Salvador G.

Experience 2007–2008 Independent Consultant Honduras Managerial Strategy and Projects Administration Advisor 2005–2007 SNV Netherlands Development Organization Honduras Managerial Strategy and Projects Administration Advisor 1999–2005 Independent Professional Honduras College Professor, Consultant, and Trainer. • Taught Advanced Management, Business Planning, and Entrepreneurship at the Technological University of Honduras. • Taught Advertising and Advertising Design at the Catholic University of Honduras. • Trained business people on Statistical Tools for Quality working as a trainer for the National Foundation for the Honduran Development. • Designed and implemented a Personnel Evaluation System for the Comal Network Foundation. • Elaborated the Business Plans for the small businesses of the San Juan Bosco Center Foundation. • Manager of the Northern Region of Sales concerning Scales and Technical Services for Scales working for A. S. Daetz and Sucesores company. 1996–1999 Chiquita Brands Intl. La Lima, Honduras. Regional Manager of Statistical Process Control • Reduced the failure rate by 80% at the packing plants implementing statistical tools for continuous process improvement. • Improved the quality and productivity of the farm practices implementing Statistical Process Control training the field workers. • Improved the quality and productivity measurements of the Air Spray operations at the Costa Rican Division. • Introduced the executives of the Latin-American air spray operations to the fundamentals of Statistical Process Control in Bocas del Toro, Panama. 1993–1996 “La Blanquita.” Edible Oils Factory. Dole. La Ceiba, Honduras Production Manager • Manager the industrial plant for productivity and quality improvement with the consequent competitiveness improvement of the overall business. • Negotiated business relationships between the Plant and external actors like the Electric National Company where favorable conditions to improve the factory’s position were achieved. • Improved business logistics and coordination among the Marketing, Sales, and Production Departments solving problems of quality, availability, and costs that the company had. • 1983–1989 Dole Food Company La Ceiba, Honduras Senior Industrial Engineer Advised the company nationwide concerning productivity and quality improvement, Industrial Relationships, and Project Evaluations. • Evaluated projects for both the Capital and the Operational annual budgets. 1981–1983 Dole Food Company Coyoles. Honduras Zone Comptroller Managed both the Capital and Operational Budgets for a production zone with three thousand two hundred hectares of a banana plantation. The Education University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA Marketing Graduate Studies Technology Institute of Monterrey Mexico Master in Business Administration National Polytechnic Institute Mexico, Mexico Industrial Engineering