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OperationsManager
Fabian Moreno

Fabian Moreno

Production Engineering Manager
Maroochydore,QLD

Summary

Industrial Engineer focused on Operations and Supply Chain Management with over 15 years of experience leading and optimizing production processes and leading strategic supply chain negotiations globally.

Specialized in internal operations and supplier management, with a strong track record in applying Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to boost efficiency, cut lead times, and ensure quality and cost compliance. Expert in KPI development and data-driven demand planning, aligning performance with strategic goals. Proven leader in coordinating cross-functional teams and fostering continuous improvement, driving profitability and strengthening the supply chain for global competitiveness

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
5
5

Years of post-bachelor's degree training

Work History

Production Engineering Manager

The Aussie Plant Based CO
Sunshine Coast, QLD
03.2024 - Current

OVERALL PURPOSE OF POSITION
Provide leadership to the Production department to optimize processes and enhance operational efficiency.
KEY POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Recommendation Proposals: Present actionable suggestions to enhance product quality.
Continuous Improvement: Lead initiatives for ongoing process enhancements.
Staff Performance Monitoring: Evaluate and enhance team effectiveness and efficiency.
Operational Analysis: Assess workforce utilization, facility layout, and production costs to maximize worker and equipment efficiency.
Plant Performance Optimization: Implement adjustments for overall plant performance improvement.
Training Development: Identify training needs to foster staff growth.
Time Studies and Improvements: Conduct time studies to propose effective process enhancements.
Agile Methodologies: Apply agile methodologies to increase operational flexibility.
Relationship Building: Foster collaborative relationships to boost productivity.
Developed and implemented production engineering processes that improved efficiency, reduced costs, and met customer requirements.

Chief Operating Officer

We do It BPO
Sunshine Coast, QLD
01.2021 - Current

OVERALL PURPOSE OF POSITION
Lead and oversee the execution of strategies, policies, and engineering plans during the company's transition to a matrix organizational structure.
KEY POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Alignment: Implement methodologies to ensure alignment between engineering and operations teams through strategic initiatives and balanced scorecard frameworks.
Execution of Strategy: Drive effective strategy execution via measurable objectives, continuous improvement, and robust business processes.
Senior Management Collaboration: Participate in executive committees (CEO, CMO, COO, CPO) to align all company teams.
Project Management: Adapt and manage ongoing projects using cloud platforms (monday.com) to streamline operations.
Safety Compliance: Ensure adherence to safety standards in the design, production, and execution of international events and audiovisual broadcasting.
Financial Oversight: Manage budget creation and control to meet financial obligations with external engineering and production suppliers.
Diversification Strategy: Plan and oversee the company's research and development strategy for a live trading platform (livecommerce).
Technical Guidance: Advise on the development of artificial intelligence algorithms for real-time object detection in the livecommerce platform.
Investment Generation: Forge partnerships with capital investment funds (Colombia Productiva, 500 Latam).
Operational Efficiency: Ensure adherence to budgetary constraints and optimize operating costs and supplier management.
Continuous Improvement: Foster ongoing training and improvement initiatives for personnel.Determine, execute, and supervise the strategies, policies, and engineering plans of the new stage of the company (reorganization into a matrix organizational structure).
Implement the conceptual framework, methodologies, and approaches to ensure the strategic alignment of the company's engineering and operations execution teams through strategic alignment and balanced scorecard implementation.
Ensure effective execution of strategy through measurable objectives, concrete actions, Continuous Improvement, and implementation of Business Processes.
Participate in senior management committees, to ensure proper alignment of all company teams (CEO, CMO, COO, CPO).
Adaptation, alignment, and management of the company's ongoing projects through the implementation of cloud platforms (monday.com).
ensuring compliance with safety standards and regulations for the design, production and execution of events and audiovisual broadcasting on an international scale.
Ensure compliance with financial obligations to external engineering and production suppliers through proper budget creation, utilization, and control.
Plan, organise, direct and control the company's diversification strategy in the research and development project for the creation of a live trading platform (livecommerce).
Providing technical advice on the research and development project for the creation of a livecommerce platform to the engineering and development team on strategies for the implementation of artificial intelligence algorithms focused on computer vision (development of computer vision algorithms for real-time object detection).
Generate approaches with capital investment funds (Colombia Productiva, 500 Latam).
Comply with the budget and the correct execution of the company's procedures.
To guarantee the continuous improvement of the operation and the constant training of the personnel in charge.
Ensure and increase profitability, developing and controlling operating costs and supplier management.

