JESUS A. VINAS

**** * ******* ** ********, AZ ***08

623-***-**** - acg8r6@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE

PROJECT MANAGER, TEVALCA February 2011 – October

2014

Moron, Venezuela.

- Oversee and manage the plan, design and construction of the 160,000 m 2 warehouse for the Pequiven

Ammonia Plant Moron Venezuela.

- Supervised general labor, installation of walls and roof workers.

- Worked with General Contractor to estimate projects and develop proposals.

- Managed daily project completion and trades coordination.

- Reviewed blue prints and design before installation.

When hired to take over this project, there was a deficit of Bs. 800k, and projected losses of over Bs. 2

million. Thanks to an extensive training to the work force, negotiations with providers and workers

union and achieving engagement from workers, it was possible to substantially increase production

rates, increase quality of the work done and reduce costs of construction. The results were a net profit of

Bs. 1,8 millon, reduced expected time of completion and gaining an additional contract for another

construction project.

PLANT MANAGER, HARBORLITE CORPORATION July 2007 – November

2010

- Developed plans for efficient use of materials, machines and employees; including reduction of

material cost by 8%, reduction of overtime by 5% and increase on production rates from 4,400 to 5,100

lbs/hr and several other improvements that resulted in an increase of gross margin each year as plant

manager from $750,000 on the first year to $1.3 million YTD in 2010.

- Created and maintained all environmental permits and documentation, which included the creation of

our Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP), yearly Storm Water Report, Best Management

Practices (BPM’s) and training.

- Lead auditor for the ISO 9000 program. Develop, updated and successfully conducted several audits

from customers and accreditation consulting firms.

- Accountable for the company safety programs ensuring that safety rules are properly followed and

actively look out for opportunities to promote a safer workplace. 0 LTA’s during employment.

- Design a heat recovery system for our gas furnace that resulted in savings of $60,000 annually and 8%

less usage of combustion gas.

- In charge for the daily management, scheduling, and monitoring of assigned production campaigns that

guaranteed the highest level of quality and output while consistently meeting deadlines.

- Generated yearly budget and made recommendations to top management.

METALLURGIST, PHELPS DODGE MORENCI INC. November 2005 – July

2007

Resource Management/Stockpiles Division.

- Designed a $95K project to increase acid concentration on raffinate flow to stockpiles.

- Performed a study on the North West leach system to determine if acid cured stockpiles have higher

copper recovery that resulted in an opportunity to produce 500,000 lbs of additional copper.

- Prepared monthly presentations for PD Morenci management.

- Supervised 4 samplers collecting data for Coronado Diversion.

- Planned weekly water changes/flow balance at all ROM stockpiles and coordinated changes with SX

personnel.

- Organized and prepared weekly coordination meetings between the Leaching and SX/EW Divisions.

- Performed water balances of over 130,000 gpm total flows for different flow systems.

- Designed, programmed, and built spreadsheets to extract data from databases to generate a daily report

of flow balances and stream assays.

ASST-RETAIL SALES OPS, VERIZON WIRELESS January 2003 – November

2005

- Remained current on store operations including handsets and handset programming, current

promotions, service areas and inventory maintenance as well as training store personnel on them.

Worked in conjunction with the retail sales representative to provide support when necessary.

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Assisted with daily audit and reconciliation of cash report and bank deposit including daily

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reconciliation financial transactions with cash register report.

Conducted daily audits and reconciliation of inventory (handsets/accessories) as well as

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performing administrative office duties such as ordering supplies, distributing information,

stocking and display of sales literature, and all aspects of merchandising.

Constantly stayed abreast of the latest handset upgrades and new products / services, handset

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programming and flash procedures.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Engineering, Chemical Engineering.

May 2002

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Masters on Lean Enterprise: Procesos de Manufactura y Servicios Current

Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City.

SKILLS

MATLAB, ASPEN, ArcGIS AutoCAD, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Project.

Bilingual: Fluent in Spanish and English, able to converse in Italian.

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