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Adolfo Elizondo
Senior Project Manager
Cartago,Cartago
Summary
Senior Project Manager directing complex industrial portfolios across construction, equipment installation, and maintenance improvement. Led CAPEX portfolios of USD 2.1M–USD 4M annually, coordinated 5–7 groups of engineers, contractors, suppliers, and customers, and closed 5–8 projects per year from definition through closeout while keeping scope, schedule, budget, and risk under control. Brings executive reporting, change management, and cross-functional leadership across regulated manufacturing and plant environments.
Overview
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Certifications
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25
years of professional experience
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8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Project Manager
SAUBER Group S.A.
12.2025 - 06.2026
- Executed recovery of desalination and potable water treatment plant installation project at Hacienda Pinilla, ensuring project alignment with timeline.
- Managed scope, budget, risk, contracts, changes, physical progress, billing, and executive reporting; completed the construction phase by the committed date.
- Resequenced critical activities and implemented daily progress controls, achieving recovery of four weeks on projected Gantt schedule.
- Created certifiable progress that enabled approximately USD 300K in customer billing and addressed USD 120K in outstanding contractor payments.
- Managed scope, budget, risk, contracts, changes, physical progress, and billing; completed construction phase on schedule.
- Developed comprehensive project plans, aligning resources and timelines with stakeholder expectations.
Process Improvement Engineer
Coloplast Volume Manufacturing S.A.
12.2022 - 10.2025
- Led mechanical improvements and process optimization projects in regulated medical device manufacturing, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
- Implemented equipment improvements that increased availability by 15% and production output by 10%, generating approximately USD 400K in annual savings.
- Upgraded vacuum systems to increase output by 5% and optimized packaging processes to reduce scrap by 8%.
- Applied Power BI, DOE, DMAIC, and data analysis while partnering with production, quality, maintenance, and engineering.
- Led cross-functional teams to identify process inefficiencies and implement innovative solutions.
- Developed and standardized operating procedures to enhance productivity across manufacturing lines.
Project Portfolio & Maintenance Leader
Holcim
09.2001 - 05.2022
- Managed an annual project portfolio of approximately USD 4M, controlling scope, budget, schedule, and risk.
- Managed annual project portfolio of approximately USD 4M, ensuring alignment of scope, budget, schedule, and risk management to achieve project objectives.
- Developed and maintained safety protocols, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
- Led project engineers, mechanical designers, and multidisciplinary teams using structured project management principles and controls.
- Coordinated engineering, procurement, suppliers, and contractors from technical definition through project closeout.
- Led multidisciplinary technical teams responsible for industrial asset availability and reliability.
- Managed electromechanical maintenance, planning, and operational reliability in an industrial plant.
- Oversaw annual planning, KPIs, planned shutdowns, and preventive and predictive maintenance using SAP and FMEA to enhance operational efficiency.
- Coordinated failure analysis, non-destructive testing, external services, and maintenance routine optimization to improve reliability and performance.
- Led maintenance team to enhance equipment reliability and minimize downtime.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to prioritize maintenance schedules effectively.
- Implemented preventive maintenance programs, resulting in increased operational efficiency.
Education
MBA - Project Management
Tecnológico De Costa Rica
Cartago 01.2012 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Universidad De Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica 03.1992 - 12.1997
Skills
Project Leadership & Project Controls
Budgeting & Cost Control
Planning, Scheduling & Project Recovery
CAPEX
SAP/ERP
Lean Six Sigma
Contract administration
Maintenance planning
Asset reliability
Executive reporting
Critical path method
Earned value management
Change order management
Baseline schedule management
Claim management
Shutdown planning
Reliability-centered maintenance
Root cause analysis
Cost forecasting
Commissioning management
Procurement management
Accomplishments
- Recovered four weeks of schedule on an approximately USD 4M desalination and potable water treatment plant; enabled USD 300K in customer billing and regularized USD 120K in outstanding contractor payments.
- Managed an annual CAPEX portfolio of approximately USD 4M, coordinating engineering, procurement, contractors, risks, and project execution.
- Generated approximately USD 400K in annual savings while improving equipment availability by 15% and production output by 10% through mechanical and manufacturing improvement projects.
- Reduced product changeover time from 5 hours to 30 minutes and lowered scrap by 8% using SMED, DMAIC, DOE, and data analysis.
Software
Advanced Excel
SolidWorks
AutoCad 2D
Minitab
SAP PM
MS Project
Certification
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (2025)
Interests
Artificial intelligence applied to project management
University teaching
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Languages
English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Timeline
Project Manager
SAUBER Group S.A.
12.2025 - 06.2026
Process Improvement Engineer
Coloplast Volume Manufacturing S.A.
12.2022 - 10.2025
MBA - Project Management
Tecnológico De Costa Rica
01.2012 - 05.2014
Project Portfolio & Maintenance Leader
Holcim
09.2001 - 05.2022
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Universidad De Costa Rica
03.1992 - 12.1997