Luis Fernando Pedraza Ruiz

Planning / Projects / Six Sigma / Continuous improvement / Scrum

Grand Prairie, Texas, United States

About

Bachelor Industrial Engineer, Master in Science Technological Projects Management, Six Sigma Green Belt, Scrum Master, JI and JR - TWI certificate, with a track record of more than 17 years of experience in management, implementation and project management under traditional and agile methodologies applied to the development of more than 100 competitive products and services for customers and suppliers in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Panama and United States. Ability to train and lead interdisciplinary teams focused on the generation and development of innovative ideas based on methodologies such as Lean, Canvas and Design thinking as well as process optimization through Lean Six Sigma, TWI, Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation tools. High level of adaptation to new challenges and environments with a focus on obtaining results for improvement and operational efficiency.

Experience

  • Cornerstone Building Brands ()
    • Senior Continuous Improvement Specialist
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

      Lead change through the Lean Manufacturing initiatives at 17 production lines to ensure continuous, systemic, and sustainable elimination of waste through developing a fully engaged culture of continuous improvement (zero waste mindset), execution of Kaizen events linked to the site Vision and annual Strategy Deployment and building of foundational capability for long term sustainment and TWI training deployment. Achievements: • 3 Line balancing Kaizen to optimize labor across job collaboration, waste identification and times studies equivalent to USD $500.000. • TWI deployment and +160 employees trained in first 6 weeks. • Develop a new install capacity study in order to maximize the efficiency. • 5S program deployment.

    • Interim Operations Manager
      Oct 2025 - Dec 2025 · 3 mos

      Lead the optimization of organizational production by ensuring the strategic management of staff. Focus is on efficient operations, consistently meeting production targets, and upholding rigorous quality standards. Strong leadership and a highly process-oriented approach to coordinate material flow for timely delivery and drive Continuous Improvement initiatives. Highly skilled in organization, problem-solving, and independent decision-making to achieve Operational Excellence. Achievements: • 4 direct supervisor and +150 indirect employees. • Kaizen focused to reduce in 12 minutes the efficiency, equivalent to USD $200.000 first 5 weeks.

  • Continuous Improvement Engineer at Fresh Express
    Aug 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Responsible for ensuring the successful completion of Continuous Improvement projects by demonstrating effective leadership and the ability to direct large project teams comprised of experienced associates from multiple disciplines, focus and direction in a fast-paced environment. Achievements: • Solid knowledge and implementation of Manufacturing Processes, PDCA, Kaizen, and Lean concepts to reduce MUV's cost up to $250K first year. • Analytical abilities and be able to develop logical solutions to opportunities to increase the efficiency and profits up to $3.4M the first year. • Must be proven team player that utilizes coaching and company values to meet and exceed customer expectations. • Engineering knowledge such as process validation, process flows and layouts, statistical process control, and cost benefit analysis.

  • QA Improvement and Projects Lead at Ole Mexican Foods Inc
    Apr 2023 - Jul 2023 · 4 mos

    Quality Lean and improving projects in order to reduce the wastes associates to quality assurance process, identify wastes for movements, transportation and/or reworks, with time studies, capability analysis and activities that add or not add value in the process, and verify and evaluate the raw material, product in process and finish goods.

  • Part time professor at Universidad del Cauca
    Sep 2018 - Aug 2022 · 4 yrs

    Professor assigned to the Bachelor of Administration Business and Master's degree in Project Management in areas such as Scrum, Canvas and Design Thinking to ideate and development new products and services.

  • Director Strategic Planning at Corporación Universitaria Comfacauca - Unicomfacauca
    Jan 2022 - Apr 2022 · 4 mos

    Lead, manage and evaluate, in accordance with institutional and external regulations, the institutional effectiveness system in its four axes (planning and evaluation, management systems, quality assurance, analytics and data governance), as well as define, direct and control the projects and strategies required for the design and organizational model, process architecture, administration and articulation of management systems in order to ensure compliance with the mission and strategic objectives of the University. Responsabilidades: • Direccionamiento del equipo de desarrollo de software para los aplicativos de gestión y operación de la universidad. • Direccionamiento del equipo de comunicaciones para garantizar la conectividad cableada e inalámbrica de la institución. • Direccionamiento del sistema de gestión de calidad y autoevaluación con fines de acreditación. • Liderar el desarrollo del plan estratégico de la corporación. • Velar por el cumplimiento de los indicadores de gestión, calidad y mejora continua.