HUGO L. ALONZO TORRES

+** 1-449-***-****

ac65rv@r.postjobfree.com

QUALIFICATIONS

Passionate and energetic engineer with ten years of experience in the automotive industry mainly in project management and product development/cost reductions for automotive glass, sensors, lighting, exhaust and cooling systems. Always focused on relationship building by being highly adaptive, optimistic, teamwork and lead through example oriented. Global development experience with teams in Germany, Japan and United States. EXPERIENCE

Daimler – Mercedes Benz Compact Cars

R&D Project Management. Aug 2016 – Current

- Lead industrialization for exterior components, keeping track of suppliers timing to implement design changes and comply with the project milestones. All projects delivered on time.

- Leader of the implementation of cost reduction ideas to achieve a team target of €60 reduction on the cost of each vehicle on the new carline before end of 2018.

- Components specialist for windshield, rear and side windows, sunroof, roof rails, water deflector, heat shields, headlamps and rear lamps. Main link between development in Germany and the production plant in Mexico.

- Key team member of cross-functional activity including supplier audits, maturity reviews, process reviews, production release/performance audits and supplier’s development. Sensata Technologies

Program Manager. Apr 2014 – Jul 2016

- Lead international program and engineering team to achieve successful on time/on budget project launches of new Pressure and Temperature Sensors for Caterpillar, Navistar and GE Transportation.

- Coordinated $300K USD annual cost reduction project to resource components to lower cost suppliers.

- Acted as starting point for customer’s quotations providing components, manufacturing and logistics costs for sales to calculate prices.

- Main source of information and window person for top-level management reporting.

- Lead Teams through the full project phases: Design, industrialization, testing, PPAP, SOP, 8D’s, cost reductions, engineering changes and customer service in general. Hella Automotive

Projects Manager. Jul 2013 - Mar 2014

- Achieved successful on time/on budget project launch for new lighting systems for Nissan, Renault, GM, BMW and Kenworth customers.

- Lead negotiations with suppliers to improve timing and quality for a new Renault project while settling customer schedule in order to comply with milestones on time.

- Responsible for supply chain set up for plastic injection, metalizing and final assembly processes. Calsonic Kansei

Project Engineer, Design Dept. Feb 2008 - Jul 2013

- Achieved and surpassed (5 years) 3% annual cost reduction requirement by Nissan.

- Leader in plant for new exhaust systems launch for Nissan Versa, March and Sentra with at least 10% profit.

- Successfully launched a new HVAC system for GM Aveo and Pontiac G36 with at least 7% profit.

- Developed product and process design skills for Air conditioning, Radiator, Exhaust and Instrument Panel commodities. Including on the job training in USA (6 months) and Japan (3 months).

- Lead the creation of a new CAD administration department from scratch to completely handling EXH and CPM design requests.

EDUCATION

Master in Productivity and Quality Systems.

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. 2009 - 2012

- GPA: 3.2

Mechatronics Engineering.

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey 2003 - 2007

- GPA: 3.4

SKILLS

Language:

Spanish: Fluent.

English: Fluent.

German: Beginner (Berlitz L3) – Currently Studying. Process: ISO/TS 16949, APQP and Core Tools, VDA 6.3, GD&T. CAD: Solid Works, UG NX.

Personal interests:

Music (Play Drums and Bass)

Sports (Basketball Scholarship)

Outdoors (Camping, hiking, 4WD).

REFERENCES

Available upon request.