Engineer Manufacturing

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HOTTEST SKILLS: engineer, inventory, product, forecasting, forecasting, forecast,

microsoft, sale, purchasing, as/400, data structure, odbc, oracle, programming,

aggressive, convention, audit, budget

REVISION: 08-SEP-02

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Brian McAvoy Greenville, SC 864-***-**** ***********@*****.*** Brian P. McAvoy,

CPIM

411 Bradley Court

864-***-**** (home)

Greenville, SC 29615864-***-**** (office)

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954-***-**** (fax)

Education & Formal Qualifications

* University of Wisconsin

- Madison, BS - Mechanical Engineering, May,

1990,

GPA 3.4/4.0

* General Electric Manufacturing Management Program,

June 1990 to July

1992

Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) by the

American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), January, 1994

* ISO 9000 Lead Auditor Training, November, 1994

* New Horizons, Advanced Microsoft Office Training, 1999

Work Experience

Manager

-North American Forecasting & Demand Planning

Dunlop Slazenger Group Americas - Supply Chain Management

June'97

- present

Greenville, SC

* Managing five salaried direct reports in executing the forecasting,

demand planning and purchasing processes for over 5,000 internationally

sourced items with typical life cycles of 12 to 24 months.

* Responsibilities expanded in January 1999 to include Canada; expanded

again in February 2000 to include Slazenger golf balls. Total purchasing

authority now in excess of $80M per year supporting $140M+ in sales.

* Lead three implementations of the Demand Solutions forecasting and

DRP systems - all of which have been up and running on time and within

budget.

* Received Crystal Ball Award for outstanding user contributions from

Demand Solutions.

* Reduced inventory by 36% while sales have grown 11% from February

1998

to February 2000. Inventory days forward cover reduced from 100 days to

46 days in that same period.

Senior Consulting Engineer

Datastream Systems

- Professional Services

September '95

- May 97

Greenville, SC

* Trained and consulted with over 375 customers representing 100

companies in multiple industries on downtime, inventory and maintenance cost

reduction via proper setup, implementation and daily use of Datastream's

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems.

* Selected from over 35 engineers to handle the critical Frito-Lay

rollout involving over 40 plants nationwide. Frito-Lay was the first major

implementation of Datastream's Oracle-based client/server software. In

this role I developed and executed a customized facility agenda, traveled 100%

and worked closely with Frito-Lay representatives, serving as the liaison

between Datastream and Frito-Lay.

Master Scheduler - Rotating Components

GE Power Generation - Gas Turbine Manufacturing

March '95

- August '95

Greenville, SC

* Oversaw production scheduling and engineering change integration

across seven work cells.

* Drove issue identification and resolution for multiple repair and

rebuild rotors in order to avoid or minimize late delivery penalties of up to

$4M per week.

* Lead aggressive effort to reduce inventory from $75M to $35M in 6

months.

* Saved $100K per day in liquidated damages with a digital photo

transmission system which was setup in less than one week.

Project Leader

- Manufacturing Execution System

GE Power Generation - Gas Turbine Manufacturing

June '94

- February 95

Greenville, SC

* Co-lead a $1.3M plant-wide Manufacturing Execution System initiative

to integrate production and engineering systems in support of a JIT

environment.

* Facilitated cross-functional sessions which systematically identified

and resolved issues encountered in the transition to a JIT manufacturing

system.

Process Engineer

GE Power Generation - Gas Turbine Manufacturing

November '92

- June '94

Greenville, SC

* Achieved cycle reductions as follows:

>Turbine Shell assembly from 19 to 10 days (47%)

>Inlet assembly from 19 to 11 days (42%)

>Diaphragm machining from 40 to 30 days (25%)

These cycle reductions were critical in reducing inventory from $25M (4Q

'92) to $15M (4Q '93).

* Organized and lead a cross-functional team in an ambitious $600K

initiative to automate the collection of nozzle area and harmonics data,

dropping cycle time from 10 to 2 days.

* Established multiple work teams via an intensive Week of

Change training process.

Project Engineer

GE Appliances - Rotary Compressor Operations

August '92

- November '92

Columbia, TN

* Saved $100K per year by finalizing the qualification of a new vendor

process for the roller blank.

* Performed an in-depth statistical analysis with paired data which

conclusively revealed the root cause of a nagging concentricity problem.

Packaging Engineer

GE Lighting - Incandescent Lamp Manufacturing

July '91

- July '92

St. Louis, MO

* Lead a $220K project aimed at reducing packaging inventories and

cycle time. In this role I specified, purchased and installed a uniquely

flexible automated labeling system.

Shop Floor Supervisor

GE Transportation Systems - Locomotive Final Test

March '91

- June '91

Erie, PA

* Oversaw thirteen people on third shift in the locomotive paint and

final test area.

Process Quality Engineer, GE Transportation Systems

GE Transportation Systems - Control Electronics Mfg.

June '90

- March '91

Erie, PA

* Served as technical advisor for a pilot project applying SPC

techniques to the flow solder process.

* Established the Unit Exchange Review Board to provide regular

disposition of technical problems.

Co-op Engineer, Wisconsin Electric - Point Beach Nuclear Plant

Lab Assistant, UW Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Computer Consultant, UW Computer-Aided Engineering Lab

June'87 - May 90

Qualifications, Honors, Memberships and Interests

* Active member of APICS.

* Advanced training and extensive experience with all Microsoft Office

applications, including Access and programming in Visual Basic for

Applications.

* Familiar with a broad variety of computer systems, applications and

conventions. Examples include AS/400, ODBC, Crystal Reports, data structures

and the Internet.

* Experienced with SPC, process mapping, Kaizen, group facilitation and

other continuous improvement tools.

* Interests include travel, business, music, weightlifting and skiing.

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