JP Aragon is a Lean TPM Consultant for J&A International, Inc.
- A Business Process Improvement Senior Professional Consultant
- Driven by excellence and is passionate for people.
- Oriented to optimize Profitability, Productivity and Customers Satisfaction by implementing “Lean Six Sigma” continuous improvement methodology.
- Results driven, strong believer of working with principles, values and a great attitude.
INDUSTRIES OF EXPERTISE
• Food & beverage, dairy, bakery, distribution, supply chain, procurement
• Oil & gas exploration, utilities, pharmaceutical, textiles & garments
• Agroindustrial, industrial machinery, mayor service centers, natural resources
• Transactional call centers, financial services, front & back office customer service
• Machining, Tooling, and Assembly, extrusion
KEY SKILLS
• Working with people with different academic levels and multi-cultural background
• Lead projects on a Multi-facilities operation
• Implement continuous improvement initiative on manufacturing and service processes combined
• Setting and achieving integrated and aligned goals to meet corporate, client and employees expectations
• Training and couching
• Strategy deployment thru different hierarchical levels
• Variable compensation based on real productivity
EDUCATION
- 2009 – present Doctorate in Business Administration UFM-SMI, Doctoral Thesis in VSM & OEE
- 2011 Lean Manager Coaching certification – Shell
- 2009 Certified ISO Consultant
- 2008 Master Black Belt Six Sigma Six US
- 2006 Master Black Belt & Champion Lean Six Sigma Sara Lee Corporation, Houston Texas
- 2005 MBA UNIS Guatemala – IPADE México
- 1997 International Trading Associate, Agexport, Guatemala, A.
- 1995 Business Administration, Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas
BUSINESS & PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS PROCESSES & SERVICES
• Lean Tools
• Kaizen – Continuous Improvement Projects
• Six Sigma Variation Analysis & Reduction
• Business Process Management
• OEE – Overall Equipment Effectiveness
• Process Analysis & Documentation
• Process Design & Re-engineering
• Business Process Intelligence
• Voice Of Customer
• Total Quality Management
• Total Productive Maintenance
• OIF – Operational Instruction Formats (SOP´s)
• PCA – Process Control Audits
• BSC – Balanced Scorecard
• DSS – Decision Support Systems
• EIS – Executive Information Systems
• MIS – Management Information Systems
• RAM – Risk Assessment Matrix
• BCP – Business Continuity Plan
• BP – Business Plans
• Training & Couching
2/2007- Present SENIOR CONSULTANT & DIRECTOR
Paragon Engineering www.paragonengineering.us
• Responsible of leading continuous improvement projects in more than 20 countries – America, Europe and Middle East.
• Senior Consultant for Financial, Manufacturing, Service Corporations, Non-profit and Government.
• Project assessment and evaluation of improvement opportunities.
• Present the estimations of financial impact to the Board of the Corporation or Institution.
• Design the action plan for executing the project.
• Design & Develop the curriculum for the associates.
• Develop Kaizen projects with multi-tasking teams creating a tremendous impact on associates culture and financial in the corporation.
• Coach manager on how to present the results and impact on each project.
• Follow up on further results from the projects developed to find new opportunities of improvement.
• Software development to support the projects execution.
12/2005 – 1/2007 DIRECTOR OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Sara Lee
Texas, Louisiana & Mississippi
1.2 Year of Lean Six Sigma certification program
• Responsible of the continuous improvement projects for the operation on the Gulf coast region.
• Produce a Turnover of $8.8 Million in the Corporation’s operation during the certification program.
• Project assessment & estimations, cost analysis & ROI impact presentations and validations.
• In charge of develop projects within the budget & impact results.
• Increase revenues 8% on the last two periods by reducing lead time on 20%.
• Review P&L reports with GM and Financial manager in order to align projects to maximize financial impact.
• Lead “lean manufacturing”& “continuous improvement” deployment.
• Optimize space utilization on warehousing by 30%.
• Reduce 18% of waste in the operation though leading Kaizen program & trainings. Reduce Down Time, Over-processing, Overproduction, optimize inventories and labor.
• Sustain an accident free operation for 4 periods; lead daily safety meeting in different facilities.
• Manage Quality control & Quality assurance, by standardizing work procedures in order to make a Mistake Proof Process.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis workshops.
• Determine a new set of key performance indicators.
• Increase productivity 13% by Daily review of OEE, scheduling & monitoring boards.
• Weekly analysis of financial & productivity reports.
• Inventory control, receiving, shipping, cross control and shortening management.
• Reduced downtime 18% trough Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance program (TPM).
2/1998-12/2005 DIRECTOR OF OPERATION FOR CENTRAL AMERICA & PANAMA
Ingersoll Rand (Bobcat), Yale, JCB, LinkBelt
Forklifts, industrial machinery & tractors
*Company was merged with another dealer
• Responsible for 6 Countries operation of Sales, Rent and Service of YALE industrial trucks, BOBCAT tractors, Carmix construction machinery, JCB and LinkBelt machinery.
• Develop the annual work plan increasing revenues and profitability to sustain healthy grow.
• Perform value stream mapping to increase productivity by relocating two service centers and reduce waste in transportation.
• Project estimating, negotiating and contract execution.
• Improve company’s Safety and productivity through 5 S plan and audits.
• Produce and develop sales and marketing plan of services and products in order to increase the amount of customers and its satisfaction.
• Supervise two government contracts (1) in Port Limon, Costa Rica and (2) Port Acajutla in El Salvador.
• Perform TPM on 900+ units on the rental department trough the region decreasing down time and increasing availability by 35%.
• Coordinate the exporting & importing of equipment machinery trough the 6 countries.
• Research additional products and services complementary to the core business operation.
• Supervise 6 district managers and 200+ people team work.
• Provide financial and operative monthly reports to General Manager.
• Provide service in Central America & Panama to clients like: Coca Cola, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Kellogg and others.
• Develop Continuous improvement training through “Kaizen program”: On Line training videos and material to go through different Levels and systems on forklifts.
• Create and implement a structured plan from Push to Pull parts supply.
• Organize seminars for the sales team to define strategies, present new models and discuss quarter period results.
• Up load on the company’s webpage, all the different attachments and applications to offer a wide variety of business solutions, as well as, monthly updates newspaper.
• Market research investigations with forklift operators, to establish key points on sales decisions making on every industry. Results were presented to tech and sales teams.
• Develop programs for the sales team where competitor’s brands forklifts were tested and evaluate comparing and analyzing our highs and lows; and how to react to it.
