Project Manager Engineering

RICK D. KESIG, P.E.

SENIOR MANUFACTURING EXECUTIVE

Successful combination of engineering, manufacturing and senior management skills

Visionary professional with a strong record of achievement. Recognized for my ability to identify

areas for corporate-wide improvement, and quickly implement strategic and tactical plans that

ensure bottom line success in a manufacturing company. Specific competencies include:

Executive Manufacturing Management Design/ ASME/ Finite Element Analysis

Kaizen Organizational Visionary

Global Experience Employee Empowerment

Mechanical Engineering Pressure Vessel Design/Manufacture

Product Innovation Strategic Planning Initiatives

Project Management Cost Controls

Concurrent Engineering Cross-Functional Team Management

CONTRIBUTIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Improved manufacturing efficiencies and lowered product costs by implementing lean

techniques to change manufacturing practices and creating innovative design and procedural

solutions that significantly reduced labor hours and material costs.

Professional engineer who is sought out and consulted by progressive and dynamic

companies worldwide for technical knowledge and engineering expertise to solve their

product and process problems.

Executive level manager that establishes engineering metrics for improved performance

while creating new products and new feature concepts that has resulted in patents being issued

by the U.S. Patent Office and regular new product releases to increase sales.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vice President, Engineering/Plant Operations 1989-Present

Littleford Day, Inc Florence, Kentucky

Manufacturer of industrial mixers for the food, pharmaceutical, chemical and plastic industries.

Used visionary leadership skills and strategic planning initiatives to transform Littleford Day,

Inc into a nimble organization. This resulted in utilizing a higher level of technology to generate

new products with improved quality which met the rapidly changing market needs for their

products.

• Shortened new product initiative releases by more than 75% which created market

growth by applying innovative technology to the entire product-life cycle using 3-D

Modeling, Finite Element Analysis, Stereolithography and other corporate software packages.

• Reduced overall equipment cost 18 to 35% by championing a program to develop a new

configuration of mixers while maintaining and improving the reliability, quality and

performance of the product line.

• Improved teamwork, efficiency, flexibility and market responsiveness in the engineering

department by reorganizing personnel according to technical qualifications, implementing

measurement metrics and documenting engineering standards.

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• Authorized by the Board of Directors to implement Lean tools company wide resulting

in a program that changed the corporate culture, improved productivity in all areas and

created an atmosphere for continuous improvement.

• Facilitated and administrated face-to-face customer meetings to develop quotations,

designs and technical analysis for mixers to solve their specific processing problems.

Engineering Manager 1985-1989

Klöckner Ferromatik Desma Erlanger, Kentucky

American manufacturer of plastic and rubber injection molding machines for this German based

company. Created standards and procedures to increase productivity and technical capabilities

for the entire company.

• Spearheaded the creation of an engineering standards reference manual complete with

policies, standard machine structures, specific calculations and technical specifications used

by the engineering department as their sole repository of design information.

• Jointly organized and implemented a corporate central computer system for company

wide access to equipment parts and structured bills of material that improved

interdepartmental communication and ensured accurate information transfer.

• Consolidated a sister company’s engineering department and restructured personnel to

handle a broader product base that reduced overhead expenses and created additional

resource capabilities.

• Company productivity reached a zenith by concurrently engineering, releasing and

manufacturing five new style machines on a short time schedule.

Project Engineer 1984-1985

Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Cincinnati, Ohio

Engineering Project Manager 1976-1984

American Laundry Machinery Cincinnati, Ohio

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Patent #5,735,603 issued April 1998

Patent #6,076,754 issued June 2000

Patent #6,471,394 issued October 2002

Patent #6,622,514 issued September 2003

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