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Crossing the path to Data Science

Technical Skills: R, Quarto, Amazon Web Services, Vehicle Routing Problem, Power BI, Excel, Maintenance Scheduling, Data Analysis, Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Machine Learning, Shopify Web Design.

Education

  • AWS Cloud Solutions Architect (December 2024)

  • Data Science: Foundations using R Specialization (April 2022)

  • Logistics, Specialist | Universidad del Valle (September 2019)

  • Industrial Engineer, B.S. | Universidad Icesi (February 2015)

Work Experience

Maintenance Planner @ Grupo Integrado de Transporte Masivo S.A. (_Jul 2024 - Sep 2024)

- Propose to the Maintenance Department improvement, recovery, and maintenance projects for the fleet, with technical information by component and system of the buses. - Plan maintenance for the fleet according to the established wear strategy, operational standards, considering the criticality of equipment, fleet age, and manufacturer manuals. - Generate monthly and annual budget information for the Maintenance area based on the maintenance plan and kilometer execution within the information system. - Plan resources required for the maintenance plan for the fleet (spare parts, labor, tools, vehicle availability, and pending activities) based on the approved monthly and annual budget. - Manage maintenance indicators (maintainability, reliability, fuel efficiency, fleet condition index, and maintenance cost per kilometer). - Ensure that daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports are prepared and delivered to the Maintenance Department and General Management. - Adjust the maintenance plan according to the fleet’s state and age. - Manage compliance with contractual commitments with Metro Cali S.A. and other entities. - Configure, administer, and manage the maintenance software used by the company. - Verify and control information from the support platforms for the Maintenance area. - Verify and evaluate daily the information provided by the lubrication and fuel engineer on the fleet’s mileage and consumption, and the results of oil sample analyses, adjusting the maintenance system’s parametrization. - Track and control information on non-compliances reported by Metro Cali S.A. vs. fines and maintenance indicators. - Track and control the response to PQRS and OTRS by Metro Cali, which are related to the Maintenance area.

Maintenance Controller @ Grupo Integrado de Transporte Masivo S.A. (_Jan 2024 - Jul 2024)

- Develop, control, and track the annual maintenance budget, performing monthly reconciliations with the finance and procurement areas. - Model maintenance costs over the life of the fleet and the concession contract with the Managing Entity. - Support the procurement process in evaluating, selecting, and developing suppliers. - Make projections of critical and sensitive spare part consumption to ensure fleet availability. - Conduct failure analysis, lead strategic planning meetings to design action plans for fleet intervention focused on reliability and contractual compliance. - Control and track the mileage and energy and fuel consumption of the fleet. - Generate annual, semi-annual, and monthly maintenance schedules for the fleet. - Control costs and track all activities in the maintenance process. - Track and control information on non-compliances reported by Metro Cali S.A vs. fines and maintenance indicators.

Maintenance Manager @ Grupo Integrado de Transporte Masivo S.A. (_August 2022 - Jan 2024)

- Ensure compliance with the clauses of the current concession contract and its respective others that correspond to the Maintenance area for the provision of the public mass passenger transportation service within the integrated mass transportation system of Santiago de Cali of the Managing Entity. - Implement, standardize and improve the management of your process in order to guarantee compliance with the company’s objectives and the Integrated Management System. - Guarantee compliance with contractual commitments with the Managing Entity, guaranteeing the availability and reliability of the fleet as well as its preventive maintenance. - Develop strategies to increase the productivity levels of the process taking into account the associated resources available by the organization. - Coordinate and provide the necessary resources for the management carried out by the maintenance area collaborators. - Guarantee compliance with commitments with the integrated management system defined by the organization and establish improvement plans when necessary. - Develop knowledge management projects within the maintenance area through process automation and productivity improvement, as well as identify training and qualification needs of the collaborators in charge. - Synergistically ensure with the Operations Department the availability and reliability of the fleet. - Establish and supervise the execution of service agreements agreed upon with suppliers associated with the maintenance area, evaluating and reevaluating the management developed by them. - Plan the implementation, creation and development of projects, plans, activities and/or acquisition of new suppliers that aim to improve the Maintenance process.

Leader of operational services plan and data analysis @ Grupo Integrado de Transporte Masivo S.A. (_February 2019 - July 2022)

- Plan, propose and implement process improvement projects through the use of descriptive and inferential statistics. - Apply engineering techniques to achieve cost reduction in production management through resource optimization. - Analyze and evaluate the profitability of resources dedicated to production for decision making. - Presentation of reports, analysis and statistics on a regular basis. - Actively participate in the planning and programming of the distribution of kilometers. - Pose and establish process optimization models through the statistical analysis of distribution and programming data. - Schedule route trips in accordance with the designed offer defined in the Operation Services Plan. - Adjust opening and closing trips that guarantee service coverage to the user up to the times defined in the designed offer. - Determine necessary fleet by type of vehicle according to the designed service offer. - Prepare information to export data to the control center, vehicles and dispatches with part of the fleet operation support system. - Generate preliminary reports, input for optimizing operator shifts.

Production Engineer @ Grupo Integrado de Transporte Masivo S.A. (_March 2015 - February 2019)

- Planning, control and administration of the vehicle fleet. - Programming of yard operators for different activities related to the production area. - Responsible for supervising and controlling operators and technicians, track inspectors and operation controllers. - Coordinate and evaluate operation processes in other yards. Analyze causes of non-compliance with company objectives. - Monitoring and control of corrective and preventive maintenance times.

Projects

Development and implementation of a methodology for detecting atypical trips through the use of control charts for transportation times in the city of Cali.

Creation and administration of a linear programming model in R language to optimize the distribution of kilometers in service, guaranteeing the expected income and minimizing the cost per empty kilometers and the number of operator-hours.

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