William Fogel
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
Cell: 904-***-**** Home: 904-***-****
abm719@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY:
Senior Manufacturing Manager with progressive leadership experience in
multiple industries, focused on Productivity and Quality Improvements,
Continuous Improvement Processes, Cost Control, and Safety
Performance. Background includes Director-level P&L responsibility for
multiple-facility division of Fortune 50 Company, as well as
management positions in Food, Soap, Chemical, and Utility industries.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
JEA, Jacksonville, FL
2004 to Present
Direct Maintenance and Technical Service for water/wastewater
treatment systems and plants for 8th largest public utility in the US.
. Site Direction of technical functions including: project
engineering and management, specialty construction, preventive
and predictive maintenance, corrosion/odor control operations,
and major equipment repair/fabrication.
. Directed Lean / Six Sigma hybrid process in equipment
fabrication and construction services, resulting in cycle time
reduction of over 50%.
. Improved W/WWT pumping system availability through application
of Value Stream Mapping, followed with aggressive preventive and
predictive maintenance programs.
. Updated organizational development initiatives, staffing
requirements, and performance management.
. Improved customer satisfaction ratings for internal JEA business
units with creative responses to "Voice of Customer" surveys,
including corporate Work Environment Surveys and "town hall"
employee meetings.
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, Atlanta, GA
1996 - 2003
Director of Specialty Manufacturing
. P&L responsibility for manufacturing and associated distribution
organizations in four business units (chemicals, plastic
extrusions, paper converting, packaging materials) and eight
locations in the U.S. with annual sales of $90 million.
. Directed use of Best Practice, Continuous Improvement, 5S, and
Value Stream techniques in all Specialty business units to
improve profit performance, increasing profits by over $13
million.
. Directed organizational and functional changes in all Specialty
business units, improving quality control, safety performance,
environmental compliance, distribution effectiveness, and
personnel development.
. Led the Continuous Improvement consulting program that
accumulated over $900 million in bottom-line profits.
. Standardized Income from Operation (IFO) improvement tools,
programs, and expectations across North American Tissue plants,
generating $175 million in additional IFO.
. Developed Supply Chain Analysis techniques for business units to
improve quality and EBITDA.
. Negotiated sale of manufacturing divisions to outside investors
to reduce G-P corporate debt.
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LOBECO PRODUCTS, Hilton Head Island, SC
1990 - 1995
Plant Manager - Operations & Support Services, Fine Chemicals
. Direct report to the President of LPI; managed U.S. Corporate
Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Communications, Computing
Technology, and Purchasing (total budget $52 million).
. Improved product acceptance from 72% to 96%, improved yields to
98%, and reduced unit costs by 25% though institution of
quality-based SOP's and changes in major process equipment, PLC
control systems, and utility services.
. Optimized international supply chain for LPI to maximize product
portfolio in the US market.
. Instituted Best Practice preventive and predictive maintenance
procedures including computerized maintenance management
software that doubled equipment availability.
. Designed and constructed Quality Control laboratory for the
company and obtained plant-wide ISO 9001 certification for the
operations.
GUARDIAN UTILITY SERVICES, Dallas, TX
1986 - 1990
Regional Business Unit and Production Plant Manager
. Managed the Southwest Region with responsibility for Plant and
Customer Site Operations, Sales, Mechanical and Technical
Services, and field development of new product lines.
. Developed and provided solutions to diverse list of problems for
electric generating utilities.
. Increased sales by 50%.
. Revitalized existing product line with new application
technology and product reformulation.
. Restructured supply chain contracts to improve services and
increase profits by over 18%.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:
7 years of operations and engineering management positions in Food,
Soap, and Petrochemical business units for Procter & Gamble and
DuPont. Involved in plant startups, Total Distributed Control
implementation, department management and engineering consulting at
both companies.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Basic and Advanced Consulting Techniques, Corporate and Business Unit
Financial Control, GMP / ISO Certification, Value Stream Analysis,
PSM, Continuous Improvement Idea Generation and Control, Six Sigma
Green Belt, Fundamentals of Business Unit Budgeting, Contract
Negotiation and Management, Root Cause and FME Analysis, Fundamental
and Advanced Studies in Energy Management.
EDUCATION:
B.S.M.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
E.I.T.: 1979, State of Indiana?