Gregory (Chip) M. Pyles Jr.

Akron, Ohio – 216-***-**** – ac0jxu@r.postjobfree.com

“He has demonstrated an outstanding aptitude to

learn new technologies and the ability to

investigate customer issues to solutions. His

customer facing abilities as well as his organization skills have created outstanding long-term working

relationships with prospective clients.”

- Manager MES/Solution Architect

Leading the Charge in IT Roadmaps for Business & Manufacturing Growth Strategies

Gregory has more than fifteen years of experience in system analysis of plant floor manufacturing. Since his early days of process engineering, he has continued to create a strong presence using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in every project. He has led or has been a team member of numerous successful start to finish project lifecycles. He is now more involved with internal and external clients’ engagements that include, but not

limited to, responding to RFI / RFQs,

Statement of Works and Blueprinting

sessions. He has been involved with

numerous successful SDLCs. His career is

a little unconventional, but it has prepared

him to understand every subject matter

expert’s request and that has allowed him

to lead a very successful career. He is well

prepared and is ready to take the next

logical step in his career.

He is a well rounded individual that is involved with many non profit organizations in the community. Currently, Gregory is the Executive Director and co-Founder of a nonprofit organization called Inspiring Hope for Families (IHF). Here, he works part time to apply the methods he uses in his professional career to standardize how the nonprofit operates. Our mission is to provide assistance to those in need while utilizing the community and in turn allowing the community to pay it forward to others in need.

Areas of Expertise

IT Roadmaps – Control Systems – ISA 95 – Plant Connectivity – Team-Building – Project Management Manufacturing – MESA – Architecture Strategy – Offshore Development – Traceability / Accountability – Lean Manufacturing – Six Sigma – Project Management – ERP – Process Engineering – Risk Management – RFI / RFQ – Budget Planning – Business Continuity – Strategic Technology Planning Gregory’s Profile

Industries

Technical and Application Proficiencies

Professional Experience

Information Systems – Columbia, Maryland (Movilitas) Movilitas is a world leader in Track and Trace and Supply Chain by delivering successful projects for manufacturing partners. Well established in Europe, Gregory has been brought on to provide advice as a Subject Matter Expert while assisting presales engagement with current and potential clients. Gregory leads his team of project managers, junior and senior developers to ensure a 100% successful turnover of projects. Project description / scope:

Configuration and lead SAP Mfg systems in accordance with customer blueprint and business needs. Role:

Presales / Business Development (SAP MII / ME Consultant) Duration:

10/2016 – current

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Conception and implementation of SAP MII and SAP ME projects

Analyze customers’ existing manufacturing processes and document the requirements

Create architectures and deploy solutions

Implementation, customization and developments of SAP MII, Pco and ME based on customer requirements

PCo & UDS - OPC sources (Configurations) – SAP Netweaver (Installation) – Oracle (Development, Db Administration) – MS SQL (Development, Db Administration) – SAP Ramp up (SAP ME, SAP MII, PCo)

– SAP ME RDS Certification efforts – MS Office Applications – Project Management (SDLC & ASAP) – Solution Architect – SAP MII – SAP ME – Control Systems – MES Systems – Baan – ERP LN – Industry 4.0 – Industrial IoT

Air & Gas Supplier Manufacturing – Aviation – Aerospace –Fiber Glass Manufacturing – Process & Motion Control Manufacturing – Premium Alumina (Ceramics) – Chicken Processing – Pharmaceuticals

– Missile Defense – Welding

Gregory’s Profile

Supports the sales team in presales activities such as preparing and performing demonstrations of technology, architecture and applications to the customer, estimates efforts based on customer workshops to prepare quotations

Information Systems – Akron, Ohio (Bane Industrial Solutions, Inc) Greif – Industrial Packaging Products

Greif required a manufacturing expert who could pick up a new ERP system and help out with their extensive rollout project to numerous sites. During this time, it is required to learn the new Baan ERP system and train the users how to do their normal job on the new system. Project description / scope:

Understand Baan ERP and train the users

Role:

Baan ERP Trainer

Duration:

08/2016 – current

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Quickly understand unique business processes

Act as liaison between Information Technology, business and manufacturing needs.

