José Emilio Zapparoli

Chemical Engineer, Master in Applied Economics and Business Administration

Cellular: +50256604506

Home: +502 22542038

Guatemalan

Personal View

I’m keen to use my technical engineering knowledge and management skills to contribute with the work, growing strategies and development of organisations, particularly in jobs requiring high confidence level and leadership.

Work History

Consulting

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers

Senior Consulting (2014)

Costs Benchmarking for Sugar Cane Industry, Ethanol and Energy for Tala (México), Pantaleon/Concepcion and Santa Ana (Guatemala), La Grecia, Azunoza, Cahsa, Choluteca and Chumbagua (Honduras), Montelimar, San Antonio, Monte Rosa (Nicaragua), Taboga, El Viejo (Costa Rica), Estrella (Panama), Laredo (Peru), Tabacal (Argentine), and Palm Oil Industry for Naturaceites (Guatemala), Guaicaramo, Manuelita and Indupalma (Colombia), Induspalma (Dominican Republic).

  • Professional Business Outsourcing PBOUT

Advisory and consulting Process Documentation Control for Indiana Knit Textiles, physical security, export and import documentation, intern processes

  • JMand Guatemalan Nickel Company (2013)

Advisory and consulting for coal, steam, water and bunker pipelines.

Pantaleon Sugar Holdings (2008-2012)

  • Sucrose Losses Auditor. (2011-2012)

Delegated trust by theCorporate Operations Officerto reduce losses and increase productivity all over the chain of production, for the two plants of the Organisation in the country.For this was required high accuracy monitoring capacity, strategies proposal skills for the short and midterm. More over it was successfully the accomplishment with the international standards and social corporate engagement.

  • Sugar and Energy Processing Shift Coordinator (2009–2011)

My responsibility was to coordinate and manage the supervisors to control the processes to obtain high quality sugar and to increase the electrical energy production in a 500 employee’s factory through administration, support and training low and mid rank.

  • Recovery Sugar Process Trainee (2008-2009).

I was specialised in the different factory processes, Milling, Juice Treatment, Evaporation, Heat transfer, Crystallization, Centrifugation, Drying, Packing, and Electrical Energy production, to be able to apply chemical engineering knowledge, manage human resources and reduce costs.

San Diego Corporate (2007-2008)

  • Quality Control Sugar Manager

Responsible of daily key information for the decision making and the balance of the sugar material and report the sugar and energy production with the control of the quality and purity of the sugar products. Also support the factory chief to manage the resources for projects and maintenances of the equipments and costs control. Moreover I was responsible of the annual labor and chemical consumption budget for the next season.

Petro Energy. 2006

  • Geology Manager assistant.

I assisted the manager in order to study the properties of field, stones and other tests which described the composition of the well in a Petroleum Drill in Yalpemech, Alta Verapaz, using special software provided.

Interpol Guatemala (2005–2006)

Information Technology Manager. I was contracted to manage the Informatics and computer resources for the Guatemalan Regional Interpol Office (International Police, Lyon, France). The knowledge and my computer skills let me participate in a governmental project that consisted in renewing and upgrading the informatics system for Interpol Guatemala.

University of San Carlos of Guatemala(2004-2005)

  • Chemistry Courses 3 and 4, assistant.

I worked as the assistant of the Chemistry professor in the Chemical Engineering Faculty and leaded the laboratories of those courses.

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Studies

  • 2010-2011 University of Valle de Guatemala (Master in Applied Economics and Business Administration) With Texas A&M University professors program and diplom.
  • 2005 University of San Carlos de Guatemala (Chemical Engineering)
  • 1999 Technologic Computer Institute (Computer and Science High School).

Diplomas

  • Yellow Belt Six Sigma, in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis 2012.
  • Managements systems certifications; Quality Management, Environmental Management, Occupational Safety and Health, ISO 22000, OHSAS 18001:2007, HACCP, BSI PAS 220 and ISSC.
  • High Risk Activities Work Permits

Languages

  • English (fluently)
  • Spanish (mother language)
  • Italian (fluently)
  • Portuguese (beginner)
  • German (beginner B1)

Skills

  • Windows 2003 server
  • Operative Systems / Clark Connect Server, Exchange Server 2003
  • LogPlot (Petroleum Drill) Autocad, VOiP AVAYA, Mcafee ePo, Aranda, MINITAB, Project

Other skills

  • I promote the teamwork with high quality results.
  • Excellent communications and ability to work in multidisciplinary groups.
  • Resourceful in developing and achieving goals that require high commitment and success
  • Upper ability to adapt to new working environments, issues, companies and countries
  • Making practical decisions, high knowledge / understanding and use of technology

Other Activities

  • 1997-1998 Electric vehicles Competition Guatemala (Electrathon), participant as pilot and builder.
  • 1998-2005 Technical support, hardware software, networks, etc
  • 2004-2005 Regional Chemical Engineering Congress organisers