Gustavo Gonzalez, (Argentina) began working with Oracle in the late 1990’s as a Business Systems Analyst for Nike Argentina when he helped the company rollout Oracle Financials 10.7. As the new decade dawned, Gustavo added a global element to his Oracle expertise, working as a Senior Systems Engineer for Nike USA’s Global IT/IS group, where supported the BI tools that Nike’s America’s Sales division depended upon. During this time, Gustavo also took on lead roles in Oracle implementations in Brazil and South Africa. In 2003 Gustavo returned to Argentina, working as a Principle Consultant for Oracle Argentina delivering Order to Cash solutions to a diverse range of clients encompassing everything from Oil and Gas companies to cable TV providers. His next stop was for Danone Argentina, where he worked as an ERP project manager where he managed a number of Oracle ERP initiatives covering the company’s Shared Service Center operations in both Argentina and Uruguay. Since 2006 Gustavo has served as IT Convergence’s Global IT Director. In that capacity he has serviced the company’s global shared services center located in Buenos Argentina. Under Gustavo, IT Convergence has implemented Oracle HRMS, Oracle Telesales, Oracle Service, Noetix, and OBIEE globally. The company has also rolled out Procedure to Pay and Oracle Time and Labor in addition to using Oracle Portal for its Intranet and Internet solutions. Finally, in 2008 Gustavo also led IT Convergence’s upgrade Oracle R12, making ITC one of the first companies in Latin America to use R12.He was distinguee as Oracle ACE in August 2010 for his strong credentials as Oracle community enthusiast and advocate.
In 2012, Gustavo had lead two major projects at IT Convergence. As a project manager of the Oracle R12.2 beta program, was the first company worldwide joining the efforts with Oracle Development to test an upgrade of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2. He also was the Program Manager of the Fusion Applications implementation for IT Convergence for Human Capital Management and Financials, being the first company in Latin America implementing the brand new software from Oracle.
Ben Prusinski is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), Oracle ACE Director, and database architect with more than 14 years of experience with Oracle data warehouse and Oracle E-Business applications. As a corporate database consultant, he has provided services to dozens of Fortune-500 clients. Ben is an internationally recognized expert in Oracle high availability, database replication, database migrations, performance tuning, database security, and ERP implementations. He is also a popular speaker at major conferences such as Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG, and Oracle Collaborate.
Gustavo Gonzalez, Oracle ACE, began working with Oracle in the late 1990s as a Business Systems Analyst for Nike Argentina where he helped rollout Oracle Financials 10.7. He also supported the BI tools that Nike's America's Sales division depended on and took on lead roles in Oracle implementations in Brazil and South Africa. After working as a Sr. Consultant for Oracle Argentina and as Danone Argentina's ERP Project Manager, Gustavo joined IT Convergence as Global IT Director in 2006; and was named CTO in 2012. IT Convergence has implemented Oracle HRMS, Oracle Telesales, Oracle Service, Noetix, and OBIEE globally. He was honored as Oracle ACE in August 2010 for his strong credentials as Oracle community enthusiast and advocate, and in 2012 was named Oracle ACE Director, the first in Argentina and first on Applications in LATAM.