Experience

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  GS1 Australia

  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Principal Consultant

    • Jan 2022 - Present
    • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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  Deakin University

  • Australia
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Associate Professor (Hon.)

    • Dec 2021 - Present

  • Senior Research Fellow

    • Mar 2017 - Dec 2021

    Senior Research Fellow dedicated to the area of Supply Chain Strategy at the Center for Supply Chain and Logistics at Deakin University, in Melbourne, Australia.Deakin University's Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL) is an academic research centre that seeks to answer pressing questions about the design and management of supply chain and logistics networks. By doing so, they can inform communities, government and the private sector on key issues that will enable them to make better decisions for their supply chains and logistics.

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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Research Affiliate (Supply Chain & Logistics)

    • Mar 2017 - Feb 2020

  • Research Associate (Supply Chain & Logistics)

    • Sep 2011 - Feb 2017

    Director, MIT Supply Chain Strategy LabDirector of Digital Learning, MIT CTLDirector, Supply Chain 2020 ProjectDirector, Graduate Certificate in Logistics & SCM (GCLOG)

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (Supply Chain & Logistics)

    • Jun 2010 - Sep 2011

    Based at the Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL). Advisor: Prof Yossi Sheffi. Member of the core research team for CTL’s Supply Chain 2020 Project. Focused on developing a better understanding of supply chain strategy, and proposing techniques for its assessment and reformulation. Member of the core research team for CTL's Future Freight Flows Project (2010-2011). Involved in developing scenarios and facilitating workshops to derive insights for the long-term logistics planning.

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  Garner Panama Services Corp.

  • Panama City, Panama

  • Operations and Logistics Manager

    • Jul 2005 - Jun 2006
    • Panama City, Panama

    Garner Panama was the Central-American branch of Garner Global, an emergency response company, based in Texas. Its services encompassed activities from training courses for first responders, to emergency response to oil spills and natural disasters. Managed our training projects in Panama. First one ($110K) was for the Panama Canal.

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  Canal de Panamá

  • Panama City, Panama

  • Multidisciplinary Engineer

    • Nov 2004 - Jul 2005
    • Panama City, Panama

    Performed general engineering tasks in the Dredging Division, in the fields of electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering. I participated in the project to replace all the GPS units of the Division’s barges, dredges and boats.

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  Carnes de Cocle, S.A.

  • Panama City, Panama

  • Operations and Logistics Deputy Manager

    • Aug 2004 - Nov 2004
    • Panama City, Panama

    Panama's largest meat processing company at the time. Worked in the reverse-logistics of the plastic bins used to move the meat products between plants, warehouses and final customers. Improve the accuracy of the bin accounting procedures by a factor of five.

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  Bahia Las Minas Corp.

  • Panama City, Panama

  • Contracts Manager

    • Aug 2000 - Jun 2003
    • Panama City, Panama

    Largest fuel-powered generation company in Central America. Calculated the revenues and profit from sales of energy and capacity in the spot and contract power markets in Panama, and prepared income forecasts. Prepared energy contract bids and determined daily spot prices for capacity auctions. While managing power contracts with annual revenue of $120 million, reduced the end-of-month revenue estimate error by a factor of ten, from 1% to 0.1%. I developed from scratch a new database for our Department.