1. Richard Gonzalez
Rosa SD1 V Hermoso
Hormigueros, Puerto Rico 00660
Phone Numbers: 787-519-0340
Email Address: richard.gonzalez2009@yahoo.com
Professional Summary
Experienced and results oriented LSS Green belt leader with a very successful and versatile career in the Electronics.
Held different positions in Supply Chain operations and Finance at Hewlett Packard and Honeywell which provided
exposure to project management, strategic thinking, product transfers, product life cycle, data mining l, SAP module
implementation, NPI, cost analysis, ISO 9000 & 14001, six sigma methodologies among others. At HP led various
product lines at a worldwide level and product transfers. Also supported the business by assuring products supply
through the regions. The breadth of this work was to strategically position our product portfolio in the market in order to
maximize the profits. During this tenure I did a business transfer, outbound characterization and system valuation
analysis of the products in order to manage our cost structure more effectively.
Experience:
2015 to Present- Strategic Development Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Puerto Rico. Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
Provide and maintain the AOS for the Software Business and the revenue recognition
• Supports Logistics on a cross functional projects.
• In charge of develop and document all inbound logistic process that do not exists
• Improve actual logistics processes by interviewing and walking into the process with the owner.
• Develop solutions and provide recommendations for the performance metrics of the organization
• Provide mentoring and guidance to junior individual contributors across my organization.
• Working on my LSS Black belt certification (To control and minimize the use of shipment upgrades in order to
reduce inbound cost.)
2010 to 2015- Business Operations Manager, Hewlett Packard Puerto Rico. Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
Provide and maintain the AOS for the Software Business and the revenue recognition
• Improve the Outbound cost per pound 15% by using lean six sigma tool and methodology. With this project I
was certified as a LSS Green Belt certification.
• Manage and coordinate a daily checkpoint along with Production, Shipping and Engineering department in
order to obtain status of open orders.
• Responsible for day to day operations as converge buyer at WW level for various BU in which I analyze the
daily days of supply and as planner locally for any backlog orders. Gathers demand data from country, region,
and account managers to contribute to demand planning.
• Analyze and manage excess inventory locally & at region ( APJ, EMEA AMS)
• Coordinate and run the monthly capacity plan meeting for all SW business. Prepare, organize and present all
SW info such as OTD, open orders, Actual vs budget status for SW PRMO Management.
• Coordinate and run the quarterly business review (QBR) for the HPSW WW management. Collaborates with
regional and global business unit planning teams to maintain and enhance current business processes.
• Lead, design and manage the process and transfer of one of the TS division program called USB NED Direct
Ship and from the HP Software division program called Eval Kit to the PRMO Site. My responsibility was but
not limits to the setup, design the process flow and coordinate with the manufacturing area the appropriate
schedule of the product base on the priorities. Document the Order management process.
• On a weekly and monthly basis a I do a Headcount capacity analysis in which I use the orders data in order to
determine the HC need for manufacturing.
• Part of the SAP migration project in which I assist in the testing of cases in order to model the end to end
activities.
• Responsible for supply chain processes, such as inventory analysis, order fulfillment, import/export operations
and shipping, for a regional or global business unit.
• Produces reports using IT systems and analyzes data to develop trends for supply and demand activities;
articulates findings to management.

2. • Reconcile and ensure that all revenue is recognized in the respective entity in order to declare the Tax Saving
2010 to 2010- Cost Accountant Analyst, Hewlett Packard Puerto Rico. Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
Provide and maintain the inventory balances by region for the repair operations business.
• Execute weekly and monthly inventory balances to present to local and regional management (Americas,
Europe / Middle East and Asia / Pacific).
• Track and maintain within the same region the purchases orders with the corresponding invoice. Provide follow
up against planning and accounts payable.
• Create and maintain the cost and batch steps for approximately five hundreds new part in the SAP accounting
system. Analyze all the intercompany transactions in order to determine if bill back of any returns is needed
and then reclassified the respective markup.
• Reconcile and provide visibility / follow up of all the scrap material.
• Coordinate with the fixed asset area any new acquisition for the production area and follow up in a monthly
basis any removal or change of the physical machinery and equipment. Prepare the monthly reconciliation for
various accounts.
2008 – 2009- Accounting Manager, Honeywell Puerto Rico. Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
Managed all elements of the revenue recognition for the intellectual property organization consists of four divisions
within the corporation (Aerospace, Automation Control System, Transportation System and Specialty Material).
• Managed staff of one accountant locally and indirectly two accountants located overseas.
• Reviewed and reconciled all the supporting documentation
• Documented the operating process in order to be in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.
• Prepared and reconciled pretax Income Statement information and send it out to customer (VP, Comptroller
Division, Accounting Managers, Supervisor, etc) in a weekly and monthly basis.
