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San Antonio, Texas Area

San Antonio Area, Texas

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Part of a dynamic environment where best practice decisions must be made to keep the production line running.• Experienced in root cause analysis, identifying opportunities, creating route plans, and implementing 20+ Kaizens.• Manage 100+ suppliers to ensure Quality, Safety, Maintenance, and Compliance through training and setting standards; then sustaining the process through periodical assessments.• Coordinate with internal production teams and external customers to ensure supply chain flexibility and efficiency.• Create A3 reports on a case to case basis where trends are analyzed through historical data, cost, and solutions on existing issues.• Perform regular cost analysis identifying gaps and opportunities focused on cost reduction.• Part of cross functional teams involved in analyzing daily, weekly, and monthly KPI activities, seeking continuous improvement through operational excellence. • Responsible for Project Management that involves areas for cost, 6 Sigma statistical studies, process, compliance, and Kaizens.• Project lead for Change Management activities.

• Performed a production workflow analysis for the Bimbo Plant process line, which included observation of plant operating protocols, recording process metrics and statistical comparison of metrics with benchmark/leading practice standards.• Retrained process line team members on process standards and work steps, resulting in diminished cycle time/ improved throughput/ safety.• Observed PLC adjustments to correct batches. Ensured that metrics would guarantee operator safety.• Identified four key areas for improvement associated with communication and process flow inefficiencies.• At the conclusion of project, presented findings and recommendations to the plant’s Integrated Process Manager, with executive summary circulated among all plant managers and the Director of Operations.• Implementation of recommendations projected to reduce material waste and overtime wages paid, which would improve profitability for the plant.• Drafted Standard Operating Procedures for the team members in both English and Spanish.

• Led a team of 15 staff to support hardware and software distributed across the campus, including 50+ classrooms.• Instructed all new staff in their daily responsibilities and held organized weekly meetings to assess team performance.• Conducted IT software workshops to improve professors’ IT and instructional capabilities.• Built rapport with numerous university faculty and administration to improve quality of support.• Drafted process narratives supporting key operations and error resolution procedures.• Maintained St. Mary’s room-access database, which contains critical data about faculty, staff, and students across campus.

• Assisted tenured professor/head of Industrial Engineering department with further research and publication on the Antithetic Property regarding Mean Tardiness and Mean Lateness.• Developed an automated sequence generator, which was used in 4 other thesis projects.• Created a master table that creates results for a Monte Carlo Problem (6 Jobs, 4 Machines, 720 sequences flowshop).• Presented Master’s thesis on behalf of St. Mary’s University in the 2008 Industrial Engineering conference.

• Provided superior customer service to over 40 customers per day, resulting in increased store sales and customer loyalty compared to prior quarter.• Offered solutions to customers via phone and in person for common installation and operations problems.• Managed all Spanish-speaking transactions and customer service calls.• Assisted with inventory management to reduce mis-shelved SKUs.

Master Of Science, Engineering Systems Management

Started a second masters.

Master Of Science, Industrial Engineering

Finishing my second Masters Degree

Bachelor Of Science, Industrial Engineering

Undergraduate

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