Robert J. Sarkis

***** ******* ***, ***** *******, CA 91390

Cell: 661-***-**** E-mail:acgi0h@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Ambitious Manufacturing Director with over 30 years manufacturing experience serving

commercial aerospace, defense and medical industries.

Adept in effectively handling all aspects of operations from planning, purchasing, design,

production, sales and marketing.

Creates strategic alliances with organizational leaders to effectively align with and support key

business initiatives. Builds and retains high performance teams by hiring, developing and

motivating skilled professionals.

Effective leader who excels at using proven methods and cutting-edge technology to

successfully cut costs, streamline operations and increase productivity. Assertive and

enthusiastic, with extensive knowledge of process optimization and an unsurpassed work ethic.

Professional Experience

Aerospace Dynamics International, Inc

Valencia, California

Director of Manufacturing June 2005 July 2014

• Direct all aspects of $180M Manufacturing Operations including secondary operations,

deburring and assembly.

• Developed capital expenditure plans and effectively justified plans to improve productivity

of manufacturing operations.

• Developed Department budget and managed within budget constraints to achieve

Company’s profitability objectives.

• Developed, hired and maintained a highly skilled staff to complete planned objectives.

• Utilized the Manufacturing Department as well as full extended enterprise to improve

cost, quality, manufacturability and safety of products through use of sophisticated

methods.

• I.E. Lean, TPS, dimensional analysis.

• Utilized Manufacturing Department to conceive and implement Lean/continuous

improvement projects to enable build to order.

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• Managed prototype team to develop, validate and improve manufacturing process for all

new products.

• Managed Tool design group to support requirements of prototype, first article, test and

production parts.

• Supported Engineering Department /managed ECR implementation into production.

• Supported Business development /estimating Department in new proposal development

process.

• Supported Business development /estimating Department selecting outside services for

sub-contracting and special services as necessary

(i.e. machining, heat treating, anodizing, chem film etc).

• Regularly attended trade shows, conferences, cutting tool suppliers to seek out, evaluate

and deploy new manufacturing technologies/methods to improve Company’s overall

competitiveness.

• Solid knowledge of manufacturing engineering methods and procedures.

Key accomplishments

• Develop and support Company growth from $65.5M in 2005 to $180M in 2014.

• Reduce scrap rate of 4.5% in 2005 to .99% in 2014.

• Developed process improvement measures, which reduced rework by 70%.

• Recipient of Boeing‘s prestigious supplier of the year award, 2012.

Program Manager August 2001 June 2005

• F22 Raptor, Boeing 737, Boeing 777, Raytheon TTRP structure, Airbus A330, A380

• Managed new major programs. Upon successful delivery of initial units work was

transferred to production program managers.

• Coordinate the preparation of proposals, proposal work statements, operating budgets

and financial terms/conditions of contract.

• Plan, coordinate, implement and finalize projects all while keeping projects within budget.

• Identify and manage all project risks, ensuring risks have sufficient mitigation plans.

• Management and coordination of internal/external program resources and activities.

• Assess project issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality and customer

needs.

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Key accomplishments

• Managed the successful development /delivery of side of body attachments for F-22

Raptor closely working with Boeing engineering design teams and internal engineering,

quality and programming departments.

• Managed the successful development /delivery on Raytheon’s TTRP structure closely

working with Raytheon engineering design teams and internal engineering, quality and

programming departments.

• Recipient of Boeing IDS supplier of the year award, 2005.

• Recipient of Boeing silver supplier award.

• Recipient of Boeing supplier of the year award, 2012.

Additional Employment

Classic Wire Cut Company

Manufacturing Manager January 1995 – June 2001

Schroeder Tool & Die

CNC Machinist January 1987 – February 1994

Training

Esprit (CAD/CAM) programming training

Camarillo, Ca 1997

Lean training

Boeing Portland, 2001

SPC training

California State University Northridge, 2001

Cold working of rivet-less nutplates in Titanium structures (F22 certified)

Boeing IDS Seattle, Washington 2002

9th North America Genba Kaizen Seminar

Muscatine, IA (March 24-28, 2014)

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