Julio Arias Rodríguez Email & Phone Number

Mexicali Area, Mexico

My role as Sales Manager for one of the company’s six manufacturing plants is mostly focused in business development in Western U.S. and Northern México for very diverse industries: Power tools, lawn & garden, home appliances, consumer goods, medical, toys, sporting goods, automotive and others. I’m accountable for building a long term business strategy for Custom-Pak México, finding new customers and managing key accounts while ensuring healthy and profitable business relationships with all of our existing customers (approx. 50). This with the help of my beloved Sales team.Being able to communicate effectively in a multicultural, multinational environment and mobilize cross-functional high performance teams was a must for taking this new role.

Mexicali Area, Mexico

With a background in product design, along with mold engineering, I seized the opportunity to fulfill my desire of having a better look at the whole business operation by joining the sales team.Inter-functional coordination as well as network and relationship building, were the things I enjoyed the most of this role.

Mexicali, Mexico

Custom-Pak is an American private company that has been designing and manufacturing blow molded plastic products since 1974. I started in this company as a product designer, developing design concepts; working directly with customers to sort all kind of manufacturing challenges, as well as designing and building molds for mass production.This gave me experience working in a technically driven product development and manufacturing facility.

Mexicali Area, Mexico

I started teaching at the Industrial Design program at my alma mater as a way of giving back to this public institution, which I have great affection and gratitude. Being participant in the nurturing of the recently created role for industrial designers in the development of social and economic growth in the region is something I deeply value.During my class, my students will face complex challenges such as "How do we reduce the unemployment rate of blind people in the city of Mexicali?" or "How do we attend the need for improving basic health care on migrants in transit in the city of Mexicali?" Since 2020, my class focus is Innovation and Sustainability. Working with these type of challenges is empowering to my students, as they become comfortable with a blank canvas and this sort of powerful questioning. All these projects reflect a local problem to be solved; building leaders on their field is what this is all about. This has allowed me to gather experience in growing, developing, and leading teams.On 2021, 2022 and 2023 I was selected by my students to be commencement speaker, something I’m super proud of.

Mexicali Area, Mexico

A colleague and I started this business together before graduating school, we designed and built furniture, prototyping, props, decorative craft, signs, and many other design related objects. My role was oriented to customer engagement and operational coordination, but I pretty much had to deal with everything needed to maintain a profitable business running. We had a very good run together working on so many fun and crazy projects until I decided to sold my part of the business to dedicate 100% to an upcoming new job at the time.

Licentiate Degree, Industrial And Product Design

Diploma, Project Management

-Processes of project management. -Financial evaluation of projects and decision making. -Interpersonal skills for the successful.

Diploma, Non-Directive Coaching

Based on Socratic maieutics, humanistic psychology and The Inner Game method of Tim Gallwey. Core competencies from the International.