Jose M. Gomez-Ferrer

**** ******* **

Fontana CA, 92336

Personal cell: +1-909-***-****

Personal e-mail: ad0uay@r.postjobfree.com

Highlights

Regional Manager / Plant Manager / Operations Director with expertise in sales, production planning, personnel management, inventory management, quality control and lab work monitoring in water based ink industry for 18 years.

Expertise in software development and sales with Borland Delphi and several database formats.

Expert user of most MS-Office applications and good knowledge of personal computer hardware.

ERP software knowledge: Deacom, Process Pro, Faccil and SAP.

Native Spanish speaker; fluent English speaker/writer.

Ideology and Objectives

Work place must have a pleasant environment, allowing people to output their most with pride and apprehension to detail. Not a micro-manager, ask people for their full honesty, allowing them to grow and offer full trust and support. I seek and achieved almost zero personnel turnaround, treat people with utmost respect and do not interact with subordinates out of the work environment often, respecting their time off. I seek growth for my people and then, for myself.

Experience

Plant/Operations/Regional Manager from 2006 – Present for the same position through company acquisitions: 2006 Graphic Sciences –> 2011 American Inks –> 2016 Flint Group.

Operations Manager for Flint Group

2016-Present

Flint Group, a 8,000+ employee company acquired AIC among other companies, with a global presence and participating in most industry segments as water base, solvent, paste, UV and EB inks and coatings. Direct and Manage operations of San Leandro California Plant until its closure in May 2018, merged production and product distribution into the Ontario facility successfully with no impact to customers.

Key Achievements:

oKPIs: 99.0% On Time In Full order shipments, under 1% of aged inventory over 120 days, 0% over 270 days, OT under 10%, First-Pass-Quality over 90%, inventory adjustments under $5K/mo. Zero quality/on time complaints in over 12 months.

oZero recordable accidents in over 1,350 days, previous record of 2,950 days,

oMonthly Safety Self Audits

oSustainability projects: Warehouse LED lights with motion detection, window insulation, waste water reduction by 30%, recycle program for empty IBCs and drums.

oDigi-Board: Developed software connected to SAP. Main focus is to have all information flow from top to bottom, allowing all employees to see Slow Moving inventory, Production per operator, Near-miss reports, days without recordable incidents, monthly shipments, open orders, day’s shipped orders, employee recognition: Employee of the month, work anniversaries, birthdays.

oRedesigned QC process

oAssisted the European SAP team to train our Mexico colleagues on SAP-Ariba purchasing system.

Main Responsibilities:

-Production planning.

-Inventory management and Raw Material purchasing.

-Personnel training, hiring/firing.

-Safety.

-Ink and Varnish Formulation.

-Managing 16 employees with additional indirect responsibility of 31 sales and technical service representatives.

Segments, same as American Inks (following) plus:

-Sheet Fed paste, and Narrow Web UV & EB.

Plant Manager for American Inks and Coatings, Ontario Facility

Southwest Regional Manager & Plant Manager for American Inks and Coatings

2011-2014 (to present)

2014-2016

AIC, a water base ink manufacturer with 200+ employee was established 2000 and grew to be the leader in the US in many segments by 2015; acquired Graphic Sciences in 2011. With AIC, the Ontario facility, a high paced operation, was able to focus on higher end accounts and boosted profitability, in 2013 the facility was relocated to a 50% larger warehouse with no missed orders.

Key achievements:

-Ranked #1 facility in % profitability. Ranked #1 in $ profitability in 2013 and 2015 exceeded budget every single year.

-Inventory variances under 1.2% every year.

-Zero obsolete inventories and less than 1% of inventory aged over 365 days.

-Created performance monitoring variables for plants: days on hand, inventory adjustments, production variances, overtime and outbound freight.

-Zero lost time recordable accidents.

-Converted Gretag Macbeth QC system into X-Rite.

Main Responsibilities, Same as Graphic Sciences (following) plus:

-Branch P&L and budget.

-Ink and Varnish Formulation. Participated in the formulation of a low cost line of inks now deployed nationwide,

-Regional manager including a facility in San Leandro California and customers in California, Nevada and Arizona,

-Managed 24 employees with indirect responsibilities over 2 sales representatives.

Segments, same as Graphic Sciences plus:

-Corrugated High End Graphics,

-Narrow web.

As a Regional Manager, I oversee the San Leandro, California operation, implementing the same successful programs developed in Ontario through the years. Also, assisted with inventory planning in the Lithia Springs GA, Fairfield OH and Romeoville IL facilities.

Operations Manager for Graphic Sciences Inc., Ontario Facility

2006-2011 (to present)

Graphic Sciences, Inc. has been in the market of water based inks and coatings since 1987; in 2006 I was transferred to the Ontario Facility. The company struggled from 2007 to 2010 due to some main customers filing for Chapter 11, sales tanked in some segments and we had to cut costs dramatically. The Ontario facility was profitable every year from 2008 until the sale to AIC in 2011.

Main Responsibilities:

-Production planning.

-Inventory management and purchasing.

-Technical Service.

