Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Process Improvement, Project Management

FERDINAND FERRER ESTRADA

** *. ****** **. ******** Subd. Parang Marikina City 1809

Home Tel. No.: (02) 451-1608 Mobile No.: (091*-***-****

e-Mail Address: *****.************@*****.***

PROFILE AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Licensed Electronics and Communications Engineer (E.C.E.)

• 16 years of experience in the field of Continuous Improvement and Process Engineering, 10 years of

which is gained from Manufacturing set-up and 6 years from Financial/Insurance environment

• Over 12 years of experience in Lean Six Sigma applications and deployment, mentoring, and coaching

• Certified Black Belt and Green Belt of Lean Six Sigma Methodology

• Full Knowledge in Lean Six Sigma Statistical Tools such as but not limited to FMEA, DOE, SPC,

ANOVA, Quality Tools, etc.

• Over 5 years of experience in Project Management discipline, mentoring, and coaching

• Proficiency in MS Office (e.g. Power Point, Excel, Word, Project, Visio), Minitab and Visual Basic

JOB ACHIEVEMENT & EXCELLENCE:

QBE Group Shared Services Limited

• Project Leader of 2 Continuous Improvement Projects

• Project Coach of 3 Six Sigma Yellow Belt Projects

AXA Philippines

• Project Leader of 5 Six Sigma Black Belt Projects

• Project Coach of 8 Six Sigma Black Belt Projects

• Project Coach of 17 Six Sigma Green Belt Projects

• Program Coordinator of Lean Six Sigma Deployment within the Company

• Co-project Lead of 5 Company-wide Initiatives using Project Management Discipline

• Facilitator and mentor of Division’s Banner Projects using Project Management Discipline

• Program Manager of 5S Discipline Implementation

American Power Conversion Corporation

• Overall Facilitator of Vendor Focus Team (VFT)

• Overall Champion of PCBA Touch Up Improvement Project

• Black Belt Consultant of 6 Six Sigma Projects

• Team Leader of 1 Continual Improvement Project

• Adviser of 5 Continual Improvement Projects

• Core Council for Learning Quality Leadership (LQL)

• Team Leader of ESD Rehabilitation Project& Quasar Watchdog Project

NIDEC Philippines Corporation

• Main Driver of M3050 Quality Teams

• Project Leader of 2 Six Sigma Black Belt Projects

• Core Council for Small Group Activity Projects

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• Adviser of 3 Quality Control Circles and Leader of 2 Quality Control Circles

• Team Leader of 4 Six Sigma Defect Reduction Teams

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Aug 2014 to date Position: OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE CHAMPION

Department: Operational Excellence

Company: QBE GROUP SHARED SERVICES LIMITED

Principal Accountabilities:

• Lead and manage a group of Operational Excellence Specialists, QA Supervisors and Analysts

• Owner of the deployment of Operational Excellence culture across the business through Continuous

Improvement and QA tools, methods and frameworks

• Facilitate Continuous Improvement forums, QA initiatives and lead process transformation projects

• Design and standardize business dashboards, OE training content, and capacity planning of OE vertical

• Lead Continuous Improvement initiatives across towers and track it through the OE dashboard

• Conduct Lean Six Sigma trainings & workshops and facilitate QA approach walkthroughs

• Coach leaders and managers to initiate Continuous Improvement projects using OE tools and approach

• Owner of the Operational Excellence playbook and process documentation

Aug 2008 to Aug 2014 Position: SR. MANAGER - SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT

Department: Business Quality

Company: AXA PHILIPPINES

Principal Accountabilities:

• Initiate and drive Black Belt projects that are aligned with company’s strategies, generate revenue,

improve efficiency & reduce cost, and improve customer & distributor satisfaction scores

• Initiate and drive small to medium-scale initiatives that are aimed to address recurring pain areas in the

process, resolve recurring audit issues, and improve key drivers of performance indicators

• Conduct Green Belt trainings on all identified candidates, mentor and coach the candidates to initiate and

complete GB projects, and assist them to be certified

• Monitor updates, schedule and status of Division’s banner projects, facilitate gates reviews, and

recommends GO or NO-GO of the projects

• Mentor and coach Project Managers and ensure Project Management discipline in their respective projects

• Inculcate and proliferate Lean Six Sigma Way and Project Management discipline within the company

through deployment, awareness and overview trainings, posters and bulletins, gallery walk, etc.