CHIEF OPERATING AND ENGINEERING OFFICER

Livent X
Sunshine Coast / Bogota, Colombia
12.2022 - 06.2023
  • Determine, execute, and supervise the strategies, policies, and engineering plans of the new stage of the company (reorganization into a matrix organizational structure).
  • Implement the conceptual framework, methodologies, and approaches to ensure the strategic alignment of the company's engineering and operations execution teams through strategic alignment and balanced scorecard implementation.
  • Ensure effective execution of strategy through measurable objectives, concrete actions, Continuous Improvement, and implementation of Business Processes.
  • Participate in senior management committees, to ensure proper alignment of all company teams (CEO, CMO, COO, CPO).
  • Adaptation, alignment, and management of the company's ongoing projects through the implementation of cloud platforms (monday.com).
  • ensuring compliance with safety standards and regulations for the design, production and execution of events and audiovisual broadcasting on an international scale.
  • Ensure compliance with financial obligations to external engineering and production suppliers through proper budget creation, utilization, and control.
  • Plan, organise, direct and control the company's diversification strategy in the research and development project for the creation of a live trading platform (livecommerce).
  • Providing technical advice on the research and development project for the creation of a livecommerce platform to the engineering and development team on strategies for the implementation of artificial intelligence algorithms focused on computer vision (development of computer vision algorithms for real-time object detection).
  • Generate approaches with capital investment funds (Colombia Productiva, 500 Latam).
  • Comply with the budget and the correct execution of the company's procedures.
  • To guarantee the continuous improvement of the operation and the constant training of the personnel in charge.
  • Ensure and increase profitability, developing and controlling operating costs and supplier management.

PRODUCT DEVELOPER

NCS S.A.S.
Cali, Colombia
08.2021
  • Negotiation and ensuring the correct supply of textile products manufactured abroad (China) and domestic suppliers
  • Daily contact with suppliers to ensure the time of production
  • Give technical support for the development of lasts, quality of clothing, type of machinery that should be used for each reference, ETC
  • Ensuring the standardization of non-produced product lines
  • Perform initial quality filter applying AQL and MILITAR STANDARD-105 concepts (First sample, pp sample, shipping sample)
  • Indicate the correct execution of the product quoted by the company according to the trends and requests of the creative department
  • Visit suppliers occasionally for guidance in product development and production and purchasing costs optimization.

Head of Development and Engineering

GAT Fashion Lab
BOGOTA, Colombia
02.2022 - 12.2022
  • Create short- and long-term product development strategies according to the design team's interpretation of drawings and trends.
  • Lead, guide and coordinate the engineering and development team to strengthen their competencies and skills by implementing development plans.
  • Overseeing the maintenance needs of the development machinery to optimize efficiency
  • Identify and drive continuous process improvement, optimize costs and reduce waste (Lean Manufacturing).
  • Plan, implement and monitor engineering and development performance and report to the partner board by collecting relevant data and weekly result reports.
  • Ensure the correct technical execution and industrialization of references according to the analysis and interpretation of drawings from the design team.
  • Support pattern making, production and engineering to optimize the execution and development of proposals ensuring QPD (Quality, Price, Design).
  • supervise Cost sheet analysis, standard time sheet, pattern making and scaling, ensuring the correct release of the references to production according to the interpretation of the drawings presented by the design team.
  • To guarantee the interpretation of plans and specifications to elaborate the production guidelines, quality, standard time, and costs of the references, optimizing the cost and increasing the profit margin of the company.
  • Interpret blueprints, drawings, and specifications, and provide advice on engineering methods and procedures to meet construction and production requirements.
  • Implement and control the engineering and development process, adjustments, and releases to production to accomplish the quality, cost, and design requirements of the company.
  • Plan the entry, supply and delivery of physical samples, corrections and adjustments presented to the customer.
  • Implement and guarantee the quality, time standard and manufacturing parameters with strategic allies, ensuring the correct construction and execution of the product.
  • Define KPI's, OKR's, create all operating manuals, and train new employees of the development team.

