Colgate-Palmolive

Lead and redefine the digital transformation and automation strategies for the manufacturing sites of the Americas (Guatemala and Brazil) following lessons learnt from successful pilot projects in Asia and other business units.
Reimagine the automation roadmap for the Toothbrush category globally.
Collaborate with the global resources based on technical needs on new projects.

Tech Manager Toothbrushes - Global Engineering

Design and construction of a new wet pet food plant (canned food facility). Adding all the strategies defined within our Smart Factory standard converting this site as the Corporation’s highest automated facility.
With a fleet of AGVs and AMRs to provide material handling and delivery high flexibility for the site production planning. 
Introducing inline vision systems for 100% product inspection avoiding cans with quality defects to leave the plant. 
Robotic quality stations with several checks replacing repetitive task using mini industrial robots and cobots, increasing test precision and accuracy as releasing humans for more value added activities on the floor. 
Integrating systems to develop a "Connected Workforce" culture where paper is not needed. High performance HMIs inside a strategically designed control room to deploy operators and technicians to areas of need. 
All automation and systems in place allows to reduce by 50% the headcount comparing to similar capacity sites in our network.
During the executing I had the privilege to Lead an internal team of up to 6 automation specialists and around 50 different engineers from business partners integrators that supported us during the project.

Controls Engineer - Greenfield project

Develop and Guide Automation strategies around the world for all categories (Home Care, Personal Care, Oral Care). Pursue and test new initiatives and technologies that can help us reach out our business, sustainability and performance goals. 
Design the controls, networking and manufacturing system (Batch) for a new Modular Oral care facility installed in Africa (Nigeria) and to be operated by local partners, this engineering design has the feature of enables to be dismantle and commissioned in a different place. Some other projects with the same characteristics has now been started for our different business units. 
Design of a pilot Post addition skid to be used by our R&D team on the creation of new formulas, which the capability of scale-up easier to our manufacturing sites. 
Many POCs (proof of concept) projects in topics such as Smart sensors, IIoT, Digital Twins systems and Performance support tools.

Automation Engineer

In charge of the capital budgeting for the site and report spending status for ongoing investments 
Managing, tracking and coaching project and controls engineers to keep moving forward on on-going projects being executed by local team.  
Hit the road running to mitigate any disruption for the operations due to Eng Manager's extended leave permit.

Engineering Manager - temporal assignment

Coordinador del departamento de Automatizacion, Control, sistemas de manufactura e Instrumentacion. Implementación de nuevos proyectos y mantenimiento de sistemas y red de manufactura en sitio. Coordinador y administrador local de presupuesto de inversión capitalizable para la subsidiaria y CA.

Automation and Systems Project Engineer

Millicom (Tigo)

Initiation, planning and design of several value added services systems and platform impacting a installed based of users/subscribers of around 10MM. 
Project management from funds request, planning, execution and control, closure of the project.

VAS Planning Engineer

Hogarius

Process definition, ERP system's functional request definition releases to developers, test features implemented and creation of training material for internal end users.

Intern - ERP

DIMEDICA

Meet market goals.
Pre sales support
Manage actual customer portfolio and increasing it with new leads and opportunities. 
Spec out Equipment requirements for public and private bids events. In charge of equipment's installation and user's training 
Post-sales support

Brand Manager - PENTAX

Isertec

Pre sales technical support, driving sales speech until getting the buy in from public sector and private companies (mostly banks)
Project design, plan, execution and sign off from customer
Post sale support to customer, training material creation and onsite assistance.

Ingeniero de Aplicaciones - Seguridad electrónica

At Colgate-Palmolive, our team leads the digital transformation and automation strategies, shaping the future of manufacturing across the Americas. Our recent pilot projects in Asia have paved the way for a global automation roadmap, focusing on innovation and efficiency in the toothbrush category. With a background in controls engineering, I played a key role in constructing a highly automated wet pet food plant, incorporating AGVs, AMRs, and vision systems to ensure exceptional product quality.

My tenure also involves collaborating with global resources to tackle technical challenges and streamline new projects. Proficient in change initiatives and lean manufacturing, I am committed to redefining manufacturing processes through strategic leadership and a passion for smart factory development. Our vision is to continually enhance production precision, sustainability, and performance, ultimately delivering value to the company and our consumers.

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