Javier is a Certified Value Specialist (CVS), a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), and a Certified Product Cost Expert (CPCE)He has over 20 years of experience in value engineering (VE), tear-down analysis, Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma for the manufacturing and construction industries. He has successfully led VE workshops across the globe for a range of products, specialized equipment and tools, processes, and facilities. Since 2000, Javier has trained more than 2000 professional engineers in Lean Six Sigma systems and VE. He is an Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and SAVE International instructor. He also designed the Lean and Six Sigma public training for the Jalisco State Government, which focused on training regional industries to implement and improve their productivity. He also created the first value engineering university course in Latin America, which was granted official certification by SAVE International. As a result, engineering graduates received the Associate Value Specialist Certification. Javier has specialized company-wide quality and productivity management training from the Central Japan Industries Association in Nagoya, Japan. Javier also has industrial engineering and quality control training from Kitakyushu International Techno-Cooperative Agency in Kitakyushu, Japan. Aside from being a professor in the Engineering Masters at Universidad Panamericana for almost two decades, he is the founding President of the Instituto de Ingenieros Industriales de Occidente (Chapter 252 of the Institute of Industrial Engineers), a training agent at Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social (Federal Labor Bureau in Mexico) and has been one of the 15 jurors for the Jalisco's Award to Quality (Premio Jalisco a la Calidad) seven times. Javier has presented at various conferences on industrial engineering, VE for manufacturing and construction, Lean manufacturing, computer simulation, and statistical process control, as well as collaboration skills for engineers in Mexico, Japan, the US, and Central and South America.