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Grecia, Alajuela Province, CR

Tinley Park, Illinois, US

• Responsible for Panduit’s Manufacturing Site in Costa Rica, overseeing the site´s operational performance in terms of safety, quality, service, cost, operational excellence, and people development of its over 1100.
• Lead and develop the site´s culture aligned with the company’s vision, mission, values, and cultural beliefs.
• Develop the annual business plan for the site and ensure solid processes and procedures are in place to deliver the plan.
• Manage the introduction of new manufacturing technologies and support all New Product Introduction activities as required by the Business Units.
• Promote good working relations with the local authorities and community organizations such that Panduit is recognized as an active and beneficial local stakeholder in the community.

Responsible for the Operational Results of the Group’s Industrial Plants in Honduras composed of a Soap, Detergent, Disinfectant and Softener Plant, a Flour Mill, a Margarine and Shortening Plant, a Tomato and Fried Bean Plant and a Cookie and Instant Soup Plant. I lead a team of 850 collaborators from the procurement, production, maintenance, quality.

Worked with several consulting groups for the Wire and Cable Industry, Automotive Harness Manufacturers and Plastic Suppliers among others. Also served as professor for a Project Management Course for Post Graduate students at Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana, Honduras.

Milan, Italy, IT

• Managed a team of 45 associates from the Procurement, Material, Planning, Scheduling, Logistic and Export sales areas. Managed an Inventory of $20 million dollar, the Distribution Centers in Mexico and the company’s.
• Increased the On Time Delivery Metric (OTIF) by 30% and reduced to 0 the penalties due to late deliveries by improving the Order Fulfillment System, developing strategic planning tools and Monitoring, report and.
• Improved the Financial Forecast Accuracy and Corporate Credibility by 20% by implementing a Sales and Operations Planning process (S&OP) and developing aligned sub processes for production capacity planning and.
• Reduced Slow Moving and Obsolete Inventory (SMO) by 40% by implementing a make to stock (MTS) and make to order (MTO) planning and replenishment system, sales promotions and follow up routines for the existing SMO and.
• Achieved supply chain savings of more than 1 million dollars annually through the transformation of the procurement process form operational to strategical and developing a project management process for creating.
• Reduced Finished Goods freight cost by 28% by establishing policies and routines for monitoring and controlling costs in the commercial quoting process, optimizing transport utilization, increasing the amount of.

Milan, Italy, IT

• Managed a team of 35 associates from the Procurement, Foreign Trade, Material, Production Planning and Scheduling and Logistics areas. Managed an Inventory of $16 Million Dollars and the Distribution Centers in Chile.
• Reached an Inventory Availability (Fill Rate) above 90% for the retail segment and reduced to 0 the penalties for stock outs by implementing a Strategic Planning and Logistic system for the value stream and the.
• Increased the logistic area’s personnel flexibility over 90% leading to an increase in the shipping capacity of 30% by implementing a skill matrix process where I identified the key jobs, trainings and skills and.
• Improved the production capacity of the mining cable value stream by 33% through the development of an integrated planning system, a bottle neck and critical constraint resources management process and an Overall.

Milan, Italy, IT

• Led the Engineering and Environmental, Health and Safety processes and personnel of the Company. Member of the Corporate Manufacturing and Technology team where I carried out several System Thinking Analysis, Value.
• Increased the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) by 40% through the implementation of the corporate Lean Sigma Program focusing in Production, Planning, Scheduling, Engineering, Standardization, Quality and.
• Achieved a reduction of Scrap and Usage of 15% in the Latin American Plants through a Benchmarking Process and implementing a corporate standardized Procedure for the region.
• Improved General Cables New Zealand’s Overall Equipment Effectiveness and Output rate by 30% through the implementation of a Pull Kanban System in the production area, a level loading planning and scheduling process.

Milan, Italy, IT

• Led the company’s quality process and at the same time coordinated the Environmental, Health and Safety program for the business. I was in charge of the Quality Inspectors, administrating the Testing Laboratory and the.
• Reduced quality rejects by 30% through the implementation of an Operator Led quality process where we gave the operators training, tools and decision power to control their own quality.
• Achieved 0 safety incidents for a 3-year period through the development of safety programs such as Behavior Based Safety, Hazzard Evaluation and Risk Assessments, Root Cause Analysis, among other Safety and Health.
• Supported an increase of sales of 15% through the ANCE and CFE certifications to sell products in Mexico.

Tegucigalpa, Distrito Central, HN

Developed and imparted the first Industrial Safety Course for Engineers at the Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana for a 2-year period.

Led the Quality Inspection and Audit process of the company. Supervised over 40 quality inspectors, standardized policies and procedures and developed KPIs and reports for management.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Masters Degree, Project Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Industrial Engineering

Bachelor Degree, Science