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Madrid, Es

Celaya Metropolitan Area

MD Group is a Portuguese manufacturer of molds and injected parts for main automotive Tier 1 and OEMs.In charge of supporting the launching of MD Plastics North America operation in Mexico - based on a partners' plant located in Celaya - for the production of Doors and Instrument Panel ambient lighting for Tesla Model 3.

Mexico City Metropolitan Area

Array Marketing, the market leader in the design and production of Point of Purchase (POP) high-end furniture, set-up a task force to revamp its Mexican operations after being acquired by top-tier global investment firm Oaktree Capital Management.Interim PMO - hired by Executive Interim Management (EIM) - in charge of a major portfolio of improvement projects;- Production Scheduling: implemented Epicor ERP scheduling module; process design and planning team training; specified planning parameters; set up resources’ capacity.- Shopfloor Programming: coordinated the development in Epicor and the launching of job key documents (work order, material list)- Job Management: streamlined process from job creation and engineering (definition of routes and BOMs), through scheduling, release, operations reporting and up to receive into inventory and auto-close through Epicor ERP.- Shopfloor Data Collection: implemented key required processes to ensure a complete Operations & Labor reporting in Epicor ERP; operators clock in/out, activities initiation and finalization, production reporting; developed system based dashboards for Operations and Attendance control.- WIP Management: led parts identification through Epicor ERP; label design – including barcodes – and label printing process development and implementation for both Finish Goods and Sub-Assemblies.- Materials Allocation & Picking: established the process to reserve and pick materials in the warehouse in order to fulfill job materials request through Epicor Fulfillment Workbench menu.- Materials Planning: formalized the use of Epicor MRP module. Established the parts forecast management process. Foster and documented the analysis, calculation and adjustment of supply chain parameters (Lead Times, MOQ. Order Multiple, Max/ Min,...).

San Luis Potosí Area, Mexico

NewLog Consulting is a firm specialized in the implementation of operational and organizational best practices.www.newlogmexico.comIn charge of steering the company and of managing a team focused on implementing operational best practices in both industrial and services organizations.• Responsible for commercial development (services, geographical areas, target businesses,)• Responsible for ensuring the development and use of standard processes (in prospection, recruitment, services presentation, proposals development, in-plant diagnostics and project launching & management).• In charge of assuring compliance with taxes obligations• Responsible for providing the technical knowledge and experience (lean tools and methodologies)• In charge of assuring customer satisfaction and in-deep project follow-up.• Responsible for developing training materials and assuring associates development• In charge of carrying associates' annual reviews (and of defining career development plans)=> *** Please see summary of + 25 projects held since 2008 in the Section 'Projects' below ***

Monterrey Area, Mexico

Famosa North America interim plant manager hired by Executive Interim Management (EIM) Madrid's office (after leading a thorough diagnostic with NewLog Consulting).The main Spanish toys manufacturer produces in Monterrey plastics parts with injection and blowing technology for the assembling of rideons and outdoors toys.• Full responsibility for P&L of the one hundred and twenty associates site going through a major turnaround after an aborted attempt to sell and company's later acquisition by Sun Capital Group.• Focus on achieving full compliance in the Social Responsibility Audits carried by Walmart and the Walt Disney Company in order to assure business continuity, including but not limited to all aspects concerning health and safety, subcontracting, other laws, protection of environment and compensation.• Responsible for driving Logistics, MRO and lean initiatives in order to increase operations efficiency. In charge of proposing the 2017 site budget, redefining the organizational structure and of carrying out an end of fiscal year plant overall inventory counting.

Monterrey Area, Mexico

Built and validated the 345Musd 2008 Worldwide Budget of Cemex Processes&IT division under a severe restructuration and cost cut policy.• Closed the 07 fiscal year globally under a strong restructuration and budget constraints• Defined the division 08 Budget (345Musd) considering a cost reduction of 150Musd over the 07 Budget.• Established the project selection criteria and built-up the 106Musd portfolio per area for 08.• Launched globally the 08 Budget for Opex, Payroll and Projects.• Defined and applied a cost tracking methodology for ensuring alignment of expenses against Budget.

San Luis Potosí Area, Mexico

Responsable for the entire logistics of Valeo's Wiper Plant in San Luis Potosí with annual sales of 100MUsd and serving customers such as Ford, GM and Toyota. • Responsible for ensuring customer demand fulfillment• Managed a team of twelve directly, including Materials and Customer Service supervisors.• Achieved a reduction of ~25% in FG inventory levels and of 2% in transportation costs vs sales.• Supervised and improved reception, warehousing, line feeding and packing operational procedures in order to assure zero line stoppages, low premium freight costs and scheduled outbound shipments.• Set target inventory levels to assure 100% service rate for both raw materials and finished goods while reducing premiun freight and overtime.

