Richard A. Colangelo

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Monroe, NC 28110

864-***-**** Cell

ablsnx@r.postjobfree.com

General Manager of Operations

Past experience as General Manager of Operations responsible for profit and

loss of three automotive plants in the Midwest with revenue of $71M. He has

outstanding lean manufacturing background utilizing continuous improvement.

Created incremental gains and major breakthroughs to provide growth and

increased profitability through improved cost, quality, and delivery.

Strengths include development of improvement strategies, strategic

planning, organizational development, and system optimization and

synchronization. Past direction of engineering design activities, from

customer discovery through delivery with revenues totaling $50M. Recent

experience has been as General Manager of Southeast Operations consisting

of two injection molding plants with revenues totaling nearly $52M and 400

employees. Currently, Plant Manager of a green field expansion plant

serving the beverage industry.

Manufacturing Product Design and Development

Operations Management Engineering Management

Plant Management Project Management

Production Management Product Design

Continuous Improvement Research and Development

Industrial Engineering Processes

Manufacturing Engineering Stamping, Welding, Painting, Plating,

Finishing Engineering Injection Molding, Die Cast, Vacuum

Forming,

Process Design and Development Vacuum Metalizing, Electroplating,

Packaging,

Logistics Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Equipment Building

Responsibilities and Accomplishments

Bericap SC, LLC : Cowpens, SC 2007-Present

Bericap is a global manufacturer of closures (plastic bottle caps)

serving the beverage industry. North America operations are centered in

Burlington, Ontario Canada with two sites in the United States. Bericap

SC, LLC is a green field 24/7 operation directed at sales east of the

Mississippi. Currently we have 9 injection molding machines, with

capability of top printing and laser etching. This 89,000 square foot

building site is to expand to 48 presses and double the square footage

on 28 acres. Notable customers are Coke, Pepsi, Nestle, and Crystal

Geyser to mention a few.

(Continued) Bericap SC, LLC : Cowpens, SC 2007-Present

Title Held: Plant Manager

Responsibilities include the P&L, HR, Materials, Shift Supervison,

Quality, Maintenance, and Processing. This is a highly automated plant,

only requiring 42 employees to produce 5.1 billion closures per year

and processing 24 million lbs of HDPE resin.

Wilbert Plastic Services : Harrisburg, NC and ST. Matthews, SC

2003-2007

Wilbert Plastic Services (Formerly Morton Custom Plastics) is a

subsidiary of Wilbert Inc. with Revenues totaling $244M. Harrisburg is

a custom molder with 38 presses ranging from 83T to 1760T with revenue

of $31M. Harrisburg is primarily molds, assembles, and paints for the

recreational and IT markets. ST. Matthews is a large custom molder with

28 presses ranging from 150T to 3500T with revenue of $21M. ST.

Matthews molds, assembles, and paints for the Agricultural and

Recreational markets.

Title Held: General Manger of Southeast Divisions - Harrisburg, NC and ST.

Matthews, SC

Responsibilities include the plant management of two facilities

totaling $52M, P&L, continuous improvement, promoting growth

opportunities for the plants, and the restructuring and turn around of

ST. Mathews.

Injectronics Inc. : Burlington, NC 2002-2003

Injectronics has revenues of $65M and is a tier 1 supplier of interior

trim and under hood injection molded products to the automotive market.

Manufacturing locations are in Burlington, NC, Wauseon, Ohio, and

Clinton, Mass. The Clinton plant also supplies injection-molded

products to the medical industry. Design and development services are

headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan and support product

launches for Ford, Chrysler, GM, Lear, Behr, and IBM.

Title Held: Engineering and Quality Manager

Responsibilities include direct responsibility for 25 people over

engineering, quality, and tooling. Engineering's role is to introduce new

product launches through the APQP process, maintain tool efficiencies and

upgrades, address customer issues and changes, work with sales and design

and development of new business, and champion lean manufacturing throughout

the plant. Quality's role is to manage the PFMEA, control plans, PPAP/PSOs,

SPC, DOE, quality rejects/concerns, interface with customer incoming

quality in the plants, internal/surveillance audits, document control of

QS9000 and ISO 14001, gage R&R, metrology, tool revalidations, in-process

inspections, and overall floor quality, and QOS metrics. Tooling

responsibilities include PM, mold upgrades, new tool introductions,

customer changes, end of arm development, and minor maintenance work

related to the all subassembly equipment and injection molding machines.

Honeywell: Indianapolis, IN 2000-2002

General Electric has revenues of $150B worldwide. The Power and

Transportation division is $2B with $1B from the turbo charger, automotive

diesel engine, and transmission industry.

General Manager Operations - Midwest Region

Responsible for the profit and loss of a $1M transmission cooler facility

in Kenosha, Wisconsin (5 employees, 15,000 sq. ft.), a $11M exhaust and

transmission cooler facility in Burkesville, KY (12 staff employees, 60

operators two shifts, 50,000 sq. ft.), and the start up of a new $60M

exhaust gas cooler facility in Indianapolis, Indiana (150 employees, 80-

120,000 sq. ft.).

