Gerardo Nuno Email & Phone Number

United States

Greater San Diego Area

Lean Six Sigma Teams

Greater San Diego Area

• In charge of installing the Continuous Improvement System, starting with Lean and Six Sigma training for leaders.• Creation of a new Continuous Improvement System that incorporates different ideas, including a recognition and an award program for all employees.• Head designer of a Continuous Improvement hands-on training program for operators and technicians. (JumpStart)• Responsible for creating a Periodic Gemba Walk System (For Lean and Six Sigma practitioners, supervisors, and leaders).• Create a Non-inventory and Kan-Ban System to improve material handling-ordering-picking processing.• Successfully generated a new system that monitors remotely and maintains FIFO for a cold-room.Head designer of a Visual Kan-Ban system to monitor the stages of the process, including Device History Records (DHR).• Participant in the conversion of DHR paper to Digital DHR using Excel.• Responsible for the Implementation of a new 5S+ system to be implemented in 5 weeks (5S in 5 weeks).• Develop improvements for multiple excel reports and track systems in order to make them error-proof as well as generate automatic reports and charts.• Oversee a Value Stream Map for multiple processes to identify main gaps and offer recommendations for Process Improvements.• Administer the digital content for multiple screens on the plant, used for presenting KPIs, employee recognition and company news.

San Diego And Tijuana Bc.

GNnovations ™ focus on all kind of companies that desires to do more and better with less effort at the time that customer wants. Our hands-on workshops are tailored to specific customer’s processes and designed to identify and resolved hidden problems utilizing a dynamic-proven methodology.

Greater San Diego Area

Operation Excellence (OpEx) Manager and Six Sigma-Lean Black Belt. Leading the integration of Lean/Six Sigma systems through workshops for manufacturing and non-manufacturing groups, utilizing existing problems to provide hands-on process improvement.• Provided on-site Lean-Sigma workshops for transactional processes including Sales, Service, Marketing, and Int. Logistics for LATAM (180 persons).• Drove cycles of improvement through Business Process Improvement (Kaizen, Gemba Walks and BPI's) events on specific projects as well as providing the necessary tools to eliminate waste and improve processes.• Drove cross-functional teams as a process expert in order to provide solutions in a systematic way for manufacturing and transactional processes.• In charge of the successful implementation and set-up of 16 warehouses Third Party Logistics (3PL) located worldwide as well as the set-up and design of battery recharge centers with remote monitoring system for uninterrupted power supplies.• Led VA/VE Workshops as manager of VA/VE engineering staff and coordinated re-engineering activities averaging $1.1 Million USD in hard savings per year.• Assured on-time and smooth product launches into mass production for standard and configured to order models as New Product Introduction (NPI) leader.• Drove the RoHS conversion of 300+ Bills of Materials based on European Union legislation as RoHS Implementation leader.• Coordinated and designed visual systems for inventory management.• Identified investment opportunities, threats, and challenges to accurately forecast the company budget.• Updated and designed monthly KPI for monthly BSC with managers.

San Diego, Ca, 92154

08/2001 to 01/ 2008Eaton- Powerware (Electrical div.)- Tijuana Plant (TPO).Project Manager / Six Sigma Black Belt .Engineering Management: Driving manufacturing engineering activities trough Lean and Sigma initiatives has well as coordinating the Plant Transitioning process. In charge to analyze and report E and O for material and equipment, finding the optimistic way to minimize exposure. New Product Introduction (NPI) Project Manager, Assuring On-Time and smooth launches, for mass production.VA/VE Accomplishment: 4.8 million-dollar savings in 4 years by applying Value Engineering, Six Sigma and redesign techniques.RoHS Implementation leader: Driven the RoHS conversion of a total of 300+ BOM’s based on the EU legislation.

Greater San Diego Area

• Designed manufacturing processes for magnetics and transformers, working in conjunction with NPI leader to assure on-time launch. • In charge of calculating standard processing time to aid manufacturing team.

Riverside, California, United States

• Designed 80 potentiometers in one year, from marketing strategies to production release that enhanced a business of $11.5 M dollars.• Sustained engineering and product designer on existing products (potentiometers), coordinating design reviews with premier customers such as Motorola and Tektronix where design for six sigma was mandatory.• Conducted failure analysis for current products as well as on customer returns and Design of Experiments (DOEs).• Applied troubleshooting for root cause analysis using Six Sigma tools as required.

Tijuana, Mexico

Mechanical Engineering supervisor of a team of 8 members in charge of supporting and sustaining products (high volume televisions) with all issues related to parts, product assembly cosmetics and packaging.• In charge of assuring a smooth new product introduction regarding all mechanical parts and components.• Participant in state-of-the-art injection molding technology for thermoplastics known as GAIN (Gas • Assisted Injection Molding) that provided $800K in savings.• Worked with Engineering-Scientists and mold designers to create a mechanical evaluation that supported the introduction of this new technology, using 30% less material that would increase the mechanical strength of the product.• Designed a reusable packaging system for PCBA’s.• Provided mechanical recommendations for product re-design / re-engineering.• Analyzed final product prototypes for manufacturability.• Conducted vibrations and drop tests per ISTA Standard to assure product integrity.• Evaluated and implemented new suppliers to support Cost down and Quality up.