Andrés Villaseca Martinez

Director, Process Development en The Coca-Cola Company

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

As a professional with an excellent record of scientific and technological knowledge application. I am seeking to apply my expertise in research, development, process design and innovation, that allows me to be proactive in the identification and implement solutions that helps to the company to face different challenges keeping business continuity and new technologies to boost innovation, as enabler for new business opportunities development and bringing incremental value to the company.

Experience

  • The Coca-Cola Company (Full-time · 10 yrs 9 mos)
    • Director Process Development
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    • Sr Process Engineering Squad
      Apr 2021 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    • Senior Scientist I Dairy Technology Application
      Apr 2019 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      • Co-Creating the R&D LATAM Nutrition strategy defining the main pillars, platforms and designing a science backed product pipeline. • Design Innovation platforms for dairy category to inspire and provide the steppingstones for future growth in accordance to the category strategy in LATAM. • Foster know-how and strengthen networking to accelerate projects implementation, playing an integral role in the team as a technical expert providing support to current cross-LATAM & Global projects. • Global project: Influencing to the project leaders and team members about new ways of working to manage new category formulation more efficiently. • Key focal point for identifying LATAM R&D challenges and propose possible projects in collaboration with external technology acquisition team.

  • Technical Account Manager at DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences
    May 2013 - Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    • Accountable of business development for key customers for Dupont company: Unilever, Sigma Foods (Mexico), Yakult (Mexico), Santa Clara, working in collaboration with different Dupont and customer areas, to create and implement creative product solutions. • I increased the Technical networking between Dupont Company and its customers that help me to increase those business values on 10% versus the previous year. • I imparted technical training focused in milk beverages, yogurt and cheese process, building trust with our key dairy customer, improving customer products and increasing the business pipeline by 25% vs previous years.

  • Grupo Industrial Lala (Full-time · 4 yrs 9 mos)
    • Ingeniero en Desarrollo de Nuevos Productos Sr.
      Sep 2009 - May 2013 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      • To develop innovative food products applying scientific knowledge and new technologies for foods processing. • To give technical support to 11 dairy production plants, applying design of experiments, project planning and engineering principles to optimize the production processes. • I designed and implemented a formulation tool to minimize the formulation costs of dairy products, achieving 25% of savings and reducing formulation time on 50%. • I designed and implemented a new industrial process for recombined milk, replacing one of the production process stage and reducing the operational costs by 15%.

    • Supervisor de Producción
      Sep 2008 - Sep 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo

      • Managing operative personnel in a UHT and Beverage production line (20 people), conciliating with maintenance, quality, raw material and finished product departments. • Training people in charge about good manufacturing practices and supporting the HACCP team to implement all the required programs to certificate the facility. • Identification of critical operative parameters to avoid wastes related to foaming and overfilling for different filling machines reducing wastes by 20%. • Designing and implementing Statistics for process control tools training course, improving production lines efficiency by 10% and decreasing troubleshooting solving in 50%.

  • Mecánico de Línea at GEUSA
    Oct 2005 - Feb 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Operating of all the bottling line equipments and manage their maintenance program. • I developed and implemented the corrective and preventive maintenance plans for the bottling line, peripheric equipments, reducing the • operational cost by 25%. • I develope a format to manage the facility kPis reducing the capture time on 80% including a dashboard to analyze the information