Simera Professional Key (SPK)

Federico L

Costa Rica

Logistics Operations Manager

$ 8,600-$ 10,600/month

10+ yrs exp

Skills

  • Agile Project Management
  • Bilingual Communications
  • Business Analysis
  • Continuous Improvement Process
  • Forecasting
  • Inventory Management
  • Jira
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Management
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Operations Management
  • Production Scheduling and Planning Software
  • Project Management
  • Sales Operations
  • SAP
  • Scrum
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Supply Chain
  • Tableau
  • Team Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Administrative Manager
  • Agile Project Manager
  • Artificial Intelligence/AI
  • Atlassian

Federico L

Costa Rica

Logistics Operations Manager

$ 8,600-$ 10,600/month

10+ yrs exp

Skills

  • Agile Project Management
  • Bilingual Communications
  • Business Analysis
  • Continuous Improvement Process
  • Forecasting
  • Inventory Management
  • Jira
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Management
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Operations Management
  • Production Scheduling and Planning Software
  • Project Management
  • Sales Operations
  • SAP
  • Scrum
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Supply Chain
  • Tableau
  • Team Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Administrative Manager
  • Agile Project Manager
  • Artificial Intelligence/AI
  • Atlassian

Logistics Operations Manager

Intel
August 2022 - April 2023

Operational excellence manager and driver of supplier performance for the storage and movement of inbound, interplant, and outbound material, capital equipment, and high value finished goods using performance metrics in line with the contracted services + Key contact for US/CR/Latin America bound finished goods shipments and support tasks, deliverables, escalations tied to ATML + Manage Transportation Operations during US time zone, eyes and ears of entire Asian 4PL Logistics Team + 4PL site manager of 150+ employees distributed among 3PL and carriers: DHL, DGF, UPS, FedEx, Expeditors, NNR, Kuehne & Nagel + Leader of daily Quality Event (Issue Lifecycle Management) meetings, root cause analysis, containments and corrections + Supervised successful pilots for Amsterdam, Singapore, and US bound lanes ensuring smooth transition and acceptance by Intel stakeholders and external customers + Generated $15M of savings by moving capital equipment via RORO ships, instead of charter flights + Leader of 3500 sqm roof expansion of warehouse in offsite location, first ever in 25 years, involving several departments + Selection of single supplier for fiscal warehouse (previously the carriers would choose them) generating savings based on paying per square meter occupied, instead of per value of the materials or finished goods stored + Leader of 2023 global bid process in order to award 300+ lanes to carriers based on cost, quality, and flexibility + Manager of the Customer Dock Date dashboard and Non-Contracted Rate event management, responsible for tracking, execute investigations and presentation of results on a weekly basis + Led efforts to expand regular and contingency cutoff times for all carriers, thereby increasing the warehouse’s response capacity + Member of the cross-company team that with the help of CINDE enabled the Liberia international airport to start moving cargo

Logistics Operations Manager

Intel
August 2022 - April 2023

Operational excellence manager and driver of supplier performance for the storage and movement of inbound, interplant, and outbound material, capital equipment, and high value finished goods using performance metrics in line with the contracted services

Supply Chain Manager

Philips Medical Devices
September 2020 - July 2022

Manager of all production planning, inventory control, shipping, logistics and warehousing efforts, involving 100+ headcount

Supply Chain Manager

Philips
August 2020 - July 2022

Manager of all production planning, inventory control, shipping, logistics and warehousing efforts, involving 100+ headcount + Re-design and execute inventory work instructions and SOPs involving cycle counts and wall to wall counts + Evangelized value adding initiatives born in Supply Chain: leader standard work, MRP and capacity planning + Lead collaboration efforts between Training, SAP/MES, Purchasing, and Engineering, and Supply Chain resources necessary to meet global inventory accuracy goals and focused on supply chain resiliency + Leader of negotiations with air freight and maritime carriers during the COVID pandemic crisis + Creator of annual operating plans and rolling forecasts including all manners of freight, headcount, capex, travel, and trainings + Procurement and installation of 2 vertical lift storage solutions, first ever in Philips clean rooms + Cost of Non-Quality factory Champion, led weekly meetings and efforts to reduce expired and obsolete materials + Daily monitoring and lowering of inventory Days on Hand to make short-term projections and set reorder points + Inventory accuracy raised above 99.75% for all business units, internal and external warehouses + Complete and On Time Shipments and On Time in Full metrics consistently above 98% + Line stoppages due to material shortages in the single digits during almost two years + Zero FDA findings in 05/2022 inspection involving 10 critical Supply Chain processes + Introduced Consumption Variation Index, an inventory control KPI in Hoshin (strategic plan) + Daily monitoring and reporting of production versus plan metric for all business units + Executed value stream analysis to bring down cycle times of receiving materials and exports processes + Single point of contact of daily external sterilization logistics for all business units + Factory SME of free trade zone rules and regulations, and international commerce + Leader of transition of MRO to vendor managed inventory model + Leader of Supply Chain internal audit facing efforts for ISO 13485, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 22301 + Control of production capacity in terms of capital equipment, headcount and footprint + Factory SPOC for monthly sales and operations plan, its weekly revisions, and impact on inventories

General Manager

Duralac
April 2020 - September 2020

Leader of all production and commercial efforts of 75 full time employees in 13 stores and 2 production sites

Project Manager

Ernst and Young
July 2018 - April 2020

Business Analyst and Solution Architect of Digital Transformation that mixed people management and nascent disruptive solutions + Business development of technology consulting in Trinidad & Tobago and Puerto Rico, lead team of 3 resources + RPA Solution Architect and Business Analyst; delivered 3 back-office bots for major Japanese automobile dealer in Puerto Rico + Leader of the Artificial Intelligence Global Support Center; a team of 6 supported entire global EY AI ecosystem + Built a consistent presence at external and internal EY events with the latest developments from AI development teams + Expanded the AI@EY community into a visible and self-sustaining network that swiftly responds to market developments + Built CRM and reporting infrastructure by service line by service line, sector, geography, key stakeholders, competency centers mapping, strategic alliances, competitive intelligence, sales pipeline and revenue, past, current, and future AI projects + Developed disruptive solutions that achieved superior customer experiences, more focused and productive workforces + Connected disparate systems and data sources, consolidation of financial statements, regulatory reporting + Facilitated due diligence efforts, smoother financial audits, effective risk management delivered in weeks, not months + Became fluent in the practical dimensions of Smart Factory, Robotic Process Automation, Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence

Manager, PMO

Ernst & Young
July 2018 - April 2020

Business Analyst and Solution Architect of Digital Transformation that mixed people management and nascent disruptive solutions

Supply Chain Manager

Corporación BBG
January 2017 - June 2018

Manager of supply chain, logistics, lean manufacturing, quality assurance, preventive maintenance, finance and marketing

General Manager

Master Litho
May 2002 - December 2016

Transformed a small family business into the premier offset and digital printer in Central America