Alejandro Portabales
Design Engineer - Operations Manager - Product Development
About me
I'm a Design Engineer Operations Manager with over 18 years of practical experience working with OEM's currently seeking for a new challenging position where I can make full use of my skills and contribute with a team of experts on a program development.
Vast experience through a wide number of projects in the areas of design, engineering and manufacturing, personnel, resources and vendor management.
Able to multi task and simultaneously execute multi projects. Managed a team of 10 designers and 10 engineers with budgets up to 8 MM.
Experienced in planning and executing project plans to meet schedules.
High energy positive attitude always willing to share my knowledge with the team and eager to learn from them.
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My skills
Design Engineer Product Development Operations Manager
Outstanding project and personnel management ability combined with great teamwork skills. Inter department, vendor liaison - coordinator and analytical problem solver with rich mechanical intuition and hands on experience.
Advance CATIA V5 Knowledge
More than 10 years of experience, developing products using CATIA.
Automotive experience
Over 18 years of experience in the automotive industry, working with OEM's in the develop of innovative and futuristic visions.
Concept - prototype develop & manufacture experience
Great understanding of materials, their behavior and the ability to avoid issues during manufacturing, fitting and finishes process by proposing the most appropriate solution for each case scenario.
Education & Experience
Education
Mechanical Engineer, 2000, at the National University , Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
12/5/2000Education
Advance computing , CATIA V5 , 2006, El Camino College, Torrance, California
6/23/2016Gaffoglio Family Metalcrafter
Automotive Design and Engineer, Mechanical development and feasibility for interior panels, interior accessories. Responsible for the Interior design department, reviewing of development and release of the interior trim and accessories components. Helped lead, Hardmodeling Dept. on 2006 season.
3/1/2001Milano Design Inc
Automotive Design and Engineering development for interior panels, interior and exterior accessories utilizing CATIA V5 for concept cars.
7/10/2006Turing Model
Design and assembly brackets for a concept seat with production intent. Support design and develop interior for a small concept airplane
8/15/2007ARIA Group INC.
Established more than half of the engineering and manufacturing processes-techniques currently used in the company. Managed more than 60 automotive projects, including concept cars, see-through hard models, and interior study mock ups. Managed the engineering and progress of entertainment, aerospace and production processes. Mediator and liaison between the clients' design studio and ARIA development departments. Identified and forecast possible problems, diagnosed causes and determined corrective actions.
8/1/2007Independent Electric Vehicles
Responsible for the Vehicle Design, the Research & Development and the Digital Product departments. Liaison between the INDI EV founder and the rest of INDI teams including vendors' design departments. Managed the design processes and development for the exterior and interior of the vehicle. Executed the design from the founder vision and reached CAS model for engineering hand-of data, including theme selection, initial CMF development, Interior 1:1 seating buck, Exterior 1:1 Clay model and CAS data delivery. Directed and coordinated recruiting for all departments. Responsible of hiring external resources and vendors to meet business needs and goals.
10/2/2017Wild Factory (5 Axis CNC Milling)
Responsible for the Engineering-Design, Research & Development process for manufacturing and the Digital Product departments. Collaborate with the Liaison between Wild Factory customers, the rest of the internal teams and suppliers. Create and manage the schedule for different programs to meet the objectives and goals. Collaborator on the company process analysis and the proposal of new procedures to improve the results. Collaborator in the search and hiring of contractors and external suppliers to meet the needs and objectives of each project and the company.
5/1/2019Portfolio
Contact
- Trabuco Canyon, California, United States
