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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

• Plan and lead scheduling for coiled tubing plant optimizing customers’ needs, lines’ effectiveness, and material availability• Revamped steel sourcing model within first month improving reliability and reducing update from days to an hour• Improved communication with Sales and Operations departments by providing transparency and data-backed information

Houston, Texas, Us

• Managed sourcing of requested plant load considering mills’ limitations and delivery compliance with optimal profits• Administered order acceptance process from correct systems configurations to proper entry and follow up until final confirmation

Houston, Texas, Us

• Optimized production plans for 6 plants in the US and Canada based on customer compliance, costs, and plants’ utilization• Identified and proposed opportunities to utilize surplus stock for open orders on a global scale to liberate working capital• Monitor data accuracy in systems and reconcile for reporting viewed by top management, including CEO• Executed integration of IPSCO acquisition for global planning systems and modeled KPI’s within a month

Houston, Texas, Us

• Managed supply planning activities in Bakken, Rockies, Mid-Continent, Haynesville, Marcellus and Utica basins• Operated at minimum stock levels from global sources while ensuring Rig Direct orders were met• Supervised, trained, and developed a team of 6 planners

Houston, Texas, Us

• Planned production focusing on customer compliance while maintaining target inventory levels and optimizing plant efficiency• Structured new procedure for coupling purchases from third party suppliers• Coordinated all stages of the third party process, from coupling stock movement to coupling delivery at Tenaris facilities• Documented production in ERP systems for correct bookkeeping as well as verifying third party raw material consumption

Houston, Texas, Us

• Responsible for steel sourcing activities for US and Canada plants• Mediate between steel vendors and Tenaris’ sales, supply chain, and quality teams regarding forecasts, orders, and claims• Strategize order entry considering steel forecasted prices and plant needs

Houston, Texas, Us

• Planned for production of 3,500 joints/month of threaded material• Adapted planning methodology as lead time of business changed from months to weeks with declining market conditions• Absorbed responsibilities of Raw Materials Planning department after area was downsized• Conducted transfer of job responsibilities to Veracruz, Mexico, including training of personnel

Houston, Texas, Us

• Planned for production of 60,000 tons/month of welded pipe in 2 plants• Managed the replenishment of raw materials: steel, couplings, and protectors• Supervised a team of 3 analysts• Redesigned planning tools that led to headcount reduction of the department

Houston, Texas, Us

The Global Trainee Program is a strategic development tool that aims to build up promising professionals with a strong industrial background and with potential to become the future Tenaris leaders.Scheduling and Planning AnalystHouston, TX - May 2010 - Feb 2011• Scheduled coupling production operations of saw, machining, and NDT – over 90 work centers• Planned monthly production considering forecast, raw material, headcount, and machines• Developed planning model that is still in use• Installed pilot in-house scheduling program, the first of its kind in a Tenaris US facilityProject LeaderBlytheville, AR - Feb 2011 - Nov 2011• Led proof-of-concept installation of scheduling program for the first welded facility in Tenaris• Investigated, collected, and centralized information from different systems to feed the program• Trained a group of schedulers that now use the program daily as their main tool for scheduling• Resulted in expansion of project scope to incorporate all US facilitiesProcess ImproverHouston, TX - Nov 2011 - Jun 2012• Created tools and implemented changes for compiling data automatically that left more time for analysis• Resulted in headcount reduction of planning department

Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mx

• Structured a Statics course founded on technological resources to broaden student understanding of the subject content• Compiled the course syllabus, assignments, and materials to be used for the current and succeeding semesters• Wrote and developed mobile resources for the course, including audio and video podcasts, flash presentations, and quizzes

• Performed efficiency of plating assays to quantify the survival of the gene in question against various strains• Constructed killing curves to examine the sensitivity of the stress agent and understand the role of the gene• Grew plants, characterized them, and recorded data to survey reactions of different strains• Basic lab procedures: grew and plated colonies, performed genomic preparations to be sequenced, prepared common substances