. Directed Operations, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, Planning and

Scheduling, Accounting, Human Resources, Health/Safety &

Environmental, and Shipping and Receiving.

. Development of Improvement Strategies, Productivity Metrics, and

Growth.

. Responsibilities included plant shutdowns and moves, hiring/firing,

CAPEX/MATEX/and OPEX reviews, ISO and QS certification, and union

labor negotiations and contracts.

. Utilize black belt quality manager, buyer, planner, and maintenance

manager to perform statistical analysis, equipment capability,

development of control plans, optimization plans, defect reduction,

vendor qualification and development, maintenance schedules to control

systems, sub-systems, component and/or material levels.

. Processes: Stamping, machining, welding (seem and spot), copper and

silver brazing, hydraulics, pneumatics, and painting. Materials:

aluminum, brass, stainless steel, steel, and cast iron.

Batesville Casket Company: Batesville, Indiana 1996-2000

Batesville Casket Company is a subsidiary of Hillenbrand Industries with

revenues of $2B serving the Funeral Industry. They are the largest

manufacturers in the world of caskets and urns totaling over 750,000 per

year in 6 plants. Batesville has plant locations in Nashua, NH, Batesville,

IN, Campbellsville, KY, Manchester, TN, Batesville, Mississippi, and

Vickesburg, Mississippi.

Manufacturing Special Projects Manager

. Management of continuous improvement teams to improve cost, quality,

delivery, and processes within 5 plants. Responsibilities included

working with a specialized team of engineers utilizing the Toyota

Production System. Lean manufacturing principles such as kaizen, kanban,

and six-sigma theory were used to eliminate waste, floor space,

headcount, and reduce our lead-time to the customer. By using these

techniques plants were consolidated, processes improved, and new

technologies were implemented.

. Processes: Stamping, machining, screw machining, coil slitting, welding

(seem and spot), painting, plating, die casting, electroplating,

injection molding, vacuum forming. Materials: copper, bronze, stainless

steel, steel, and iron.

Marketing Engineering Manager - Premium Products

. Management of new product development from conception through

manufacturing development.

Premium Steel Engineering Manager

. Directed the growth of the premium market through analysis of the

customer buying trends, market tests, product development, and process

development.

TRW-Transportation Electronics Division: Detroit, Michigan 1995-1996

TRW is an electronics division with revenues of $450M serving the

automotive industry. Principal sales in window, seat, headlamp, and sunroof

switches, and climate controls. They have plants in Reynosa, Mexico and

Radolfzel, Germany.

HVAC Responsible Engineering Manager

. Development of a new climate control division supporting the Big Three

from mechanical through sophisticated automatic controls.

Responsible Engineering Manager/Program Manager - Chrysler

. Directed 11 employees in the design, development, and implementation of

switches for Chrysler's Corporate Technology Center. Platforms: Jeep

Grand Cherokee, JA, JX, LH, NS, and PL.

Delco Electronics: Kokomo, Indiana 1988-1995

Delco Electronics is a $1B automotive electronics company providing

instrumentation, climate controls, radio, and other electronic products

worldwide. They have 4 plants in Reynosa Mexico and 1 plant in Kokomo, IN.

International Customer Discovery Engineer

. Specialized team of 10 engineers working out of Luxembourg with the

Automotive Electronics Group and Harrison to design and develop

climate control systems for Europe and the Asia Pacific markets.

Lead Engineering Manager/Program Manager

. Directed 20 engineers and $50M of business for General Motors North

American Truck Platform and Chrysler/Nissan North American Non-Allied

Divisions. Responsibilities included the development of climate

controls from customer discovery through delivery, development of

business proposals, platform technical interface of systems, and

supervision of engineer's projects.

Product Development Engineer

. Design and development of steering wheel controls, radios,

instrumentation, and climate controls. Experienced in GD&T, QFD, DFM,

VE, DFMEA/PFMEA, FEA, CAD/CAE. Use 6 sigma tools for design and

development planning.

Holiday Rambler Corporation: Wakarusa, IN 1985-1988

Holiday Rambler Corporation is the 3rd largest recreational manufacturer in

the world. They manufacture class "A", class "C", travel trailers, 5th

wheels, box trucks, and kitchen cabinetry

New Products Engineer - R&D

. Responsible for the research design and development of cockpit

consoles, dashes, door panels, exterior trim (fascia, front and rear

modules, body panels), trailer hitches, lighting, and vehicle

electronics. Also, responsible for the structural analysis of frame

loading.

RMH Group Consulting Engineers: Lakewood, Colorado 1984-

1985

RMH Group Consulting Engineers are facility design consultants for the

commercial and industrial industries

Consulting Engineer - Industrial and Commercial Facilities

. Facility design of IBM industrial mix rooms and solvent recovery

systems. Facility design of commercial downtown high rises

Education

. BSME, University of Evansville 1984

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