Lucerne Metropolitan Area
In a nutshell: 20y’s experience in supply strategy within Fortune 500 companies. MBA, Certified supply chain APICS, PMP, Pharma GMP auditor, Quality systems auditor (general ISO9001 & Medical ISO13485), Pharma certified regulatory & launch manager, Javascript-Python AI & Big Data Microsoft associate, Project manager Lean-Six Sigma black belt, plus fluent in EN/GE/FR/IT/ES Education: • MBA - Imperial College of London, distinction • Supply chain master's - American APICS, distinction • Chemical eng master's - IQS of Barcelona, distinction • Quality auditor pharma GMP - AQS • Quality auditor ISO9001 - IRCA • Quality auditor ISO13485 - BSI • Project manager - Lean-SixSigma, black belt • Pharma development manager - ECA certified • Pharma regulatory affairs manager - ECA certified • Artificial intelligence developer - Microsoft's Cognitive AI, certified associate • Data analyst - Microsoft's Machine learning, certified associate • Cloud architect - Azure solutions, certified associate • Language certifications - English, Spanish, French, German, Italian (Level: all>C1 + US, ES & IT citizenships) • Dow Chemical Technical Award 2013 • 4 Dow Chemical Reliability Awards for safe improvements in central Germany (2012, 2013 and 2014) • Author financial publication: "The MBA Guide" • Owner for 50% of a patent for a self-cleaning chemical reactor
Leading the supply chain project management organization, responsible for changes within the supply chain.
Leading the New Product Introduction activities through supply chain into commercial production.
Leading the commercial manufacturing activities through production management, S&OP and IBP integration, Performance monitoring and all aspects after the post tech-transfer phase.
Leading Air Products' Nothern Europe supply chain control and optimization network: 87 units of pharma quality Nitrogen, Argon, Oxygen and CO2 with more than 100 clients. Plus, Strasbourg site director. - Supply Chain: Ensure supply leading Engineering, Operations and Quality teams towards S&OP excellence, while maintaining costs and safety. - Projects: Continuous improvement, Project portfolio, and Operational strategies. - Strategy: Risk management & Merges. - Commercial: Customer strategy & Contract profiling. - Business administration: Budgeting, HR, Business management & Finance planning. - Quality: Pharma and Food quality standards, GMP Compliance, audits & EHS.
Leading all activities at Strasbourg manufacturing site, consisting of two production plants with GMP pharma compliance and one of France's top 10 Seveso tier: 1000 ton/day of food and pharmaceutical quality Oxygen, Nitrogen and Argon. - Operations: Asset management, Capital & Optimization projects. - Plant: Budgeting, Distribution, Scheduling & Manufacturing plans. - Quality: Audits, GMP, ICH Q10, ICH Q9, ICH Q7, Eudralex Annex 6.
Optimizing Air Product's business system through Business Excellence (BEX) and Operational Excellence (OpEx) projects in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium & Netherlands. Highlights: - Complete supply chain review for Rotterdam plants. - Contract reviews around Natural Gas, including SAP and automatic invoicing systems through IT efforts: impact of 0.8MM Eur. - Contract reviews around distribution systems, including automatic invoicing systems, invoicing paths and financial steps. - Optimization of Steam production plants, Hydrogen production plants. - Optimization of Nitrogen distribution systems, Steam distribution systems. - Operational digitalization through Industry 4.0.
Leading the teams responsible for all utilities in the industry complex of Schkopau: Water treatments, Gas, Steams, Cooling, Sludges, etc. Highlights: - Running plant activities - Team of 47 technicians - Improvement projects - Production projects - Forecasting & distribution
Team lead for new plant design within Dow Design Center in Germany. Highlights: - Complete design of a Glyphosate plant in Brazil, responsible for 2 engineers. - Complete design of a Polyurethane (PU) plant in China. - Partial design of a Chloro-fluoro carbonated (CFC) plant in Stade. On top of the design package, patent development for a new type of self-cleaning reactor. - Optimization for distribution systems of High-Density Polypropylene plants (HDPE) to solve quality issues in the European pipeline system. - Optimization of Epoxy Adhesives (EA) plant: Redesign of the dosage, mixture and batch systems, resulting in 0.7MMEur/year savings.
Specialist in heat exchangers for new plant design within the "Dow Design Center" in Germany. Highlights: - Improvement of heat exchange systems in Ethylexyl Acrylate (EHA) technologies. - Improvement of heat exchange systems in Butyl Acrylate (BA) technologies.