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Carlos García Molina

CIO

Carlos García Molina
Madrid, Spain

Experience

Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
5 months

CIO

Europ Assistance

  • Led the IT department with the objective of finishing digitalization: customer service bot using Genesys, WhatsApp and Dialogflow.

  • Data analysis in Azure Data Lake.

  • RPAs using UiPath and MuleSoft RPA (not only as an API manager).

  • Reduced IT budget from €14M to €9.7M.

Aug 2019 - Present
6 years 8 months

Senior IT & Business Project Manager/Program Manager/Interim CIO & CTO

Freelance

  • Advice and project management providing solutions in various sectors and environments.

  • B2B portal for an industrial multinational in EMEA (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, UK …) with SAP as ERP.

  • e-Learning solution for a manufacturing of dairy products.

  • Creation of the Transformation office of an insurance company.

Feb 2018 - Aug 2019
1 year 7 months

Chief Operating Officer (COO) leading digital transformation

IMA

  • Led digital transformation and change management of Operations in Spain and Portugal.

  • Provided 24/7 services in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese to customers of Auto, Home, Healthcare and Travel, both in the Iberian Peninsula and globally.

  • Member of local Board.

  • Designed strategic plan to automate business processes using semantic voice recognition (NLP – Lex AWS), omnichannel contact center with ASR/TTS (Nuance), BPM (Bonita Soft) and RPA (Nice); executed first phase.

  • Rolled out MS Power BI as a complementary tool to Business Objects for better visual analysis and reporting and implemented a multimedia e-Learning system.

Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
2 years 3 months

Head of Operations

AEGON

  • Led back-office teams (184 FTE including consultants and temporary staff) working on pension funds, life, disability, home, P&C and health insurance.

  • Managed a total budget of €8M (excluding FTE costs) in more than 2.6M operations per month delivering services to 915K customers through direct, agents, brokers, branch offices and bancassurance (Banco Santander and Liberbank).

  • Designed and implemented back-office strategic plan aimed at boosting effectiveness, quality of service, people management and customer experience; operation effectiveness increased 47.2% between 2015 and 2017 by implementing Lean Management and digitalizing processes.

Jul 2009 - Mar 2015
5 years 9 months

Service Operations Director and IT Director

CIGNA

As Information Technology Director (CIO):

  • Designed and implemented IT strategic plan.

  • Introduced IT governance model based on project management methodology, SLAs and KPIs.

  • Implemented big data and business intelligence solutions.

  • Created an omnichannel platform using Salesforce (CRM) and Hermes-Vocalcom (contact center) tools to support customer and sales call centers.

  • Led roll out of alliance in Spain between Cigna and ING NN both from a technological and operational level.

  • Built and kept continuously updated a BCP, performing two real tests per year.

  • Established a BPM tool to manage business processes, set up KPI and SLA follow-up.

As Service Operations Director (COO):

  • Drove consistent and more integrated performance standards with 48% increase in operations productivity over three years while maintaining quality higher than 99.5%, handling 1.4M claims per year, total cost of €59M and managing 28K network providers.

  • Built a multilingual back-office center to deliver customer support worldwide.

  • Reduced backlog up to 78% in four years achieving zero backlog several times.

  • Designed and implemented the Fraud Prevention and Detection Unit and Claims Recovery Costs Unit.

  • Set up policies enrolment and fulfillment in less than 24 hours, dispatched policies T&C documents in less than 48 hours, customer reimbursements in less than three working days, payments to network providers in less than ten days and call center abandonment calls less than 4%, all in accordance with customer SLAs.

Feb 2007 - Mar 2009
2 years 2 months

Organization and Information Systems Director

AstraZeneca

  • Designed and oversaw implementation of IT strategic plan: Siebel as CRM, SAP as ERP, Documentum as electronic document management system, business intelligence and data warehouse (Analytics, Business Objects, Cognos).

  • Implemented IT governance model: project management methodology, IT service catalogue and SLAs.

  • Carried out a mobility solution (VPN, smartphones, UMTS/3G) for connecting 700 sales agents.

  • Liaised with corporate IT to institute global projects (CRM, data warehouse).

Feb 1997 - May 2006
9 years 4 months

South Europe Information Systems Director (including Iberian Peninsula IT Manager and IT Manager of Serono Spain)

Serono

  • Designed and implemented an IT strategic plan.

  • Led a multi-cultural IT team and managed insourced (20 FTE) and outsourced resources to execute projects at national and multinational level.

  • Managed an IT budget of €3.5M and continuously negotiated with IT vendors (corporate and third parties).

