Jonathan Rivero: Founder/ Sales Manager in San Diego, CA

- Soler & Palau supplier for welding process on ventilation systems. - Started company with 3 employees maximizing initial capital. In 6 months had 7 employees due to expansion. - Develop and executed a business plan that allowed maximizing time and costs. Implemented Lean Manufacturing concepts to increased production and minimize costs and risks. - Develop and implement cadence of KPI metrics review, scheduling, WIP, and throughput monitoring boards, tools, and adjunct dynamics leading to enhanced awareness in state of affairs of people, production, and process. - Responsible for negotiating with suppliers and provided support to finance team, achieving a cost reduction of 15%. - Designed a salary bonus structure for employees incentivizing quality and throughput. - Lead the team to 45% increase in delivery of finish products, increasing customer satisfaction and profitability. - Awarded Soler & Palau best supplier with only 4% of rework. - Designed and lead tooling development per process improvement initiatives. - Budget plan center to improve revenue in 15% due to the small margin of certain ventilation models.

- Develop training & workshops for integrated teams that implemented Brand policies and culture. - Engaged clients for sales training and preparation, focus on quality and time efficiency to maximize success. - Establish work dynamics to include end of tribal knowledge through standard work, visuals, and escalation processes. - Create budget for annual audits plan. Budget optimized from 4m to 3.78m. success achieved by optimizing routes and travel expenses. - Trained teams on office 5S, Agile, and documenting practices per our quality management system requirements. - Facilitate, drive, and monitor Business Process Improvement events, Problem Solving huddles, kaizen events. - Managed project development for new software implementation aimed at better inventory control.

- Responsible of sales department, brand awareness and marketing for Puma, CAT, Lego, Luminox and nine 2 five watches. - Developed sales team through training on the market, sales strategies and brand specifics. - Implemented KPI metrics, for inventory, sales, purchase, logistics, imports and exports departments. - Developed relationships with clients over South America, Central America, Mexico and USA. Such as Costco, k-mart and Sears. - Lead participation of trade shows, Magic Las Vegas Trade Show, JIS Jewelers International Show. - Developed and provided Management with monthly reports on sales, marketing, shipments status, and training requirements. - Created marketing plan that increased sales during high season in over 1 million. "Marketing strategy combo" brand training, GWP and sales incentives to the sales reps. - Created from 0 to over 3M in revenue in a year for Latin America Market. Most consecutive monthly goal reached (8 Months).

- Responsible for VISA Account in Miami, tracking TV ads of Latin America. Quantitative studies. - Leading responsible teams for taking samples in each country. Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Bolivia and Peru. - Made sure each team was on schedule with lifting samples and monitored data for accuracy and reliability. - Analyzed and interpreted the results to the client. - Implemented solutions to make ads better and more effective. - International account and the most profitable to the company, over 20M in revenue. - Developed clients in the pharmacy and beverages industry such as PepsiCo and Abbot.

- Marketing agency focused in the pharmaceutical industry. - Lead the team with sales and opened 2 large accounts in the OTC business area. - Responsible for the biggest accounts in the company, Novartis oncology (Sandostatina and Glivec). - Multidisciplinary Leader. MD's and graphic designers/programmers. - Opened an account with Armstrong laboratory. Dioxaflex. - Program and lead training to sales force.