Product Lifecycle Manager

• Feb 2023 - Present

Product Specialist

• Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

Responsible for the company's OEM and aftermarket automotive line. Responsible for - development of new products - feasibility analysis considering different scenarios (importing, producing locally) - maintaining inventory levels to avoid sales ruptures - managing products cost to ensure profitability - coordinating the launch of new products with the engineering / quality / sales / marketing / PR teams Responsible for the company's OEM and aftermarket automotive line. Responsible for - development of new products - feasibility analysis considering different scenarios (importing, producing locally) - maintaining inventory levels to avoid sales ruptures - managing products cost to ensure profitability - coordinating the launch of new products with the engineering / quality / sales / marketing / PR teams

Procurement Engineer

• Jun 2021 - Jan 2022

As a procurement engineer, I've been responsible for the company's electronic items, such as printed circuit boards, semiconductors, passives, batteries, crystals, with an annual spend of $20 mi.Responsible for the sourcing process of new products, following up commodity prices to start negotiations with suppliers and to plan and execute the annual plan to reduce PPV.Responsible for managing the company's products cost (CBOM) to ensure profitability.Responsible for seeking alternative components for items in shortage or end of life. Show less

Supplier Quality Engineer

• Oct 2017 - Jun 2021

Responsible for leading the resolution of quality complaints from the factory with suppliers - Containment actions, root cause analysis, corrective actions and effectiveness check.Lead the sourcing team on the implementation of new projects to meet customer’s deadlines and requirements.Lead supplier audits to solve low performance issues and for new business development - In loco audits and remote audits during the pandemic.Coordinated and executed the APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) for new parts development, such as displays, ultrasonic sensors and printed circuit boards.Approved and released to production over one hundred components using the core tools as a base to analyze the production process and to ensure product stability.Prepared, analyzed and reported monthly KPIs to drive improvement actions with the team. Show less

Quality Analyst

• Nov 2013 - Oct 2017

Responsible for monitoring the performance of materials being used on the assembly line, followed by technical analysis to implement actions to improve factory yield. Responsible for analyzing cosmetic and functional failures in the incoming quality inspection of displays, housings, finished good boxes, chargers and batteries, followed by preparing a report to the vendors for improvements. Spent 47 days in China to be trained to implement a new project at Jundiai’s factory. Created work instructions to guide the operators on how to inspect parts and the limits for cosmetic failures. Prepared weekly performance report for batteries, finished good boxes, housing, display and charger vendors. Responsible for the development of two internal projects: a tool used to track the performance of parts by date code on the production line, reducing the time taken to perform this kind of analysis and a tool to trace parts by date code in stock, allowing the usage of materials with better performance. Show less

Quality Analyst

• May 2013 - Nov 2013

Responsible for building plans to improve quality KPIs. Responsible for the root cause analyses of failures returned from the field (warranty), using various quality tools - QRQC, FTA, PDCA, FMEA, 5W2H. Responsible to monitor warranty costs and to implement actions to drive the cost down. Responsible to monitor the implementation of corrective actions on the assembly line and elaborating final 8D to customer.

Lab Intern

• Aug 2011 - May 2013

Responsible for reliability tests in starters and alternators. Responsible for elaborating reliability tests reports, written both in Portuguese and English. Responsible for the analysis of warranty returned parts - starters and alternators. Responsible to quote and purchase resources for the lab Responsible for the maintenance of test benches and to keep 5S in the sector.