Manager Project

Luis F. Herrera

**** ****** ****** ~ Muskogee, OK. 74403

Phone: 614-***-**** ~ L ********@*****.***

CORE COMPETENCIES

● Executive Industrial Senior Engineer and Project Manager with Strong Experience in Automotive and Truck Project Implementation, Process and Manufacturing Operations

● Effective Skills in Managing Personnel, Time, Budget and Resources to Guide the Organization to Achieve Client Expectations and Our Goals as a Company

● Managing Purchasing, Logistics, Engineering, Production, Maintenance and Sales Departments

● Experienced as an Interim Plant Manager Moving Production Lines Between Countries, Stamping and Welding Line Optimization Under the Required Guidelines

● Ability to Develop and Maintain Excellent Business Relationships Between Customers and Suppliers in Order to Understand and Define Their and Our Necessities, Develop and Prioritize Our Customer Objectives in Conjunction to Obtain Goals and Targets Proposed, Applying Knowledge and Skills in Cost/Price and Procedures Which Permit an Excellent Revenue, Also Anticipating Problems That Would Impact the Company Objectives, Identifying Risk in New Project Implementations SPECIALIZATION AREAS

● Project Management, Process and Manufacturing Engineering Manager (Automotive and Truck manufacturing Industries )

● Stamping, Welding, Surface Treatment and Assembly expertise ( Automation Line, high & Low Production rate )

● Process and Cost Developer for New Production lines.

● Multidisciplinary Team Maker and Integrator

SKILLS AND LANGUAGES

Software

Microsoft Suite 2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project) Solomon, AS400, SAP. Languages

English and Spanish - 100 % Bilingual - German - 20 % EDUCATION

B.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering - Instituto Tecnológico de Puebla PERSONAL SKILLS

● Good Sense of Business Plan and Excellent Decision Maker

● Technical Experience and Sales

● Creative and Enough Capacity to Find Objective Solutions

● Ethical, Honest and Aware of Quality and Customer Service

● Strategic Planner Focusing on Customer Requirements Taking Care of Cost and Prices

● Multidisciplinary Team Maker and Integrator

● Knowledge in Metal Sheet Stamping, Rolling and Welding COURSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

Management Training (Certification) - Total Value Management - Project Manager for Senior Design Team – PPAP - Costs Determination Factors – AMEF - Ford Parts Approval Study (FPA) - Six Sigma - Lean Manufacturing - ISO/TS 16949 Implementation – APQP - GD & T (Certification) - PMP (Certification in Process) EXPERIENCE

Custom Seating

Purchasing and Inventory Manager June 2016 – April 10, 2017 Responsible for overseeing all aspects of procurement to ensure the timely, cost effective, replenishment of product in accordance with customer demands, requirements, quality and targeted inventory levels

● Implementation of purchasing strategies, policies and procedures

● Responsible for supplier management, development and review

● Cost improvement and management of savings

● Forecasting, planning and MRP

● Inventory control, cyclical counts, and warehouse controls

● Oversaw purchasing, receiving and warehouse staff H&H Enterprises

Process Engineer - Consultant November 2015 – March 2016 Guide this Cup and Beverage Manufacturing company to stabilize their manufacturing processes by evaluating, testing and resetting their Machines, tools and operating set ups.

● Tool and die evaluations

● Machine set up, evaluation and adjustment

● Manuals and procedures ( machine set up, Process and Maintenance ) Proform Group (Proform Industries/Metform Technologies/Refa Mexicana) Engineering Manager 2006-Oct 2015

Project and Cost Sr. Manager 2001 - 2005

Provide strategic advance planning, business analysis and project management capabilities to Launch success in a Production environment, including Cost-Price of product, manufacturing, prototyping, following APQP phases up to Start of Production. Cost savings manager team, conducting projects to achieve projected goals.Responsible for Business and Cost Evaluation on New Projects, evaluation of alternative manufacturing process and techniques.Responsible for Multidisciplinary Team to take the Ford and International business (Production, Quality, Sales, Purchasing, Logistic and Engineering to provide competitive solutions on prices, customer services, Quality under the Customer specifications and on time under customer schedules. Responsible for the Cost and Price calculations, Raw materials price negotiation with suppliers and Price Negotiation with customers. Achievements:

● Launch new products year over year with Navistar (

● Cost savings $95K per year

● Lean manufacturing project implemented

● Keeping and maintaining Navistar business in a competitive cost-price ratio

● Business evaluation, process and manufacturing development to produce air tank manufacturing

● Business Evaluation and Takeover a Company called Beach, later called Proform Industries

● Business Evaluation and Takeover a Company called Q3 (Battery Box & Air Tank Mfg), integrated to Proform Industries

● F-150 stamping and welding lines relocation and Integration from USA to Mexico

● Ford Ikon welding line relocation from USA to Mexico

● Relocation on Navistar 9000 series truck welding lines from Ohio and Indiana to Mexico

● Quote and won stamping and welding components for VW Jetta 3er Generation. VW Beetle, Ford F=150, Ford Ikon Autopartes Walker S.A. de C.V. a Tenneco Automotive Co. Project Manager 2005 -2006

Responsible for Multidisciplinary Team to take the DaimlerChrysler Projects. Process Development, Cost Estimations, Planning and Programs Implementation related to New Projects in Exhaust systems.

● MegaCab Exhaust System Truck Project, launched on time (over 35 different parts and assemblies)

● Cost savings: $120,000 on materials usage and manufacturing processes MAGNA -Autotek Industrial de México S.A. de C.V. 1998 – 2001 Project Administrator and Quotation Specialist

Process Development, Cost estimator and Project Leader Goals Achieved:

● Process design, quote and implementation on stamping dies and assembly welding lines for Chrysler – Project PT Cruiser

● Re-design the costing process

● Project leader for cost savings (Average $170K a year) Benteler de México s.a. de c.v. 1995 – 1998

Process and Cost Engineer.

Engineer junior in the project management, continuous improvement processes, tack time analyst and cost engineer making quotations on the new business proposal and checking the relationship between cost and price in the current production parts.

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