Director Maintenance & Repair with special focus in Latin America, supporting Global needs for strategic guidance, technical advice and cost control.

Maintenance & Repair management for the Container Operations in Costa Rica.Technical support for the Worldwide Container Operatios managed by Corporate Offices.

REPCONTVER S.A. is an ISO Container Depot & Repair Services provider. Representative for Waterfront Containers (San Francisco' headquartered) in Ecuador. Intermodal equipment trader.Consulting to support fast company growth. New facilities design and SOP's revision and development.

Self employed at owned company TIMS, and focused in consulting to international corporations and large operations of the Industry. Successfully performing as Intermodal Equipment Surveyor and Strategist. The consulting jobs pursued an integral design to promote High Performance Organizations, Cost Reductions and Quality Standards Improvements. Over 15 years of experience in the Industry including 13 as Regional Manager for a Fortune 500 Company and 4 as Global Equipment Engineering and Maintenance Director at one of the largest banana brands in the World.

Goal of $6MM cost reductions: Develop Corporate Strategies focused in Trucking Operations Efficiency, High Performance Organization, Equipment and M&R Savings.Design and Manage the Equipment Redelivery Program (Containers Off-hire).

Design and implement the Global Equipment Engineering and M&R Strategy to ensure the safe operation of the Corporate Containers fleet and related Intermodal Equipment.Commited with the goal of cost reduction, achieved savings of over $4MM in 3 years (-20%) and a success of 4.5 Sigma for the equipment reliability.

Responsible for all Maintenance and Repair Operations in the US West Coast, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia.Corporate M&R Global budget design and control.

Deknatel S.A, a Costa Rican based Division of DEKNATEL Corp. (Fall River, Mass.) belonged to the Pfizer Hospital Products Group.The Company speciallized in the assembly of Surgical Sutures for the American Market.Hired as Production Manager for Deknatel S.A. and soon promoted to Division General Manager.Deknatel Corp. and its Divisions were sold by Pfizer in 1991. Overseas Operations were closed to concentrate manufacturing in their Mass facility.

Production Manager for the two largest Divisions of the Company:Meat Packing Plant for exports to the USA: Audited and certified by USDA, processed over 200,000 lbs of live stock daily.Tannery Division. Focused in export markets to Central America of the finest finished leather. It also produced leather for shoe sole, and coloured hides for various industrial purposes.During my Production Direction, both Divisions surpassed all sales records with the highest reported profits, lower costs and higher plant efficiencies.