Ricardo Franco Email & Phone Number

• Engineer, with a MBA in Project Management, Fluent English, with international experience• I am a professional with more than 20 years of experience in the automotive industry, working in different departments in Brazil and Argentina. I have total knowledge about product development process, supplier development, quality improvement, process, change management and continuous improvement. From defining the concept of a product, design, building tools, building prototypes, validation tests, APQP/ PAPP development... to mass production / product launch.• I have the ability to manage large volumes of tasks at the same time, setting priorities. With ease in adapting to different environments, people management, management of multifunctional teams, management of complex projects with excellent navigation between different hierarchical and multicultural levels. I have ease in working with the C-level team, I also have experience in preparing summaries, meeting minutes, presentations (ppt) and presenting results to C-Level executives;# Project Manager | Continuous Improviment Manager | Manufaturing Strategy | Lean Manufacturing | Supplier Development | Product Development | Chassis | Body white | Dress-up | APAP | ANPQP | FMEA | Lean Manufacturing | Kaizen | Agile | Green Belt | Team Leader | PMBOOK | WCM | Product Development | Quality | Catia | PLM | Power BI | Wiring Harness | Manufaturing | program manager | plant start-up

Listed skills include Apqp, Kaizen, Fmea, Metodologia Kaizen, and 26 others.