DAVID M. HILDRETH, P.E.

Chelsea, MI ***** 313-***-**** ac0v7i@r.postjobfree.com

Executive Summary

Proven business leader advancing growth in target markets and market segments. Lead long and short-term strategic planning processes, including market research and intelligence, strategic and financial analysis. Strong executive presence and ability to clearly communicate a compelling and inspired vision. Lead cross-functional, collaborative teams in complex, matrixed environments. Lean manufacturing practitioner guiding world-class manufacturing systems. Accountable for strategic development, strategic enterprise risk analysis, business analysis, market analysis, and business process management.

Core Competencies

● Engineering Leadership ● Program Management ● Strategic / Long Range Planning

● Supply Chain Management ● Continuous Improvement ● Product Life Cycle

● Operations Management ● Lean / Six Sigma ● Quality Assurance

● Manufacturing Operations ● Just-In-Time (JIT) Manufacturing ● Training and Development

● Construction Management ● Change Management ● Product Engineering & Design

● Business Strategy ● Root Cause Analysis ● Fabrication and Machining

● Operations Leadership ● Stakeholder Relations ● Facilities Management

● Order Management System ● Business Process Ownership ● Warehouse Management Systems / WMS

● Enterprise Resource Planning/ERP ● Data Analytics ● Capital Projects

Key Qualifications

Business process owner, developing and deploying data analytics to drive business and operations.

Build and remodel major manufacturing facilities including capital planning, capital management, spend allocation, and investment validation.

Deploy plans and strategies for new IT programs including ERP, OMS, WMS, and companywide operation systems.

Drive innovation by connecting the dots to proactively drive business.

Gain trust and respect of customers and leverage relationships to meet customer expectations and requirements.

Development leader with strong customer focus and the profitable and flawless execution of more than 40 launches.

Drive continuous improvement, increasing cash flow and profitability by employing lean methods to strengthen product design, and manufacturing processes to eliminate waste and increase throughput.

Professional Experience

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING 2008 - 2017

Domino’s Pizza Ann Arbor, Michigan

Provide direction, leadership, coaching, mentoring, and training to ensure long term workforce growth.

Formulate comprehensive policies, processes, and KPIs to ensure safety and regulatory compliance and performance.

Develop and work with outside suppliers and resources to deliver supply chain responsiveness.

Analyze the manufacturing process to improve production costs, set up times, tooling, production, yields, product quality and reliability, manufacturing cycle times and on time delivery.

Highlights

Strategically planned and successfully created transformational change across 26 operations.

Communicated a long-range vision for Supply Chain IT needs and deployed KPIs to drive operational performance.

Achieved compliance with FDA regulations by providing the FSMA tools to implement and monitor preventive control plans to identify food safety hazards, and specify preventative controls aligned with HACCP and GFSI requirements.

Create a culture of collaborate leadership for plant operations managers to produce high performing teams.

Recognized by receipt of Domino’s Director of the Year award.

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DIRECTOR OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT – General Motors Business Unit 2004 - 2007

Visteon Corporation Dearborn, Michigan

Executed new product programs to achieve improvement in quality and profit for GM globally for interiors and electronics business lines for operation with $215 million in revenue.

Highlights

Flawlessly launched 18 programs that turned around customer reputation, led to $150 million in new business revenue, gained $4.2 million in margin improvements on current model programs, and 25% Return on Sales (ROS) improvement.

Instituted program management and sales processes that drove global team alignment worldwide and acquired or turned-around troubled suppliers.

SENIOR BUSINESS MANAGER, BUSINESS PROCESS DEVEOPMENT 2002 - 2004

Visteon Corporation Dearborn, Michigan

Designed a Global Program Management tool kit to address high priority, complex, and cross-functional portfolios of programs to satisfy business and total solution deployment requirements.

Led 10-member team in replacing multiple legacy systems and creating automated interfaces.

Highlights

Delivered the project business case that revealed $252 million in annual corporate savings.

Drove alignment and the implementation of best business practices by designing and delivering 24 workshops across four continents identifying 777 key business requirements.

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER – Ford Business Unit – Mustang Platform 1999 - 2002

Visteon Corporation Dearborn, Michigan

Defined and structured program management as senior leader for design, manufacturing, and quality for interior and electronic products for Mustang and other automotive products, driving growth, profit, quality, and customer satisfaction.

Highlights

Led 14 successful launches for seating, instrumentation, door trim, instrument panels, and fascia.

Achieved $77 million at 7% in new business awards and achieved profit on design above 30% over three years and 49.7% in 2002.

MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING MANAGER – Plastics 1997 - 1999

Visteon Corporation Dearborn, Michigan

Drove process improvement for global plastics operations through strategic investment, and standardization for processes, methods, and equipment.

Highlights

Launched Lean methods at seven facilities, reducing floor space and investment by 50% and headcount by 40%.

Successfully launched manufacturing facilities in Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, and China.

Reduced corporate investments by $45 million without compromising full production capacity.

Developed and standardized injection molding machine specifications, reducing capital investment by 15%;

MANAGER – ADVANCED MANUFACTUIRNG ENGINEERING 1994 - 1997

Ford Motor Company – Sandusky Plastics Plant - Ohio Dearborn, Michigan

Deployed new manufacturing technology at three facilities globally, developing an expert problem solving team that reduced waste and increased throughput.

Highlights

Won 1998 Henry Ford Technology Award for identifying and reducing geometric variation of injection molds.

Delivered new technologies and launched new facilities saving $50 million in operational cost.

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Master of Science – Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor of Science – Mechanical Engineering

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Licenses & Certifications

Professional Engineer – State of Michigan

Six Sigma Black Belt

Awards

Henry Ford Technology Award

Domino’s Director of the Year

Multiple Corporate Quality Awards – Employers & Clients

Publications

Mission to Maximize Energy Savings

Identifying and Reducing the Geometric Variation of Injection Molding Die Sets

A method for Identifying and Reducing the Geometric Variability of Injection Molding Die Sets

Composite Cross Car Beam for Instrument Panels

A Concept for I/P Stiffness Measurement via Transfer Function Analysis

Material Properties for Transverse Isotropy

Surface Topography and Compositional Characterization Using Backscattered Electron Methods

Mueller Matrix Ellipsometry of Practical Surfaces

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