-Created an integral Quality Control program with file system based on a Gretag Macbeth espectrophotometer, reducing QC process time, increasing accuracy, traceability and customer complaints.

-Personnel training, hiring/firing.

-Safety.

-Ink and Varnish Formulation. Formulated a new bright white for wax cascaded produce box market, used across the West Coast.

-Temp agency interaction for new/temp hires.

-Waste reduction, cost reduction, old inventory reuse.

-Customer Training and Seminars.

-Managed 7 direct employees.

Segments:

-Paper bag and Corrugated brown box,

-Poly bags (t-shirt grocery bags),

-Envelopes,

-Specialties.

Operations Director of Graphic Sciences Mexico

2000-2006

Graphic Sciences, Inc. has been in the market of water based inks and coatings since 1987; in 2000 the first facility outside the US was established in Mexico City.

Achieved growth in sales: 2002: 27%, 2003: 64%, 2004:32% and 2005: 51%.

Diversify customer accounts and target industries.

Successfully met sales budget from 2003 to 2006.

Reduced ink cost production with local raw materials and formulations, achieving savings of $265,000 US in 2004, 16% of yearly sales.

Implemented a freight cost reduction program, yield saving of 22%.

Customer satisfaction initiative, having an average of 98/100 points for 2004 regarding 1) Quantity, 2) Timely deliver and 3) Quality.

Managed 21 employees.

Additional Responsibilities:

-Employed sales, technical and lab teams.

-Develop local suppliers and maintain raw material supply chain.

-Developed and localized company’s image.

-Translated and adapted training courses for customers in: Beginning Flexography, Flexographic Inks, pH, Viscosity and Troubleshooting.

-Conducted over 30 training courses to different customers (Smurfit Stone, Grupo Durango, Inland, Kimberly Clark, Papeles Higienicos (SCA) and other smaller accounts)

-Report to corporate office in Portland, Oregon, annual meetings with sales, costs and next year’s budget to the company’s President and international links.

-Integration of new technologies and raw materials from US plants to Mexico City.

-Manage consignment inventories with customers.

-MSDS database compilation.

Grupo MexSys

1996-2007

Owner, established 1996, developed and commercialized software.

Administrative software:

-Developed an ERP system for invoicing, inventories, manufacturing, lab control, QC, receivables and payables for chemical industries, sold to Pierce and Stevens de Mexico (Headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y.) and Graphic Sciences de Mexico (Headquarters in Portland, Oregon). Client-Server database using Borland InterBase and Borland Delphi.

-Web page design for several companies, implemented with HTML, ASP and database access for web reporting.

-Designed an ink dispensing software for an automatic ink dispensing machine with Beckhoff’s PLCs and a computer linked scale with Borland Delphi and MS Access Databases

-Wrote several user and technical manuals.

Environmental software:

-Developed, commercialized and maintained self-diagnosis software for environmental regulation. System was enhanced with the addition of civil protection, energy, health, occupational safety and hazardous material transportation issues (PACO www.paco.net.mx).

-Installed in 182 companies including Akzo Nobel Chemicals, BASF, Bayer, Bristol Myers, Cadbury, Cemex, Cerveceria Modelo, Chemtura, Cognis, Condumex, DaimlerChrysler, DuPont, Ford, Ericsson Telecom, Kellogs, Kraft Foods, Panasonic and Procter & Gamble.

-Daily revision and auto-update customers’ database of new regulatory documents to our own web site’s databases with web auto-updatable database of regulations using a Borland Delphi made subprogram with HTTP and FTP protocols implemented.

-Developed self-verifying listing software in agreement with GEMI (Mexico’s office of Global Environmental Management Initiative) linked to Mexican environmental regulations, RTF documents table to form like design linked to a BDE database.

Asesoria en Sistemas Computacionales e Informatica Integrada (ASCII)

1991-1996

Software Developer: Clipper, Pascal, MS-Access and several applications

-Loan and lawsuit integration for Banoro, regional bank in Clipper.

-Construction industry software suite, with 3 major local construction enterprises in Clipper and some Pascal routines.

-Poultry industry for bird breeding and growth process, bird-feeding process and supply, food consumption and egg lay values compared to industry standards, sales, receivables, payables, invoicing, sales force control and tax payments in MS-Access.

-MS-Office training and consulting.

-Network and hardware installation.

Academics

Bachelor of Science Degree - Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), - Computer Systems Engineer

Ink Formulation Course with Anafapyt (Mexican Association of Paint and Ink Producers)

Sales courses with Global Training de Mexico, Mexico City

Saint John’s School of Alberta, Canada (Junior High)

1992

2005

2004-2005

1980-1981

References

Carlos Kernion

Graphic Sciences de Mexico - President

E-mail: ad0uay@r.postjobfree.com

Phone : +52-55-530*-****

Jose Luis Carrasco

Rivera Gaxiola Carrasco y Asociados, A.C .- Associate Founder

E-mail: ad0uay@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: +52-55-108*-****

Javier Arreola

Gerdau Long Steel. – Continuous Improvement III

E-mail: ad0uay@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: +1-636-***-****

Enrique Aleman

Telefonica - Network Design Engineer

E-mail: ad0uay@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 305-***-****

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