Industrial Engineer

EDWARD A. CORDERO

**** ********* *** *** *** • Alexandria, VA 22310

202-***-**** • aceguo@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

Proactive and results oriented professional with more than 10 years leadership experience in the textile industry, specifically knitting, dyeing, finishing, cutting and sewing operations. A team player with a proven track record of driving profitable, productive, cost effective, and compliant operations through continuous process improvement initiatives, Lean manufacturing principles, business planning, performance monitoring system establishment, and policy/procedure development. Speak and write fluent Spanish and English.

Production Planning • Inventory Control • Industrial Engineering • Process Improvement • Lean Manufacturing Principles • Cost Analysis Savings • Customer Service • Cross-Cultural Communications

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

ALEXANDER PROUDFOOT, Atlanta, USA. 2013 – 2014

Installation Specialist: Analyzed work processes, systems, organizational functions and structures using interviews, observations, data analysis studies and techniques to generate measurable benefits. Trained clients in the effective use of management systems, tools, group problem solving, skills development to the implementation of operational/behavioral process improvement methodology. Conducted meetings and one-on-one interface with client and colleagues to ensure targets were met. Assumed proper roles of counselor, facilitator, co-leader, presenter and/or trainer as required. Prepared critiques, process descriptions, evaluations, data summaries and reports; utilizing internal presentation templates. Contributed to group innovative solutions assessments, in order to determine most effective “operational process improvement strategy” installation.

DOMINICAN KNITS/GRUPOM INDUSTRIES. Santiago, Dominican Republic • 2007-2013

Planning Manager: Grupo M is a vertical manufacturer of both woven and knitted apparel. The textile plant (Dominican Knits Inc.) performs knitting, dyeing, bleaching, finishing and cutting at a capacity of 250K pounds per week. Responsibilities include planning, scheduling, yarn purchasing, production/inventory control, customer service and fabric sales.

Manage customer order entry function that feeds the interger information into our Textile Integrated Manufacturing (TIM) system driving the materials requirement planning, master planning schedule, capacity planning and work center loading. Monitor performance indices to maintain on-time schedule adherence and delivery performance.

Improved lead time through reduction of production cycle time from 4.0 to 2.5 weeks increasing the inventory rotation and giving better deliveries to the customers. The production chain includes knitting, bleaching/dyeing, finishing, and cutting operations.

Reduced inventory from 1.8 to 0.5 weeks improving the cash flow of the company.

Improved on-time delivery from an average 65% to 95%.

ODRACIR, S.A., Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic • 2004-2007

Operation Manager: Odracir, S.A. was a textile manufacturer of knits fabrics for the local market and garment exporters. Responsibilities included operations of knitting, dyeing and finishing, engineering, quality control, costing, materials management, customer service, fabric sales and labor relations.

• Develop annual operating budget and maintain operations within budget guidelines.

• Negotiate raw materials prices (yarn, dyes/chemicals)

• Prepare fabric costing data for submission to customers. Negotiate prices and payment terms.

• Develop fabrics from duplication of customer provided samples, trade show information, and interactive internet websites.

DOMINICAN KNITS/GRUPOM INDUSTRIES. Santiago, Dominican Republic • 1993-2004

Planning Manager: Initiated and organized the planning department of the textile plant (Dominican Knits). Created and implemented procedures related with planning, operations, material handling, customer and production orders, product development and warehousing. Implemented the installation and integration of TIM (Textile Integrated Manufacturing by Datatex) software. This system handles all the customer orders, inventories, fabrics specifications, dyeing recipes, costing, and invoicing.

Method Engineer: Responsibilities initially included primarily industrial engineer function for plant lay out, modules set up, job measurement labor/production standards, waste reduction.

Developed the payment system and incentive program for the sewing modules.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Primex, Lean Manufacturing – 2007

Santiago, Dominican Republic

Shenkar College,

Textile Science - 1997

Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel

Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra,

Bachelor of Engineer in Industrial Engineer - 1993

Santiago, Dominican Republic

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