Jorge Zepeda-Godinez Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, US

SOPRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC., the creator of Moneytoring(TM), is an innovative business solutions company focused on creating end-to-end digital solutions to improve end-user, business, and operational experiences through its suite of innovative Services, powered by advanced technologies and its talented team. The SOPRIS Services Portfolio, Moneytoring(TM).

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Directed global multifunctional team with operational responsibility for Product-Customer Quality, Supply Chain, Advanced Procurement, Hardware/Middleware Platforms and R&D Labs, with 150 employees and 15M EUR budget.
• Reduced headcount and budget 25% over 2 yrs, on target ~15% in first year by developing and launching an aggressive plan to Lean processes and improve performance.
• Increased on-time-delivery to 87% from 45% in supply chain by reengineering the supply chain system.
• Deployed program to reduce procurement spend 15 – 20% over 2-years by launching a plan to consolidate 100s of suppliers to few strategic suppliers. Restructured team, evaluated and implemented a Lean-based program that.
• Decreased time to resolve backlog of critical customer service issues 60% by launching program to create a continuous improvement and customer focused culture in quality.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Promoted to direct Business Operations, including Business Model Transformation, Lean Six Sigma Practice, Internal Employee Communications, Change Management, 3rd Party Supplier Spend (Procurement Optimization.
• Established and built a new organization and governance process by creating consistency across the services delivery organization that drove focus on customer satisfaction and continuous capability, productivity and.
• Saved 260M EUR in first year (expected over 3 yrs) by identifying, launching and tracking funnel of aggressive cost reductions, productivity and efficiency initiatives.
• Improved customer satisfaction and operational gains in productivity and on-time-delivery performance by creating a new Lean Six Sigma Practice (13 Master BB, 30 BB, and >600 trained GB) that served as the catalyst to.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Promoted to direct project teams with primary focus of troubleshooting complex, strategic issues identified by CEO, Management Committee and Board of Directors, spanning across company, technologies, customers, and.
• Established and launched a new services organization, Global Customer Delivery, with 35K employees and 4B EUR, by assessing market opportunity, existing-assets, business risks, defining mission and vision, creating.
• Improved global cost and competitive advantages by shifting use of China as an R&D back-office to the primary business-hub for commodity business lines. Relocated headquarters for key commodity businesses from Europe.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Achieved breakthrough National Security Agreement (NSA) resulting in final US Government CIFIUS approval for Alcatel and Lucent Technologies’ $25B merger by coordinating Lucent’s portfolio efforts and collaborating.
• Created strategy to refocus company’s strategy on profits and growth versus commoditizing / declining businesses by analyzing industry/customer trends and risks to identify opportunities to drive profit and growth.
• Streamlined and directed planning and operational reviews for ~$15B revenue portfolio to focus on strategic action plans, solve critical underperformance issues, and address strategic opportunities.

• Improved Lucent’s position to grow in the software and solutions market segment by centralizing assets and investments previously dispersed across company, creating a new Software and Solutions Business Unit with sales.
• Positioned company to retake lost #1 position in Telco voice over IP business by creating a strategy that refocused its investment and R&D efforts, including acquisition of Telica for $300M in 2004.

• Supported Sales team to win a competitive $1.2B contract with launch of a new product (7R/E) by leading marketing and business development efforts, helping to realign product-feature-roadmap and customer-needs to.

Dallas, TX, US

Dallas, TX, US

Executive Mba

Msee, Electrical Engineering

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Aas, Computer Electronics

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