• Reviewed contract signed in order to determine if the revenue that will be recognized needs to be amortizing
over specify terms or recognized right away.
• In charge of monthly closing process which includes the following activities: Reconcile all the financial data and
prepare any journal entry, check that no outstanding invoice is in the Oracle AR subsystem and proceed to
close current period and open next period, signoff balance sheet and income statement, prepare state and
federal taxes.
• Maintained monthly calendar activity based on monthly closing date and priorities.
1998 – 2008- Senior Financial Analyst, Hewlett Packard Puerto Rico. Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
WW lead for a product family tasked with ensuring supplies availability around the world. Responsibilities included the
creation of monthly reports to the business leaders to analyze performance. These were prepared with the assistance
and indirect supervision of colleagues from Singapore, Ireland, USA and other areas of the supply chain. Analysis
included a review of the demand signal, plan of record, system capacity, and cost effectiveness among other important
aspects.
• Conducted product life cycle analysis by modeling the effect of price increase, obsolescence of mature
product, harvesting strategies, regionalization and portfolio review.
• Lead and coordinate the process of long (five years) and short term (one year) forecasting by using project
management tools. Significant part of the process was the dissemination of the budgets to management and
also the analysis of actual performance vs. budget by using forecast model in order to obtain the most
accurate result based on the actual running rates. Staffing, Machinery & Equipment budgets had to be first
justified to local management and after local approval then we had to justify them to division-level
management. I also conducted gap analysis of actual staffing vs. planned and recommended actions to
ensure the operation stayed within the committed plans.
• Preparing the budget (staffing, capital and spending budgets). Workforce Productivity and NPV analyses were
tools used to support the budget justification process. Along with the HR department and using strategic tools
and risk management I prepared the staffing plans for the production and support areas. These plans were
Richard Gonzalez, Rosa SD1 Valle Hermoso Hormigueros, Puerto Rico 00660
Phone Numbers: 787-519-0340

3. prepared taking into consideration several planning assumptions such as production volumes, production
lines staffing requirements, workforce profiles (engineers, technicians, etc.).
• Configured the accounting system for the start-up of new production lines at local site (Puerto Rico) and at
worldwide level (Setup account, department, areas, expenses report statements, etc).
• Analyzed and set up of cost accounting by doing standard product set up (direct material- bill of material,
direct labor, manufacturing overhead, etc) and explain actual vs. budget such as purchase price, material
usage, and scrap/obsolescence variances.
• In terms of achievements, I was able to reduced the budget consolidating time from more than eight to one
hour by creating an automated excel file linked to the presentation file and by using pareto tools we achieve to
be site benchmark in terms of cost.
1996 – 1998 Fixed Asset Coordinator, Hewlett Packard Puerto Rico. Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
In charge of the custodial of over $200M in land, building, machinery and equipment assets and also meet with area
manager with their capital needs. By reviewing the plan of record I organized meetings with area level manager in
order to create the capital purchases in a timely manner. Coordinated the annual physical fixed asset inventory and if
any asset were found missing I had to document the findings and send them out to responsible manager with a month
time frame to find the status of the assets. I was able to demonstrate that our fixed assets were in control therefore the
annual inventory was change to a monthly cycle process providing a saving of this event. Was able to maintain and
accuracy of 99.5% of assets found. Work on the migration of the Fixed Asset legacy system to SAP module. I
developed all the test cases need in order to have a flawless migration and with a $0 discrepancy results.
1993 - 1996, AP Payable Lead, Hewlett Packard Puerto Rico. Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
Leader of the accounts payable (trade and intercompany) team in which my main responsibilities were but not limited
to, auditing and signing off all the processing payment entries into the AP System of a group that consisted of four
employees, and also the preparation of monthly metrics to be presented to management. Assist in the AP legacy
migration into the SAP module implementation.
Education:
Interamerican University, San German, PR, Bachelors Degree, Accounting, 05/1990
Interamerican University, San German, PR, Masters Degree, Finance, 05/2004
Training & Skills:
Green Belt Training, PMP Fundamentals, Risk Assessment, Strategic Thinking, Problem Solver, Customer Oriented,
Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, etc), Oracle, SAP, Reporting Tools (Hyperion & Essbase), Team player,
Dependable, System Migration.
Extracurricular activities:
• Member of CNA (Concilio Nacional de Asesores)- Christian Group dedicated to teach and train people using
the evangelism tool to train people in order to share the good news as a life style.
• Enjoy having a work life balance in order to share time with my wife and children activities.
Richard Gonzalez, Rosa SD1 Valle Hermoso Hormigueros, Puerto Rico 00660
Phone Numbers: 787-519-0340