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Puerto Montt, Chile

Puerto Montt, Chile

Sales Management of acuaculture equipment in Chile and the Americas

Puerto Montt, Chile

Sales, administration and company strategy. Increased sales from US$20.000 in 2012 to US$4 million in 2014. Started up a new maintenance services operation. Started up sales of mooring engineering. Started up sales of mooring materials. Company personnel grew from 2 to 12.

Puerto Montt, Chile

In charge of strategy, sales, production, and product development for its floating equipment division.Reduced customer complaints and product failure to zero by redesigning the company´s metal floating cages in four months; improved design of waste barges reducing customer complaints to virtually zero. Reorganized warehouse completely reducing losses to.

Puerto Montt, Chile

Haug Aqua Chile was a division of Erling Haug A/S, a Trondheim based company. In Chile it sold mooring systems for the aquaculture industry.I was in charge of the startup, strategy, sales and general administration of the company. Achieved a 75% market share in circular cage moorings in 5 years, and sales growth in the first years in spite of general.

Puerto Varas, Chile

Aquasmart was a Hobart-based company with offices in Norway, Scotland and Chile. It sold automatic feeding equipment for sea cages.I was in charge of the startup, growth strategy, sales and general administration of the company´s Chile office.Achieved 50% market share in Chile with the main product in less than three years, the best result of any of the.

La Calera, Chile

In charge of production, administration and product development of the turkey cold cut division. Was able to reduce staff from 240 to 180 people and reduce overtime to zero without investment in less than a year, at the same time increasing production from 280 ton to 320 ton. Raw material cost was reduced by 9%. Stock was reduced by 35% through better.

Puerto Montt

General administration, raw material purchasing, feed sales, plant expansion and design. Successfully designed planned and constructed a biological odour abatement system for the plant. Started up a new extruder line under budget.

Chile

In charge of sales of salmon to the US and Japan, was able to maintain sales and margin in the US and Japanese markets by anticipating market needs and changing the product mix, in spite of lower market prices. Also responsible for processing and sales logistics, was able to achieve 19% cost reduction in logistics costs.

Puerto Montt, Chile

Responsible for planning, buying, quality control, logistics, and domestic sales of salmon.Distribution costs were reduced by 3% through better negotiated rates; packaging costs were reduced by 5% through better design. Dispatches of high margin products to Japan were doubled thanks to a substantial quality improvement achieved with a breakthrough in the.

Puerto Montt, Chile

In charge of feeding and nutrition trials at a specially commissioned Field Trial Unit.Reduced feed consumption from FCR 1.84 to 1.65, by using the trial results and implementing daily feeding tables at a company-wide scale.Redesigned the harvesting method increasing output and quality and reducing costDesigned and operated a micro algae bioreactor for a.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategic Planning, First Class Honors

Corporate Strategic Planning

Industrial Engineer, Food Engineering, First Class Honors

Activities and Societies: Mountain climbing, astrophysics amateur Industrial Engineering with specialization in Food Engineering

Mittelstufe I, German Studies, Mittlestufe 1

German Language studies

High School Certificate

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