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Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Manage site being responsible for the overall plant KPIs.

Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Insource of new products to the plant from transfers of sisters' plants, vertical integration and from new products development. Responsible of program management, Manufacturing process development and Capital investments projects.

Mexicali, Baja California, México

Responsibilities: Leading a new facility startup by deploying Barnes culture and selecting the new staff & operational team by implementing Barnes policies and operational systems (QMS compliant with AS9100, HSE & BES Next Generation).Managing the New Product Introduction through the product life cycle phases aligned with APQP and aerospace requirements.Assuring the overall quality performance of the products manufactured in the facility.Obtaining good results of the P&L applying the commercial, operational and financial excellence initiatives.Achievements: I have successfully concluded the startup of a new aerospace facility implementing a cross-functional team leadership aligned with the company’s values, setting robust operational and quality systems and meeting project targets for budget and timing. I have innovated in the NPI-ZERO DEFECT process aligned to APQP/PPAP achieving 0 rejects, 0.25% COPQ, 100% OTD. I have fulfilled all requirements to certify the facility on AS9100 Rev D Aerospace Quality standard with 0 NCs at the audit. I have obtained NADCAP certification and approvals to self-release and ship products for two aerospace customers. I have settled a very competitive operative cost rate better than the forecast by maintaining a high efficiency and high utilization operation as well as implementing cost reduction/avoidance strategy that maximized profit and laying out a lean operation with a fast flow by decreasing DWC and maximizing cash flow

Ciudad De México, México

Responsibilities: Leading the operative areas (Production, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance and CI), so as to meet KPI´s like LTIR/TRIR, Customer rejects, COPQ, OTD, Productivity, DWC and Profit, while building a good work-environment.Aligning departments’ vision by defining clear job descriptions, SMART goals/objectives and deployment of company policies.Improving the operational control systems like QMS, HSE system and BES Next Generation.Developing and leading daily Gemba walks to monitor plant performance and assure the real time problem resolution.Achievements: I increased the OP by 1.1 M USD from previous year, based on hard dollar savings from operational excellence, Continuous Improvement, CAPEX and Innovation projects implementation with best ROI. I contributed in the plant’s performance turnaround from 10% to 16% Operating Profit (OP), LTIR/TRIR reduction, 29 customer rejects down to 7, 30 PPMs down to 8, obtained 1.1% COPQ, 98% OTD, and 9.8% YOY Productivity increase. I unified departments towards common goals with a teamwork mindset driven by CI projects and a business vision.

Ciudad De México, México

Responsibilities: Assuring the overall quality performance of products manufactured in the facility and sub-supplier’s quality.Developing the strategic planning driving the quality continuous improvement initiatives towards 0 defects and COPQ reduction.Improving the quality assurance system in accordance with ISOTS: 16949:2009 and customer specific requirements.Being the direct point of contact as escalation path with all the customers regarding quality topics.Achievements: I integrated a solid empowered team with a customer focus and teamwork vision, wining the Barnes Enterprise System Global Award in 2014. I achieved a 55% quality improvement from previous year, taking down COPQ from 3.98% of net sales to 1.76% and saving600k USD for the company in one year (2013), reduced 20% the COPQ to 1.42% for the second year (2014). I improved the quality system to obtain the recertification of ISOTS: 16949:2009 without any major NCs. I reduced customer complaints from 52 CCNs & 175 PPMs to 29 CCNs & 30PPMs.

Cuautla, Morelos, México

Responsibilities: Assuring the overall product quality of a Transmission Electrohydraulic Control Module in a facility expansion with ~$45M USD in Capital Investment for the start-up, a total production volume over 1.25 million units and ~250 million USD in sales per year.Being the direct link and escalation path for the OEM customer, regarding quality and product changes topics.I assured the product quality in the new facility in Mexico since industrialization phase with APQP & PLC Conti Q gates process.Providing leadership to the team, focusing on preventing failure modes with risk of scape to the customer, through the deployment of risk mitigation tools like PFEMA/CP deep dives, test coverage analysis, 8D’s and LPA´s corrective actions.Driving and coaching the teams to solve quality issues, using structured methods like 8D´s or 6 sigma projects to find root causes for occurrence/detection/system and implemented robust containment/corrective/preventive actions.Achievements: I developed and implemented a new innovative organizational structure within the quality department of the company by eliminating the existing barriers in order to achieve quality goals and set this benchmark structure for the rest of the divisions. I obtained the best quality in the launch of the company´s most important product produced in the new plant, exceeding customer expectations through APQP/PPAP development and innovation by doing equipment FMEA together with suppliers. I achieved 0 quality spills from launch of product and reduced 60% of the scrap rate compared to the sister’s plants performance as well as a reduction of 70% in the customer complaints.

Cuautla, Morelos, México

Responsibilities: Driving Continuous Improvement culture in the company by being an agent of change and responsible for the deployment of key philosophies like 6Sigma, Lean manufacturing, Q.BIC, TPM, KAIZEN and Jidoka.Supporting top management in the development of Balance Score Card strategy and its deployment within the organization.Defining & managing the 6 sigma projects impacting KPIs, using statistical analysis on internal and external data, customer feedback, vision needs, stake holder’s feedback and lessons learned from Continental sister’s plants.Achievements: I supported the developed of the CI culture along with a team of experts in continuous improvements methodologies. I increased the company’s continuous improvement culture by providing training on the 6 sigma methodology to four greenbelt waves (100 people approx.), and other trainings like SMED and Problem Solving Technics. I reduced 30% the overall PPM´s with Green Belt and Black Belt quality focused projects reaching a <10 PPM´s level. I implemented innovation projects focused on CI systems like JIDOKA/ANDON obtaining the Conti Innovation Award. I implemented the KAIZEN and LEAN projects focused on waste reductions achieving ~800K USD hard dollar savings. I supported the launch of the TPM program as a pilot initiative. I supported the linkage of the plant’s innovation/CI projects with CONACYT government incentives

Cuautla, Morelos, México

Responsibilities: Performing the industrialization of new products regarding the testing concept, leading industrial engineering test team to work on high technology integration projects working with international suppliers.Developing and releasing electronic product test platforms (ICT, Flash programming, Final, Functional, Hydraulic, Pin check).Meeting due dates and requirements according to quality, safety, efficiency and statistical performance automotive standards.Achievements: I successfully integrated and released all required test equipment for three automotive brake system products, two airbag System products, two comfort system products, one transmission controller and one fuel engine controller production lines. I achieved $30k “hard dollars” savings during implementation of two innovative ideas regarding data matrix scanning methods and combining ICT/FLASH operations, winning the CONTI-IDEA award twice.

Master'S Degree, Business Administration

Master'S Degree, Quality And Productivity Systems

Bachelor’S Degree, Electronics