Joaquin Rodriguez

Experience

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  Sanmina

  Jun 1996 - Dec 1998

  Test Engineer, Test superintendent
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  Jabil

  Dec 1998 - Sept 2008

  Technology Transfer, NPI, SW developmet coordinator, Lead Test Engineer

  Telecommunication and industrial products Many years working as liaison, working with workcell (Customer Focus Team) to assure customer needs, transfer products, New Product Introduction, Development and evaluation of new test strategies, equipment improvement duplication, Local R&D coordinator, quote new products, forecast development and driver, decreasing costs per unit. Leader develop improvements, coaching team to reduce and control the defects, yield, false rejects, costs, cycle times. Quoting new products.Selected Contributions: Leader of pilots from San Jose California, USA. Coordinate 230+ launches new products of telecommunications Fill up the company and then lead the transfer to low cost sites. Strong customer relationship recognized. Consider as Team player with excellent results, Transferring products from other sites on USA, and Canada to Mexico, Brazil, China, Hungary.to Mexico, Failure analysis expert, vendor and or customer negotiation. RMA and scrap Selected Contributions: Champion to set up systematic actions. Documentation all activities and procedures . Show less

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  Flex

  Sept 2008 - Jan 2016

  Test expert Manager, Program Manager / Global Best Practices Leader

  Automotive / Aerospatiale / Industrial electronics manufacturing company. Main activities: as Project Manager. Actively interfaced with managers and senior management for improvements, best practices, quality, capacity, Test coverage and forecasts for automotive products. Driving development team to fix or prevent possible escapes having robust PFMA. Coach to use Lean tools and develop Kaizen. Selected Contributions: As tier one quality awareness Q1 received. With local develop team generate too many improvements, to keep <300 DPPM.. Working closed with Development team, and manufacturing engineer to have 6 sigma as standard. Setup the file to have the NRE of improvement or sometimes direct customer negotiation. Consolidate Guadalajara as worldwide site to automotive customers. Show less

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  LITE-ON

  Jan 2016 - Jun 2018

  Plant Manager

  Automotive electronics manufacturing company. Directly manage six managers overseeing 700+ employees. Main activities: as Operations Manager / Manufacturing Manager. Establish local operational policies and implement process improvements to ensure superior quality and outstanding output of electronic boards and sub-assembly parts. Expert to startup production lines, Design and implement coaching and training programs to develop staff, facilitate efficiency, and improve performance. Manage operational and capital expense budget. Ensure adherence to strict quality control procedures. Selected Contributions: Leader to release new products launch and new costumer, started production. PPAP, PSW, SOP, transfer more than 130 projects from China to Mexico; materials, equipment’s, process. Reduced labor cost in 14% while maintaining production levels ramp up through a redesign of operational processes and improved training and staff utilization. Direct involvement solving difficult problems. Responsible to drive staff goals and objectives.The main leader to rise the new Automotive company in Mexico. Main objectives are: to commit with the P&L, to get more business, to keep the quality, shipping on time. Show less

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  Jabil

  Jun 2018 - Nov 2019

  Program Manager Program Management Office

  . Industrial manufacturing electronic company. Main activities: as Workcell Manager (Program Manager) 12 SMT lines and 32 backend, Operations coordinator. Focus at Customer satisfaction, good management of New Product Launch and Sustaining with a 2 Customer Focus Team. Overseeing 800+ employees. Selected Contributions: Triplicate the SMT throughput with only 2 times SMT lines, NPL Track recognition getting more products to build. Made the account profitable, sales increase 3 times, with low headcount increase. Recover more than 70% of freight and obsolete material, stocked from long period of time. Automatization productions lines: work in the process, documents and assure functionality Show less

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  Flex

  Aug 2019 - now

  New Product Introduction Program Manager

  More than 7 year of PM expertise, with plant manager and test expert manager background.