Alvaro
Toro

Global IT and ERP executive

Running global IT for a private-equity-backed group across the UK, France, the Netherlands, and the US, reporting to the CEO. Behind that sits a career of about 12 ERP implementations, from Navision 2.6 in 1998 to a $5M ERP program delivered on budget.

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Long Beach, California English and Spanish MS, IT Management, Indiana University
Alvaro Toro in a navy suit, seated on marble steps

Operating record

Three before-and-afters, and the figures around them

Where a number has a starting point, it is shown against it. Everything here comes from the programs I led.

$5M

ERP program, delivered on budget and templated to subsidiaries

ERP delivery

About 12

ERP implementations led since 1998, across Navision, NAV, JD Edwards, and Dynamics 365

Enterprise applications

$1M

Approximate efficiency gains across resources, inventory, and order fulfillment on a two-company ERP merger

M&A integration

$500K

Annual savings from a renegotiated digital vendor contract

Vendor management

Interstate connectivity cost

Multi-site network, five locations

Before
Baseline
After
20% less

WAN rebuilt and Citrix delivery redesigned for more than 70 clients.

Weekly application downtime

Enterprise application portfolio

Before
3 hrs
After
30 min

Fragmented DevOps brought in-house under a lean change-control process.

Application vendor cost

Application vendor portfolio

Before
Baseline
After
1/3 less

Same move as the downtime result: fewer outside vendors, tighter change control.

Alvaro Toro, three-quarter portrait in glasses and a navy jacket

My work sits where enterprise applications meet the way a company actually runs.Manufacturing, wholesale, and consumer brands. Public, Berkshire Hathaway, and private-equity ownership.

For more than 20 years, the job has been getting finance, supply chain, and operations onto one platform, and keeping them there through growth and acquisitions. That started with Navision 2.6 at United States Container Corporation, ran through Dynamics NAV rollouts for Banacol, Ametek, and Event Network, took Oracle JD Edwards across the US, China, and Mexico at Precision Castparts, and led to a cloud ERP program at Citizen Watch of America that landed on budget and became the template for its subsidiaries.

Today I run global IT for Moss Motors, a private-equity-backed group with sites in the UK, France, the Netherlands, and the US. Reporting to the CEO, I have substantially reduced global IT operating expense, spearheaded an infrastructure migration with no business disruption, and put generative AI to work on the product catalog that came with our acquisitions.

The through line is governance. SOX, JSOX, GDPR, and GAAP have shaped every portfolio I have run, and the same discipline now covers enterprise AI, through a governance framework for the large language models in use. My programs have run from Malaysia and China to Mexico and the UK, in English and Spanish.

Capability matrix

What each role added, from Navision 2.6 to enterprise AI

Seven roles across seven capability lines. Select a role to see what I delivered there.

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Experience

From IT manager to global VP, 1998 to today

  1. Jan 2025 to presentSanta Barbara, CA

    Global Vice President, Information Systems

    Moss Motors

    • Lead global IT across the UK (three sites), France, the Netherlands, and the USA for a private-equity-backed group, reporting to the CEO and owning the OpEx and CapEx budgets.
    • Substantially reduced global IT operating expense through license audits, tool consolidation, storage optimization, and a restructuring to a leaner team while holding uptime.
    • Deployed large language models across four business domains to standardize and unify hundreds of thousands of product records after M&A, under a new AI governance framework.
    • Spearheaded infrastructure migration with no business disruption, working across the infrastructure and security teams with full policy compliance.
    • Renegotiated a digital vendor contract for significant annual savings.

  2. May 2017 to Jan 2025Torrance, CA

    Vice President of IT Applications

    Citizen Watch of America

    • Delivered a cloud ERP for the US primary deployment on budget, replacing siloed in-house systems with one end-to-end platform, then templated it to subsidiaries at lower cost.
    • Reduced application vendor costs and weekly downtime by bringing fragmented DevOps in-house under lean change control.
    • Built supply-chain integrations across EDI, CRM, payments, and tax, and stood up demand and supply planning across B2B, D2C, and B2C channels.
    • Owned the follow-on ERP migration as project owner, running platform selection, RFP, and vendor negotiations.
    • Led IT and ERP integration of an acquired Geneva-based watch company, retiring its legacy infrastructure into one standard environment.
    • Ran GAAP, SOX, and JSOX governance across the applications portfolio and managed CapEx, OpEx, and vendor partnerships.

  3. Feb 2015 to Apr 2017Gardena, CA

    IT Manager

    Precision Castparts Corp. (Berkshire Hathaway)

    • Ran Oracle JD Edwards for a 600-user base across four entities in the US, China, and Mexico, leading a team of six.
    • Migrated two companies onto JD Edwards (manufacturing, MRP, multi-plant) and consolidated vendors and processes for more than $100K a year in savings.
    • Directed Board-reported applications and infrastructure projects across all four entities.

  4. Jun 2014 to Jan 2015San Diego, CA

    Senior ERP Business Application Analyst

    Event Network

    • Led NAV-LS across finance, purchasing, warehousing, retail, supply chain, and AP, with Reconnet, ConnectIT, Kofax, and Micros add-ons.
    • Stood up Jet Reports and QlikView analytics across more than 100 retail locations.

  5. Jan 2012 to May 2014New Jersey

    ERP Business Application Analyst

    Ametek

    • As an internal consultant across a global public portfolio, delivered NAV 2009 for two merging manufacturers in Malaysia under SOX and ISO.
    • Drove about $1M in efficiency gains across resources, inventory, and order fulfillment.

  6. Jul 2010 to Jan 2012Philadelphia, PA

    IT Manager and Project Manager, USA Region

    Banacol Marketing Corp.

    • Delivered a three-country Dynamics NAV upgrade in Spanish and English on a $500K budget, passing a PwC audit.

  7. Jan 1998 to Mar 2008Vernon, CA

    IT Manager and Project Manager

    United States Container Corporation

    • Cut interstate connectivity cost 20% by rebuilding the WAN and Citrix delivery for more than 70 clients.
    • Deployed 300 Windows and Unix workstations across five locations and ran Navision 2.6 and 4.0 on Agile.

Credentials

Education, recognition, and the working toolkit

Education

Master of Science, Information Technology Management
Indiana University Bloomington, 2024. AI for Business, AI for Security, Enterprise Platforms.
BS, Management Information Systems
California State University, Long Beach
Business Analytics: From Data to Insights
Wharton Executive Education, 2019

Recognition and certification

Hispanic Executive, “The American Dream” feature
June 2024
Oracle JD Edwards Certificate of Completion
2016
Languages
English and Spanish, fluent

Enterprise systems

ERP (Dynamics 365 BC, NAV, SAP, Oracle JD Edwards), PIM, CRM, OMS, WMS, MRP, MES, EDI

AI and cloud

Enterprise AI and AI governance (Claude, OpenAI API, Microsoft Copilot), cloud and infrastructure migration, cost management

Strategy and M&A

IT operating model, enterprise architecture, digital transformation, cross-border M&A integration

Finance and risk

CapEx and OpEx budgeting, vendor negotiation, KPIs and SLAs, SOX, JSOX, GDPR, GAAP

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