Valeria (Ivonne) Uribe

Founder

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

Experience

Jun 2024 - Present
1 year 8 months

Founder

Leanstica LLC

  • Deploy automation systems improving task mining efficiency by 50%.
  • Program Docker, Ollama, and Python to fine-tune AI models for medical health applications.
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
2 months
Miami, United States

Agile Project Manager

Devellp

  • Execute Jira project initiation A/B testing through implementation for a start-up company.
  • Orchestrate bi-weekly sprint planning meetings and daily stand-ups, ensuring project alignment and progress.
Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 10 months

Business Excellence Manager

Flex

  • Lead cross-functional teams, optimize manufacturing processes, and adapt automation solutions to drive operational efficiency for both existing and new customers.
  • Focus on improving cost, quality, and performance to achieve measurable business outcomes.
  • Direct Six Sigma Black Belt projects, resulting in a $3M annual savings by identifying and eliminating the root cause of quality defects.
  • Use process intelligence tools (Tableau) to reduce preventative maintenance downtime by 15%.
  • Install and assess automation robot functionality, illustrating an increase of 20 units/hour in throughput.
  • Facilitate 15+ Kaizen workshops, stimulating employee engagement by 30% and aligning objectives across business units.
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
2 years 1 month
Austin, United States

Founder

Mil Leches LLC

  • Scale business from in-house baking to supplying local restaurants and markets while operating as a full-time engineer.
  • Establish product design, supply chain, and logistics, boosting customer engagement by 15% through targeted sales strategies.
Apr 2018 - Apr 2022
4 years 1 month

Facilities Engineer Project Manager

Flex

  • Navigate project lifecycle from scope definition to execution, overseeing schedules and budgets for complex business development initiatives.
  • Create detailed technical drawings for 1.3M sqft manufacturing space using AutoCAD and Visio.
  • Engineer a supply chain forecast model, presenting to C-Suite $2M savings over a 4-year period.
  • Achieve a 10/10 score on Global Business Services for project status updates, projecting $13M in cost savings through optimized processes.
  • Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for a $24B product innovation contract, enhancing client relationships by 20%.
  • Automate onboarding processes, resulting in a 65% reduction in manual labor through data entry and analysis systems.
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
1 year 10 months
San Antonio, United States

TPS / Production Engineer

Toyoda Gosei Texas

  • Develop and refine manufacturing processes aligned with Toyota Production System (TPS) principles.
  • Train in Japan, gaining hands-on experience with innovative manufacturing techniques.
  • Repurpose 8K sqft of production space, increasing manpower efficiency and automating production lines, netting $2.8M in cost savings.
  • Balance WIP stock inventory by 25% through process refinement and bottleneck identification.
  • Conceptualize a vision system mechanism, correcting defects by 60% and improving product quality.
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
7 months
Houston, United States

Marketing and Operations Intern

Arkem Chemicals Inc

  • Streamline logistics and shipping documentation processes, ensuring compliance and efficiency for international shipments.

Summary

Curious and analytical with history of scaling, improving, and optimizing solutions and systems within operations environments.

Results-driven leader with over 8 years of experience in process management, process optimization, and continuous improvement. Proven ability to simplify, standardize, and automate solutions through systems mapping, design thinking, and process intelligence; thereby, increasing productivity, quality, and profitability. Adept at shaping Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Toyota Production System (TPS) methodologies.

Skills

  • Smartsheet

  • Asana

  • Jira

  • Trello

  • Ms Project

  • Autocad

  • Visio

  • Solidworks

  • Flexsim

  • Minitab

  • Python

  • Tableau

  • Github

  • Air Table

  • Adobe Suit

  • Miro

  • Xmind

  • Celonis

  • Process Development

  • Six Sigma Black Belt

  • People Management

  • Lean Manufacturing

  • Continuous Improvement

  • Robotics & Automation

  • Project Management

  • Stakeholder Management

  • Business Transformation

Languages

English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
German
Elementary

Education

Aug 2012 - May 2016

Texas A&M University

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, Minor in Mathematics · Industrial Engineering · College Station, United States

Certifications & licenses

6-Sigma Black Belt

Texas Tech University

Celonis Process Mining Fundamentals

Celonis

Design Thinking

IBM

Fundamentals Of User Research

Google

Hispanic Leadership Accelerator

McKinsey & Company

IIE Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

IIE

Industrial Engineering Business Process Standardization

Flex

Make Automation Process Flow

Make

Project Management

Harvard Business

Python For Data Science

IBM

Toyota Production System

Toyoda Gosei, Japan

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