GERMAN RODRIGUEZ

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Florence SC 29505

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Over 10 years of experience in the plastics extrusion industry serving as

engineer and plant manager. Proven record of success managing as many as

100 employees, developing new products and new manufacturing processes.

Strong technical and people skills to attain successful results in

challenging environments.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

. Managed all manufacturing and R&D processes in a plastics

manufacturing facility. This included troubleshooting equipment,

implementing and following quality standards and managing employees

efficiently.

. Designed and implemented the manufacturing processes for new rubber

and plastic extruded products that account for 15% of the company s

sales.

. Radically reduced cost of products through continuous improvement and

lean manufacturing principles changing raw materials, increasing

efficiencies, and systematizing production planning, manufacturing,

and inventory information.

. Implemented quality and manufacturing standards increasing efficiency

and achieving zero defects for products shipped to our principal

client during the last two years.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PLANT MANAGER Bogota, Colombia 2003-

present

Arneses y Gomas S.A. www.ayg.com.co

Responsible for all aspects of manufacturing and R&D activities including

managing up to 100 workers in the areas of rubber and thermoplastic plastic

extrusion, injection molding, and product assembly.

. Developed processes and tooling for new rubber and plastic extruded

products including tubes, profiles, hoses and cables that currently

account for 15% of the company s sales. These new products were

extruded in diverse materials such as PVC, PA, PP, PE, TPE, TPV, XLPE,

NBR, EPDM and others.

. Successfully applied lean manufacturing principles like 5s, fast

response meetings, visual management, preventive maintenance,

standardized jobs, seven wastes reduction, and others.

. Managed the process to procure and deploy three new tube extrusion

lines and two new rubber hose extrusion lines.

. Replaced materials of many extruded and molded rubber products with

lower cost/higher performance ones resulting in considerable

reductions in costs (TPE, TPV, XLPE, etc).

. Implemented ISO and automotive quality standards throughout the

organization including, ISO, TS16949 (FMEA, APQP) and QSB.

. Reduced the defective parts per million delivered to GM (principal

client) to zero during the last two years.

. Lead a team of engineers to develop rubber compounds in-house (EPDM,

NBR). This allowed savings in rubber raw material of up to 25%.

. Researched, evaluated, and successfully implemented new suppliers for

imported raw materials to reduce costs.

. Designed and implemented an assembly line for manufacturing ignition

wires that reduced assembly times by 12%.

. Developed a SQL/ PHP database and reporting system that reduced lead

times by 50%, by serving real time data to different plant

departments.

. Designed and implemented a system for production control in the area

of molded products to monitor efficiencies and operator performance.

Efficiency on this area jumped 14% on a one year period with an

increase in operator motivation.

. Developed a new model for production planning that eliminated

incomplete orders due to stock outs and reduced the inventory days of

finished product from 31 to 22.

. Kept workers motivated and willing to help the company.

SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER - MTS (Promoted in record time)

Norcross, GA 1998 - 2002

Lucent Technologies / OFS www.ofsoptics.com

. Lead project to modernize ribbon and cable testing systems to increase

productivity:

o Designed software algorithms to analyze OTDR traces (Optical

Time-Domain Reflectometry).

o Developed Visual Basic (VB) applications to interact with

hardware.

o Created VB/SQL/Coldfusion applications for data storage,

analysis and retrieval

o Interacted with IT professionals, shop floor personnel,

engineers and supervisors to have a final product that solved

all needs.

. Supported the fiber optic testing in the ribbon production area

analyzing product defects, troubleshooting equipment and striving for

continuous improvement of productivity.

. Supported the manufacturing process of optical fiber ribbon cable:

o Implemented and troubleshot instrumentation and control systems

including online thickness measurements and human-machine

interfaces.

o Analyzed process conditions including temperatures, speeds,

thicknesses and others to optimize the manufacturing process.

o Developed software that delivered real-time information of each

manufacturing line via web browser interface (Visual Basic and

Wonderware).

o Provided IT support for ribbon cable manufacturing.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

. Master of Business Administration

Georgia State University. GPA 3.85/4.0

December 2002

. Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering with emphasis in Controls

and Automation

Georgia Institute of Technology GPA 3.92/4.0

June 1998

Thesis : Analysis of solder paste release in fine pitch stencil

printing processes

. Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering,

Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. Top 11%

December 1995

SKILLS

. Computer Skills

Visual Basic, Cold Fusion, SQL, PHP, HTML, Excel, Word, Access

. Languages

English and Spanish

PUBLICATIONS

. Analysis of solder paste release in fine pitch stencil printing

processes, G. Rodriguez, D. Baldwin, Journal Of Electronic

Packaging, Transactions of ASME, September 1999.

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