Debug and test processes in the ERP and report to IT Meggitt PLC – Aircraft Braking Systems

Meggitt required a functional engineer who was an expert of manufacturing processes and had experience with the implementation process across multiple sites. It is required to review the documentation that the system integrators have created and prepare the sites for deployment. Review and advise Meggitt of all infrastructure changes and improvements that are needed along with improvements to hardware according to software requirements across six manufacturing sites. The software deployed was SAP ME and SAP MII for their Discrete and Process Manufacturing areas. Project description / scope:

Configuration and lead SAP MES systems in accordance with business realization and business needs. Role:

Manufacturing Exection Functional Engineer

MES Consultanting

Pre-Sales Engagement

Duration:

Gregory’s Profile

real asset to our client. Providing exceptional functional leadership in areas Manufacturing and

Supply Chain Processes, the feedback on his

value to the organization he's currently supporting has been exceptional. ... great to work with and

has an excellent work ethic. I would highly

recommend him for future clients / projects

- Managing Partner

01/2016 – 07/2016

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Process Control

Deployment of scalable project to

six locations

Dashboarding of OEEs and KPIs

Leading efforts to improve IT

processes

Overseeing technical projects in

alignment with organizational goals

Integration of Resource Planning

and MES Legacy Systems

RFP & SOW management

Oversight of consultants and business to improve project flow

DFARS / ITAR compliance

Ensures alignment of engineering and corporate strategy. Configures technology road maps to marketing strategy. Anticipates and reacts to major technology changes to ensure the maintenance of company leadership in the marketplace.

Leads the execution of technology strategy for technology platforms, partnerships, and external relationships. Establishes networks at most senior levels and leverages those networks accordingly.

Develops and implements group-wide engineering policies, processes and tools. Establishes technical standards and ensures adherence to them for product and technology development.

Develops and implements validation and deployment plan across six plants in three countries.

Establishes and directs a world-class operations and procurement function setting group-wide key performance indicator targets and benchmarks. Builds capability across the Group.

Defines and implements for common policies, processes, tools and templates for use across the Group

Drive business initiatives

Nonprofit – Akron, Ohio (IHF)

Led a team of volunteers to establish a network of volunteers among churches, organizations and services. The idea was to keep the volunteer ring small and close knitted to allow the pooling of volunteers to act effectively to help those in their time of need. Project description / scope:

Nonprofit creation and blueprint layout for the future. Role:

Executive Director

Duration:

08/2015 – current

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Gregory’s Profile

• Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals

• Actively engage and energize volunteers, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders

• Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations as well as for the national rollout

• Lead, coach, develop, and retain high-performance senior management team Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents

• Design the national expansion and complete the strategic business planning process for the program expansion into new markets

• Begin to build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders at each expansion site

• Be an external local and national presence that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as a model for regional and national replication Information Systems – Greenwood Village, Colorado (Ciber) Clients from various industries include pharma, food, chemical, defense, aerospace and machinery. Project lead from a techno/functional role for most of the projects. Technical support, instructor and process improvement for other roles. Implemented a “lights out” hybrid for a discrete manufacturing firm for bearings using SAP ME, SAP MII and PCo. Improved a discrete manufacturing firm by adding more sub operations to the process using SAP MII. Improvements to a batch managed area of manufacturing. All manufacturing firms used SAP ECC and connected via SAP MII to the shop floor or to SAP ME to the shop floor.

Project description / scope:

Configuration and lead SAP Mfg systems in accordance with customer blueprint and business needs. Role:

Solution Architect / Project Lead

MES Consultant

Pre-Sales Engagement

Duration:

09/2011 – 11/01/2015

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Gregory’s Profile

Overseeing technical projects in alignment with organizational goals

Leading efforts to improve IT processes

Design, create and support infrastructure architecture

Develop, test, and implement reporting needs using MII

Develop, test and implement PCo for Shop Floor Control

Act as liaison between Information Technology, business and manufacturing needs.

