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María Antonieta
Frattallone Gallicchio

Chemical engineer turned senior PM —

I turn industrial process discipline and client-facing delivery into measurable outcomes — and use AI as a working tool, not a talking point.

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María Antonieta Frattallone
30–45%
account margins sustained
−17%
production cost via process redesign
~80%
SKU portfolio growth
11+
years across engineering, industry & clients
4
countries — Venezuela, Netherlands, Italy, Spain
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About

María Antonieta Frattallone

Chemical engineer by training, project and account lead by trade — eleven years bringing plants, people and clients together until the project lands.

I started as a chemical engineer in a regulated coatings plant, building a quality-control lab from nothing and cutting production costs through process redesign. I moved into project management because the hardest problems I kept running into weren't chemistry — they were coordination: getting the right people, timeline and budget to agree.

From 2023 to 2026 I ran an international B2B account portfolio for a digital agency in Madrid — holding 30–45% margins across markets, recovering accounts that had gone off-track, and building an internal AI-powered platform to automate the reporting that used to eat my week.

Get it back on track

The at-risk project, the difficult client, the impossible deadline — fixed with data, margin intact.

Real technical muscle

Processes, CAPEX/OPEX, formulation, quality systems, feasibility. Engineering is how I decide.

AI where it multiplies

I find the workflow eating the team's week and rebuild it — Claude, NotebookLM, Lovable.

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Experience

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    • Sustained 30–45% margins across an international portfolio (Spain, Portugal, Italy, UK, Mexico) including Häagen-Dazs, Wacom, Edgard Cooper and Weider.
    • Recovered off-track engagements back to positive margin with signed renewal.
    • Designed and built an internal operations platform with Lovable.
    • Led go-to-market planning for a client's first physical store launch.
    • Recruited directly by the presidency after delivering the Estelar hangar project as sole coatings supplier.
    • Led the CCS–SDQ international route certification end-to-end with aeronautical authorities.
    • Contributed to the Alianza Bolívar Project strategic initiative.
    • Built the quality-control laboratory from zero and implemented plant-wide QC protocols.
    • Cut production costs ~17% through process redesign and reformulation.
    • Grew the SKU portfolio 5×, including sustainable coatings on hotel façades.
    • VIP B2B accounts: construction firms, national distributors and a Miranda State highway road-marking contract.
    • Delivered the Estelar Airlines hangar as sole supplier.
    • Turned R&D capability into scalable, market-ready coating formulations.
    • Contributed to every new low-VOC formulation — testing and materials evaluation.
    • Set up testing and validation processes and trained incoming technicians.
    • Led the re-branding and relaunch of the product line.
    • CAPEX/OPEX feasibility for CO₂ removal from biogas with gas-liquid membranes.
    • Benchmarked 4 membrane modules, listed all plant equipment, contributed to the pilot-plant P&ID.
    • The resulting thesis received the AVPG Academic Award (2016).
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Hands-on

I’ve always been on the floor, on the ramp and on site — not only in the meeting room.

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Case studies

8 cases
Featured case · Renewable energy · 2014–2015

Can membranes clean biogas — and make money doing it?

A Dutch biogas-upgrading company needed to know if gas-liquid membrane contactors could remove CO₂ from biogas — technically and economically. That question became my six-month internship in Joure and my thesis.

4
membrane modules benchmarked
50–1,000
Nm³/h flow range modeled
0.20–0.35 €
margin per Nm³ above 200 Nm³/h
AVPG 2016
academic award

How the process works — click each stage

← swipe to see the full process →
condensate air in air + CO₂ out 1Raw biogasCH₄ + CO₂ 2Pre-treatmentdrying 3Absorptionmembrane contactorsCO₂ → water 4Biomethane → Bio-CNGcompression & transport 5Desorptionair stripping 6Water looptank + pump
gasabsorption waterair / drains

Benchmark & P&ID

Benchmark

Four hollow-fibre contactors — Liqui-Cel 8×20, 10×28, 14×28 and Edgecross ETC-10×28 — compared with a House of Quality matrix, plus a market study of upgrading technologies.

Process model

P&ID built on an existing pilot plant in Germany, which I visited. Absorption and desorption sized, every piece of equipment listed, mass and energy balances.

P&ID of the pilot plant used to model the absorption/desorption process.

Does it pay?

Economics

CAPEX, OPEX, pre-treatment and transport costs, for flows from 50 to 1,000 Nm³/h.

7–20ct€ / Nm³

profit, depending on flow rate, module and transport distance

Result

Feasible on both counts: a 0.20–0.35 €/Nm³ Bio-CNG margin above 200 Nm³/h. Edgecross ETC-10×28 and Liqui-Cel Extra Flow 8×20 performed best; the report recommended combining membranes with chemical absorption to cut capital costs further.

Recognition

AVPG Academic Award · XI Edition, 2016

Granted by the Venezuelan Association of Gas Processors to this thesis.

Thesis — Universidad Simón Bolívar, Chemical Engineering, 2015: "Technical and economic feasibility of CO₂ absorption from biogas via gas-liquid membrane contactors."

