President Benigno Aquino III has appointed Dr. Vladimir Dennis Reyes as acting deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) Management Information System and Technology Group (MISTG).
In a list of designations dated August 6, Aquino appointed Reyes to replace former MISTG deputy commissioner Primo Aguas, who resigned in June, two months after John Phillip Sevilla quit as customs commissioner.
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Prior to his appointment as acting deputy commissioner, Reyes signed an agreement with BOC to act as consultant for MISTG from July to December.
Reyes was an enterprise architect for the Integrated Government Philippine Project of the Information and Communications Technology Office of the Department of Science and Technology; consultant for the Anti-Money Laundering Committee of the Office of Representative Nelson Collantes; and managing director of iSync Intelligent Synergies, Inc.
Other posts he held were systems architect/principal consultant for DBR Technologies, managing partner at Green Forest Consulting Group, and program manager of Ebiz Technologies.
He is an IBM Certified Lotus Professional (R5), Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer, Java Enterprise System Architect, and ESRI ArcView Developer.
Reyes graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in electrical engineering. He also attended Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University-Kelley School of Business.
MISTG manages and controls BOC’s IT facilities and services. The MISTG chief is responsible for overall supervision of the different operating units, which include the Planning and Systems Development Service Planning and Management Information Division, Systems Development Division, Technology Management Service, Technical Support Division, and System Management Division.
MISTG will be instrumental in the impending migration from the electronic-to-mobile system, the platform for electronic submission by the trading community of import and export documents to the BOC, to AsycudaWorld. — Roumina Pablo
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