  • Implemented IT SSC (Shared Services Center) for Spain, Greece and Portugal.

  • Computerized sales operations via Siebel to allow sales reps to report back to home office.

  • Proposed and oversaw MRP tool (Oracle Manufacturing) implementation in a major Spanish plant.

  • Migrated finance system from in-house AS/400 to standard ERP (Oracle Financials).

  • Implemented business intelligence solution: South Europe data warehouse based on Cognos.

  • Assisted corporate IT management in design and implementation of IT policies and procedures.

  • Obtained ISO 9001:2000 certification for IT and other quality and compliance certifications (GMP, 21CFR11, SOX, ITIL, ISO17799, BS 7799:2002).

  • Enhanced network and telecom systems in South Europe region through IP voice tools, VPN connectivity, SAN and virtual library backup.

  • Designed and published several web portals for all business lines and therapeutic areas.

Jun 1991 - Feb 1997
5 years 9 months

IT Project Manager

Intercaser (Skandia)

  • Responsible of IT projects for individual business (Life and Pension Funds).
Mar 1990 - Jun 1991
1 year 4 months

IT Project Lead

MERCO (Mercados en Origen S.A.)

Sep 1989 - Mar 1990
7 months

Analyst

O.Sys Informática

Feb 1988 - Sep 1989
1 year 8 months

Analyst - Programmer

S.A.I.S.

May 1987 - Feb 1988
10 months

Programmer

Seresco Asturiana S.A.

Industries Experience

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Experienced in Insurance (21.5 years), Biotechnology (9.5 years), Food and Beverage (6.5 years), Manufacturing (6.5 years), Information Technology (3 years), and Pharmaceutical (2 years).

Insurance
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Manufacturing
Information Technology
Pharmaceutical

Business Areas Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology (35 years), Project Management (21.5 years), Business Intelligence (19 years), Quality Assurance (15 years), Operations (9.5 years), and Customer Service (7.5 years).

Information Technology
Project Management
Business Intelligence
Quality Assurance
Operations
Customer Service

Summary

Business oriented freelance IT with extensive experience as interim CIO, CTO, Program Manager and Senior Project Manager. Great capacity to adapt to different industries: materials for construction, irrigation, manufacturing of dairy products, BPO services, insurance, pharmaceutical industry … Broad experience in using technology to digitize and transform processes, generating business growth, improving cost efficiency, operational quality, as well as customer experience in multinational organizations. Computer Science engineer who brings himself continuously up to date on latest technological and methodological trends. Willing to move abroad.

Languages

Spanish
Native
English
Advanced
French
Advanced
Portuguese
Elementary

Education

UNED

Computer Science engineer · Spain

Master of Analysis and Structural Design

Computer Science – Technical Degree · Oviedo, Spain

Certifications & licenses

21CFR11

BS 7799:2002

GMP

ISO 9001:2000

ISO17799

ITIL

SOX

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Where is Carlos based?

Carlos is based in Madrid, Spain.

What languages does Carlos speak?

Carlos speaks the following languages: Spanish (Native), English (Advanced), French (Advanced), Portuguese (Elementary).

How many years of experience does Carlos have?

Carlos has at least 37 years of experience. During this time, Carlos has worked in at least 12 different roles and for 12 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 1 month. Note that Carlos may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Carlos be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Carlos would be well-suited for roles such as: CIO, Senior IT & Business Project Manager/Program Manager/Interim CIO & CTO, Chief Operating Officer (COO) leading digital transformation.

What is Carlos's latest experience?

Carlos's most recent position is CIO at Europ Assistance.

What companies has Carlos worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Carlos has worked for Europ Assistance and Freelance.

Which industries is Carlos most experienced in?

Carlos is most experienced in industries like Insurance, Biotechnology, and Food and Beverage. Carlos also has some experience in Manufacturing, Information Technology (IT), and Pharmaceutical.

Which business areas is Carlos most experienced in?

Carlos is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Project Management, and Business Intelligence. Carlos also has some experience in Quality Assurance (QA), Operations, and Customer Service.

Which industries has Carlos worked in recently?

Carlos has recently worked in industries like Insurance, Food and Beverage, and Manufacturing.

Which business areas has Carlos worked in recently?

Carlos has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Project Management, and Strategy and Planning.

What is Carlos's education?

Carlos holds a Master in Master of Analysis and Structural Design.

Does Carlos have any certificates?

Carlos has 7 certificates. Among them, these include: 21CFR11, BS 7799:2002, and GMP.

What is the availability of Carlos?

Carlos is immediately available for suitable projects.

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