MICHAEL TAYLOR, MBA

Albany, Oregon acchm7@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 541-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/MichaelTaylorMBA

Operations Leader

A dynamic leader and motivator with 10+ years of hands-on technical manufacturing experience in

union and non-union production environments. Strong record of consistently achieving operational

improvements through the application of business acumen, technical know-how, Lean Six-Sigma, and

interpersonal skills. Once achieved, improvements are supported, sustained, and strengthened through

employee ownership, process documentation, and work standardization. Educational background

includes BS Chemical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration. Willing to relocate.

PROVEN ABILITIES AND RESULTS

Collaborative Leadership

• Influenced, without authority, pipe fitters to change +40 years of pipe installation practices

despite initial union and supervisor opposition, reducing employee hazard exposure nearly 50%

• Built & led two cross-functional teams to reduce extreme +100 decibel noise levels in production

environment to a safer ~85 decibel level, reducing employee hazard exposure 15%

Ownership and Accountability

• Direct & candid, thus widely trusted by multi-national corporations in championing the

modernizing of two critically important corrosion handbooks used by Materials Technology

Institute (www.mti-global.org) member companies.

• Took ownership of department & its inventories, enabling smooth operation for downstream

customers despite unplanned extensions to department shutdown, totaling eight weeks.

• Enabled Lead Acid and Lithium Ion battery separator facility to increase production 25% above

EPA mandated limits through negotiations with regulators coupled with creative engineering.

Communication

• Sold business case for $15 million expansion to President, shared project plan with department

management and supervisors, and elicited equipment operator input to ensure ownership and

buy-in from all levels of organization.

• Aligned operations safety activities with company core values by teaming up with union

operators to participate in companywide safety Incident Management System, achieving OSHA

recordable rate less than 2.0.

• Secured critical performance guarantees during $7 million new equipment negotiations.

• Company representative in all interfaces with government regulators and officials.

Planning/Organization; Project Management

• Used project management skills to execute $13 million plant upgrade, delivering capacity on

budget and on time despite mid-project reduction of available funds by $2 million.

• Leveraged business acumen to develop business plan, funding requirements, and operational

strategy for novel microelectronic based industrial heat-exchanger company.

• Applied financial & project management skills in developing, deploying, and starting-up key

liquid-liquid extraction production process.

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Analytical Problem Solving

• Lowered Kiln Expansion Project risk profile through application of Risk Analysis methods in the

categories of EH&S, finance, quality, and customers.

• Utilized technical knowledge to identify and remedy poor pump performance on pump train

system consisting of 12 heterogeneous pumps.

Quality, Is Customer Focused

• Applied statistical analysis that identified re-distillation as facility’s largest contributor to cost of

quality, established root causes through data-driven exploration, and utilized Six Sigma

methodologies to ensure corrective actions reduced cost of quality by roughly $1M.

• Improved customer satisfaction from 2-3 rejects/yr to 0 rejects/yr on calcined oxide product

through 5S principles which allowed discovery of previously unknown equipment corrosion.

• Used continuous improvement concepts to consistently meet increasingly stringent quality

requirements for the nuclear reactor grade Zirconium product line.

WORK HISTORY

ATI Wah Chang (NYSE: ATI); Albany OR; specialty metals 2006-2013

Process Engineer

Global manufacturing company with 2012 sales of $2.2 billion. The company manufactures mission

critical metallics, ranging from stainless steel and Nickel to Zirconium and Tantalum.

Entek; Lebanon OR; engineered plastics 2003-2006

Process Engineer

Privately held international organization with estimated sales of $300 million. They specialize in plastic

extruder systems, microporous plastic Lead Acid battery separators, and microporous plastic Lithium

Ion battery separators.

Evanite Fiber Corporation; Corvallis OR; non-woven fiber 2003-2003

Process Engineer

Privately held company that produces glass fibers and wood fibers for use in filtration systems,

nonwoven mat materials, as well as thermal and acoustical insulation. Estimated sales of $100 million.

Weyerhaeuser (NYSE: WY); Springfield OR; pulp & paper 2002-2002

Process Engineer Intern

With 2012 sales of $7 billion, it is one of the largest wood and wood fiber product manufacturers in the

world. The company manages and produces products from nearly 20 million acres of forest land.

EDUCATION

Masters in Business Administration, Willamette University 2009-2011

Graduated with Honors, Top 5% of Class

Bachelors of Science, Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University 1999-2003

Graduated with Honors, Magna Cum Laude, Honor Roll nine times, Top 5% of Class

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