Mario Andres Cruz Navia

Data Science, Finance and Precision Agriculture

Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

About

Professional with >7 years of experience in sales, technology, agribusiness and restaurant industries. Interested in building capabilities in data analysis and data ETL. Experienced in planning and implementing technology solutions and managing food operations with knowledge in data science, IaaS, BaaS, SaaS and chatbots. Deep knowledge in data visualization, and technology through first hand experiences as data analyst at Valma Cooks and as a technical specialist at Rappi and IBM. Currently working as a data science specialist at Riopaila Castilla agro-industrial group in Colombia, South America. Focus: inventory optimization and precision agriculture with machine learning.

Experience

  • Data Science Specialist at RIOPAILA CASTILLA S. A.
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Data and Implementation Success Manager at Valma Cooks - Restaurante Onigiri
    Oct 2021 - Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Created a Tableau dashboard to identify recurrent customer buying patterns. Led the implementation of automatic invoice generation. Responsible for creating data visualization reports for C-suite. Increased customer retention to 30% using marketing campaigns with a reduced budget.

  • Global Restaurant Onboarding Leader at Rappi
    Apr 2021 - Sep 2021 · 6 mos

    Used ZOHO - Snowflake - Braze - MessageBird to automate communications campaigns for new restaurants that are in the process to join Rappi and set up their first store inside Rappi's App.

  • Mentor at ProTalento®
    Mar 2021 - Aug 2021 · 6 mos

    Mentor young Colombian students to become successful in STEM professional careers when they access the job market.

  • IBM (Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia)
    • IBM Services - Deal Specialist
      Jan 2019 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Cloud Technical Specialist
      Jul 2018 - Jan 2019 · 7 mos