
Elena Cristina Carrasco Comes
Education
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Capacity building specialist
Duty station
Service for Geospatial Information and Telecommunications Technologies/ UNGSC/ DOS
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What brought you to a career in technology at the United Nations?
As an expert in Supply Chain and having worked in different UN settings, I found an opportunity to help other practitioners to get the most of a software by working in its implementation, by combining business processes together with software processes
What has been your favorite technology project or initiative at the United Nations and why? What was your contribution?
Working in the implementation of SAP Umoja where I combined Business Process' knowledge of many areas of the UN with SAP technicalities
What advice would you give women interested in pursuing a field in technology?
Technology is in constant evolution, be prepared to keep on learning