CHEMICAL ENGINEER / TECHNICAL INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER

- Accomplished, innovative, and internationally-focused chemical engineer looking for a worldwide oportunity.

• PLÁSTICOS CANTÁBRIA, Edo. de México (Mexico) • 05/2012 - 03/2013
Company dedicated for over 25 years to the manufacture of industrial films and shopping bags of high and low density polyethylene; clients include Wal-Mart and Tupperware.
Process control manager + quality and warehouse supervisor
- Increased production optimizing mixture formulations, "machine-product" assignments, operating conditions, product quality control, personnel duties and general order.
- Supervised and organized the tasks of warehouse, extrusion, printing and bag production staffs (8 to 30 workers depending on the sector).
- Led the training of the quality control department and the technical decision-making in the extrusion area.
- Developed templates whose statistic results made possible a remarkable improvement of resources administration.
- Managed the storages as well as the shipment routes.
- Resolved outstanding payments and learned to manage accounts through ASPEL SAE software.

• TORRECID, Castellón (Spain) • 08/2010 - 08/2011
Multinational business group dedicated to provide raw materials and services for the ceramics sector, with 20 international affiliates and customers in more than 100 countries.
Technical Assistant, marketing and R&D
- Solved customers’ problems managing the technical characteristics of the product and adapting them to the existent industrial conditions.
- Perfected the characteristics of numerous ceramic glazes while reducing costs in its formulations.
- Researched, developed and controlled several aspects of industrial inkjet technologies (chromatic ranges, machinery), collaborating with companies including Durst or Cretaprint.
- Added value accomplishing objectives under high-pressure situations.
- Managed the raw materials inventory, sending volumes of up to 30.000 euros per month to more than 15 foreign and national companies (Porcelanite, Inalco, Opozcno, Azuliber, Baldocer, Cristal, Unicer, Incoazul, Alcor, Guibosa, Lucer, Reygres, Seramik San, White Horse, Dal-Tile, etc.).

• ALTACHEM, Deinze (Belgium) • 09/2009 - 03/2010
Development and production of polyurethane foam dispensing systems world-leading company.
Researcher
- Performed benchmarkings of models and materials (Master Thesis for FEUP).
- Checked ISO standards and specifications in more than 20 projects at the same time.

EDUCATION

Master in Chemical Engineering (Process and Product)
Engineering Faculty, University of Porto, Portugal

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering
Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

- 3 years of experience, successfully adding value in production and quality control, R&D, warehouse management, technical assistance and marketing for leading chemical industry companies.
- Experience in human resource management and training; optimization of industrial process conditions and improvement of product’s technical characteristics.
- Exceptional communication skills for management and improving teams’ performance.
- Demonstrated ability to develop highly successful results.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Practice, management, design, development and optimization of industrial products and processes • Production and quality control • Human resources management • Inventory administration • Technical assistance and marketing • Plastics technology • Extrusion • Flexographic impression • Polyethylene bags • Industrial inkjet • Aerosol valves

LANGUAGES & INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French

Process control manager at Plásticos Cantabria (Mexico)
Startup at Opozcno (Poland) while working for Torrecid
Erasmus exchanges in Portugal and Belgium (Master’s Thesis at Altachem)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office • MS Project • Chromix • industrial inkjet machinery software •
Inventory management software • Aspen • Hysis • AutoCAD • Matlab •
FORTRAN • Fluent • Simulink • ASPEL SAE