RFP & SOW management

Expanding my knowledge in the MES world by learning SAP ME for discrete manufacturing

Develops and implements validation and deployment plan for almost every project.

Understanding of time management's role in project's life cycle along with key dependencies.

Solutions include pharma and fiber glass manufacturing

SAP Ramp up efforts of deployment of SAP ME 6.1, SAP MII 14.0 and PCo 2.3

Currently, working on SAP ME Rapid Deployment Solution Certification Training

• SAP ME 5.2 & 6.0

Information Systems - New York, New York (Tata Consultancy Services) Project Lead and Project Manager for aerospace and defense firm. This firm lacked the ability to track multiple project task lists for different areas of our Factory of the Future project. Reviewed all tasks list and organized it and prioritized them to the main project’s milestones. Under budget and on time for our deployment. SAP MII was used to control AGVs carrying sensitive material and process complex manufacturing tasks the operator was required to perform. Along with project management documentation, all design and test scripts were updated and delivered as part of the project. Performed as-is assessments and delivered requirements for new projects for multiple firms in food, high tech manufacturing and lawn care.

Project description / scope:

Configuration and lead SAP Mfg systems in accordance with customer blueprint and business needs. Role:

Solution Architect / Project Manager

Duration:

04/2011 – 9/2011

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Overseeing technical projects in alignment with organizational goals

Supervising a team of workers, while working closely with management, external vendors and advisors

Directing the effective delivery of networks, development, and disaster recovery systems and processes

Preparing financial budgets and presenting proposals for capital projects to senior executives

Leading efforts to improve IT processes

Design, create and support infrastructure architecture Gregory’s Profile

Each major milestone was met with the

customer expressing very positive reviews of

software performance and the result was the

extension of the contract to other manufacturing

facilities. This was due in part from Chip's

technical and project management skills to include his ability to adjust to changing customer

requirements

- Manufacturing Operations and Program

Manager Professional

showed a great amount of dedication and effort to learn as much as he could in the short time he

had when brought on-board in the middle of the

project. His work from there on only improved

dramatically all while showing great leadership

skills as well

- Sr. Solution Architect

Develop, test, and implement reporting needs using MII

Develop, test and implement UDS for Shop Floor Control

Act as liaison between Information

Technology, business and

manufacturing needs.

Expense Reporting Management

liaison between internal management

and customers

Understanding of time management's

role in project's life cycle along with

key dependencies.

Solutions include military, office

equipment and food processing

Manage teams up to four members

possessing junior and senior level developer titles Information Systems - New York, New York (Tata Consultancy Services) PCo and SAP MII developer of AGV communications for aerospace and defense manufacturing firm. A strong understanding as to how the AGVs communicate to SAP MII allowed us to easily move the AGVs around the site with sensitive material to each of the workstations on the shop order’s BOM. Delivered Design documentation and Test Scripts for all of the processes that involved the AGVs. Project description / scope:

Configuration and develop SAP Mfg systems in accordance with customer blueprint and business needs. Role:

Senior SAP Solutions Developer

Duration:

11/2009 – 4/2011

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Leading efforts to improve IT processes

Design, create and support infrastructure architecture

Develop, test, and implement reporting needs using MII,

Develop, test and implement UDS for Shop Floor Control

Act as liaison between Information

Technology, business and

manufacturing needs.

Delivered demos and pre-sales

presentations to prospective

customers

Provide project management and

technical leadership.

Engage with the business leadership teams to ensure alignment of IT priorities with business needs. Gregory’s Profile

Develops and implements validation and deployment plan for military defense project.

