Homero Acevedo, Continous Improvement Manager

Homero Acevedo

Continous Improvement Manager

KRAFT FOODS

Location
Venezuela
Education
Master's degree, Dairy Science and Technology
Experience
24 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 4 Months

Continous Improvement Manager at KRAFT FOODS
  • Venezuela
  • My current job since July 2006

Responsable for Managing the continous improvement process at all levels in the factory.
Follow up KPI's, process and cost reduction initiatives and projects to achieve a 5% reduction in cost at factory level.
Provide coaching to Manager and direct reports to stablkish improvement culture as part of daily opoerations in every day activities.
Establish with plant staff KPI targets for Budget planning.

Prodution Manager at Nestle-Fonterra Dairy Partners America
  • Venezuela
  • January 2005 to July 2006

Responsible for the manufacturing and packaging of cultured Dairy products as yogurts (stir, set and liquid), dairy spread and milk beverages.
Managing 15 direct reports an 143 trough direct reports.
Put in place process improvements to achieve 15% of increase in productivity with a reduction of 10% in overtime.
Improvement of GMP standards and member of HACCP team.

Production Chief at Nestle-Fonterra Dairy Partners America
  • Venezuela
  • November 2002 to December 2004

Execution of production schedule (3 million liters a month), managing 5 lines of production and 60 persons in the department.
Leader for improvements programs and Quality assurance projects.
Member of several new product development projects

Production supervisor at Fonterra subsidiary CADIPRO
  • Venezuela
  • January 2002 to November 2002

Supervising production teams by shifts, monitoring process parameter, achieve expected production as schedule, following GMP and sanitation procedures.
Member of the HACCP implantation team. Member of new lines installation project

Operation Trainee at Fonterra subsidiary CADIPRO
  • Venezuela
  • January 2000 to December 2001

Cost saving prograas.
Process improvement.

Education

Master's degree, Dairy Science and Technology
  • at Massey University
  • December 2001

Milk chemistry. Pasteurization and Sterilization. Milk powder processing. Milk Protein processing. Cheese Processing. Cultured product. Protein stability. Food micro biology. Product Development

Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering
  • at Universidad de Carabobo
  • May 1999

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Word
MS Project
Production
Science
UHT Processing
MS word, MS Excel, MS Power point
MS Project
Food processing
Aseptic Filling and TetraPak fillers
New Product Development

Languages

Spanish
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English
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