J. ROBERT KULP JR

**** ******** *****, ******, ** 13850 (H) 607-***-**** (C) 607-***-****

ac0wwp@r.postjobfree.com

Professional summary

Versatile and innovative management professional skilled at seeing the “big picture” while still also

focusing on the details. Expertise in business development and streamlining processes and systems.

Customer focused, quality driven specializing in creating win/win solutions and productive long term

relationships - Strong Technical and Analytical expertise with excellent understanding of

manufacturing processes.

Skills

Problem Solving and Troubleshooting Process improvement

Strong Work Ethic Budgeting and forecasting

Excel, Solidworks and MRP systems Project planning and development

Goal Oriented Project management

Work history

Director of Manufacturing Aug 2015 - Current

Country Valley Industries Johnson City N.Y.

Managing 4 sites involved with a variety of manufacturing processes; supervising quoting, sales,

program management, manufacturing engineering, scheduling, and personnel.

Intimately involved with the design and layout of manufacturing lines to integrate the

developmental disabled with production staff and maintain a cost efficient and productive

environment.

Directed the purchase of capital equipment and staffing changes that increased production

capacity for company's major customer by 30% resulting in 18% increase in sales in 2016 and

additional 10% in 1st qtr. of 2017

Supervised a team of 5 area managers, 38 associates and 294 developmentally disabled workers.

Continuous Improvement & HSSE Leader / Production Manager Jan 2012 - Jul 2015

BW Elliott Mfg. Co., Engineered Solutions Segment of Actuant Corp Binghamton, N.Y.

Managed 8 Departments, 5 Supervisors and upwards of 140 associates.

Oversaw Executive Steering Committee to determine and implement activities, events and

projects to reduce labor cost and increase efficiencies across the facility.

Managed Phase Gate Projects for Manufacturing Engineering.

Direct Safety Committee resulting in TCIR of 1.28 with no lost time accident for over 575 days.

Identified Capital Equipment needs and wrote Specifications for acquisition of production

equipment.

Developed Excel spreadsheet and implemented scheduling process to reduce ROG Assembly

Dept. lead time from 8 to 6 weeks.

Trained as Event Facilitator to implements Lean and 5S initiatives across facility.

Program Manager Jul 2007 - Aug 2010

Harvard Custom Manufacturing Owego, N.Y.

Primary customer contact for this contract manufacturer with responsibility for DO and DX rated

military contracts for companies such as Lockheed MS2, Sikorsky, L3 Space and Navigation, L3

Ocean Systems and SELEX Galileo.

Managed programs contracted for over 21 million dollars per year and responsible for organic

growth sales over all assigned programs resulting in RFQs for an additional 23 million dollars per

year being received.

Coordinated activities with the program team and customers to ensure performance criteria and

standards were met while achieving cost, quality, and delivery metrics.

Provided recommendations and monthly reviews to company executives; drove decision making

at all organization levels to ensure program success.

Managed all aspects of product development and new product introduction including cross

functional team formation and direction of team members from Engineering, Production,

Procurement, Quality and Proposals.

General Manager Apr 2005 - Apr 2007

Gilbert Machine & Tool Co Greene, N.Y.

Responsible for all business functions including P&L for this contract machining and assemblies

company servicing customers such as Lockheed, BAE, and the U.S. Military.

Turned net income losses of 21% into an 8% profit within first 5 months of employment.

Decreased lead-times by an average of 18% using 5S and lean manufacturing tools.

Intimately involved with upgraded of quality system from ISO to AS-9100.

Manufacturing Engineer May 2003 - Dec 2004

PB Industries Vestal, N.Y.

Estimated, engineered and managed contracts for this contract manufacturer of metal

fabrications.

Implemented raw material usage and process changes that reduced manufacturing costs on

one program by an average of 16.4% on over 250 manufactured components.

Increased component assembly rates by over 175% with capital equipment acquisition.

Operations Manager Jun 1994 - Feb 2003

Denler Metal Products, Inc. Tonawanda, N.Y.

Complete operations and P&L responsibility for this contract manufacturer including business

planning, sales, project management, purchasing, proposals, resource management,

programming, accounting as well as manufacturing.

Working with sales department, developed marketing and strategic growth plan that increased

company sales 300% in less than six years.

Specified and installed ERP system along with hardware and Ethernet system and acted as

Database administrator.

Directly involved in Customer and Vendor relations.

Implemented and trained staff on an ISO based Quality Control program resulting in exposure to

quality issues dropping to less than 0.02% of sales.

Manufacturing Engineer / Project Manager Oct 1988 - Jun 1994

Denler Metal Products, Inc.

Developed, documented and implemented procedures and processes required to manufacture

fabricated components and assemblies.

Managed fabrication projects up to 1.2 Million dollars that were shipped to Europe and Asia.

Responsible for the successful combining of two separate manufacturing sites into one new facility

with minimal impact to production and no delays to deliveries.

Created spreadsheet software used for estimating at the component or project level and wrote

computer software used to control order entry, process travelers, scheduling and create shippers

to supplement existing accounting system.

CNC Programmer / Draftsman May 1986 - Oct 1988

Denler Metal Products, Inc. Tonawanda, N.Y.

Programmed all CNC equipment at the facility and supplied detail prints.

Researched, specified and purchased state of the art CAD and CAM software systems and

computer hardware.

Worked with customers on their designs to reduce materials and manufacturing cost while

increasing manufacturability.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration: Business Administration and Management

Canisius College Buffalo, N.Y.

Minor in Computer Programming

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