Coordinates tasks to align with personal and company's vision

Delegate responsibility accordingly

Risk Analysis, Reverse Planning, Project Management, Expense Reporting, Knowledge Transfer

Design Documentation, Unit Testing

Training

• Netweaver ce 7.1

• MII migration to 12.1

• ME 5.2

• SSO Integration

• ABAP Security

Manufacturing - Cleveland, Ohio (The Lincoln Electric Company) One Consumables Division, two sites in the Cleveland area. Cored Wire, Flux, Electrodes, Quality and Safety were all in SAP MII (aka SAP xmii). As the only developer, architect and deployment expert, this required all tasks and projects to be itemized and prioritized according to leadership. Implemented a quality led process improvement to trace raw materials to finish goods by having the operator collect data at each of their workstations. This allowed leadership to see how a particular heat of steel with certain chemistries perform down the manufacturing process. Statistical Process Control was on every workstation and was the driving factor of this project’s success. Every operator had the ability to see how their process was performing before thinking there might be something wrong with their product. All of the processes were batched managed using SAP MII. Project description / scope:

Process engineering of manufacturing systems and integrate them with their information systems Role:

MFG Execution System Analyst

Duration:

05/2004 – 11/2009

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Leading efforts to improve IT processes

Act as liaison between Information Technology, business and manufacturing needs

Apply expertise and knowledge of latest IT technologies and determine their applicability to the

Consumable manufacturing environment.

Ensure shop floor control systems are in place and adequate to meet manufacturing needs Gregory’s Profile

solid performer and always eager to learn. In

the short time I worked with Greg, I saw him

capitalize on many opportunities for growth and

personal development. He was not satisfied with

the status quo

- Manufacturing Manager

excellent attitude toward getting the job done and has the skills set to solve any problems that

come along. I am confident that you could put

Chip in any situation and he would find a way to

improve the process

- Director - Practical Manufacturing

found him to be a very detail-oriented

individual. He had an excellent work ethic and was quite knowledgeable. He was a team-player and

communicated proficiently to others in both

technical and general terminology

- Curriculum Development and Grant

Procurement Specialist

Ensure all manufacturing execution systems

are available and functioning correctly to

meet manufacturing needs

Develop, test, and implement new

manufacturing execution systems.

Ensure end users of manufacturing

execution systems are adequately trained

and understand the systems they are

using.

Design, create and support database

architecture and SQL/ORACLE stored

procedures to support the business needs.

Develop, test, and implement reporting

needs using MII, and any other reporting

tools.

Develop and support data collection and reporting needs for Production, Plant management, Engineering, QA, Six Sigma and R&D.

Training

• SAP’s Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII)

• Aprisio - Flex Net

• Six Sigma Greenbelt

Manufacturing - Cleveland, Ohio (The Lincoln Electric Company) Infused in the Quality way of life and created data collection cells and simplistic reporting tools for management. As need expanded and projects were justified, a reporting tool was purchased. SAP MII was the choice (aka SAP xmii, Lighthammer). Here, justification to leadership was won by creating reports using SPC that allowed operators to “tweak” their process because they were notified of potential problems in said process. Leadership required more justification and a tracker on the gui was built to show the before and after using MII. Before, the operator was unable to “tweak” the process and after they were. This allowed a quantitave measure of cost savings for one area. Project description / scope:

Quality assurance and data acquisition

Role:

Technologist II

Duration:

06/2001 – 05/2004

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Use of Northwest Analytical software

to provide data acquisition screens for

Quality Assurance.

SQL Server Database Administrator

including server scripting (T-SQL).

Gregory’s Profile

Duty includes; daily maintenance of data, connectivity, relationships, and access rights.

Create Reports from SQL Server Report Services.

Create Reports from MS Access 97, 2000, XP and 2003

Create accessible front end databases for Management, Engineers, and Production Employees.

Participate in presentations and meetings to discuss improvements in data acquisition. Training

• SQL Programming

• RSSQL

Manufacturing - Cleveland, Ohio (The Lincoln Electric Company) Project description / scope:

pieceworker

Role:

Lead Wire MFG

Duration:

02/1999 – 06/2001

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Worked piecework developing wire at various lengths, gauge, and strip for manufacturing assembly lines in Cleveland, Mexico, and Canada.

Used two computers to program the two lead machines to produce wire at 6,500 leads per minute.

Attended work shop seminar

Education & Certification

BCIS, IT Security - DeVry University, Chicago, Illinois

MBA, Executive Studies – Ohio University, Athens, Ohio o 2017 – Current, Have not completed

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