Project Manager Quality Assurance

Jose Luis Canel Winder

**N Frontera Cir. The Woodlands Texas. 77382

Home; 281-***-****, Mobile 915-***-****

***********@*******.***

Executive Level - Management Experience

-I am an expert in the Lean manufacturing business approach for the

automotive industry and the Medical device industry.

-A leader and strategic developer with a successful background in start up

projects as well as elevating organizational performance through "in deep"

restructuring.

-Skilled person in the selection, recruitment, training and development of

top performing individuals.

-Expert in the implementation of the full Six Sigma mind set, by the

identification, analysis and resolution of diverse operational issues,

continuously maintaining top performance while offering different program

and services.

-Highly focused on adhering to organizational challenges and company

philosophy while positively impacting bottom line, throughput and daily

performance.

Core Competencies

Organizational: Management of P&L, Budget Planning/Preparation, Expense

Reductions, Cost Control and Financial Reporting.

Operations Management: Foundation Creation, Team Building, Human Resources,

Training-Development.

Business Development: Strategic-Tactical Business Planning, Competitor

Analysis, Marketing Strategies, Policy/Procedure Development and Risk

Management.

Professional Experience

2009 to Current: Accellent Inc. (Contract Manufacturing-Medical

Devices Vice President of Operations (Boston Massachusetts).

Management of 5 Manufacturing Sites in the US: including 2 Maquiladoras in

Mexico.

Full responsibility for +$200 MM Usd. Of Revenue, P&L, Operations, Quality,

Engineering, new product launching and been the Lean leader for the company

The implementation of the Lean Culture, Systems and Methodology allowed

Accellent to:

1.-Increase revenue from $400 MM (2009) to almost $560 MM (2013) by

reducing the lead time and improving the Request to Promise fill rate of

the Customer orders.

Jose Luis Canel Winder

97 N Frontera Cir. The Woodlands Texas. 77382

Home; 281-***-****, Mobile 915-***-****

***********@*******.***

2. - Improve the Return and Profitability from $100 MM of EBITDA in 2009 to

$160 MM of EBITDA in 2013(by reducing the amount of waste and in process

scrap, by eliminating the bottle necks in the Manufacturing Process,

Reducing the WIP and F.G. Inventories by 1/3 and finally by having a level

loaded manufacturing capacity with no or minimum down times and

producing/shipping versus the TAKT or customer demand).

3. - Establishment of a Continues Improvement Culture that generate YoY

additional savings and cost reductions that maintain the competiveness of

our business, generating +500 Kaizen events per year.

2005 to 2008: Toyota-Plant Manufacturing General Manager (San Antonio

Texas).

Development of the Transfer plan to for the New Toyota facility in San

Antonio, Tx..

Implementation of TPS or Toyota Production System and Kanban production

system.

2002-2004 Everest & Jennings de M xico. General Manager.

Responsible for the full operation of the company, including;

administration, global purchasing, Latin American sales and marketing.

Implementation of an ERP., based on BPCS system.

Return to a profitability status (Yearly sales of $ 22,000,000. U.S.

Dollars).

Creation and development of the distribution channels for Latin America

Sales division, responsible of the SG&A and the P/L of the Latin American

division ( first step: 8 countries, second step 12 countries ) obtaining of

3 straight years of positive cash flow and net n of 16%.

1997-2002 Everest & Jennings...Director of Operations (Medical devices and

Wheel chair manufacturing).

Hire to rebuild an "old fashion" manufacturing corporation (push production

type) operating in Mexico, U.S. and Canada and convert into a JIT

production entity.

Re-negotiation union labor contracts in Mexico and Canada (more than 950

union members).

Responsible of the reengineering process to transfer all the North American

operation-manufacturing into Mexico & Indonesia-China ( closing U.S and

Canada facilities ).

Responsible of the opening of southeast manufacturing facilities (Indonesia

and China) including the coordination of the new sourcing-purchasing plan,

obtaining cost savings of more than 25%.

Jose Luis Canel Winder

97 N Frontera Cir. The Woodlands Texas. 77382

Home; 281-***-****, Mobile 915-***-****

***********@*******.***

1994-1996 Honda de M xico...Automobile Plant Manager.

Start up the mass production of automobiles in a new facility, hiring and

development of all the training programs for new employees, development of

a multinational factory operational organization. Implementation of SAP and

coordination with Honda Global Purchasing system. Management of the

Business units P&L.

1991-1994 Honda Motor, Tokyo Japan...New Project Manager.

Development of a multinational working teams for the smooth transfer of an

automobile manufacturing production line from Japan to Mexico.

Coordination of the construction of the new Plant and purchase and transfer

of all equipments and machinery to Mexico. Management of the P&L for the

transfer plan.

1986-1991 Honda De Mexico...Quality Assurance Mgr. Responsible of

implementation of a Quality Assurance System-ISO&GMP certification.

Education/Skills

-BS in Mechanical Engineering (1986 U.N.A.M. Mexico City).

-Master in Global Administration (1993 Sofia University, Tokyo Japan).

-Six Sigma Black Belt (2002 IPADE, Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico).

-Quality Systems: ISO 13485-GMP's-TQM.

-Lean Manufacturing: TPS or Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing,

Kaizen,

6 Sigma, Pokayoke, Yokoten, 3 Gem's, etc.

-Financial Operation: P & L, E.V.A. Maquila Programs, etc.

-Fluent in English, Spanish and Japanese (Speak, Write & Read).

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