DAN RATA EXPERIENCE Program Manager, Flextronics Romania Apr onwards

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1 DAN RATA EXPERIENCE Program Manager, Flextronics Romania Apr onwards Manager of the CFT (Customer Focus Team), a multidisciplinary project team that handles all operational aspects of a product portfolio consisting of RRHs (remote radio heads) and TRDUs (transmitter receiver duplexer units) with yearly sales in range of $50M manufactured for the Industry Group Leader for Telecommunications Hardware and Equipment Portfolio consists of products in all stages of their lifecycle: prototyping of new developments, new product introduction, transfers of mature products from customer or third party manufacturing locations and end of life products Responsible for a variety of top level KPIs linked with financial results (quarterly sales, operational profit, collection of past due invoices), customer satisfaction (scored on quarterly basis) and operational performance (inventory turns, excess and obsolete, material loss, quality returns) Owner through the CFT of daily operational tasks linked with account performance: demand planning, material availability, capacity planning, production scheduling, yield monitoring, execution of production and deliveries, engineering change management Commercial point of contact to customer for: quarterly pricing re-roll, claims settlement, invoicing of non recurring efforts, customer owned assets, commercial adjustments, quotation of new products

2 Continuous improvement responsible for the account through the use of Lean Manufacturing: 5S, Kaizen, layout improvements, Value Stream Mapping, streamlining of product portfolio Operational Excellence Manager Hella Romania Dec 2013 Mar 2014 Manager of a department tasked with Lean Manufacturing deployment and Industrial Engineering for two Romanian factories of the Hella Group totaling 11,000 square meters and 600 employees that manufacture electronic and electromechanical components for the automotive industry Driver of Kaizen events based on a yearly activity plan focused on improving production output and quality, reducing usage of shop-floor and WIP inventory Responsible for the quarterly updating of the manufacturing cycle times, basis for capacity planning and workforce optimization and for the plant layout updates Participant in specification of new production equipment with input related to work place ergonomics, capacity needs and shop-floor integration and in the release for production of new production equipment Owner of cost reduction program for Production activities monitored under a company wide initiative focusing on labor time reduction, shop-floor usage reduction, standardization and streamlining of processes Project Manager Russia expansion Hella KGaA Nov 2012 Sep 2013 Assigned to open a production facility for automotive electronic components in the Russian Federation as part of the company s global expansion plan Reported to a Steering Committee headed by the Vice President of Product Development throughout the duration of the project and presented progress of the project on a monthly basis to the Executive Board of the company

3 Built comprehensive and highly detailed five year business case for the Russia expansion project based on the project plan, organizational chart, forecasted sales, product cost and local tax profile Prepared the location selection matrix and a comprehensive Russia report detailing the scoring for each location by criteria and enabling the decision making process Liaison to local authorities for achieving Resident status in Special Economic Zone Alabuga (Naberezhnye Chelny, Republic of Tatarstan) Leader of Serial Product Management Hella Romania Jan 2010 Sep 2013 P&L responsible for the Timisoara plant through a highly skilled team of up to 8 Program Managers assigned to product groups formed based on the site s development strategy Main contributor to the definition of the site strategy focusing on five product groups through targeted acquisition of new products and streamlining of existing product portfolio Close collaboration with the Sales department for the purpose of promoting the site as a valued long term partner to existing and new customers Overseen the growth of Timisoara plant from 40 M to 140 M Euro yearly sales obtained through the launch of highly successful new products (e.g. market leading Turbine Actuator for diesel engines and market leading Body Control Modules for high end German automobiles) Active proponent of the Timisoara plant expansion from 4,000 to 8,000 square meters, initiative started in 2010 and completed successfully by the end of 2012 Project Manager for a successful E.U. subsidy program in value of 1.3 M Euro under the Increase of Economic Competitiveness chapter through acquiring and installation of new production equipment

4 Serial Product Manager Hella Romania Jun 2008 Dec 2009 P&L responsible for the assigned product groups (Body Control Modules and Engine Compartment Actuators) accounting for 2/3 of the company s revenue Project Manager for Production throughout the entire product lifecycle from concept phase through quotation phase, sourcing phase, launch, ramp-up, maturity until end of life Managed Project Teams in a matrix organization (dotted line reporting) comprised of representatives from Production, Quality, Engineering, Logistics, Purchasing Main tasks and activities linked with new products included Design for Manufacturing, manufacturing concepts, CAPEX and Project Costs budgeting, production equipment sourcing and installation, product qualification and ramp-up Main tasks linked with mature products included P&L improvements through redesign implementations, process streamlining, poka-yoke, automation, material supply changes, logistic optimizations Contract Coordinator Hella Romania May 2007 May 2008 Entry level position in the local Sales department Ensured that contractual agreements are implemented in dayto-day activities at the plant (pricing accuracy, delivery and payment conditions, settling commercial disputes) Provided support for centralized Sales departments for business development activities

5 SKILLS Strategy development Leadership Coaching and developing people Business development Project Management Cost reduction EDUCATION Universitatea de Vest, Timisoara 2007 Bachelor of Economics Project Management Institute 2012 Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the largest professional organization for project management in the world Hella Romania 2012 Six Sigma Champion granted after sponsoring a Six Sigma project related to change-over time reduction for a high running product LANGUAGES English - advanced French - intermediate Italian - intermediate