12 photos · catalogue
Engineering & processORIENTAL · 2015–17

Rebuilding a paint company from the lab up

0→1
QC lab built
17
products relaunched
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ORPVE logo
Maravila logo
Maravila architectural paints
Maravila coatings and mortars
Maravila packaging family
Maravila cans and colour forms
Maravila Pintura Clase A cans
Colour charts
Violeta Orquídea
Amarillo Araguaney
Rosa Claro
Mandarina
ORIENTAL DE REVESTIMIENTOS Y PINTURAS · 2015–2017

Rebuilding a paint company from the lab up

QUALITY SYSTEMSRAW-MATERIAL SOURCINGREFORMULATIONREBRANDING
Context

Action

Result

0→1
QC lab built
17
products relaunched
2
brands redesigned

Explore the Maravila catalogue

pick a family, then a product
8 photos
Engineering & processORIENTAL · 2017–22

Scaling up: VIP clients, our own stores and a brand on social

−17%
production cost
~80%
SKU portfolio
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Maravila logo
Maravila store front
Maravila store
Inside a Maravila store
Client façade
Client space
Texture samples
Brand post
ORIENTAL DE REVESTIMIENTOS Y PINTURAS · 2017–2022

Scaling up: VIP clients, our own stores and a brand on social

VIP ACCOUNTSCUSTOM FORMULATIONRETAILSOCIAL MEDIA
Context

Action

Result

−17%
production cost
~80%
of company sales from the paint line
5×
portfolio growth
2
new product lines launched
Biggest lesson
Lessons learnedHOTEL AGUAMARINA · 2020

Hotel Aguamarina: my biggest lesson

$0
net loss after the fix
1
new raw-material SOP
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Month 0 — Mandarina MaravilaMonth 3

Illustration — drag to see what happened to the colour. Real before-and-after photos coming soon.

ORIENTAL DE REVESTIMIENTOS Y PINTURAS · HOTEL AGUAMARINA · 2020

Hotel Aguamarina: my biggest lesson

ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSISCRISIS MANAGEMENTSUPPLIER QUALITY
Context

What went wrong

Investigation
  1. not the cause
  2. validated
  3. root cause
Resolution

What I changed

The Estelar hangar with its giant E3 photos
Project deliveryORIENTAL × ESTELAR

The hangar project that turned into a job offer

100%
of paints & coatings
→ PM
offer from presidency
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ORIENTAL DE REVESTIMIENTOS Y PINTURAS · ESTELAR AIRLINES

The hangar project that turned into a job offer

VENDOR COORDINATIONTECHNICAL ADVISORYB2B
Context

Estelar Airlines was renovating its hangar and needed one supplier for paints, coatings and technical advice, inside and out.

Action

Sole supplier from Oriental: coordinated internal and external vendors, supplied 100% of paints and enamels, advised on materials and added construction materials from the portfolio.

Result

Hangar delivered — and the airline's presidency offered me a corporate PM role on the strength of it.

100%
of paints & coatings
→ PM
offer from presidency
Estelar aircraft on the ramp5 photos
Project deliveryESTELAR · 2022–23

Certifying an international air route

CCS–SDQ
route certified
~2
months, assignment to certification
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ESTELAR AIRLINES · 2022–2023

Certifying an international air route

REGULATED ENVIRONMENTCROSS-BORDERPROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Context

A new Caracas–Santo Domingo route needed full aeronautical certification before two countries' authorities.

Action

Ran the certification program end-to-end, reporting to the presidency and acting as liaison with authorities and multi-country technical teams; also contributed to the Alianza Bolívar Project.

Result

Certification achieved; the commercial launch was later paused by an external business decision.

CCS–SDQ
route certified
~2
months, assignment to certification
2
countries' regulators
Accounts & AIBRANDCROPS · 2023–26

Turning around an international account portfolio

30–45%
margin sustained
5
markets
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BRANDCROPS · 2023–2026

Turning around an international account portfolio

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENTSTAKEHOLDER MGMTRENEWAL
Context

A B2B portfolio across Spain, Portugal, Italy, UK and Mexico, including brands like Häagen-Dazs and Weider, with several accounts carrying scope, timeline or quality deviations.

Action

Took direct ownership of the at-risk accounts, rebuilt delivery plans and client trust, and managed renewal conversations personally with senior stakeholders.

Result

Every recovered account returned to positive margin and renewed; the relationships also generated new cross-sell business.

30–45%
margin sustained
5
markets

The portfolio, brand by brand

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Accounts & AIBRANDCROPS · 2024–26

Building an internal AI-powered operations platform

3
workflows automated
Lovable
AI no-code builder
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BRANDCROPS · 2024–2026

Building an internal AI-powered operations platform

AI IMPLEMENTATIONPROCESS AUTOMATIONNO-CODE
Context

Billing reconciliation, time tracking and client reporting were manual, and the process didn't scale as the account portfolio grew.

Action

Designed and built an internal platform using Lovable, an AI-powered no-code app builder, without waiting on an engineering team.

Result

Billing reconciliation, time tracking and client reporting now run through a purpose-built internal tool instead of spreadsheets.

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Beyond work

María Antonieta Frattallone

I love organizing complex teams and resources to give a project meaning — creating things that didn't exist before, taking them into the real world and seeing them work with my fingerprint on them.

reencauzar createbuildleave something tangibleuntangle the bottleneck

My top 5 strengths

Gallup CliftonStrengths® · 2024
Executing · 3Influencing · 2

How it shows up at work

Descriptions in my own words, based on my CliftonStrengths Top 5 report.

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Skills & education

2022 — 2023 · Rome
Master's in Project Management, Cum Laude
Rome Business School
2025 — 2026
Master's in Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Founderz
2008 — 2015 · Caracas
Chemical Engineering
Universidad Simón Bolívar
2016 · Award
AVPG Academic Award, XI Edition
Venezuelan Association of Gas Processors — for the biogas thesis
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