Summary:
Positive minded, highly effective manufacturing manager, with an
influential management and professional style that engages and motivates
team members, as well as mentors & trains personnel. I Initiate Training
and development programs for improvements to; processes, employees, P&L,
and quality. Mine is a technique that eliminates recurring issues, and has
a very high effective yield.
Education:
Capital University: (BBA) GPA (3.5)
. Bachelors Business Administration (2001)
IVY TECH State College: (2 yr Certificate) GPA (3.0)
. Certificate of advanced manufacturing Technology (2000)
Skills:
20+ years:
. Very high degree of Accountability for the performance and profitable
execution of my teams
. Managing staff, thru the training and implementation of project
management and Business Plans.
. Training and utilizing Adv. Lean Manufacturing principles, Toyoda
Production System, Total Quality Management, Preventative Maintenance
Initiative, Design For Manufacturing, Design For eXcellence,
Statistical Process Control, Single Minute Exchange of Die, 5(6)S,
Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, Kanban, Just In Time, Poka Yoke, New
Product introduction, New Technology Implementation, Project
management, and mentoring and developing employees to become highly
valuable assets to the company and move toward more responsibility
and higher positions.
. Mentoring and motivating employees to perform at their highest levels
to implement positive change.
. Utilizing ISO, FDA & CE FMEA guidelines to establish robust,
certified, and approved Manufacturing Processes to reduce costs and
improve quality conformance up to 98%
. Teaching new manufacturing technology training and development
programs for unique manufacturing processes to reduce cost, and
improve quality.
. Leading multi-faceted and diverse background employees to develop;
robust processes, and work with Design engineers and adhering to DFM/X
principles.
. Instructor of Advanced Manufacturing technology in Applied sciences
Expert skills:
. In MS Office Pro: Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher, Project, IE,
Outlook, Visio, Etc., Open Office, Word Perfect / Lotus Notes,
learning new systems.
. Agile, MS Dynamics, SAP, Manufacturing, maintenance and Business
Warehouse, and other MRP, ERP, OM/PM systems
Work History:
CNC Specialists 11/1988 - Present
. Sr. Continuous Improvement Consultant
o Proactively identify and develop highly effective Lean
manufacturing and Continuous Improvement teams through education
and data-mining events.
o Continuously identify and document opportunities for Process
improvements thru leadership and coaching; my teams have save
$$Millions, in materials, time and wages.
o Personally trained and empowered over 2000 "Students".
Synetics Solutions a Division of Brooks Automation
07/2006 - 05/2008
. SR. Process Engineer - Robotic wafer handling and atmospheric control
systems
o Manage, create & validate detailed manufacturing procedures, for
domestic and European suppliers to improve quality conformance
levels
. Facilitated Training programs for the reduction of non-
conforming products
. Developed detailed processing instructions & training for
suppliers.
o Engineering resource for Metals fabrication & CNC Machining
departments
Blount Inc (a $450 million chain saw products OEM)
11/2004 - 5/2006;
. Technical Trades Supervisor Tooling and equipment - component
fabrication
o Managed 50 highly skilled employees (Tool Room and Precision
Machinists).
o Developed Training and Project plans to reduce inventory and
department budget to target. Inventory brought under control
with 98% on-time delivery and JIT manufacturing techniques.
o Developed Training and Project plans to implement lean
manufacturing principles and as the primary motivator of the
employees I advocated and rewarded those that helped in the
implementation of Lean manufacturing Principles and we reduced
budget expenses by $5 million (62%) the first year. Target
budget was $3.5mm budget, actual documented budget recorded at
$3MM. Prior year budget documented at $8MM.
o Managed & Enforced foreign & domestic supplier quality
compliance requirements and improved on-time performance by 98%
o Sourced new suppliers for processed, and fabricated products,
established, audited, and enforced Quality standards, improving
conformance to requirements by 78% actual conformance measured
at 99%
Exactech Medical Devices
08/2003 - 06/2004
. SR .Mechanical Process Engineer - Project Manager
o Create & validate detailed ISO / CE compliant process & Quality
control procedures
o Champion Lean manufacturing efforts, motivating employees to
improve lead time by 50% and quality by 35%.
o Created Robust, SPC & Six sigma controlled manufacturing
processes
o Designed training program for and Implemented New technologies
to create Lights out automated manufacturing.
o Managed & Enforced foreign & domestic supplier quality
compliance requirements.
Valley Machine Service (a multi-tasking job shop)
11/2000 - 9/2002
. Manufacturing Operations Manager
o Developed training program and implemented Lean manufacturing
technology and developed Lights-out operations
o Managed 25 employees
o Designed training program and implemented the first "Dock-to
Stock" quality assurance program. Program proved to be 99%
effective. CARs were tag teamed to ensure noncompliant materials
would be targeted and the root cause found to eliminate further
noncompliances.
o Conducted goal planning and help create and monitor staff
development plans.
o Developed Detailed ISO / FDA / SPC compliant Processes and
documentation, administered and enforced process adherence on
the floor
Prior Work experience:
. 12 years as a Sr. Manufacturing Process Engineer in class II & III
medical device OEMs, (Bristol Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson).
. 12 years simultaneously teaching Advanced Manufacturing Technology at
IVY TECH State College,
. 12+ years providing ON-SITE training for local manufacturing
facilities with CNC Specialists.