MANUEL F. ALONSO (PMP)
Caracas 1061. Venezuela
Phone: 58-416- 638.6981; 58-424-2057816
CIV No. 52014
RESUMEE
Project and Operations Manager with 20 years of experience on International companies
for several business lines as Consumer goods, manufacturing, construction and
telecommunications. Strongly oriented to address business problems and improve
processes and business results. Successful experience leading multifunctional Teams
on areas as Sales, Marketing, Logistics, Finance, Production, Engineering and Product
Development. Key strengths: Problem solving, process development and Data oriented
decision making under uncertainty. Willing to take challenges.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SAL MARINA CARIBE VENEZUELA C.A.
2012 -
Plant Manager
Start Up and installation readiness responsible for the site.
P&L results responsible for all the company.
Fully accountable for the final stages for the installation of the new manufacturing facility
to produce commercial salt. Development and execution of the Project scope, time and
resources plan to complete the installation of the plant and the start up.Budget and Raw
materials planning and execution, including package development with external design
company.
Responsible for the organizational design to deliver business results for the new
operation. This includes administrative process design, staff plans, start up plans and
preliminary budget definition.
Execution of the design of the logistics process for both raw materials and finished
product to support production operations for one to 3 shifts.
Leading a start Up team of 7 direct workers and up to 4 contractors companies during
the construction phase.
SPECTRUM TECNOLOGIA C.A.
2009 - 2012
General Manager (Operations)
Development and implementation of the business plan for the company including
specific action plans for all areas (Sales, Marketing, Imports, Operations and logistic).
Direct reports: 9.
Reporting to the company board.
· Implementation of an Inventory adjustment plan to make it adequate for the sales
levels. 15% reduction of working capital achieved
· Changes on the sales process and strategy to increase volume with capital return via
addressing new markets and white spaces. 10% Sales Volume increase via new
market segments.
· Diversification of marketing strategy to better reach market sectors. 5% professional
sales increase due to change of strategy.
· Revision of supply process to obtain balanced figures and adjust inventory levels.
Email: malonso61@gmail.com
PMP 1250963
· Increase on year base profits from below the line for 2009 to 15% after 2010 year
closure.
NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS DE VENEZUELA C.A.
2006 - 2009
Cost & Progress Manager
Development and implementation of the Cost & Progress function and process for a
Telecommunications Project of more than 300MM US$ over 3 years. Direct Reports: 4.
Reporting to the Project Director and to the Functional regional manager.
· Established the Cost & Progress Team and process for a 300MM
US$ Telecommunications project with more than 1200 + nodes and core systems.
Includes also site construction.
· Implemented work processes required to track cost and progress for such a complex
project to comply with internal procedures and achieving SOX compliance.
· Implementation and follow Up to key business indicators to manage cost & progress.
· Design and execution of Cost control process in compliance with changing local
regulations and supporting business continuity for the project. These processes
included: Invoicing; good receipts; PO execution; cost tracking; progress tracking;
change management; claims resolution.
· 15% Cost reduction via contract implementation and scope revision and execution.
PROCTER & GAMBLE
1991-2006
Systems Project Manager, 1998-2006
Managed the development and execution of the IT project portfolio to support the
business plan for P&G Latin-America for the Sales, Marketing, Product development and
Supply Chain business units for several Product categories.
Consumer Understanding process improvement.
■ Savings of 1 MM US$ in 2 years with the application of new technologies to speed up
the data gathering and analysis.
■ Savings of 250k US$ trough the implementation of a work flow process to improve
technical testing of products.
■ Design of IT technologies platform and Construction of an Innovation Center for
consumer understanding. All this within schedule and budget. After one year the usage
of this center was 300% of the target for the project.
Interactive Marketing.
■ Design and development of 6 regional web pages for key Hair and Beauty Care
brands at 20% of the global benchmark for this kind of projects. More than 70k users
registered at each site during the first year.
■ Implemented Data Analysis tools to reduce the preparation time for quarterly business
reviews from 15 to 5 days.
Sales Project.
■ Implemented a Sales system for the Distributors channel in Guatemala that produced
a yearly Sales Volume increase of 25% during the first 2 years and a cost reduction of
5%.
■ Implemented a Sales Fundamentals measurement system for the region, achieving
the standardization of the measures for all countries plus a service cost reduction of 20%.
Y2K Project leader for Venezuelan Business Unit.
■ Achieved “0” incidents during the Y2K transition for the company and our key local
customers.
■ Developed the business continuity successfully tested in several business situations
after the Y2K.
■ Build Up corporate image with customers and key community stake holders supporting
and helping several institutions to be prepared for the Y2K transition. Public speaker at
several related events for the It and business community.
P&G Venezuela Paper Plant Maintenance Manager 1995-1998
Leader of the Maintenance Team for 5 Diapers and Feminine Protection production lines.
Preventive maintenance implementation leader for the TPM program. 8 Direct reports.
Reporting to the Plant Operations Managers
■ Maintenance cost reduction of 5% despite a production increase of 25% for 3
consecutive years.
■ Spare parts inventory reduction of 10% (value).
■ Reduced 5% the time needed to execute chassis production changes and 50%
reduction of the stabilization times after change over.
Technical Risk manager, 1991-1995
Leader for the implementation of 6 Technical Safety Programs achieving corporate
certification for all of them. 8 direct reports. Reporting to the Engineering Manager.
■ Implemented 6 Technical Safety programs, improving corporate audit results from 1.5
to 8.5/10 in two years.
INVERSIONES SELVA
1990-1991
Project and Maintenance Manager
Manager for improvement projects and production lines maintenance personnel.
■ 10% reduction of production lines downtime
BORSIG DE VENEZUELA
1987-1990
Resident Engineer and Construction Manager
Managed the dismantling and rebuild project for a Phosphoric Acid Plant at the Moron
Petrochemical plant.
■ Execution within time and budget of a 2.5 MMUS$ contract on 6 months.
■ Winning and Executing new contracts for 20MM US$ during 2 years
EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
· Mechanical Engineer, Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB), Caracas, Venezuela,
1986
· Several Post Graduate courses on Mechanical Design (USB 1986) and
Management Engineering (UNIMET, 1992).
· Scrum Master training, SoftKey incorporated, February 2011.
· Project Management test preparation training, IIGP 2008.
· Project Management, IESA 2006.
· NSN trainings on: 2G/ 3G Basic Telecommunication Implementation; Contract
Negotiation.
· P&G trainings on: Finance, Marketing, Sales, Technical Safety, Data Analysis,
Consumers research, Public Media Communications (Comstat Rowland).
· P&G Corporate Instructor during 10 years on Communication Skills and Covey 7
Habits for Highly effective people.
· P&G Emergency response brigade Leader for Rescue and confined space work.
· Advanced English level (Oral and written).
· Basic German level (Oral and written).
· Basic Portuguese level (Oral).
CITIZENSHIPS
Venezuelan and European (Spain).