PALMA - MAJORCA.
Social Media Manager.
  • Implementing the social media strategy, coordinating with stakeholders across the Company to ensure its effectiveness and encouraging adoption of relevant social media techniques into the corporate culture and into all of the company’s products and services.
  • Working with the Product Development team to ensure social media tools (for ex. FB connect, Sharing buttons) are kept up to date.
  • Managing social media campaigns and day-to-day activites. Duties include online advocacy, writing editorial, community-outreach efforts, promotions, etc.
  • Managing presence in social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, and other similar community sites, posting on relevant blogs and seeding content into social applications as needed.
  • Becoming advocate of the Company in social media spaces, engaging in dialogues and answering questions where appropriate.
  • Monitoring effective benchmarks for measuring the impact of social media programs and analyzing, reviewing, and reporting on effectiveness of campaigns in an effort to maximize results.
  • Regularly feed back insights gained from social media monitoring into the Marketing team, to help them evolve their strategies in a timely fashion.
  • Monitoring trends in social media tools, trends and applications.
2011 - 2012
October - February
PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA AND IT CONSULTANCY, PALMA - MAJORCA.
Freelance.
  • Drafting of professional social media projects applied to the enhancement of business objectives.
  • Successful implementation of a Google Apps project for 1600 users spread over 20 countries.
  • Advice for drafting outsourcing service and telecommunications proposals.
2006 - 2011
January till September
RIU HOTELS & RESORTS, PALMA - MAJORCA.
Chief Technology Officer.
  • Leading and managing an in-house IT Production & Projects Department.
  • Responsible for the following business-critical platforms:
    • ERP Oracle Financials R12 & e-Procurement Solution.
    • Property Management Systems - Rumbo & SAP R/3 TMS for Hotels.
    • Microstrategy based BI platform.
  • Microsoft based Active Directory and Applications.
  • Linux based messaging infrastructure.
  • Oracle/Solaris & IBM iSeries/AS400 based corporate infrastructure.
  • Supervision of Data-Telco facilities, international WAN across 15 countries.
  • Supervision of business-critical Datacenters (Palma / Miami).
  • SLA and service quality criteria supervision.
  • Management and supervision of external service and project suppliers.
2001 - 2006
September till January
BERGE MARITIMA, S.A., MADRID.
Chief Technology Officer.
  • Successful re-design and implementation of company computer network, virtualized desktop platform and IT services.
  • Leading and managing an in-house IT Service department.
  • Responsible for the following business-critical platforms:
    • ERP SAP R/3.
    • Citrix Metaframe (650+ users).
    • Integrated Messaging System.
    • Security systems and WAN network.
  • Microsoft based Directory and applications.
  • Unix-based corporate network.
  • Supervision of Data-Telco facilities, international WAN across 3 countries.
  • Supervision of High Availability Datacenter.
  • SLA and service quality criteria definition and management.
  • Management and supervision of external service and project suppliers.
1998 – 2001
August till August
BERGE MARITIMA, S.A., MADRID.
Senior Systems Administrator.
  • Responsible for Communications System architecture.
  • Web, mail, proxy, fax and networked teletype administration.
  • Planning, creation and maintenance of Windows NT 4.0 domains, information storage, users, printing, connection with other Operating Systems, DNS, WINS, DHCP, Routing & Ras (420 users, 45 work centres).
  • Responsible for the maintenance of systems’ security policies.
  • Design and creation of desktop client platform.
1998
February till August
INGENIERIA DE SOFTWARE AVANZADO S.A., AN IBM GLOBAL SERVICES COMPANY, MADRID.
Systems Analyst, Micro computing Windows NT Area.
  • Technical management and IT consultancy for IBM Global Services clients.
1997 – 1998
May till February
SINERGIA TECNOLOGICA (ON ATTACHMENT FOR AIRTEL MOVIL, S.A.), MADRID.
Technical Support Analyst, Distributed Systems Department, IT Area.
  • Windows NT and Corporate Tools support.
1995 – 1997
February till February
ATTACHED I+D, S.L., MADRID.
Network Administrator, Broadcast Department.
  • Windows NT Network administrator.
1991 - 1995 Various positions at a number of radio stations, including:
AGENCIA EFE & MAGIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL, MADRID/MIAMI. (international network)
Senior Sound Engineer.
ONDA CERO RADIO, MADRID. (national network)
Sound Engineer.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

1993 UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
B.A. (Hons) Philosophy Studies.
1991 UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA DE COMILLAS.
Philosophy Studies.

COURSES AND SEMINARS ATTENDED

2000
- present
I regularly attend management and technical seminars of IT Market Leaders (HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, T-Systems, Accenture, Alcatel-Lucent, Telefonica, British Telecom, Cisco, …).
2011 Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander.
Speaker at the First TIE Meeting, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
2010
June
Morse, Palma.
ITIL V3 Foundation.
2008
May
itSMF Spain & Carlos III University, Madrid.
III Interacademic Congress itSMF Spain: Merging Technologies in Organizations with ITIL.
2004
May
Tea-Cegos & FranklinCovey, Madrid.
“Corporate Values, Success Keys in XXIth Century Organizations” seminar.
2001
April
Iniciativas Empresariales, Madrid.
“New approaches to computer security” seminar.
1999
October
Winmat, Madrid.
Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server and Citrix Metaframe training course.
1995
April - June
Asociacion de Jovenes Empresarios, Madrid. “Leadership in small and medium enterprise” and “Organisational Techniques” training courses.
1992
November
Cruz Roja Española, Madrid.
“Leadership and team management” training course.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Technology Extensive knowledge of IT infrastructure design, OS's (Windows/Unix), business enterprise solutions and telecommunications.
Management Team leadership, project and resource management, budgetary control and proven negotiation skills.
ITIL-driven design and implementation of IT services (ITSM).

LANGUAGES

English Reading: proficient, Speaking: fair, Writing: fair.
Italian Some knowledge at conversational and written level.

OTHER INFORMATION

I am available for an interview at your convenience.
Prepared to travel as and when required. I will consider relocation.

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