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Querétaro Arteaga, México

Responsible for integrating the Mexican team into the Costing & Insights organization, building and ramping up a new team of cost engineers in Mexico, and setting achievable but ambitious targets. Additionally, I will implement guidelines, identify and address any issues employees may have, and monitor and report on activities.Contribute to product presales and business development for costing in the American market.Identify key stakeholders at customer sites.Analyse sales, customer usage, market trends, competition, and the overall environment in Americas market.Contribute with observations & insights to the development & improvement of costing-related products and services, including software tools.Interact with customers in the Americas to ensure customer satisfaction.Drive awareness of costing activities by engaging in relevant fairs, conferences, webinars, or any means that can create further business growth.

Querétaro, Querétaro Arteaga, México

• Planning and allocating resources based on business needs. • Definition of employee development plans and performance evaluation (OKR). • Quotation and estimation of resources for projects. • Management and control of budgets exceeding 25M USD. • Definition of product architecture (materials, BOM, manufacturing processes). • Research and development of new technologies and market trends. • Coordination of internal teams, suppliers and OEMs for the development of Digital Clusters, Battery Management Systems and Audio Systems

Guadalajara Y Alrededores, México

• Led a team of 15 Engineers to define engineering strategies and operational goals to meet and exceed customer requirements for product development, quality, cost and delivery. • Provide clear vision and leadership, inspire and motivate the team to achieve company goals • Monitored KPIs to ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery.• Created robust mechanical and display concepts from design to implementation. • Technical design reviews for individual components and assembly concepts to create more robust and manufacturable designs by reducing rework, scrap and manufacturing cycle times• Improved internal standards and procedures for efficient project execution.

Guadalajara Y Alrededores, México

Lead a group of Mechanical Engineers on Research and Development Process of Instrument Car Panels for Asians and European OEM’s

Guadalajara

-Mechanical team management in research and development activities of automotive instrument panels for Toyota, VW and BMW OEMs.-Technical management with customers and suppliers-Responsible of new business development.

Guadalajara Y Alrededores, México

Lead Mechanical Development Engineer for automotive instrument panels projects (VW customer).-Sub Program manager for the definition of project goals from the cost, timing and scope standpoint.-Close customer contact to define product specifications and main mechanical activities of the project.-Design and develop cosmetic and functional plastic parts, assembly and manufacturing concept.-Responsible of Injection tooling approval & release for mass production.-Responsible of business acquisition activities for mechanical engineering.

Área Metropolitana De Guadalajara, México

-Lead Mechanical Development Engineer for automotive instrument panels projects (GM and Ford customers).-Design and develop cosmetic and functional plastic parts.-Tolerance stacks analysis.-Lighting development & AAR (appearance approval report).-Responsible of Injection tooling approval & release for mass production.-Define and coordinate reliability test.-SAP BOM creation.-PPAP approval.-Launch product to mass production (SOP).-Coordinate and implement design improvements, engineering changes, material changes, new component or supplier introduction and redesigns.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Mechatronics Engineering

Certificate Of Achievement, Executive Leadership

Executive leadership training focused on leadership skills, decision making for executive level and executive communication.

Certificate Of Achievement, Coaching And Leadership

The purpose of the course is to develop skills to consolidate and form a team of high performance work; to structure and direct it.

Certificate Of Achievement, Project Management

-Provide a foundation for project management knowledge and represent the four areas of the profession: project, program, portfolio.

Especiality (Minor), Advanced Manufacturing