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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Riverside, California, United States

Collaborated constructively with top executives in formulating strategy, improving performance, procuring material and resources, and securing compliance. Focused on mentoring team members, in finding ways to increase quality of customer service and implement best practices across all levels. Developing and implementing breakthrough strategies and results in formation of new manufacturing models. Increased overall capacity through new equipment purchases and production flow improvements. Developed employee goal plan and structured organization with acquired talents to develop new business continuity plan. Improve levels of efficiency and reducing inventory. Improved facility infrastructure with business process reviews, development of new procedures and ERP implementation.● Dynamic Communicator and Stellar Negotiator. Negotiated and closed numerous high-value deals. Visited 20+ countries, being exposed to a variety of cultures. Fluent in English and proficient in Spanish.● Community Involvement. Engaged in numerous fundraising initiatives, effectively communicating with charities, sponsors, donors, volunteers, and other stakeholders. Served as an Ambassador for the development of recreational sports programs within local government forums.● Systems Utilization and Technology Skills. Proficient use of Windows and Mac operating systems, well versed with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and multiple ERP / MRP systems. Working knowledge of WMS Systems.

Corona, California, United States

Collaborated constructively with the business and functional leaders to develop and implement breakthrough strategies and results in formation of new high-speed production lines. Increased overall capacity through new equipment purchases and production flow improvements. Developed employee goal plan and structured organization with acquired talents to develop new business continuity plan. Managed network of suppliers, distributors, service providers and sub-contractors to source materials, components, supplies, and services needed to run manufacturing operations. Directed Operations including all supply chain, manufacturing, facilities, quality, continuous improvement, and maintenance for $40M manufacturer of FDA and EPA regulated products based on consumer and beauty goods. Decreased number of Supply Supervisors / Managers (overhead) from 9 to 6 associates in 1-year period while improving service levels, efficiency, and reducing inventory. Improved facility infrastructure with boiler permits cosmetic manufacture license and in-process for FDA (OTC) certification.

Corona

Demonstrated strong leadership impact while collaborating constructively with the business and functional leaders to develop and implement breakthrough strategies and results in formation of new high-speed production lines. Increased overall capacity through new equipment purchases and production flow improvements. Developed employee goal plan and structured organization with acquired talents to develop new business continuity plan. Managed network of suppliers, distributors, service providers and sub-contractors to source materials, components, supplies and services needed to run manufacturing operations.

Corona

Played a critical role in achieving exponential growth targets by developing and leading Capital Projects & Modernization strategy, creating room to grow and shoring up foundational systems and facilities to be utilized for future expansion. Reduced overhead by as much as 60% and enabled a more flexible and responsive business model by spearheading the transition from self-storage product warehousing and shipping to a Just-In-Time (JIT) model. Spearheaded the initiative to prepare production costs and variances, short- and long-range plans including timeline. Organized production line assemblies to ensure strict compliance to quality and safety standards. Collaborated with the Product Manager, Suppliers, Engineering, Quality Control and Plant Employee supervisors in finding innovative ways to improve production efficiency. Motivated production team thru training, information sharing, mentoring, feedback, unbiased evaluations and task delegation.

Riverside

Vice President of Operations, Production, Planning, Growth Strategy 06/16 – 09/18Operations & Customer Service Manager, Sales Operations & Planning / Scheduling 11/14 – 06/16Planning & Production Manager, Sales Operations, Manufacturing Controls 08/12 – 11/14Pre-Weigh/Chemical Manager, Inventory Control 10/10 – 08/12Shipping Manager, Logistics Manager, Warehousing 10/07 – 10/10Increasing roles of responsibility in leading manufacturer of Health Care Consumer Products. Experience includes roles in Operations, Sales, Compliance, Engineering, and Manufacturing with focus on the Cosmetics and OTC FDA Regulated Drug products of the Skincare brands. Development of facility improvements and growth strategy to include the installation of 2 new aerosol lines and (1) BOV line to increase aerosol production capacity by 80%. Developed planning strategy to maintain On-Time-Delivery of 95% and increase year over year profit margins.

Greater San Diego Area

Operations specialists aboard U.S. Navy combat vessels work in the combat information center (CIC) or combat direction center (CDC), aka: "combat", the tactical nerve center of the ship. Using a wide variety of assets available to them, Operations Specialists are responsible for the organized collection, processing, display, competent evaluation and rapid dissemination of pertinent tactical combat information to command and control stations, upon which sound tactical decisions may be made. Proven experience in leadership, threat assessments, budgeting, scheduling, operations and demanding operational leadership and staff positions. Extensive experience working with international military partners during complex physical assessments, training exercises and deployed operations. Expert level of knowledge of the military command structure and relationships within missions and programs. Independently planned, developed and coordinated installation training and exercise requirements and goals for each installation mission. Highly proficient in training and developing training programs, infrastructure implementation and team support. Experience leading and training culturally diverse teams in planning, scheduling and forecasting. Able to exercise discretion in determining the scope of projects within given parameters. Planned and executed evaluations and surveillance of subordinate personnel for yearly evaluations and recommendations for advancement. Determined and assured conformance of products and services to contractual specification requirements.

Master Of Strategic Communication, Business/Corporate Communications

Master Of Arts - Ma, Strategic Communications

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Communication And Media Studies, 3.88

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Communication And Media Studies

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Mass Communication/Media Studies