Rafael Doblas

Main duties
✔ in charge of 2/3 of the US project portfolio with 8 direct reports
✔ Planning referent for the US D&IS portfolio
✔ Planning métier improvement: ways of working, best practices, claims, reporting, workload, etc.
✔ Transform the mètier: revitalize the planning mètier from the perspective of a Project Manager. Regain trust and look for excellence. Get the NAM region to the next level.

Main achievements
★ Defined way of working for the region for tools, workload, finance
★ Improved KPI metrics by creating a proactive unified automatic reporting for the team out of the schedules
★ Capitalized best practices and defined new ways of working
★ Optimized seniority/criticality and PM/PrPM proximity ratios
★ Connected the PM community to PrPM as right hands

In charge of trainings, manuals, maintenance, warranty, work cars and TR4 CBTC deployment for Toronto Line 1 CBTC revamping project in addition to supporting the NAM PMO department to improve their way of working and the Rochester site with the management of a new office.

Main achievements
★ Made roadmaps for strategy and decisions
★ Developed a close relationship with the client traveling often to their offices and communicating quickly
★ Created reports for better and efficient PMO control
★ Interfaced with the client daily to solve problems right away
★ Monitored progress and adapted to the constraints and risks
★ Controlled industrialization and delivered materials in a short time
★ Communicated with teams around the world from different time zones successfuly
★ Pushed the organization at all levels to get things done on time with client’s satisfaction
★ Coordinated a tailored design of CBTC for Work Cars
★ Improved NAM PMO Department ways of working
★ Identified risks in advance and proposed quick mitigation plans
★ Worked closely with engineering to deliver systems as per contract and on time
★ Prioritized activities to reach commitments
★ Preserved quality and safety on all tasks
★ Contributed in a new site relocation project to move in all employees on time
★ Introduced MS Teams in the whole region and pushed dashboards for analysis with Excel/BI.
★ Engaged stakeholders frequently and led discussions to remove bottlenecks

Main duties
✔ Industrial Management: spares, repairs
✔ Warranty and Maintenance Management: client communications, RAM, follow up with the team
✔ Work Cars Management
✔ Trainings and Manuals management: manage 2 contractors plus the in-house team to synchronize the development and delivery of trainings and manuals for work cars and mainline.
✔ New site relocation Management
✔ Workload and costs management
✔ NAM PMO Department tools & methods improvement

Planning Resources coordinator and Projects Planning Manager for Projects in the railway sector (signalling and security) in addition of supporting the Global Performance Department in different processes and give support in planning and its tools, coaching and supporting the projects for all ALSTOM TIS Spain portfolio in continuous connection to ALSTOM headquarters.

Main achievements
★ Conducted all steps to deploy all planning processes in the site to successfully control all the projects portfolio following all standards.
★ Implemented the corporate planning tool with all its modules.
★ Motivated the Planning Managers Resources team with team building meetings.
★ Developed a new way for controlling the whole portfolio of projects in one place in terms of scope, time and cost.
★ Facilitated communication in all projects, anticipating risks and therefore saving costs.
★ Generated guides, especial spreadsheets, kpis, reporting templates, tips newsletter.
★ Performed and monitored roadmaps.
★ Simplified ways for develop plannings, controlling them and alerting the teams.

Main duties
✔ Coordinator of the Planning Managers team, training and couching them.
✔ Planning Manager for all kind of projects around the world: Mainlines, Tramways, Metro, Tram-Trains, coordinating with other offices and following up a group of more than 50 engineers and technicians.
✔ Coordinate with central team on new functionalities deployment, processes, guides, kpis, etc.
✔ Work closely with all the departments, especially with quality to comply with certifications and standards and use its tools to improve processes.
✔ Support to the Global Performance Department for planning processes and workload.
✔ Creation of templates, KPIs and presentations for reporting and Project Management.
✔ Contribute the Regional Center controlling the projects portfolio.
✔ Key User of Planisware giving trainings and support on the tool to the regional center employees in addition of implementing new functions.

In charge of optimizing the process of a 40MW Photovoltaic Solar a-Si Factory

Main Achievements:
★ Weekly reports to inform the engineering team about the performance and issues with the process.
★ Improvement in the quality thanks to data analysis from production and metrology in order to discover possible relations and indicators to comply with the standards and certifications ISO 9001, TÜV y UL.
★ Statistical Analysis, representation and interpretation of the results to develop with i+D+i new recipes with better specifications. Key for developing new products versions and improve processes inside the factory
★ Continuous improvement and lean manufacturing with SPC and 6sigma
★ Planning and management of all the projects: new products, experimental solar farms, architectonic integration and follow up of the scope, cost and time
★ Development of documentation for projects, specifications, data reports and results analysis
★ Creation of new products more efficient thanks to the tests in factory and outside to improve production and test new recipes

Main Duties:
✔ Lean Manufacturing
✔ Statistical Processes Control SPC using JMP
✔ Development of Specifications
✔ Analysis of Metrology Results
✔ Analysis of new products
✔ Management of University Projects to test new products
✔ PV Architectonic Integration Projects Management