Maria Gabriela Albornoz

Maria Gabriela Albornoz joins the Center with three years of work experience in different areas of supply chain management. As a manufacturing engineering intern at Baker Oil Tools-Baker Hughes manufacturing facility in Maracaibo, Venezuela, she was responsible for analyzing manufacturing variances to improve manufacturing processes and conducted a Setup Blitz (setup reduction) to improve material handling methods, raw material distribution within the plant, and work center organization to reduce setup cost, allow small lot production, and smooth production flow. In her next role as a production intern, she was responsible for designing and implementing a methodology that allowed shop floor personnel to post production times to SAP at every stage of the manufacturing process of oil tools in order to improve planning and production coordination. She identified root causes of delays in workloads as a way to reduce work in process and to also adjust routing standard times to real times. She developed and established a productivity metric that allows management to measure plant performance. After two years in manufacturing, Maria was a price and quote analyst in the operations district of Baker Oil Tools-Baker Hughes. In this role, she was responsible for controlling the initial and final stages of all tenders proposals and quotations through SAP and updated marketing statistics of all companies/customers to ensure responsiveness and assure market share of product lines.

Maria earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Zulia, Venezuela, in 2005. She is particularly interested in inventory management and distribution.