OPERATIONS MANAGER

TÁCTICO GROUP
Bogotá, Colombia
01.2020 - 07.2021
  • Lead, mentor, and oversee the Operations Team and develop the team's competencies and skills
  • Coordinate the supply of products manufactured abroad (China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan), and domestic suppliers
  • Apply data analysis to initiate and implement continuous improvement projects
  • Define KPI's, OKR's create all the manuals of operation, and train the new operation team workers
  • Coordinate workflow and assign production loads to supervisors and quality control analysts to visit suppliers
  • Review standard time calculation according to the samples elaborated in the product development department
  • Lead the calculation of the cost of products to be executed and optimize manufacturing costs ensuring an increase in the profit margin of the company
  • Visit suppliers occasionally for guidance and negotiate in product development and production and purchasing costs optimization.

DESIGN & RESEARCH ANALYST

COLOMBIAN ARMY (government company)
Bogotá, Colombia
01.2015 - 12.2018
  • Turn raw data into easy-to-understand information that is aligned to military objectives for procurement of raw materials required by the unit using a range of data analysis and field research
  • Identify troop needs through data analysis and coordinate tactics that execute the Soldier Product Availability strategy
  • Utilize troop operation data by analyzing the movement, and environment in which the soldier performs to assess risks and opportunities associated with Soldier Product Inventory
  • Use internal and external data sources to help the Product Strategy team improve Product Availability decision-making
  • Produce, analyze, interpret trends, and disseminate regularly scheduled reports along with observations and recommendations
  • Design, develop, document, and implement data reporting and analytics solutions using interactive dashboards in Tableau or similar data visualization applications
  • Organize and present findings in an appropriate and relevant format (presentations, charts, data visualizations) to internal stakeholders.

PRODUCT DEVELOPER, AND PATTERN ENGINEER

COLOMBIAN ARMY (government company)
Bogotá, Colombia
01.2015 - 12.2018
  • Investigation and research of usability information of the combat uniforms and bulletproof garments
  • Develop new products according to the needs of the troops, guarantee and optimize the life cycle of the garments in difficult combat environments, and usability
  • Calculate inputs, raw materials, and labor for garments designed for proper implementation in production plants
  • Perform production monitoring and supervision according to the annual production plan
  • Inspect, verify, and validate weekly inventory control of raw materials according to the consumption list
  • Investigate and implement proposals for improvement of process, product, or service applying lean manufacturing and six sigma concepts.

PRODUCTION INSTRUCTOR

PERMODA
Bogotá, Colombia
01.2019 - 12.2019
  • Train production operators to improve the execution ability in the workshop and warrant the quality of the product
  • Supervise the Operations Team to ensure quality and production efficiency
  • Apply lean manufacturing and six sigma projects in the workshop, warrant the correct implementation of lean tools (Kanban, Poka Yoke, Gap Meets, Kaizen Meets, Kamishibai)
  • Implement the correct workflow in a modular work system of production
  • Calculate the time standard of operations at the individual level and balance the flow of operations to guarantee and maximize the units at the end of the shift
  • Time taking and improvement of production processes.

PRODUCTION CUTTING CHIEF/ PATTERN ENGINEER

INDUCON APPAREL INDUSTRIES
Bogotá, Colombia
01.2012 - 12.2014
  • Create new fits and pattern making, scaling, and feeding of the automatic cutting machine
  • Execution of production cutting orders according to production planning
  • Supervise cutting operative personnel
  • Dispatch of production orders to the garment plant according to the client's delivery date
  • Coordination with logistics and transportation.

QUALITY AND PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

GRAND JEANS APPAREL INDUSTRIES
Bogotá, Colombia
01.2009 - 12.2012
  • Create production planning, quality control, inputs, and labor in the execution of the production plan
  • Implementation of modular production systems and inspection systems by attributes according to military standards to improve workshop efficiency and reduce the negative quality findings of my auditors in charge
  • Quality control of product in-process and finished product in own plant and satellite workshops.

