Daniel M.

Deputy Director - IT Infrastructure @ Actinver | Managing IT Infrastructure Teams

Mexico City, Mexico

About

With over a decade of experience in IT infrastructure and database management, I currently serve as Deputy Director of IT Infrastructure at Actinver. I oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of IT infrastructure, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. My role includes managing a dedicated IT infrastructure team, monitoring budgets, and fostering vendor relationships to deliver cost-effective solutions while maintaining operational excellence. Throughout my career, I have contributed to critical IT operations, including database administration, cloud-based solutions, and SAP HANA. My mission is to drive efficiency and optimize IT processes, ensuring seamless operations for the organizations I serve. My leadership approach emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and continuous improvement to meet business goals and deliver impactful results.

Experience

  • Deputy Director - IT Infrastructure at Actinver
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    * Overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of IT infrastructure. * Managing the IT infrastructure team. * Ensuring proper functioning and maintenance of the organization's IT infrastructure, including datacenters, servers, databases, and cloud-based solutions. * Monitoring and managing IT budgets, resources, and vendor relationships to ensure cost-effective solutions and services. * Aligning the IT infrastructure initiatives with the company's overall business objectives. * Supervising the IT infrastructure team, providing leadership, guidance, and mentorship to ensure the team meets organizational goals and project deadlines.

  • IT Infra & Ops Manager, Global Database Services at PepsiCo
    Mar 2021 - Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Responsible of Database Services for the delivery of effective database support globally to address business goals and operational/availability requirements. * Partner with Service Providers and key stakeholders to provide the required database support to meet business requirements and ensure appropriate availability of infrastructure services * Partner with Architects, Compute and Network Engineers and other stakeholders to assist in the design, communication and implementation of Strategies, Technology Roadmaps, Standards, Processes and Services. * Perform financial forecasting; manage project and operational budgets. * Lead the triage of complex problems to ensure restoration or quality of service and support critical incidents.

  • Database Administration Manager at GNP Seguros
    Nov 2015 - Mar 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Leading database administration for mision-critical systems in one of the most important enterprises in the mexican insurance sector. Responsible for: * Working closely with IT project managers, database programmers and programmers. * Refining the logical design so that it can be translated into a specific data model. * Designing and testing backup and recovery strategies. * Monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast responses to front-end users. * Writing database documentation including database standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary. * Database security. Controlling access permissions and privileges. * Capacity planning. * Considering both back-end organisation of data and front-end accessibility for end-users. * Managing high availability schemes to reduce downtime and eliminate traditional compromises among performance, availability and cost. * Installing and testing new versions of the database software.

  • Principal Database Administrator at Maxcom Telecomunicaciones
    May 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

    --​> Evaluation and selection of suppliers of consultancy services. --​> Evaluation and selection of IT solutions. --​> Leading database administration for mision-critical systems typical of telecom industry:Billing, CRM, ERP, BI/Datawarehouse, Provisioning Main responsabilities: * Backup and recovery strategies * Definition of database security policies * Installing the database software * Configuring databases for high availability environments (Oracle RAC and MS SQL clusters) --​> Leading data cleansing and data migration projects --​> Leading data conciliation projects --​> Preparing and monitoring work plans.

  • Specialist at Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
    Mar 2007 - May 2014 · 7 yrs 3 mos

    Database design and development for OLTP and Datawarehouse systems, including: data modeling, database performance analysis, SQL tuning and database support to several Java and .NET development teams. Database migration from legacy systems like TANDEM, Sybase, MS SQL Server to new implemented architecture based on Oracle