
Timeline
About me
President and Certified Supply Chain Professional
Education

Mit sloan school of management
2019 - 2022Supply chain management and strategy
Apics northern colorado
2000 - 2010Cscp, apics certified supply chain professionalActivities and Societies: Supply Chain and Operations Management

Tecnológico de monterrey
1999 - 2000Operations management international business/trade/commerce
Experience

Ast research, inc.
Jun 1992 - Aug 1997Planning and inventory control extraordinaireFirst major PC vendor to enter into the retailer mass market. Market share went to #5 worldwide. Planning and inventory management extraordinaire. Worked in Manufacturing, Re-Manufacturing and Logistics and Supply Chain.Launched products globally, working closely with country managers, product teams, PR agencies and local advertising groups.

Rr donnelley global turnkey solutions
Aug 1997 - Sept 2000Supply chain and country operations managerExpat assignment. Country Operations Manager over Guadalajara and Queretaro operations.Responsible for establishing presence in Mexico and implementing two greenfield operations in Queretaro(Manufacturing) and Guadalajara (Distribution).

Exel
Jan 2000 - Jan 2010Full P&L responsibility for the Ft. Worth and Dallas sites with budgets in excess of $30 million per year. Responsible for pursuit and win of this long sought after account. Pursuit responsibilities included the value proposition, cost model and overall solution. Leveraged both the Contract Logistics and the FTZ solutions to lock down the win. Responsible for the Foreign Trade Zone design and implementation that led to costs savings of $10M per year. Savings where realized in MPF, duty avoidance and inventory property tax.Multi-site operation to include inbound to manufacturing (Ft. Worth), VMI HUB (Coppell) and e-commerce operation in Memphis.Plan, direct and implement operations and administrative support to meet productivity and service goals. Show less Full P&L responsibility for the Dallas site with a budget in excess of $65 million per year and a global P&L responsibility of $170 million year. Responsible for the financial performance of the Dallas location by improving services and reducing cost through analysis of processes and optimum utilization of personnel and supply chain reduction. Plan, direct and implement Production operations and administrative support to meet productivity and service goals. Ensure customer contract requirements are administered and enforced.Foreign Trade Zone with Duty and MPF avoidance.Multi-shift and high transaction environment. 65M HDD’s distributed, 3M Retail HDD’s kitted and 1.7M external hard drives assembled, tested and kitted.Reverse Logistics responsibility to include returns of 1.1M per year. RMA and Life Cycle Services Management, Screening (NTF), and Hard drive repair (Board Swap and Firmware fixes) in a clean room environment Show less
General Manager
Jan 2000 - Jan 2010General Manager
Jan 2000 - Jan 2010

Commonwealth supply chain advisors
Jan 2010 - Feb 2013Sr. supply chain guruCommonwealth Supply Chain Advisors is a boutique consulting firm that provides objective guidance to companies that seek to improve their overall supply chain performance.My area of focus was WMS and Distributed Order Management implementation in large distribution centers and FTZ implementation/consulting. FTZ Guru

Cve technology group inc.
Feb 2013 - Mar 2022Sr. vice president and chief revenue officerCVE is the biggest cell phone repair company in the United States. We employee over 3000 employees and over 300 engineering and management jobs and bring them all to north Texas. Our total economic impact to North Texas is well over $500M per year with a minimum of 12 small businesses that supports this operation. In 2015 there were over 5000 employees supporting the CVE operations including several DFW small businesses.As Sr. Vice President of Business Development, I was responsible for growing the business from $23M per year to $385M per year. A 15X growth factor in just under 2 years. Show less

Nexus prime wireless
Apr 2019 - nowPresidentPresident to the Executive Management team at Nexus. Nexus is a Hispanic Owned Minority Business Enterprise specializing in integrated logistics services and cellular handset sales company. Nexus = e-commerce, Process, Physical Distribution, Logistics Consulting, Supply Chain Management, Warehousing and Customs Management Services. Handset sales channels are global wholesale, B2B and B2C e-commerce.
Licenses & Certifications

Cscp (certified supply chain professional)
ApicsMar 2010
Executive certificate in supply chain management and strategy
Mit sloan school of managementMay 2021
Lean six sigma master black belt
Asq - world headquartersJun 2007
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Ruben Alvarado, CSCPGeneral Manager of the Year Exel Logistics NAL Feb 2003 GM of the year 2002 for all NAL sites
- Awarded to Ruben Alvarado, CSCPGeneral Manager of the Year Exel Logistics NAL Mar 2002 GM of the year 2001 for all NAL sites
Languages
- spSpanish
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