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Colombia

Colombia

United States - Colombia

• Managing, developing, and executing control and automation projects for industrial machinery and processes, including control and electrical system upgrades, as well as retrofits of mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.• Developing and implementing projects for factory digitalization, from collecting data from the machines to automatically generated reports and manufacturing execution systems (MES). • Providing technical support to machinery sold and projects developed by the company in North, Central and South America.• Development of an Industry 4.0 web application for fully automated production lines in the plastic processing industry, including quality control, production KPIs, maintenance management, analysis of process parameters, reports, notifications, and dashboards.

Kaiping, Guangdong, China

• Responsible for the electrical, control and software design of the machines built by the company.• Ongoing developments and improvements in the electrical system, as well as design and implementation of new features in the machine software, aiming to optimize the process, improve product quality and satisfy process and customer requirements.• Working in partnership with the Mechanical Design Department, in order to design and develop machines with new technologies and features, enhancing their performance and the overall production process. • Take part of the development of the Industry 4.0 application for the automated production lines of plastic containers provided by the company and responsible for its implementation.• Planning, analyzing, and evaluating technical aspects of future projects with the sales team, in order provide optimal solutions, to satisfy process and customer requirements.

Kaiping, Guangdong, China

• Developing technical documentation and electrical drawings for the machines built by the company as well as selection and sizing of their electrical components.• Programming the machines’ PLCs, HMIs, Safety Relays and setting up their different motor controllers (VFD/Servo drives). • Integrating ancillary equipment to the electrical system and control logic of the blow molding machines, using different communication protocols (RS-485, Modbus, Profibus, EtherCAT, OPC-UA, etc.), for developing fully automated production lines.• Providing overseas technical support, on site and remotely, to the different projects and machines developed by the company.• Providing technical training to customers during machine commissioning in the factory.

Bogotá, Colombia

• Responsible for coordinating and providing after-sales service across the country, giving support and technical assistance, selling spare parts and contracts of maintenance. In charge of a multidisciplinary group of 14 people among engineers, technicians and administrative staff.• Analyzing, developing, executing and evaluating projects of updating, optimization and acquisition of machinery with the sales team, in order to provide optimal solutions satisfying customers requirements. • Ongoing communication with international manufacturers in regards to technical assistance, training, spare parts, guarantees and suggesting improvements in design.• Responsible for the turnover of the technical service department, managing reports and tracking KPI´s to achieve the goals set, ensuring always technical quality in the the services provided.

Bogotá, Colombia

• Providing technical support to the different projects and machines of plastic processing and packaging sold by the company as well as giving assistance to optimize and automate machines and processes in order to enhance productivity and reduce operational costs. • Assembling, installing, starting up, fixing breakdowns of and carrying out preventive and corrective maintenance to machines and production lines providing to customer training about process and operation.• Developed material for and was the instructor for the course "Plastic Injection Process" in the technological training center of the company.

• Developed of a book for future technical service engineers in the company about working principles, maintenance, programming and selection of plastic injection moulding machines. • Repairing machines and auxiliary equipment in the workshop of the company as well as assisting senior engineers in the execution of the different projects at customers facilities.

Engineer’S Degree, Mechatronics Engineering

Specialization, Automation Of Industrial Processes

Continuing Education Certificate, Advanced Ms Project With Pmi Focus

Continuing Education Certificate, Machine Learning And Data Science

Continuing Education Certificate, Mobile Development

Continuing Education Certificate, Bpm For The Digital Transformation Of Processes