Education

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

ANYONE AI
Wilmington, Delaware
06.2023

DATA SCIENCE FOR BUSSINESS - DATA SCIENCE

Digital House / DS4B
Barcelona
01.2023

GREEN BELT LEAN MANAGEMENT - YELLOW BELT SIX SIGMA -

SGS ACADEMY
01.2021

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING -

UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE COLOMBIA
01.2021

FASHION DESIGNER -

SENA / Colombian Academy of Design and Haute Couture
01.2012

MICRO MASTER - Supply Chain Management

MIT X
Massachusets
01.2017 - 12.2018

Skills

  • DECISION MAKING
  • DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTS
  • WORK PLANNING
  • OPERATIONS EXECUTION
  • NEGOTIATION
  • COMMUNICATION
  • TEAMWORK
  • LEADERSHIP
  • LIFELONG LEARNER
  • DATA SCIENCE
  • RESEARCH
  • DATA ANALYSIS
  • MATERIAL OPTIMIZATION
  • SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Digital Tools And Softwares

  • POWER BI
  • TABLEAU
  • MY SQL WORKBENCH
  • PYTHON (NUMPY, PANDAS)
  • PLM
  • LECTRA SYSTEMS
  • COREL DRAW
  • OFFICE
  • ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

Additional Experience And Interests

  • Business Development.
  • Consulting in cost and resource optimization.
  • Consulting in time methods and production processes.
  • Consulting in product development.

Employment References

  • Solanye Sanchez, Human Talent Manager, Táctico Group, (+57) 315 8430846, talentohumano@tactico.com
  • Diego Casadiego, (Major) Colombian Army Officer, Colombian Army, (+57) 310 2225125, diego.cas@ejercito.mil.co
  • Lina Rodriguez, Non-Produced Product Lines Manager, NCS S.A.S., (+57) 315 474 5180, lina.rodriguez@quest.com.co
  • Sonia Escobar, Contadora Publica, Colombian Army, (+57) 316 578 2032, SONIA.ESCOBAR1@OUTLOOK.ES
  • Paula Andrea Vargas, Ingeniera Industrial, SGS Colombia (Société Générale de Surveillance), (+57) 320 353 2304, PAULAVARGASC93@GMAIL.COM

References

EMPLOYMENT REFERENCES, Solanye Sanchez, Diego Casadiego, Lina Rodriguez, Sonia Escobar, Paula Andrea Vargas

Languages

Spanish
Native language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Portuguese
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Production Engineering Manager

The Aussie Plant Based CO
03.2024 - Current

CHIEF OPERATING AND ENGINEERING OFFICER

Livent X
12.2022 - 06.2023

Head of Development and Engineering

GAT Fashion Lab
02.2022 - 12.2022

PRODUCT DEVELOPER

NCS S.A.S.
08.2021

Chief Operating Officer

We do It BPO
01.2021 - Current

OPERATIONS MANAGER

TÁCTICO GROUP
01.2020 - 07.2021

PRODUCTION INSTRUCTOR

PERMODA
01.2019 - 12.2019

MICRO MASTER - Supply Chain Management

MIT X
01.2017 - 12.2018

DESIGN & RESEARCH ANALYST

COLOMBIAN ARMY (government company)
01.2015 - 12.2018

PRODUCT DEVELOPER, AND PATTERN ENGINEER

COLOMBIAN ARMY (government company)
01.2015 - 12.2018

PRODUCTION CUTTING CHIEF/ PATTERN ENGINEER

INDUCON APPAREL INDUSTRIES
01.2012 - 12.2014

QUALITY AND PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

GRAND JEANS APPAREL INDUSTRIES
01.2009 - 12.2012

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

ANYONE AI

DATA SCIENCE FOR BUSSINESS - DATA SCIENCE

Digital House / DS4B

GREEN BELT LEAN MANAGEMENT - YELLOW BELT SIX SIGMA -

SGS ACADEMY

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING -

UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE COLOMBIA

FASHION DESIGNER -

SENA / Colombian Academy of Design and Haute Couture
Fabian MorenoProduction Engineering Manager