Carlos Payan

Bilingual: English/Spanish, degreed Industrial Electrical Engineer, with solid background in automotive manufacturing environment with molded, machined and stamped components. Proven experience on launching molding lines and tooling and manufacturing engineers supervision. Strong product development and ERP/MRP systems background. 

Jun 2022 – Current
Inventec Technologies / Project Manager
• Plan and develop product lines transfer to the new campus • Create and lead cross-functional teams • Monitor project progress and set deadlines • Solve issues that arise • Ensure stakeholders satisfaction •Evaluate project performance • Serve as main customer contact for project development and performance • Oversee Project Team and external contributors.

September 2017 – May 2022
East West Manufacturing / Program Manager
• Overseeing and management of the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serving as liaison between customers and management, including all key support departments • Review project status with team members (4 main projects and over 50 NPIs) • Planning and management of projects meeting time and financial guidelines • Address quality control standards and testing needs to ensure customer requirements • Respond to Customer quality concerns and possible quality issues including determining potential failure modes •Ensures that documentation is obtained for customer approvals including testing requirements • Serve as main customer contact for all products development and NPI projects • Oversee NPI Team • Lead all customer new product quote activity.

August 2014 – September 2017
Electrolux ACSA / New Projects & Process Development Leader
• Formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected projects • Decide on suitable strategies and objectives • Coordinate cross-project activities • Lead and evaluate managers and other staff • Develop and control deadlines, budgets and activities • Apply change, risk and resource management • Assume responsibility for the program’s people and vendors • Assess program performance and aim to maximize ROI • New Molding area launched in only 5 months • 5 major launches in 2 years • Ensure the delivery of new products or services from projects is to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget• New cleaning and degreasing processes implemented for electrostatic paint area without production disruption.

January 2011 – August 2014
Valeo Wiper Systems / Program Manager
• Clarify implications of the project for the Company: means required, risks, chance for success and benefits • Manage the project team to deliver a competitive offer on time • Adapt daily meeting agenda to challenge progress on understanding of customer requirements, design and preparation • Manage and control all risks associated with a project to ensure its success (5 GM programs and 1 FORD program launched) • Create awareness of project risks in the project team and among contributors • Define technical and organizational requirements in order to take decision for authorizing concept/processes answer to customers RFQ

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Industrial Electrical Engineering 1995

Instituto Tecnologico de Chihuahua

-5 S-PPAP- MISTAKE PROOFING -PFMEA -GLOBAL 8D PROBLEM SOLVING - PROJECT MANAGEMENT -DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS (DOE) –ALIGNING THE 5 DUCKS IN A TEAM WORK ENVIRONMENT - MEASUREMENT SYSTEM ANALYSIS -REDUCING EQUIPMENTS SET UP TIME /SMET -FINACE FOR NON FINANCIAL DECISION MAKERS -TRANSFORMATION SPC -PROCESS MAPPING – PROCESS CONTROL PLAN - MANAGING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS -FIXTURES DESIGN -PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS – ISO/TS 16949 -ISO/TS16949 - M/PCpS METHODOLOGY (THE ORIGINAL METHODOLOGY TO ACHIEVE AND SUSTAIN SIX SIGMA) – CONDUCTING EFFECTIVE MEETINGS - APPLIED STATISTICS (ITESM) – LEADING CHANGE- GREEN BELT