Arturo Rivas

Experience

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  Department of Defense

  Jan 1991 - Feb 1997

  Logistics and procurement officer

  During my years in the Department of Defense I worked with commissioned and non commissioned officers in many assignments. My strongest experience is purchasing the different needs, like vehicles parts, medical and non medical durables for clinics, office supplies, etc.

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  DHL

  Nov 1999 - Nov 2004

  Operations Manager

  I had 2 positions during my time at DHL, first I was the distribution manager for 1 year and the rest I was the operations manager of the country. While in my position I had the responsibility of making sure of the growth of the department. During my years in DHL, with a work team, we manage to grow from 10 people to nearly 90.

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  Soluciones Logisticas y Transporte

  Jun 2005 - now

  Business Consultant

  Follow up of the ongoing accounts, negotiations for new accounts, elaboration of contracts and standard operating procedures.Planning:Possible new incoming clients.Needs for those incoming clients.Preparing the budget.IT needs for ongoing operations.QA:SOP´sSelf-improvement programs Developing: New strategies to maintain the quality indicators.Cost reduction programs.Security plans for the operations Manager

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  Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

  Dec 2020 - now

  Logistics Consultant

  Advise the Director of Latin America Director on transportation and logistics issues. To achieve this, I need to design a transportation system in each country we visit.Among the typical tasks is the coordination with the authorities, understanding of the transport culture, type of collective mobility,review of city routes, securityexisting in the work areas, contracting of transport to be used, etc.