David Yates

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Cookeville, TN *8501

Mobile: 931-***-**** email: abl1dk@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Motivational management style with a history of building strong, self

sustaining teams that improve departmental and plant performance.

Experienced with Lean concepts - including acting as a kaizen facilitator in

both shop floor and office engagements.

Implemented multiple ERP systems as well as kanban and other visual pull

systems.

Multi-plant responsibility.

Knowledgeable in production control, inventory control, warehousing,

operations, and purchasing.

Professional Experience

Macresco, Inc., Cookeville, TN President and Owner

06/03 - Present

Macresco, Inc. specializes in assembly, kitting, packaging, and fulfillment.

Consulting is also done out of Macresco, Inc.

Acted as the agent to establish the business with the State of Tennessee.

Obtained all customers to begin the business before hiring a sales rep.

Created all company documentation including forms, employee manual, quality

manual, work instructions, and all policies and procedures to ISO standards.

Set-up all production lines using lean techniques to eliminate waste.

Consulted during this time span for materials management; lean events -

production line kaizen events, warehouse layout kaizens, plant material flow

projects, kanban creation. Also held positions as interim plant manager and

managing director for a plant in the UK.

Textron, 11182 Highway 17 South Lavonia, GA 30553 - Materials Manager

02/02 - 04/05

Part of the management team that represented Textron in its winning of the

Industry Week's Top Ten Plants Award.

Consistently held inventory at greater than 40 turns.

Created electronic kanban system to schedule washer system finished goods.

Facilitated several kaizen events that resulted in such things as the

elimination of shifts, more ergonomic part presentation, and contributed to

new standards for line layout.

Part of Six Sigma team that addressed North American freight compliance and

developed milk runs to reduce freight charges, provide more timely delivery,

and standardized the shipping process. Actions were driven by the goal of

having a Plan for Every Part.

BBA - Nonwovens, 70 Old Hickory Boulevard Old Hickory, TN 37138 - Director of

Materials

01/01 - 02/02

Responsible for customer service for the North American Industrial division,

production planning for three North American plants, supply function of the

Ollie Wight S&OP process, and leading the Industrial division in lean

practices.

Coordinated kaizen events that reduced floor space by over 20%, doubled yards

per equivalent hour, and eliminated overtime while obtaining a performance to

schedule of 97% by changing scheduling techniques.

Part of team that sourced one supplier for packaging supplies for all North

American plants. Stretch wrap, tape, labels, etc. are now all vendor managed.

Benefits included reduced supplier base, lower purchase price, and lower

transactional cost.

David Yates

1459 Newhall Circle

Cookeville, TN

Nashville Tempered Glass, 1860 Air Lane Drive Nashville, TN 37210 - Materials

Director

11/00 - 01/01

Part of team hired by the Bank of America to "turn around" NTG

Responsible for inventory control, production planning, customer service,

shipping and receiving, bills of materials and routing, purchasing, invoicing,

price maintenance, and IT.

Reorganized customer service to improve customer relations by dedicating

specialist for each customer while giving the specialist input into scheduling

decisions. Actions improved delivery ratings with NTG's largest "specials"

customer over forty percentage points.

NTG was sold after one year of ownership by Bank of America.

Textron Automotive, 100 Textron Way Athens, TN 37303 - Materials Manager

08/99 - 11/00

Responsible for inventory control, production planning, customer service,

supplier releasing, shipping and receiving, material handling, bills of

materials and routing, two plant based buyers, and also managing the

production cell for Ford and GM service.

Reduced total inventory by one million dollars in a three-month period by

providing training and guidelines for use of Textron's ERP system, converting

material releasing to min/max and kanban systems, and converting local

suppliers to point of use deliveries.

Involved in removing logistics control from third party source to a plant

controlled operation that resulted in annual savings of over $150,000.

Reduced warehouse space from 50,000 ft2 to less than 35,000 ft2 allowing for

additional production space.

Wynn's-Precision, 104 Hartmann Dr. Lebanon, TN 37087 - Production Control

Manager

02/98 - 08/99

Accountable for production and inventory control at three Tennessee

manufacturing facilities. Directly supervised all scheduling personnel at two

plants and had dotted line responsibility for scheduling at one sister plant.

Lead the order entry and manufacturing portion of Wynn's manufacturing

software conversion.

Assisted in the implementation of serialized label tracking at the three

Tennessee plants.

SW Manufacturing, 1111 West Broad Street Smithville, TN 37166 - Assistant

Materials Mgr.

09/94 - 02/98

Primary responsibility for production control at SWM's two-plant operation

(SWM-TN and SWM-GA).

Production control task included: customer service; all packaging issues with

the customer from design to the implementation and maintenance; scheduling all

pre-production builds; capacity analysis for all assembly lines and 15

stamping presses at both plants; production scheduling; monitoring and

controlling all inventories; material releases to vendors; maintaining all

kanban systems; assuring production's compliance to the schedule.

Progressed from specialist, to plant production control manager, to corp.

asst. materials manager.

One of only three managers assigned to the start up of SWM - GA, LLC.

Member of team that oversaw the transfer of 170 stamping dies and 6 production

cells to SWM-GA.

Implemented full use of the ERP system for the first time at SW.

Integrated internal kanban system with the ERP system. Used kanban to drive

internal material movement and ERP to drive forecast and releases to

suppliers.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration - Management. TENNESSEE

TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Cookeville, TN 38505. Accredited by American

Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business.

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