Erick Leiva Lopez

• Reported to the global head of cloud services and automation and handled the end-to-end planning and execution of OS and DB modernizations of all Syngenta applications and services globally, a $1-2 million investment program.
• Succeeded by delivering the projects within scope, time, and budget and providing an additional $500,000 yearly in cost savings to the organizations by implementing different IT strategies and architectures.
• Developed the SOW and contracts for up to five providers, managing their resources and budget and leading multidisciplinary teams with different goals to coordinate and execute projects with more than 200+ employees globally.

• Led a team of 20 people from different business units and eight countries, creating the security operations strategy, process, and procedures.
• Developed the technical documentation to acquire the best SOC solution with end-to-end case analysis and threat response abilities.
• Delivered the project in different releases across the region with continual process improvement.

• Managed over 20 developers and implemented the project in eight countries within different releases.
• Led all aspects of follow-on training and mentoring activities of Agile methodologies to internal and 3rd-party resources.
• Worked with directors from all business units as the development team communicated with all bank services in a sensitive environment.
• Gained better architecture flexibility to add more services by ensuring the application of software best practices.

• Led the team into the application of design thinking methodologies with a user experience consultant.
• Developed workshops with the end users to identify pain points and most common use cases to change the business and development team mindset.
• Led a team of 25 developers working on application development of the front end to make use of the back end for the end customer.
• Enabled business value by getting end users to take advantage of the developed features of an unused one-year project.

• Formed a multidisciplinary team with developers, designers, health specialists, and administrators with the same goal, where the responsibilities were not clear initially.
• Designed a successful business model with different phases to monetize the application.
• Designed a secure and scalable architecture in the cloud.
• Directed the team toward the use of current solutions, keeping the development as simple as possible.

• Managed a team of 5-10 team members as needed to design and implement complete security solutions involving Alert Logic as an IPS and IDS solution, Cisco firewalls, SaaS solutions, cloud firewalls, load balancers, etc.
• Had a deep understanding of the events and correlations to use standard rules or create customer-specific events.