Manager Engineer

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SENIOR EXECUTIVE LEADER / PLANT MANAGER

Proven Expertise and Demonstrated Leadership:

MBA . Engineer . Operational Excellence Management including Continuous

improvement Activities in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Morale .

Strategic Planning . Cross Functional, Cross Cultural Teamwork . Program

Management . Maintenance and Reliability . TPM . Lean . Six Sigma . Tooling

and Equipment . Problem Solving . ISO/TS16949 . Value Creation . Multi-site

Operations . Engineer . Capital Investment Budgeting . Japan expatriate

experience . Japanese Language Ability . Mexico Plant Management experience

. Proven ability to turn around struggling operations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visteon Corporation September 2008 - Present

Plant Manager, Fluid Transport - Coclisa San Lorenzo Plant, Juarez Mexico

Plant Manager with profit and loss responsibility associated with over

$50 million annual revenue business including over 500 employees.

Primary products produced are AC lines and other Fluid Transport lines

(tubes and hoses) for the automotive market including Ford, Nissan,

Chrysler and GM. San Lorenzo achieved improvements in all major metrics

by implementing increased standardized work, applying lean principles and

through strong leadership. Achievements include:

. Increased 4 Wall Profit from 6.2% to 24%. Generating $ 9.1 Million

increased profit.

. Reduced Labor and Overhead from 25.0% of Revenue to 18.5%. (26%

improvement)

. Increased efficiency and reduced Labor Costs by 39% on a cost per unit

basis.

. Improved and strengthened existing safety programs. Reduced

Recordable Incident rate 50% from 0.97 in 2008 to 0.48 incidents per

200,000 hours worked in 2009. Lost Time Case Rate = 0.00 with no

lost time incidents in over three years and over 5 Million safe man-

hours worked.

. Improved quality and reduced customer rejects over 80% from 18 defects

per million (18 ppm) to 3.4 defects per million (3.4 ppm) parts

shipped.

. Plant Team was recognized by Visteon Chairman and Chief Operating

Officer and awarded a "Leading the Way" Award for our successful

Nissan Project.

Nissan North America June 2007 - August 2008

Manufacturing New Model Program Manager June '07 - Aug. '08

. Lead cross functional team representing all areas of manufacturing,

quality, human resources, finance, etc. to develop and implement a

Manufacturing Plan and budgets to launch new vehicles.

. Studied feasibility and investment required to produce multiple Light

Commercial Vehicles for the US market. (Full size vans, heavy duty

pick up trucks, chassis cabs, etc.)

. Led cross functional team to achieve break through ideas reducing

infrastructure investment over $ 100 million.

Senior Manager - Value Network Optimization Mar. '07 - April '08

. Led and assembled new team to investigate all aspects of Nissan's

Value Network/Supply Chain, especially body-in-white. Goal was

evaluate past Make/Buy Strategies, challenge current practices in all

areas to add value and eliminate waste.

. Developed tools and strategies to improve supplier partnerships (Value

Network Reinforcement Activity).

. Team identified and implemented over $3 million in annual savings and

actively supported other initiatives to save an additional $10 million

in logistics and piece price savings.

Senior Manager - Body and Stamping Engineering (Smyrna and Canton) Jan.

'06 - Mar. '07

. Responsible for Stamping Engineering at both manufacturing sites.

. Developed 3, 5 and 10 year Capital Investment Strategy for both sites.

. Coordinated Stamping launch of long wheel base Titan Pick Up.

Department Manager - Maintenance (Stamping, Final Assembly, Plastics)

June '04 - Jan. '06

. Managed all aspects of Tire Assembly producing over 2.5 million wheels

and tire assemblies per year.

. Coordinated Maintenance and Reliability Improvement Activities for

over half of Smyrna facility. Staff ~ 250 skilled trade technicians,

engineers, and managers.

. Successfully launched new Pathfinder, Frontier Pickup Truck, and

Xterra SUV at 70 jobs per hour.

(17% faster than original equipment specification.)

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Department Manager - Stamping Operations, Press Maintenance, Tool & Die

Oct. '03 - June '04

. Managed all departments within largest stamping plant in Nissan's

global system.

. Plant produces over 30 million parts per year.

. Responsible for plant wide Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery.

. Successfully launched all new Maxima without a plant expansion.

. Production grew 5% per year to 30.6 million parts while labor hours

fell 1% (6% productivity improvement) while adding new models and

complexity using ten to twenty year old presses. Auto Industry

benchmark report Harbour Report documented "Nissan's stamping operation

in Smyrna, Tenn., improved across nearly every one of stamping's basket

of measures." (2004)

. Maintained excellent Employee relations with UAW organizing efforts

continually rejected by our technicians by two to one margin.

. Led team of 350 employees.

. Total Stamping annual operating budget approximately $180 million.

Fiscal year $6 million favorable to budget.

Department Manager - Stamping Press Maintenance, Tool & Die Apr. '00 -

Oct. '03

. Reduced OSHA Recordable and Lost Time rates 67% to single digit levels.

. Led team of 150 skilled trades technicians and engineers

. Coordinated all Stamping new model activities including Maxima, Quest,

Titan, Armada and QX56.

. Coordinated initial plans and manufacturing budgeting for our new

stamping plant in Canton, MS.

Section Manager - Stamping Tool & Die Oct. '97 - Apr. '00

. Managed Largest Die Shop in Nissan System, >1000 dies

. Managed staff of approximately 100 including skilled trade Die Repair

Technicians, Engineers and Managers.

. Served on Steering Committee for successful ISO9002 Certification for

Stamping Plant.

Lead Stamping Engineer - 98 Model Year Altima June '94 - Oct. '97

Second generation Altima, first all new model produced in Smyrna, $20M

project

Long Term Foreign Assignment in Japan (19 months residency in Japan)

Jan. '95 to July '96

. Coordinated Stamping Tooling Development including trials, buy-off and

shipping to US.

. Coordinated Manufacturing Plan Development

. Simultaneous Engineering Feedback from Manufacturing to Design for

Stamping Issues regarding quality, ease of manufacture. Activities

resulted in record few design changes saving over $320,000 compared to

similar projects.

. Coordinated in plant Stamping trials including Quality and

Productivity Improvements

. Established standards for Stamping Engineering new model development

procedures. Standards remain in use as of 2008.

Manufacturing Engineer - Stamping June '89 - June '94

. Coordinated installation of two large transfer presses and large try-

out press including Checkout, Installation and Start Up

. Led investigation and repair of design problems on two 2700T Transfer

presses.

. Identified root cause of design problem and proposed

countermeasures.

. Served as "expert witness" in successful litigation to resolve

the issues.

. Responsible for Sentra Project

. Improved output and productivity of large tri-axis transfer stamping

presses.

EDUCATION

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Dec. 2008

Masters in Business Administration (Honors Graduate)

Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN June 1989

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering (Honors Graduate)

Continuing Professional Development Programs Education

. Japanese Language Training; Spanish Language Training, Certified V-

Pilot and V-Fast Facilitator (Nissan In house training similar to Six

Sigma Black Belt); Numerous Leadership, Safety, Lean, Problem Solving

and other professional training.

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