Diego Edwards Sordo Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Main responsibility:* Redesign the internal case structure of the BrandTech® Precision Welding G17 Gun.* Design and production for the new BrandTech® Precision Welding G23 Gun.* Structural and esthetic design of the BrandTech® Precision Layout® products. (PATENT PENDING) * Structural and esthetic design of the BrandTech® Power Distribution Units. (PATENT PENDING)

Houston, Texas, United States

Responsible for:* Field Operations.* Equipment Maintenance.* Equipment Fabrication.* Inventory Management.* Equipment shipping and receiving.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Develop, implement and maintain methods, operation sequence and processes in the manufacture or fabrication of parts, components, sub-assemblies and final assemblies. • Interface with design engineering in coordinating the release of new products. • Manage complex projects that may affect multiple departments or multiple clients. • Troubleshoot and correct day to day production problems.• Provide end-to-end development and support of prototypes, and quick-turn products.• Prepare process reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends.• Provide continuous improvement and implementation of best operational methodologies and write reports/presentations.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Department Head of a +180 student program. Develop the academic program to exceed the requested quality of the degree. Strengthen the academic participation and representation of the career, as well as the entrepreneurship in order to position the University nationally and internationally, taking as a guide the strategic planning of the School or Faculty.Main responsibilities· Strengthen the career identity through the personalized treatment of students to ensure his academic training.· Achieve the goals of new student enrollment.· Minimize the casualties to strengthen the bachelor's degree.· Verify that students receive University counseling to encourage their academic development.· Detect needs for updating, modification and / or development of academic program to ensure the quality of the contents of the degree.· Follow up on incidents with students to solve them.· Interview and prospect students to meet the goals of the faculty.Major accomplishments· Fulfillment of all enrollment goals.· Member of the Project Evaluation Committee of CIE (Center for Educational Innovation) (http://www.up.edu.mx/es/cie/mex).· Member of the Editorial Board of "Jardín Central" student magazine of Universidad Panamericana.· Member of the sustainability committee of the Mixcoac campus.· increase the relationship with different companies like VW, Ford, FCA, Comex, Vitromex.· Creation of the new minor program on "Engineering and Environmental Management".

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Physics and Environmental Improvement Systems

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Coaching design and project manufacturing. Education and training in National and International Student Competitions. Logistics and Promotion of these competitions. Provided follow up on incidents with students to solve them.Robotics Innovations Competition and Conference (RICC) 2009RICC is a project developed by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the venue of the event and the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF). The theme for this year was: "Improving the quality of life."http://ricc.wpi.edu/index.htmlBest Result: 3/12 PlaceINA Electraton 2011 & 2012Electratón is a project in which students design, build and compete an electric car driven by lapses of a lever of 7 races. Each race has a duration of 1 hour 5 minutes, must make a stop in the pit area to make a change of batteries, driving to develop a career strategy and teamwork. The car that makes the most laps is the winner. Won AwardsRookie of the Year 2011Technological innovation 2011Award for Best Teamwork 2012Institutional Support Award 2012Second place in Design 2012Best Result: 3/14 Place OverallShell Eco-Marthon 2012, 2013 & 2014 Shell Eco-marathon is an innovation competition in which students participate celebrated every year in Europe, America and Asia, being one of the most demanding in the world. This is an energy saving race in which around 160 teams participate with a single objective: to travel 13 km with the minimum energy expenditure with a vehicle manufactured by students.Best Result: 14/80 place 77.3 km/kWhSAE AERO-DESIGN 2015 SAE Aero Design aims to build a model of an airplane that is capable of lifting a projectile and releasing it within a given target. Provide undergraduate and graduate engineering students with a challenge of real-life engineering. The contest has been designed to provide exposure to the types of situations that engineers face in their work environment in real life.Best Result: 15/75 Place

Mexico City Area, Mexico

100% goal achievement for 6 years. All 12 goals achieved (twice per year) for the engineering program of over 200 students.Accomplished the goals of new student enrollment. Follow up on single enrollment cases. Scholarships allocation. Marketing of the educational offer of the university. Enrollment examinations. Promotional events.Main responsibilities• Achieve the goals of new student enrollment.• Follow up single enrollment cases.• Scholarships assignation.• Publicize the educational offer of the university.• Enrollment examinations• Promotion events with candidates and families.Major accomplishments• Ten consecutive enrollment goal achieved.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

The Universidad Panamericana-Ilab project aims to develop a group of elite students within the UP university community that, under advanced training in technology, innovation and business, achieve in 16 weeks a definitive solution to a global problem based on a sustainable business model, using technology never seen before and therefore patentable. The participating students of the program will become innovative entrepreneurs. The projects generated during each bootcampUP will be ready to be incubated by the incubator of the Universidad Panamericana "Sparkup" that, not only will promote the constitution of the new startups, but also will support them in the patenting of the developed technology.The methodology of the program "Innnovation Driven Entrepreneurship" is an advanced methodology of technology, innovation and business that in four months, encourages entrepreneurs to find a technological solution and create a business model to solve a problem. The program its provided during 16 weeks, 7 days a week 896 hours with an instructor and approximately 550 hours of independent work.This program has created 3 MIT INNOVATORS UNDER 35 LATIONAMERICA winners.

Río Danubio 81-A, Col. Cuauhtémoc, México D.F. C.P. 06500

Prototype and test design. Customer relations. Sales Increase. Warranty client to ensure satisfaction. Manufacturing process improvement. National and International tenders. In charge of Salesforce and technicians training. New market creations. Project leader for the authorized Mexican OEM shock absorber for Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and design for Money transfer vehicles (armored vehicle) shock absorber for COMETRA. Responsible for ADO coach busses 620K miles shock absorber design. https://www.ado.com.mx. Main responsibilities• Analysis of new markets.• Prototype and test design.• Costumer relationship.• Sales Increase.• Warranty Care.• Manufacturing process improvement.• National and International tenders. • Training of salesmen and technicians.Major accomplishments• Design of shock absorbers for buses. Achieving a million kilometers.• Shock absorber design for stock transfer vehicles.• Design of military vehicles shock absorbers.• Decrease in guarantees by 12%.• Homologation of pieces for designs, achieving cost reduction.• More than 200 sales people and 15 technicians trained

Master'S Degree, Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

Minor, Engineering And Project Management

Minor, Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Minor, Anthropology