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Qualifications Summary• Supply Chain management in South America covering Brazil, Chile and Argentina for coatings Industry. • Experience in Industrial management, involving flow charts analysis, investments plan, costs control and production planning. • International Experience: Job Rotation of approximately two years at the Ciba Specialty Chemicals Headquarters (Basel – Switzerland), working in the management of a small scale production plant (new products on the manufacture of organic synthesis chemicals – Optical whiteners for the paper and detergent industries; textile auxiliaries and tanning agents for the leather industry.• Material Planning and Demand Planning for Coatings sites in AkzoNobel -S. Paulo• Focus on Service level and at the same time Inventories control to have stocks reduced in the main warehouses, without affecting service.• Processes restructuring, lean manufacturing, economic feasibility, risk analysis and process safety have been strongly worked in the last few years.• Professional with huge experience in the chemical and paint / coatings industry, with focus on Manufacturing , Planning and Demand.• Skills in managing Safety and Environmental issues. Vast experience in process risk analysis. Hazard Studies( including HAZOP) methodology and “What if’• Vast Experience in preparing strategic plans in order to keep the organic growth for 5 to 10 years ahead, having focus on an Integrated supply chain concept following the global plans.