Kraków Area, Poland

Guided and supported the implementation of logistics best practices focused on reducing inventory, increasing customer service rate, reducing operational costs and outsourcing operations to a 3rd Party Logistics• Established a leveled pull production-control system• Assigned and trained Stream Managers to control flow from materials reception through dispatching.• Applied lean tools to boost productivity and Quality-Cost-Delivery indicators.• Standardized work using Process Capacity Sheet, Work Combination Table and Work Charts

Paris Area, France

German consulting firm specialized in operations management, 70 consultants, $6million turnover in France.• Implemented a Kanban pulled material-handling system at Robert Bosch alternators and starting engines, 1,400 employees plant in Santander, Spain.Freed-up 30% of shop floor area by reducing inventories to a 2-hour average, totally banned forklifts from production area (cutting headcount by 20%), eliminated all operators’ non-value added movements by displaying all components at the point of fitting and obtained 80% increase in line s flexibility.• Established production control by leveled pull with Kanban at Exide Batteries, Manzanares, Spain

Paris Area, France

Second largest French automotive module assembler. 50,000 employees, €7000M annual sales in 2002Responsible for coordinating and implementating supply chain and logistics best practices in a network of 6 plants in Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Czech Republic and Sweden)Developed and implemented Supply Chain best practices in close collaboration with Logistics Managers, in order to assure high customer service rate, stock level optimization and inbound transportation costs minimization.• Led an European Supply Chain network and organized the required training sessions.• Surveyed the Logistics platforms and 3PL functions of the main European Supply Chains.• Established Key Performance Indicator for service rate to JIT units and end customer.• Conducted Value Stream analysis and measured the “bullwhip effect” for different supply chains.• Defined inventory target levels according to periodical review inventory management system.• Deployed Supplier Demand Leveling and organized training sessions.• Established an external milk run for the collection of high volume parts.• Organized weekly Master Production Schedule meetings in order to level production (“heijunka’).• Established the procedures and implemented a 2-cycles withdrawal and a production kanban.

Greater Detroit Area

Worldwide Tier 1 automotive supplier of electrical and electronic parts, 5000Musd annual sales in 2002Planned the inbound and outbound logistics of a new wire-harnesses facility to supply in a synchronous and JIT mode Ford´s assembling plant in Camacari, Bahia, Brazil.• Developed and implemented the Materials (raw materials and finished products), Value (invoicing and payment) and Information (Electronic Data Interchange, EDI) concepts for the supply of wire-harnesses to module assemblers and Ford Motor Company Brazil under a JIT manufacturing concept.• Identified requirements and defined operational procedures for imports customs clearance at the Brazilian border and for local transportation between states.• Calculated the Logistics Costs for the entire operation (transportation, equipment, packaging, etc.)• Analyzed the logistics and financial pros and cons for the existence of a Customer Service Center on-site at Ford and outsourcing of its management to a third party logistics (3PL) under a pay-on-production concept and a sequence announcement on drop-to-trim.• Applied Synchronous Material Flow (SMF) principles of the Ford Product Development System (FPDS) to the definition of inventory levels and packaging for delivery to point of fit (POF).• Utilized Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to map out the supply chain value flow.• Applied Visual Control techniques for production management.

Barcelona Area, Spain

Winterthur (currently part of Credit Suisse Group) is a major Swiss insurance group and a main player in the Iberian PeninsulaSupported the adoption of organizational structure and operational standards in the merge of Winterthur´s Spanish and Portuguese operations through a change management process conducted by Andersen Consulting.• Merged Iberian holdings as part of an Andersen Consulting change management team.• Co-lead the logistics of an Iberian launching of new products.

Porto Area, Portugal

Salvador Caetano is one of the main Portuguese industrial groups, manufacturing and distributing TOYOTA vehicles (among other brands).• In charge of updating the technical data for the cleaning and painting areas of completely knocked-down Toyota´s Comercial Vehicles production line

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Industrial Administration, Master Of Science In Industrial Administration

Activities and Societies: Swimming team. While attending Carnegie Mellon´s business school my concentration was in Operations Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Materials Science

Instituto Superior Técnico, located in Lisbon, is the main engineering school in Portugal, with a tradition of over 80 years.