Jennifer Costa Gomez

- Responsible for managing all aspects of materials flow and maintaining control and accuracy over all goods inventories, including all transactions, procurement, planning, schedulling, cost, warehouse, receiving, and shipping to ensure customer orders are fulfilled on time. - Establish/implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control. - Develope and execute a sourcing strategy to meet the company business groth and sourcing requirements.

Dialog Semiconductor designs and manufactures mixed-signal integrated circuits targeted to consumer electronic markets: Smartphone, Tablet, Lighting and Automotive. Reporting to Global Supply Chain Director I am responsible for guaranteeing internal projects and customers schedule requirements and on-time delivery of product portfolios throughout the complete product life cycle in the most cost-effective manner. Essential responsibilities include the following: - Elaborate production forecast in close collaboration with Marketing, Sales and Engineering Managers, agreeing and reserving accordingly the needed capacity within the subcontractors’ manufacturing plants in terms of dates and volumes. - Lead forecast and inventory planning meetings reviewing recommended sales forecasts and inventory goals (emphasis on new product introduction, development phases and mass production). - Ensure production costs and inventories (Stocks and WIP) are kept on the bare minimum level, raising alert and proposing action plans in order to minimize impact of the potential risks and inform respectively to Management and Finance departments. - Advise R&D for all new projects in terms of schedule and purchase planning processes. - Assure materials and goods on-time deliveries according to project plans or manufacturing requirements. - Liaison with Asian subcontractors on a daily basis to ensure production loadings and lead times, while identifying priorities to reduce/increase capacities depending on market demand fluctuations. - Evolving and maintaining internal documentation and standard operating procedures and workflows for demand planning processes and systems. SAP Key User to coordinate and integrate Supply Chain Department IT requirements. - Identify and monitoring of KPIs (Periodic reports): lead times, delays, costs, raw material provision, inventory turnover, RMA, forecast accuracy, inventory plan vs. targets.

Alcoa European Mill Products is one of the world market leaders in the production of high volume quality aluminum coils. As a member of the Production Department, I have carried out different activities mainly focused on the enhancement of the cold rolling process. Among the activities that I have performed are the following: 1) Define the working procedure and operational methodology along the process followed in each manufacturing line and machinery, and, 2) Analyze data about the processes in order to introduce improvement solutions in the production time and in the productivity of machinery. I have also collaborated with the Planning Department in the installation of ASPROVA MS Production Scheduling Software System, which contributes to improve productivity throughout the supply chain. I have been in charge of the plant relevant data acquisition, and the customization of the software addressed to the specific requirements of the production planning, with the final aim of automating the production orders of the heat rolling process.

I collaborated on one of the FP7 EU projects within the Energy, Cities and Territories Research Department. The main objective of this project was to develop a model that forecasts the residential energy demand at household level allowing to precisely determine and optimize the energy generation with a fairly realistic view. I was responsible for the conceptualization and behaviour modelling of the most common appliances and the technical development and simulation software implementation using Anylogic IDE tool.

Research activities being part of the Industrial Safety Unit developing the degree final project, which consisted on the technical implementation of an indoor positioning system. The goal of this project was to determine the precise localization of workers within the shop floor, in order to alert them when they are in a risky place. For this purpose, I developed a software tool in charge of the data capture coming from several Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) placed on workers’ bodies, the step pattern detection and the map visualization on a Labview development environment.