ANDREA CASTRO

Directed strategic projects at the Austin manufacturing facility, while overseeing governance and leadership for a site project portfolio exceeding $15M managed by a team of Project Managers.

• Standardized project management methodologies, governance processes, KPIs, reporting systems, and best practices, enhancing project visibility and execution across the organization.
• Implemented Asana as enterprise project management platform, standardizing
  execution governance and portfolio tracking.
• Mentored Project Managers by providing portfolio oversight, strategic direction, executive reporting, and risk management to ensure successful delivery of site initiatives.
• Directed a complex cross-border initiative transitioning spare parts sourcing from external suppliers to internal manufacturing across multiple international facilities, completing the pilot in under 12 months with zero manufacturing disruption.
• Led qualification of an equivalent critical production material and implementation of a new multi-supplier sourcing strategy, ensuring production continuity for new manufacturing equipment while eliminating critical supply risk.
• Led a >$3M global product relabeling program impacting more than 100 active commercial products, ensuring regulatory compliance and uninterrupted market supply.
• Generated significant long-term cost savings by qualifying identical internally manufactured components, reducing supplier dependency and strengthening supply chain resilience.

Led enterprise manufacturing technology projects supporting production facilities
across North and Latin America, delivering business and technology initiatives
from concept through implementation:
•Directed full project lifecycle execution, including project initiation, planning,
execution, testing, deployment, validation, and project closeout.
•Managed project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder
communications to ensure successful delivery of manufacturing technology initiatives.
•Led cross-functional teams consisting of Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations,
Information Technology, and Business stakeholders.
•Implemented enterprise manufacturing systems including SAP Production
Execution, Proficy, Maple, and Quality Systems.
•Supported manufacturing process standardization and continuous improvement
initiatives across multiple production facilities.
•Presented project status, risks, milestones, and recommendations to business
and technical leadership.