• Review, modify and/or define process measures and standards, manage process change

Jan 2006 to Aug 2008 Position: TEAM LEAD

Department: Manufacturing Engineering

Company: AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION

CORPORATION

Principal Accountabilities:

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• Lead and manage a group of Product Engineers, Process Engineers, and Technicians who all serve as the

24-hour escalation points for all technical issues and process problems experienced in manufacturing

operation

• Overall in-charge in the improvement of manufacturing yield, reduction of scrap cost, improvement of line

efficiency and process cycle time, and improvement of human ergonomics

• Oversee the group in the fast resolutions of product failure analysis and process defect analysis through

real time problem solving and immediate implementation of corrective and preventive actions for issues

concerning incoming parts, in-line process, and customer claims

• Ensure the accurate release and update of manufacturing Work Instructions and Process Flow Charts

during product mass production

• Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly reports with regards to yield, scrap cost and process improvements

and present to the Management

Apr 2002 to Dec 2005 Position: SUPERVISOR

Department: Process Engineering

Company: NIDEC PHILIPPINES CORPORATION

Principal Accountabilities:

• Lead an Engineering Team consists of Team Leaders, Process Engineers and Process

Technicians who all work in the improvement of defective rate and scrap rate, reduction of customer and

in-line quality issues, and improvement of process capability and cycle time

• Take the lead role in the insurance of documentation on all process control and process

improvement, and perform regular review to ensure its appropriateness

• Conduct weekly review on the Policy Deployment of Process Engineering to ensure that plan

of activities is carried out accordingly

• Conduct daily review on the Escalation Reports submitted by Team Leaders to oversee that its

equivalent counter measures are appropriate

• Accomplish Weekly and Monthly Reports in lieu with defective rate and scrap rate

improvement, and process improvements and present to the Management

• Drive the M3050 Quality Project which aims to improve defective rate and lot acceptance rate

by 50% at the end of 1 year lead time, generate Monthly reports and present to the Vice President

Mar 1998 to Mar 2002 Position: PROCESS ENGINEER (ENGINEER I –

ENGINEER III)

Department: Process Engineering

Company: NIDEC PHILIPPINES CORPORATION

Principal Accountabilities:

• Monitor Top Defects of assigned model(s) and conduct failure analysis base on existing procedure

• Formulate corrective and preventive actions base on FA results and generate controls to prevent recurrence

of particular defect factors

• Conduct series of evaluations, investigations and experiments to determine and further improve all factors

affecting the contributors of top defect(s)

• Perform evaluations and investigations on all incoming parts/materials and on machines which are

suspected or identified as defect contributors

• Monitor daily scrap cost report and conduct evaluations to improve scrap top contributors

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• Conduct failure analysis on customer quality issues and in-line quality issues; and generate report

containing FA results, corrective and preventive actions, controls and documentation

TRAININGS AND SEMINARS:

• AXA Asia Leadership Program • The Accidental Project Manager

AXA Academy, Singapore Ateneo for Continuing Education, Makati

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Program • Six Sigma DMAIC Methodology (The

Conducted by DigiLEAF at AIM Center AXA Way)

• Change Management • Value Stream Mapping

AXA Philippines, Makati City ARCDI, Alabang Muntinlupa City

• APQP/PPAP • Supervisory Training

American Power Conversion Island Cove Resort, Kawit Cavite

• Work Attitude and Values Enhancement • Project Management & Leadership

Island Cove Resort, Kawit Cavite Program

Orchard Golf Black Belt Methodology

• Six Sigma & Country Club,

• Level I: Leadership Fundamentals

Island Cove Resort, Kawit Cavite Conducted by ProQual Singapore

• Six Sigma Green Belt Methodology • Lean Manufacturing

Nidec Philippines Corporation Nidec Philippines Corporation

• Basic Supervisory Training • Seven QC Tools

DAP, Tagaytay City Nidec Philippines Corporation

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT:

1992 to 1997 - COLLEGE EDUCATION

• Colegio De Dagupan

• Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering

• Dean's Lister & Member of Math Quiz Bee Team

1988 to 1992 - SECONDARY EDUCATION

• Malasiqui Catholic School

• With Honors and Best in Mathematics

• Member of Math Quiz Bee Team

1982 to 1988 - PRIMARY EDUCATION

• J.C. Macaranas Elementary School

• Valedictorian and Best in Mathematics

• Member of Math & Science Quiz Bee Teams

PERSONAL DATA:

• Birth-date : September 22, 1975

• Sex : Male

• Civil Status : Married

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• Citizenship : Filipino

• Religion : Roman Catholic

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