Résumé
Passionate about lean six sigma and transformation projects, with a strong focus on enabling growth, strategic thinking, process development, and leading multicultural teams.With more than 20 years experience in the industry, and having managed operations across the globe, I am currently committed to the operational strategy driving significant growth in the data center market, supporting the goal of achieving $1 billion in growth by 2030.
Expériences professionnelles
Operations director, climate solutions europe
CARRIER
Depuis le 02 avril 2025
Climate Solutions Europe Applied (Commercial HVAC) business, $1.4B revenue, 1400 employees.
Mission: development and implementation of Operations strategy to support $1B growth until 2030 based on Data Centers opportunity with strong focus on resilience and productivity.
Successes: 20% of growth target achieved in first year, PMO for DC, dual sourcing for suppliers and factories, flexible working shifts, and productivity based on growth of best-cost factory, stabilization and simplification of lead factory, digitalization & AI, and materials price negotiation.
Project programs portfolio management, refrigeration
CARRIER
De Décembre 2023 à Mars 2025
Mission: achievement of strategic alignment between regional market requirements and business growth plans through the creation and management of a global portfolio of programs to develop new solutions for the division of Refrigeration, ensuring platforming, cost reduction, and capacity/demand balance.
Successes: concept developed and pilot project successfully implemented.
Operations director, refrigeration
CARRIER
De Juillet 2020 à Novembre 2023
International Truck&Trailer and Commercial Refrigeration business units, $2.4B revenue, 1800 employees.
Interim VP Operations for full Refrigeration division from Jul, 23 to Nov, 23.
Mission: enable business growth through capacity increase in China and the electrification of cooling units. Generate productivity by creating a single Operations strategy for the Business.
Successes: 61% production growth in China, 7% sales growth through industrialization of new range of electric products (electrification transition), and 30% of European production transferred from France to green field in Czech Republic. Deliveries remained uninterrupted during COVID-19 and Supply Chain crisis. Implementation of SIOP process, and digitalization of logistics as key support tools.
Operations director battery plants transportation
Exide Technologies, LLC
De Juin 2017 à Juin 2020
Battery plants Transportation, 4 factories, 1300 employees, 15 Mio batteries per year, and 600 Mio EUR budget (125 Mio without material).
Mission: Implementation of automotive change management mindset throughout the organization (battery from commodity to critical safety device) to enable business growth with the AGM technology.
Successes: 65% reduction of ppms (quality), AGM capacity increased (30%), 1,3% productivity increase (even when AGM technology uses 20% more working time), Italian factory released from Daimler’s improvement program.
Plant manager
Exide Technologies
De Janvier 2014 à Juin 2017
Battery plant motive, network, and defense, 800 employees, 1,8 Mio batteries per year, and 150 Mio EUR budget (50 Mio without material).
Mission: improve general performance of the factory.
Successes: implementation of a continuous improvement culture, removal of main factory bottleneck (40% higher output of positive plates) through material flow improvement and retrofit of machinery, social relationship with work council rebuilt, and renewal of key leadership team members.
Head of minifactory
BOSCH
De Octobre 2012 à Décembre 2013
Minifactory for new generation products, Braking Systems.
Mission: stabilization of quality and deliveries. Sustainable development of local management team.
Successes: factory released from Maruti Suzuki’s improvement program (main customer). Local management team developed, out of which a new local plant manager was also selected.
Head of plant engineering department
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
De Janvier 2010 à Septembre 2012
Manufacturing Engineering and Centre of Competence for Drum Brake, Braking Systems.
Mission: stabilization of quality and deliveries. Develop the factory from technical point of view to execute the project Drum Consolidation (transfer of products and machinery from multiple factories to double the volume in Portugal).
Successes: factory released from PSA’s improvement program, production concentrated in Portugal.
Head of maintenance
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
De Janvier 2008 à Décembre 2009
Robert Bosch Sistemas de Frenado, S.L.U.
Process engineering teamleader
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
De Juin 2006 à Décembre 2007
Robert Bosch Sistemas de Frenado, S.L.U.
Trainee program
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
De Juillet 2004 à Mai 2006
Robert Bosch España Financiación y Servicios, S.L.
Trainee program with projects at:
- Pamplona Plant
- Lliçà d'Amunt Plant
- Madrid Plant
- Abstatt R&D center
Researcher and junior consultant
Cranfield University
De Octobre 2003 à Juin 2004
Research in the environment of Knoledge Management.
Consulting for Vaillant Hepworth Group.
Diplomarbeit
AIRBUS
De Janvier 2002 à Décembre 2003
Development of a Knowledge Base Engineering tool in Catia v5
Grant holder
ETS Ingenieros Industriales UPM
De Juin 2001 à Août 2002
Evaluation of the Knowledge Based Engineering tools of CATIA v5
Praktikant
dvg Hannover Datenverarbeitungsgesellschaft mbH
De Juillet 1999 à Août 1999
Today FinanzIT GmbH