Juan Carlos Menendez
SVP Management Consultant
Austin,TX
Summary
Experienced professional with over 17 years of experience delivering high-impact solutions in data analytics, automation, risk advisory, turnaround and restructuring, and operations improvement. Proven leader of high-performing teams across diverse industries including banking, retail, automotive, aerospace, and technology. Highly adaptable to various corporate and international cultures, with extensive collaboration experience across the US, Europe, South America, and Asia, including a significant nine-year tenure in London. Committed to driving innovation and excellence in every project.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Vice President
AlixPartners
Austin, TX
01.2017 - 01.2026
- Conducted a 2-year look-back investigation into Sanctions Screening and Compliance for a global Japanese bank. Traveled and worked actively with counsel, US and UK regulators, and local leads. Extracted structured and unstructured data across branches across US, Europe, Asia, and Russia. Their entire screening process and re-screened all wire transactions and reviewed all wire activity in scope. This culminated in a successful independent expert report, which avoided 300+ million in fines.
- Contributed to the design, development and testing for a centralized contracts management tool for a US Healthcare company. Utilized AI/ML tools to OCR, translate, and facilitate the review and renegotiation of over 100k contracts.
- Managed a large team of developers on a remediation project for a retail UK bank. Designed, developed and maintained a secure data warehouse incorporating dozens of disparate in-use and legacy systems spanning 10 years of customer data. Liaised with client stakeholders and SME's daily to define and update policies and develop necessary requirements and code changes, UAT, and implementation. Increased ROI from 4:1 in the first year to over 10:1.
Vice President
AlixPartners
London, UK
01.2012 - 01.2017
- Led the development and production teams on a Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) claims project, automating numerous manual processes and producing hundreds of thousands of deliverables weekly, including over 20,000 response letters sent directly to client customers.
- Developed a Customer Product and Profitability Tool for a large Coffee retailer with a Tableau front-end linked to a SQL back end, connected to the clients existing multiple transactional systems and data cubes. This was done over a very aggressive 7-week timeline working with the client and industry expert colleagues.
- Developed an online contracts management tool for a Central American airline, working with counsel and department leads to review, translate, prioritize and renegotiate hundreds of thousands of disparate contracts. This played a pivotal role in the successful turnaround from Chapter 11 with a valuation in excess of $5 billion, $1 billion in new financing, and a $1.2 billion liquidity.
Associate
AlixPartners
Dallas, TX
01.2009 - 01.2011
- Developed and optimized in-house and client-facing tools for claims and contracts management, litigation reporting, and customer product/profitability modeling supporting engagements across banking, restaurant and hospitality, oil and gas, retail, aerospace, and automotive industries.
- Contributed to multiple work streams supporting one of the largest US Chapter 11 automotive restructuring, including development of an automated litigation letter generation tool that reduced processing time from several days to minutes.
Programmer Analyst
Lockheed Martin
Fort, TX
01.2002 - 01.2009
- Initially based in the Aeronautics division in Ft. Worth Texas, responsible for digitization of fighter pilot weapons systems and manuals, using SGML, SQL, VBA, within a highly secure Secret Environment.
- Transferred to the Missiles and Fire Control division mid-2004 and was the sole developer for an in-house Rates and Pricing model and reporting system. Responsible for compliance with US and foreign government cost and pricing regulations and transparency.
- Fast track junior team program member.
- Held US Secret Security clearance.
Education
MSc - Systems Engineering
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX01.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
University of North Texas
Denton, TX01.2003
Skills
Management consulting
Enterprise improvement
Claims and contracts management
Data visualization
Ad-hoc tool development
Visual Basic
Azure Databricks
Power BI
Power Query
Turnaround management
Risk analytics
Supply chain optimization
Financial modeling
SQL Server
Alteryx
Tableau
VBA
Financial modeling
SQL Server
Alteryx
Tableau
VBA
Timeline
Senior Vice President
AlixPartners
01.2017 - 01.2026
Vice President
AlixPartners
01.2012 - 01.2017
Associate
AlixPartners
01.2009 - 01.2011
Programmer Analyst
Lockheed Martin
01.2002 - 01.2009
MSc - Systems Engineering
Southern Methodist University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
University of North Texas
Awards
Recipient of Team of the Year award 6 times at AlixPartners
Diversity And Inclusion
AlixPartners, 01/01/17, 12/31/26, Co-led the Hispanic/Latin Enterprise Resource Groups (ERG's), advancing diversity and inclusion initiatives through recruiting, event planning, education, and community engagement., Also actively participated across multiple ERG's to promote inclusive practices and foster awareness of diverse cultural, educational, and professional perspectives., Helped drive initiatives that encouraged teams to leverage diverse backgrounds to enhance collaboration, innovation, and client outcomes.
LinkedIn Profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanmenendez/