Henry Lugo has over 10 years of experience in project management, procurement, and operations leadership. He currently works as the Team Leader for the Brand Business Operations at Nature's Products Inc, where he has improved inventory turnover, assisted with market expansion plans, and streamlined packaging and pricing strategies. Previously, he held operations management roles at transportation and construction companies, implementing process improvements that increased sales, reduced costs and receivables, and ensured projects were completed on time and on budget. Lugo has an MS in Engineering Management and is proficient in various business systems, engineering disciplines, and both English and Spanish.

1. Henry Lugo, MsEM
Phone #: (786) 237 4941 - Email: henrylugoe@gmail.com - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/henryjlugo
PROJECT MANAGER / CIVIL ENGINEER
Accomplished, performance driven professional with 10 years of experience in all disciplines of project
management, procurement, and sourcing. Proven track record of successful projects, having lead the
processes of planning, structuring, and execution in system implementations, new product line
development, and financial planning. Constantly focus on improving processes to streamline operations
and enhance revenue performance with customer satisfaction in mind.
PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
Feb 2013 – Current - Brand Business Operations Team Leader – Nature’s Products Inc – Sunrise, Fl
Nature's Products Inc. has been a leading manufacturer of vitamins and supplements for more than two
decades - and continues to stay on the forefront of this dynamic industry. Founded more than 30 years
ago, NPI has grown from the first manufacturer of softgels in South America to a U.S.-based network of
companies that produces a variety of modalities including solid dose, softgels, gummies and powders.
NPI’s brands include, Rainbow Light, Iceland Health, Champion Nutrition, Blessed Herbs and VitalStyle.
• Forecasted the inventory requirements in coordination with the sales and planning department to
increase inventory turnover form 3.2 to 4.3 times, guarantying an increment of sales by 20% in 2015.
• Assisted upper management in the analysis of new markets opportunities at Puerto Rico and Dominican
Republic. Helped identifying potential benefits, present risk, technical, legal and logistics’ requirement in
order to create an effective go to market strategy to be implemented the last quarter of 2016.
• Designed, managed and maintained a master plan consisted in more than 10 sub-projects in areas of
marketing, IT, sales, customer training and product development that helped Identify the critical tasks
and overused resources helping launch the MLM model of business on time and in budget.
• Developed and implemented a training program for customer service representatives to learned the
necessary functions of the e-commerce platform in order to be effective at their positions.
• Managed the configuration, setup and maintenances of the ecommerce platform for both customer
personal virtual office and corporate site. (Xennsoft). Included prices, item setups and documentation.
• Developed and managed the commission calculation and payment distribution for our sales force.
• Supervised the customer service department. Monitoring calls and mentoring the call center agents in
techniques on how to upsell our product and resolution of shipping and products claims.
• Managed inventory expiration status and developed an expiration extension plan that resulted in the
savings of $50,000 in inventory that was expired or short dated.
• Reported on a weekly basis the status of sales, operations and inventory KPI to the President of the
brand and Contributed on the elaboration of strategies to improve them.
• Streamlined packaging SOP, standardizing the boxes used to package the customers orders using the
new dim-weigth standard of pricing from FedEx and UPS that resulted in a 15% savings on shipping cost.
• Analyzed the cost of structure of the finished good portfolio and developed a pricing strategy that
maintained an Avg. of 68% profit margin on the sales of 2015.
July 2010 – Jan 2013 – Operations Manager – Calidad Total Corp – Doral, Fl
Transportation company with more than 10 years of experience giving solutions in the shipment of
palletized merchandize in a same day service between businesses in the south Florida area. Family owned
• Implemented QuickBooks as the accounting system of the company, giving the necessary tool to upper
management to analyze in real time the financial statement as well and the overall situation.
• Designed a new pricing structured that increased sales in 10% on 2012.
• Managed the interview and hiring process for the drivers and coordinated all TSA certifications.
• Modernized the invoiced process that resulted in a reduction of 80% time invested for this process.
• Responsible for the account receivables department. Accomplished a reduction of a 30% of the total
account receivables and of 5 days of the average paying time.
• Formulated a business plan that supported the negotiations with our bank that resulted in a line of credit
for $100,000 that improved the company’s cash flow situation.
• Managed all federal and state’s taxes filings, including forms 941, 940, UCT 6, W2 and 1099.

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Sept 2005 – Jan 2010. Project Manager - Incisan-Otipsa Instalaciones, C.A. Venezuela
A leader company dedicated to the construction of civil and electromechanical projects, with more
than 50 years of experience in the market. With experience in multimillion-dollar projects for industries of
Food processing, pharmaceutical, hotel business and public sector.
• Responsible for the P&L and the cash flow of the projects. Reported on a monthly basis the status and
variations to the director of operations, and in conjunction determined plans to improve them.
• Responsible for in site inventory control of goods with the value of $150,000.
• Coordinated the necessary equipment either form the company’s inventory or form a rental service
provider in order to assure the resources to accomplished the objectives as plan.
• Maintained proper documentations of all construction related activities as per specifications of ISO
9001:2000 that ensured a result of complaint in all of the internal and independent audits.
• Conducted weekly facility inspections with the customers to inspect that the activities were conducted
as specified in company’s SOP and customer’s specification achieving a 95% satisfaction rate.
• Forecasted optimal levels for inventory items to ensure project completion on time with minimal cash
flow impact and taking in consideration the profitability of the project.
• Coordinated subcontract with concrete companies, for specialized task to by quoted, performed and
paid with the specifications on the project to assure customer satisfaction
• Supervised the measurements activities for the valuation and invoicing process.
• Directed initial discovery meetings with customers to understand their requirements.
• Managed the quoting, scheduling, authorization and invoicing of additional work needed as per
customer request, evaluation the impact on the overall timeline of the original project.
EDUCATION
2012 – 2014 Florida International University (FIU) - Graduate School
Master of Science (M.S.), Engineering Management.
• Superior Enterprise Operations Competition Award.
• SAP Student Recognition Award.
2007-2008 Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Ingeniería (IESI) – Graduate School
Gerencia en la industria del la construcción.
2000-2005 Universidad Nacional Experimental de la Fuerza Armada (UNEFA)-Undergraduate School
BS, Civil Engineering.
SKILLS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Proficient in the SAP, Microsoft Offices, Microsoft Project, Constant Contact, Salesforce, Vortex, Jira
ticketing system, etc.
• Experience in developing products in an environment employing, six sigma, lean manufacturing, GMP,
ISO9001, FDA and OSHA regulations.
• Knowledgeable in mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering principles
• Proficiency speaking, reading and writing in technical and business environments on English and
Spanish
• Completed the NPI university “Performance Management training program”