Sales Plant

David R. Mills

** ********** **** * ******, MA 02459 l 508-***-**** l *******@*****.***

Profile

Goal-directed, results-oriented professional with a strong technical background and education. Skilled communicator, persuasive

and adaptable. Self-motivated with high energy, initiative, and focus. Keen insight into the needs and views of others – able to

listen and identify issues or problem areas and form innovative solutions. Professional, personable, and articulate in presentation.

Areas of strength include:

Communication/Negotiation/Facilitation Program Management/Assessment

• •

Problem Solving/Decision Making New Product Development

• •

Client/Community Relations Project Management

• •

Flexible/Assertive/Adaptable Automation Network Design

• •

Education

June 2000

M.B.A., Boston College – Carroll Graduate School of Management: Newton, MA Honors: Cum Laude

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University: Boston, MA Honors: Cum Laude September 1992

Experience

DM Consulting September 2012 – Present President

DM Consulting specializes in the biotech industry, concentrating on automation architecture design. This includes everything

from PAC (Process Automation Controller) design to IT network design.

Designed large scale automation network for major biotech company in the New York. This system included 30+

•

process skids, 20+ automation servers, 40+ view clients.

Designed fully redundant network architecture to eliminate all single points of failure.

•

Utilized VMware ESX 5.1 to maximize uptime, reliability, and future scalability.

•

Xcellerex, Inc. September 2008 – September 2012 Senior Director, MES and Automation

Xcellerex (now part of GE Healthcare) focuses on commercializing its proprietary next generation manufacturing technology for

bio-therapeutics and vaccines.

Member of the Key Employee Team.

•

Successfully built an industry leading automation team.

•

Successfully released three versions of automation software.

•

Received Invensys’ 2010 Grand Pinnacle Award and Productivity Excellence Award.

•

Implemented object oriented automation strategy across all products.

•

Redesigned the bioreactors resulting in a $75,000 (40%) reduction in the cost to build bioreactors.

•

Negotiated yearly volume discounts with all key suppliers resulting in 20% - 40% reduction in parts cost.

•

Designed MES solution for Xcellerex’s Flex Factory.

•

Work with sales to help close FlexFactory and large reactor opportunities.

•

Developed sales and marketing presentations for the sales group.

•

Worked with CTO and COO to develop new strategy to sell the automation system to retrofit potential customers to

•

our platform.

Created an application that automatically converts a MS Word document to a Wonderware InBatch recipe. This

•

eliminates the need for customers to train users in Batching software. This also eliminates programming errors and

provides consistent unit operations across all customers. This software is currently going through patent protection.

Developed a fully redundant architecture for Flex Factory. This includes redundant servers, network switches, process

•

automation controllers, and client terminals.

NexIT, Inc. 2000-2008 President and CEO

NexIT, Inc. was founded in February of 2000 and successfully grew its client base, including Anheuser-Busch, Ocean Spray,

Stryker Biotech, Wyeth, and BOC Pharmaceuticals. NexIT provided superior plant automation and IT consulting services. This

unique dual experience base allowed NexIT to offer clients expert consulting services in each of these areas, and placed us in an

optimal position to advise on and implement the integration of both platforms.

Developed Axcess Display, a data analysis software application geared towards GE iHistorian users.

•

Lighthammer’s (now SAP MII) reseller and integration partner from 2004 – 2006 for New England and New York.

•

Worked directly with Lighthammer’s sales team to grow customer base.

•

Developed Lighthammer applications and/ POCs (Proof of Concepts)

•

Designed and built redundant plant floor systems utilizing GE’s iFIX software.

•

Redesigned 100% of the user interface for plant floor, consisting of over 4000 operator interface screens.

•

Implemented fully redundant 20,000 point GE iHistorian Servers at multiple locations.

•

Designed Allen Bradley PLC5 and Control Logix programming standards to be utilized across the plant for all processes.

•

Designed user interface for several customers using GE’s iFIX software.

•

Intellution, Inc. 1996 – 2000 Product Marketing Manager – Enterprise Products

Intellution, Inc. (now part of GE) provides industrial automation software to Fortune 500 manufacturing companies.

Integral component in the development of Intellution’s next generation software.

•

Advisor to the CTO in the design of new products that allow customers to integrate their plant floor applications with

•

enterprise systems.

Worked with Key Accounts sales team to close large customers.

•

Create, review, and approve functional specifications for next generation product.

•

Design and implement user interface studies for the next generation product.

•

Lead cross-functional teams to coordinate release schedule of enterprise products, including production, legal, finance,

•

marketing, sales, and engineering.

Develop sales/customer presentations, outlining product definition, features, benefits, sample applications and

•

customers’ cost savings both short and long-term.

Anheuser-Busch, Inc. 1988 – 1996 Project Engineer

• Received the "Presidents Award" for saving the plant over $100,000/Yr. in electricity and sewer costs with my employee

suggestion to redesign the compressed air system in utilities.

• Manage, design, and implement multi-million dollar plant projects for brewing and utilities.

• Network administrator of the plant data acquisition and control systems.

• Introduce, implement and manage new technologies for the plant data acquisition and control system.

• Wrote PLC programs for brewing and utilities. These included both batch and continuous process control with several

PID control loops.

References furnished upon request

Technical Skills

Computer Operating Systems

Advanced Operation

• Windows Server 2008 and 2003

• Windows 7 and XP

• vMWare ESX

• Mac OSX

• MS DOS

Intermediate Operation

• Linux/Unix

Software Applications

Advanced Operation

• Wonderware App Server, InTouch, WIS, and Historian

• Proficy HMI/SCADA (iFIX) and Historian

• Rockwell RS Logix

• Rockwell RS Linx

• Microsoft Office

Intermediate Operation

• Wonderware MES, InBatch, and Work Flow

• RSView

• Microsoft Project

• Various OPC Servers and Various PLC Programming Software Suites

• Microsoft IIS

Database Applications

Advanced Operation

• Microsoft SQL Server

• Microsoft Access

Intermediate Operation

• MySQL

• Oracle

• Sybase

Programming Languages and

Advanced Operation

• VB.NET, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic for Applications

• C#

• HTML

• XML

• CSS

• VBScript and JavaScript

• SQL

Intermediate Operation

• C, C++, and Visual C++

• Java

• ASP

General Skills

• Software and System Architect

• Software and Hardware Troubleshooting

• Computer Hardware Installation

• Networking

Contact this candidate