Summary
Arnoldo Fernandez is an Industrial Engineer and HR/Procurement leader with 25+ years of cross-functional experience driving operations, talent transformation and shared service excellence across Fortune 500 companies in the Americas. Currently Americas Regional Transition Manager at Roche, he blends hands-on process improvement (Six Sigma, Lean, Design Thinking) with systems expertise in SAP, ServiceNow, GEP, Workday and Taleo to deliver seamless program rollouts and hypercare support. He has a proven record of reducing cycle times and escalations—such as cutting invoice overdue rates from 30% to 5% and shrinking PO cycle time from days to hours—while scaling teams across multiple countries. A trilingual influencer and mentor, Arnoldo pairs an Industrial Engineering foundation with dual master’s degrees in Business Administration and Human Capital to align operational metrics with people strategy. Based in Costa Rica, he also teaches at the Universidad Nacional de San Juan and coordinates virtual campus initiatives, bringing academic rigor to practical transformation efforts.
8 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Costa Rica
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Master's degree, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Master's degree, Business Administration, Management and Operations at Universidad Interamericana de Costa Rica
English, Spanish, Portuguese