Objective
To obtain a professional responsible position that will allow me to apply my skils and experience in order to achieve optimum company goals while maintaning the highest work ethics in order to become part of a growing organization which promotes career opportunity.
Experience
FullMarine Consulting LLC 2008 to present
Consultant
• Assisting to potential customers in vessel purchasing, shipmanagement, ship registering and special projects.
International Representatives Inc. 6-10/2008
Port Captain
• Elaborated budgets for vessel purchasing and chartering.
• Carried out pre-purchase physical inspections of vessels.
• Negotiated terms for chartering and purchase price vessels.
Antillean Marine Shipping 1997 to 2008
Port Captain and Operations Manager
• Managed terminal operations, fleet, ship chartering, and purchasing departments that represented a fleet of 12 vessels transporting about 65000 TEUs annually with more than 365 port calls per year.
• Managed fleet cargo control and vessel utilization.
• Negotiated buying fuels for the whole company fleet with different fuel brokers and local fuel suppliers.
• Implemented efficiently rules and regulations pertaining to maritime industry as implementation of ISM and ISPS Codes.
• Produced statistic reports for management of the company.
• Approved all operation department purchases.
• Led and trained when necessary a workforce in excess of 30 employees to achieve an efficiency operation productivity that represented a savings of 20% in operative costs; managing labor, scheduling, personnel, terminal utilization and equipment.
• Negotiated budgets for vessel repairs.
• Monitored and scheduled vessel inspections and repairs with no impact in fleet schedule.
• Established new cargo trends elaborating gap analysis, market cost analysis and negotiating contracts with vendors and service providers in a cost efficient manner.
Express Terminal 1995 to 1997
General Manager
• Managed a 10,000 square-foot warehouse and a 4 acres marine terminal.
• Established goals to meet profit expectations.
• Trained and lead 25 employees that represented 15% of efficiency in terminal operations.
I.M.S.A and A.M.A.Z.S.A 1982 to 1995
Sailed worldwide on board different vessels as A/B, Deck Officer, and Captain.
Education
4 years of nautical education (1982)
Escuela Superior de la Marina Civil, Gijon, Spain
Certification
Management and Supervision Excellence Professional Development Certificate, Miami-Dade College
Ship brokering and vessel chartering, American Association of Ship Brokers and Agents
Maritime Safety Management Systems Auditing, Ferriby Industries
ISM Code Auditing, Lloyds Register of Shipping
Hazardous Material Training, National Cargo Bureau
Worldwide IICL Refrigerated Container Course, Institute of International Container Lessors
Confined Space Safety Course, Atlantic Environmental & Marine Services, Inc.
Captain and Master License, Panama and Liberia
Skils
Skilled with PC applications in MS Office including Excel, Word, Power Point and Outlook. Versed on Terminal and Vessel Operations systems as TIDEWORKS
Excellent in maintain and build relationships with external agencies and contract vendors.
Extensive operative cost analysis expertise.
Proven ability in directing, supervising, and improving marine operations.
Versed in implementing rules and regulations in marine industry related field
Demonstrated ability completing major improvement projects on time and within budget.