Professional Experience
Time Period: 2011/12 - Present
Company Name: Industrias Estra S.A. (this company is based in Colombia)
Occupation: Sourcing/Purchasing
Work Experience:
- Becoming a member of company’s project management team.
- Taking over as project manager on some projects new products, technologies and suppliers development projects.
- Conducting and coordinating all project procurement management activities during every phase of every project carried out by the company (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control and closure).
- Building relationships with new suppliers and manufacturers in domestics and overseas for injection plastic machinery, molds, spare parts, raw materials and tooling to cut lead times, save money and keep high quality standards.
- Attracting new customers for the company into two different lines of business: customers for finished plastic products as well as for plastic engineering services.
- Procurement of MRO supplies.
- Refinement of company’s MRO supplies stock in order to improve stock quality, reduce inventory levels and free up working capital.
- Management of sourcing and logistic operations for plastic finished goods manufactured overseas.
- Sourcing of services such as machinery maintenance, plastic injection, rapid prototyping, extrusion blow molding, CNC machining and other manufacturing processes.
- Negotiation with suppliers for pricing, payment terms, deliveries and quality.
- Drawing up, reviewing and following up contracts and agreements with suppliers and clients to get clear business conditions for all parties.
Time Period: 2010/03 - 2011/03
Company Name: Induservi S.A. (this company is based in Colombia, but my job activities were performed in China)
Occupation: Sourcing/Purchasing
Work Experience:
- Searching and selecting suitable manufacturers in China from the point of view of quality and pricing of nonwoven’s materials and refrigerator components.
- Holding meetings with supplier’s sales, technical, production and quality departments in order to follow up projects development, also for discussing and settling down any quality issue which can arise.
- Performing visits to supplier’s plants and factory audits in order to understand and evaluate vendor’s quality control system.
- Performing product inspections (In-process and Pre-shipment Inspections).
Time Period: 2007/08 - 2010/08
Company Name: EDS International Inc. (this company is based in Hong Kong)
Occupation: Sourcing/Purchasing
Work Experience:
- Searching and selecting suitable manufacturers and suppliers in China Mainland, Taiwan, India and Korea from the point of view of Quality Control and pricing for the production of mechanical and electrical components for the automotive sector.
- Following up the design and implementation of APQP process in vendor’s plants.
- Reviewing Quality Control documents related with supplier’s manufacturing process such as products certificates, quality control plans, inspection reports, PPAP package.
- Attracting new clients for Pre-shipment Quality Inspections.
- Costing of mechanical components.
- Continually monitor, evaluate and designing improving actions for supplier performance data on pricing, quality, on-time delivery and service level.
- Identify savings opportunities relative to suppliers and parts assigned.
- Reading and interpreting of blueprints and technical specifications.
Education
Education Period: 2012/07 - 2014/12
School: Universidad EAFIT
Major: Master in International Business
Degree: Master's Degree
Education Period: 2011/07 - 2012/06
School: UPB
Major: Project Management
Highest Degree: Master's Degree
Education Period: 2000/01 - 2006/06
School: UPB
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Highest Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Languages
Spanish
Mother TongueChinese
FluentEnglish
FluentJapanese
Conversational
Skills
Skills
- Freelance English teacher: 2014 – present.
- 120-Hour TEFL Master Diploma. Currently taking this course. Expected completion date: June 2016.
- CERTIFICATION TOEFL iBT. Score: 93. April, 2011.
- International Students Language Program (Intermediate Chinese), Fall Semester. EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY, Shanghai, China. 2010-2011.
- CERTIFICATE OF CHINESE PROFICIENCY (HSK), Beijing, China. Score: Level 4, 2010.
- International Students Language Program (Basic Chinese), Fall Semester. EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY, Shanghai, China. 2009-2010.
- Smith Hill Adult ESL Program, Spring Semester. PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America. 2002.