Alejandro Cruz

Alejandro Cruz

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Plant Manager, Operations Manager, Plant Superintendent

  • Education

    • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

      2010 - 2012
      Master of Industrial Administration Business management
    • EGADE Business School del Tecnológico de Monterrey

      2022 - 2024
      Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration, Management and Operations

      INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCEEuropean School of Management and Technology Berlin, Germany Persuasion, Power, and Politics | March 2024

    • ESMT Berlin

      2024 -
      Persuasion, Power, and Politics
    • Instituto Politécnico Nacional

      2004 - 2009
      Ingeniero Químico Industrial Engineering
  • Experience

    • ESPIFEL - M.F. SISTRA

      Aug 2008 - Mar 2010
      Operations Leader

      Development of turnkey projects for water treatment systems, involvingnegotiations with clients to prepare the best proposal.

    • Praxair México

      Sept 2012 - Jul 2016

      Optimization of different types of processes such as Air Separation, Nitrogen, VPSAs, Hydrogen (SMR process) and CO2 Plants as well as the implementation of real-time automatic plant control technology MPC (Model Predictive Control) in Mexico. Collaboration on projects involving various Hydrogen, CO2, and ASU (Air SeparationUnit) plants.

      • Process Engineer

        May 2014 - Jul 2016
      • Training Engineer

        Sept 2012 - May 2014
    • Linde

      Jul 2016 - now

      Operations management of 15 Plants in the North LATAM region (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Colombia), including the production of different type of products, ensuring compliance with EHS plans, Corrective and Predictive Maintenance, Quality Control, Inventory, Distribution, and Operating Modes depending on demand of each facility. Development of a new Business Unit (Remote Operating Center) so as to operate all plants remotely and focused on process optimization, and new digitalization technologies implementation to improve all North LATAM Operations. Show less

      • Multi-site Plant Manager

        Jul 2020 - now
      • Plant Superintendent

        Jul 2016 - Jul 2020
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Market Concepts

      Bloomberg
      Nov 2023
    • Principles of Economics applied to Business

      EdX
      Oct 2022
    • Multicriteria Decision System

      UNAM
      Apr 2011
    • Corporate Finance

      UNAM
      Jan 2012
    • 3rd place - National Chemistry Olympiad

      Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, AMC
      Mar 2004
    • Introduction to Data Science and Basic Statistics for Business

      EdX
      Feb 2023
    • English certification

      Quick Learning
      Dec 2023
    • Environmental, Social and Governance

      Bloomberg Green
      Nov 2023
    • English certification

      HARMON HALL
      Feb 2008
    • English literacy program

      JEFFERSON COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC
      Jul 2012