Luis Macías Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Chihuahua, Mexico

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua

Major Responsibilities:• Main contact with Customer. Commercial negotiation according to Customer necessities. • Responsible for networking with Customers and resources inside and outside company demonstrating a high proficiency and very proactive in interfacing with suppliers.• Devise or adapt new methods, using a full understanding of procedures and various product development techniques.• Responsible for formulating criteria from product specification for selection of concepts involved in a complete project. Requirements translation. Desires Vs. mandatories.• Proficient in and able to render aid in development and identification of unique concepts. Proactive in identifying concept needs and / or application.• In Charge of make top level diverse and interrelated engineering decisions concerning development and verification of concepts, as well as formalization of same for use in fabricating parts and assemblies.

Ciudad Juárez

Researcher Professor - Industrial Design and New Product development Teacher• Thesis Mentor. Industrial Design New Product Development Process• Planning and Design of Products & Verification and Validation of Product.o New product development.• Materials Technology.o Plastics and manufacturing process.• Packaging design. Part of the Investigation Team - Projects involved at:• New Product Design Methodology. Packaging consulting Book.

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

• Carry out the total coordination of the EU MDR project and team activities for new variants.• Responsible for day-to-day management of the EU MDR project.• Definition of priorities for the team and monitoring the fulfillment of tasks committed by the site.• Main contact with Staff Directors and BU Managers to communicate Document of Change (DoC) and Technical Documents (TD) status.• Responsible for networking with stakeholders demonstrating a high proficiency and very proactive in interfacing.• Manage and build relationships with key decision makers from project inception to post-deployment. while simultaneously ensuring sponsor and end-user satisfaction.• Organize different activities and prioritize to keep projects running smoothly.• Work diligently to keep the team engaged, motivated, and focused on the task at hand.• Lead and coordinate daily meetings (Check-in) and active participation on Tier 4 meeting documenting the progress of the project.• Accountable for delivering on team goals and deliverables.• Apply a consultative approach to assist with functional & technical EU MDR global Workstreams.• Responsible for preparation of status of relevant deliverables of pilot runs, system configurations and identification of risks with impact and mitigations during all EU MDR Workstreams.• Coordinate all manufacturing readiness activities before DoC approval for new variants conversion.

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

• Responsible to generate Project Plans (MS Project Gantt).• Maintain updated work plans for projects through daily project status staying on schedule.• Coordinate Top 10 portfolio projects advance.• Main contact with Project Leads and coordinate daily meetings (Check-in) documenting the progress of the project.• Assessing risks of each project• Communication plan between members and stakeholders• Responsible for networking with Project Lead and resources inside and outside department.• Use organization resources to maximize customer satisfaction.• Transfer knowledge to the rest of team members making sessions to teach MS Project abilities.

Juárez, Chihuahua, México

• Lead and complete technical projects with suppliers to improve supplier process capacity, supplier process capability, supplier process maintainability, instrument assembly capability, and instrument output performance • Provide technical support for the approval/ validation of changes/ improvements in supplier processes and for the resolution of component quality issues • Potentially coordinate RMI/CAD/BOM actives • Produce component cost comparisons and analyze alternative manufacturing methods for cost improvement projects (CIP’S). • Sustain supply chain continuity by qualifying and validating supplier tooling as per component approval procedures. • Ensure closure to component non-conformance issues with timely corrective action submission and approval of suppliers control plans. • Manage ETQ database for assigned NC’S and CAPA’S completes actions by due dates and provides periodic updates to management. • Follow all company safety policies and other safety precautions within the work area • Support supplier evaluations for major services/products as needed • Determine tooling and spare requirements to maintain component supply

Ciudad Juárez, Chiuhuahua, Mexico

Partner: New Product Development Lead.Major Responsibilities:• Commercial negotiation. Voice of Customer. VOC• Interpret customer & marketing input to define technical design requirements.• Provide innovative product, system & component design solutions.• Negotiate a broad range of activities, timing, etc., with all levels inside and outside company according to Customer necessities.• Experienced in achieving cost / quality and time goals demonstrated by a record of accomplishment of successfully bringing multiple projects into production.• Use organization resources to maximize customer satisfaction, product development process and cost efficiency for multiple new product projects of moderate complexity.

