David R. Medina has over 20 years of experience in engineering and operations management at companies like GE, Rockwell Automation, and Schneider Electric. He has led functions in production, operations, and supply chain, ensuring goals and metrics were met or exceeded. Medina holds certifications in Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, and ISO standards. His strengths include strong leadership, strategic thinking, execution, commitment, and passion. Key achievements involve improving inventory accuracy, on-time delivery, and reducing costs through initiatives in warehousing, production planning, material procurement, and shop floor operations. Medina is interested in production, manufacturing, or supply chain management positions.

1. DAVID R. MEDINA
I am a graduate with honors in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from ITESM Monterrey Campus, I
have over 20 years of experience in several worldwide companies such as GE, Rockwell Automation and
Schneider Electric. I had the opportunity to lead several functional areas, such production / operations
(Managing human, financial and capacity planning resources), Supply Chain (Strategic planning / Materials /
Inventory / Warehouse), always ensuring meeting or exceeding company goals and metrics. I am certified as
a Six Sigma Green Belt, Lean Manufacturing, Shingo Certifications and also have experience as auditor of ISO
9000 (quality), 14000 (Environmental Management) and 18000 (Safety OHSHAS). Experience in the use of
tools such as SAP ERP, AS400 and FTP.
Main Strengths
• STRONG LEADERSHIP- Apply interpersonal and HR management skills to lead & maintain team´s
proactive execution focus in a continuous improvement & defeat the status quo.
• STRATEGICAL THINKING- Use business expertise to set mission, vision and objectives to improve
my team´s execution.
• EXECUTION/PERSEVERANCE- Initiative/decisiveness to implement actions & sustain results
focused on business metrics.
• COMMITMENT.- Stay focused in the voice of the customer and apply persistence and tenacity
to meet their demands and principal needs
• PASSIONATE: Enthusiastic for value added activities and create excitement in others to share
goals.
Main Achievements
SUPPLY CHAIN AND MATERIAL PROCUREMENT.-
• Lead and improve warehouse practices, methods and disciplines to improve physical inventory
accuracy by 13% this represent a reduction of $2.3 MM USD (1.59% of Plant´s EOY Contribution
Margin %)
• Redesign and implement production control and master schedule procedures to improve
company production effectiveness, we improve from 90% to 98% our End Customer On-Time
delivery, and 85 to 95% Internal Schedule accomplishment. This represent a total reduction of
8.5% in Direct Labor cost over year to year.
• Successfully manage all Production and Material procurement implementation’s activities to
incorporate Engineering To Order environment to SAP MRP Database. Annual savings were
estimated in around $4.5 MM USD for the LVMCC Business.
• Obtain and sustain C-TPAT certification, eliminate shipping damage claims for oversea products.
PRODUCTION/SHOP FLOOR OPERATIONS.-
• Manage metal fabrication areas
o Reduce Head count 12%, Scrap Dollars 18%, Over time 25%, Safety Incident rate 60%,
Quality DPMUs from 125K to 45K.
o Improve Schedule commitment rate from 65% to 90% and Fronts’ area Customer promise
kept from 52% to 100%
o Production Startup of more than 20 different machinery as Presses, Spot welding, CNC
Punching and Laser/plasma machine and CNC Machining Centers, winders and testers
• Manage Assembly areas
o Reduce Total Labor cost 25%, Scrap Dollars 7.5%, over time 45%, Safety Incident rate 30%,
Quality DPMUs from 25K to 15K.
o Improve Schedule commitment rate from 87% to 93% and Kept Power Panel Customer
promise kept in 100% by 3 consecutive years.
o Production Startup of more than 2 Business Units and 3 Assembly lines ($12.5 and $35 MM
USD annual Sales). This included, Staff hiring, Lay out and Material flow design, equipment
and machinery certifications, Standard Work implementation, TPM, Internal Kanban and
supermarkets, Value Stream mapping, OEE standards, production level loading procedures
• Manage whole plan operations.- Lean manufacturing deployment, Lead more than 2 biweekly
Kaizen events, improve total product cycle time by 20%, implement and sustain OEE metric.
Highly interested in production, manufacturing or supply chain management positions