Manager Human Resources

Sal Martinez

Senior Lean Consultant

Tel: 619-***-**** abnptn@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Lean Management Consultant with more than 10 years of international Lean implementation experience.

Proven to increase profitability by introducing Lean Management, motivating staff, and eliminating waste.

Supported and provided consulting into their Lean Journey to various companies across United Stated

including the Barnes & Jewish Hospital second largest in the country as well as consulting in Mexico and

Latin America.

Hands-on experience in direct implementation of 100’s of Kaizens VSM, Strategic Deployment, SW

implementation, one piece flow, %load, A3, TPM, Kanban, Heijunka, SMED, 5’s,SPC and defining

scoreboards and visual controls.

Trained by Shingijutsu creators of the Toyota Production System.

Over 15 years of Top executive and operational management experience with Fortune 500 companies.

Bilingual and Multicultural Management Diversity.

SIGNIFICANT ACHIVEMENTS

• Led Lean transformation in a traditional low profit operation. Improved performance by 21% in first

year and created a shift in the culture of company resulting in dramatic space (46.8%) and inventory

reduction (48.6%).

• Headed the International transfer of the Largest Projection Television factory in the world from Santa

Ana California to Mexicali Baja California-Mexico ($100M Dlls-project).Completed the project in

four months as planned and $12.5M dlls.below budget.

CAREER HISTORY WITH ACHIVEMENTS

2006- to Date SIMPLER Consulting / MGH Consulting

Senior Lean Consultant

Simpler has become the largest and fastest growing Lean-focused consulting company in the world.

• Led value stream analysis with a combination of lean tools and techniques to analyze business

processes in different companies around United States.

• Supported Nokia Corporation in Mexico City, Argentina and Venezuela to improve logistics control

and inventory reduction. In Brazil coordinated the set-up and transfer to a new national repair center.

2000-2006 ESSELTE CORPORATION

Director of operations.

Esselte is the World leader in office products. Proprietary of the world famous brands, Oxford, Pendaflex,

Dymo, Leitz, etc.

• Led the Lean Transformation, systematic shift in the expectations, measures, performance and culture

of the company.

• Assimilated one company acquisition that took 30% available space into same operation.

• Coordinated the transition from a traditional MRP system to a direct pull from sales to manufacturing

and suppliers resulting in reduced warehouse space by 65% and inventory cost by 48.6% .

• Improved yearly productivity for as minimum of 18% in the last 5 years.

• Responsible for Overall operation with 900+ employees.

1995-1999 MITSUBISHI ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC.

VP and General Manager.

• Managed all operations of this market leader in projection Television, Including, Logistics, Materials,

Purchasing, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Human Resources, Budget control, and P/L.

Annual Sales - $391,000,000 U.S.Dlls.

Sal Martinez…..Cont.

• Led successfully an American, Mexican and Japanese Teams for the transfer of their Projection

Television Plant from Santa Ana, California to Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico ($100M Dlls.project).

• Achieved in only three months of operation the quality acceptance levels on the product that took 10

years to our parent company by training and establishing world-class Lean techniques

(Kaizen,5’s,JIT,Kanban,etc.).

1990-1995 Q TRON, INC.

General Manager.

• Managed two manufacturing plants one in San Diego, California and the second in Mexicali-

Mexico.In Mexico Managed all Manufacturing departments including, Finance and Human Resources.

• Started-up of a World-class contract manufacturing operation for the assembly of High-Tech

electronic products with Tick-film, SMT, Thru-hole, wire-bonding and Test.

• Introduced Kaizen, the Fifth Discipline and ISO9000.

1988-1990 ALLIED-SIGNAL AEROSPACE CORP.

Manufacturing Operations Manager.

• Engineered the transition from traditional manufacturing to Lean/Cell manufacturing and self-directed

teams. Established TQM and SPC.

• Hired as Quality Manager and in less than a year promoted to Operations Manager.

1985-1988 CINCINNATI ELECTRONICS CORP.

Q uality Assurance Manager.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:

. B.S. Electronic Engineering. University of Baja California

. Major in “Industrial Management” CETYS

SPECIAL SEMINARS:

. Toyota Production system…2005 Chihiro Nakao Japan.

LANGUAGES:

. Fluent Spanish and English. Limited understanding of Portuguese.

SPECIAL AND SPORT ACTIVITIES:

. Karate- Black Belt, Korean Style Tang-Soo-Do.

. Golf.

REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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