Ciudad Juárez, México

Major Responsibilities:•Acting as a team member on product development projects conducting various assignments in cooperation with direction of team & team leader.•Serve as a lead New Product Integration Engineer on one or more development/revisions of a new product launch of significant complexity.•Have responsibility for multiple new product stabilization projects of moderate complexity.•Plan, conduct & direct projects major in scope & significant to company.•Provide technical input to the R & D and Product Management Development teams pertaining to “Voice of the Factory” from conceptualization to stabilization of the new products.•Coordinate and execute DFA analysis, process FMEAS, equipment/ tooling design, line design, process design and development, transfers/validations of lines in the plant and design Intent transfer.•Coordinate with all plant functions (Business Unit, Technical Services, Quality, Finance, Product Complaints, and Planning) to ensure completion of “Voice of Factory” requirements.•Coordinate to complete all New Product Launch (Gate and Technical) deliverables. •Ensure product knowledge transfer to all Business Unit roles.•Follow all company safety policies and other safety precautions within the work area. •Follow J&J and EES Records Management Policies for Convenience Information, Records Retention Schedules, Training and Education, Document Hold Notices, Records Cleanout, Inactive Records and Information Management, Vital Records and third party vendor if applicable.•Collect, and report both product and process stabilization data as input to required scorecards by due dates.•Lead or coordinate stabilization improvement projects. •Develop manufacturing validation plan (Project Plan/Timelines).•Line transferring of equipment to Juarez Plant from supplier facilities.•Support manufacturing teams with day to day productions requirements during transferring ownership of stable lines.

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua

Major Responsibilities:• Lead and participate on teams dedicated to systematically reducing design-induced variation in company products, creating sustainable improvement that benefits company´s customers and drives significant business results.• Executing specific & general assignments that provide innovative, functional, cost effective & validated product designs. Continuous Improvement Process.• Devise or adapt new methods, using a full understanding of procedures & various product development techniques.• Responsible for maintaining alignment and communication between stakeholders. Interaction with all major departments. • Responsible for the execution of design proposals, 3D solid models alternatives.• Perform design/tolerance stack up analysis.• Responsible for assuring projects are well scoped, remain focused, and follow the Life Cycle process.• Maintain technical expertise and familiarity with engineering, and predictive computer based tools.• Product and Process design and implementation. Implement lessons learned for new products.Achievements• Developed solutions through design proposals for several codes numbers by about 4 millions of dollars savings including materials replacement, cost avoidance, and components simplification.• Executed cost saving strategies for Business Unit.• Plan to restructure the Design Department was elaborated to be more functional and become more product design oriented by re structuring functions in the most state of the art practice.Projects involved:Cost Saving initiative, trouble shooting, new technologies and materials implementation, CAPA (Corrective Actions) execution, Adverse Events and Risk Management investigation team member.

Toluca, Edo. De México

Major Responsibilities:•Project Management (transferring new business and projects, tooling included).•To keep in direct touch with customer (meet customer expectations).•In charge of Tooling and Secondary Equipment of Central Engineering. •Tooling and Equipment plan development and execution.•Process Interaction on a daily-basis with suppliers and performance evaluation Tooling.•Interaction with all major departments.•Packaging Plan Development Validation. •Expert in Customer terms (Products, Prints, GDT, Material Specification) and its deployment.•Participation during DFMEA development.•Product and Process design and implementation.•Control of product level evolution and engineering changes deployment during launch.•PFMEA development and design process.•Lean Manufacturing.•Definition and continue evolution of control plan.•Harmony and craftsmanship strategy development.•Process capability.•Careful approver of new equipment and tool to be deployed in manufacturing.•Continuous Improvement Process.•Prototype and pilot builds execution.•Bill of material deployment.•Implement lessons learned for new products.•Create and maintain product books of knowledge.

Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua

Major Responsibilities:• To check the correct plastic parts design (easily manufacturability) according to their guidelines.• Creating 3D solid CAD models proposal for new design, rapid prototyping and material selection.• Design accordance with customer specifications and product function.• Mold flow’s process simulation software is used to evaluate a variety of manufacturing issues related to these parts design such as optimize the design of the part long before expensive tooling or molds are built.• To keep in direct touch with engineering staff (meet customer expectations).• Design Review Attendance.• Effective problems solving of the division.• Continued improvement methodologies.• Help to develop projects with each area.• Variation Simulation Analysis. Major Responsibilities:• Vis VSA software was used to calculate the variation between different components with GD&T.• Division training. Major Responsibilities:• In charge of the division’s training.• Teaching and update new software versions (UG, Mold Flow, Product Vision, VisVSA, etc.).• To keep in direct touch with suppliers.

Querétaro Y Alrededores, México

Major Responsibilities:• Designer.• Designing connectors and plastic parts.• Enginnering Changes• Component design and drafting, 2D and 3D• To keep in direct touch with Product Engineer (meet customer requirements).

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Sciences Of Administration, Mención Honorífica, Tesis Nominada A Medalla Alfonso Caso

• PhD Sciences of Administration. Aug 2010- Dec 2013. Project investigation (Thesis) Honorific mention: Administrative Process Based.

Master'S Degree In Sciences, Master'S Degree Quality And Productivity Systems

Master Degree in Productivity and Quality Systems, MCP, ITESM, Cd. Juárez Thesis topic: Methodology to make new products design to help.

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Design

• Bachelor´s Degree Industrial Design, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México City (1992 -1996)