Ricardo Flores Gavidia Email & Phone Number

Coppell, Tx

* Global compliance assurance of imports (Value: $7.3 MM-year | 14 countries | Duties: $450 K-year), exports (Value: $19.3 MM-year | 22 countries), and oversight of international logistics activities (+450 ops-year). Main trading countries: CN, CA, IN, CL, MX, GT, NI, and DO.* Review import/export documents to ensure compliance with U.S. trade regulations.* Classification of equipment's HTS, Schedule B, and ECCN.* Ensure customs broker compliance regarding Sagent U.S. customs filings. * Creation & approval process of import proforma invoices and duties (+170 ops-year).* Provide advice on the interpretation and application of U.S. trade regulations (FTR, EAR, CUSTOMS).* Provide consultancy on import/export logistics and compliance issues.* Execute export controls function, document creation, guidance, direction, and restricted party screening.* Maintain the company ERP (Microsoft AX) product Import/Export HTS classification and ECCN codes.* Provide support to an external counselor regarding import issues and U.S. CBP notices and audits.* Provide internal training on import/export compliance policies and procedures.* Design and implement Excel tools and templates to ensure import/export document quality and compliance.* Create SOPs for import/export operation compliance.* Conducting internal audits for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards.* Manage the implementation of the Square 9 document management platform.* Suggest and implement Temporary Importation under Bond (TIB). The TIB makes feasible and facilitates repair projects from overseas customers.* U.S. CBP ACE secure data portal administrator and the primary point of contact.* Keep communication channels with Accounting, Logistics, and Distribution Center teams to ensure international trade operations compliance.

Coppell, Texas

Responsible of coordinating and managing operational activities as it relates to the sourcing and procurement of goods, as well as customer orders fulfillment. Sales processes design and streamlining. Managing OEM's international supply channel. Coordinating mobile carrier Asset Disposition Program. Supporting sales executives on international trade and logistics issues.

Irving, Texas

Responsible of sales operations to the CALA region: POs and SOs processing and control, invoicing, support to import/export transactions compliance, maintaining sales record and documentation. Interface with customs brokers, freight forwarders, suppliers, and customer’s logistics team. OEM's international supply channel. Sales operations processes quality assurance.

Irving, Texas

Business development and sales to the CALA region. Technical and economic proposals (RFP). Kept up and controlled relationship with suppliers.

San Salvador, El Salvador

Supported the programs of Leadership Development and Coaching.

San Salvador, El Salvador

Kept up technical relationships with the regulatory authority (SIGET). Responsible of the company’s technical and economic regulatory compliance. Regulatory risk analysis and mitigation. Regulatory strategy design. Drafted and proposed amendments to existing regulations. Managed projects to design the company’s tariff schedule and regulatory proposals.• Negotiated an extraordinary rate review. Through teamwork and after dialogue with the SIGET and the Presidential house, a new rate schedule was enacted. It increased annual regulated revenues in 9%, mitigating the effects from a recent adverse tariff reset.• Achieved the approval of the annual distribution rate CPI-indexation, after having been unfairly ruled out by the SIGET. The expected 2009 distribution value added increased by about 6%, on average.• Conducted a stakeholder analysis to diagnose the company’s actual degree of influence on her institutional environment and audiences.

Caracas Area, Venezuela

Proposed the company’s regulatory strategy. Supported other business units on regulatory issues and compliance. Kept up the relationship with AES Corporation headquarters on regulatory issues. • Drafted, and proposed the regulatory strategy for the 2004-2007 business plan. The plan allowed getting EBITDA margins above 45%, with no tariff adjustment.• Member of the management team that executed the cost of providing electricity service and design of tariff schedule proposal for the period 2005-2010.• Supported and contributed to draft the proposal to amend the Electricity Service Act, as member of the Regulatory Affairs team of the Venezuelan Chamber of the Electricity Industry.• Proposed and implemented an internal communication program aimed at spreading regulatory knowledge across the company, as well as a system for digital access of regulatory documentation.• Supported the AES’ due diligence, financial modeling, and independent review processes for Turkey’s and Romania’s power distribution privatization processes, and AES-Sonel’s (Cameroun) CapEx investment plan and loan process with the World Bank (€ 280 million).

Caracas Area, Venezuela

Supported the decision-making process regarding critical issues: rates’ adjustment; lobby; and compliance.• Renegotiated the AES-Sonel’s concession contract with Cameroon’s regulatory authorities.• Member of AES Corporation’s Integrated Utilities Regulatory Working Group (IURWG).• Supported AES Corporation’s power distribution businesses in Ukraine to improve the relationship with the regulatory authorities.

Caracas Area, Venezuela

• As a member of a multidisciplinary team, drafted the Electricity Service bill and its bylaws along with the Minister of Energy. The bill was enacted in 1999.• Led and managed the design and negotiations of Venezuela’s electric utility's rate schedules for the years 1994, 2000, and 2002, representing more than US$ one billion in revenues for the power utility industry.• Co-managed the execution of the US$ 10-million project for the “Venezuelan Power Sector Institutional Strengthening,” funded by the IADB and the Venezuelan government. The project defined a proposal to unbundle the power industry by establishing a competitive wholesale power market and a transmission company and restructuring the distribution and commercialization functions.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Main concentration fields: Energy policy, Regulatory policy and economics, Globalization, Economics of the Environment, Latin American Studies.Master's project subject: Energy subsidies in Venezuela.

Caracas Area, Venezuela

• Managed several studies on economic regulation for electric utilities including: tariff schedules design, tariff adjustment methodology, and efficiency and incentive regulatory models.• Drafted the Venezuela’s energy policy proposal to the Executive branch, as member of the team appointed by the Minister of Energy.

Caracas Area, Venezuela

• Developed cost of electricity service studies, and tariff schedule design for EDELCA and CADAFE, both state-owned vertically integrated power utilities.• Advised on the organizational design of the commercialization (sales, collections, and customer service) unit of ELEBOL, a private electricity distribution company.

Caracas, Venezuela

• Forged strategic alliances with domestic construction companies and foreign engineering companies, which enabled the company to successfully bid for mid-size EPC contracts within the oil industry.• Coordinated, developed, and negotiated service proposals for multidisciplinary EPC projects. Around 10% of the proposals were successful and became contracts. • Contributed to develop the basic and detailed engineering of CADAFE’s Peña Larga hydroelectric plant (80 MW).Other positions within ASINCRO:• Project Manager• Electrical Engineering Coordinator• Power Distribution Engineer

Caracas Area, Venezuela

Other positions within CADAFE:• Coordinator of Distribution Standards• Distribution Systems Planning Engineer

Master Of Arts - Ma, International Development [Public] Policy

Graduated with honors, Magna Cum laude overall. Valedictorian for the international students' 1998 cohort at the Terry Sanford School.

Graduate Certificate, Latin American Studies

To prepare better educated citizens and future leaders who may work in fields related to Latin America and the Caribbean in academics.

Master Of Science - Ms, Operations Research

I took courses on linear and nonlinear programming, theory of queues, systems theory, statistics and probability, and graphs theory.

Aes - Emerging Leaders Program Certificate

The program "exposes current and developing leaders to a broad field of management specialties and leadership capabilities, transforming.