Manager Mechanical Engineering

Resume Vlad Nikitin

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MANUFACTURING EXECUTIVE

Engineering Management…Production process …Supply-chain Management

Seasoned professional manager with comprehensive experience and visible achievements in diverse manufacturing arenas, including aerospace. Proven record of accomplishment for implementing strategies that enhance productivity and profitability. Experienced in supervising engineers and technicians as well as drafting and shop floor professional. Known for strong leadership, extremely detail oriented, team-building capabilities, implementing change, as well as making knowledge filled rapid decisions, and obtaining strong closing expertise. Academic credentials MS in Mechanical Engineering.

Tradition of performance excellence in

• Profit and loss responsibility

• Production management

• Project Management

• Business Acumen

• Cost Consciousness

• Staff development

• Statistical process control

• Quality assurance

• Supply-chain management

• Creative problem solving

Computer literate in ERP program ORACLE, Solidworks 2017, AutoCAD, CNC programing, Master CAM, MS Office applications, Microsoft Project 2016, 3D printing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RadiaBeam Technologies, Santa Monica, CA 2015 – 2017

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Privately held, manufactures particle accelerator components. 10+ years in business

As part of the management team was responsible for contributing towards the achievement of the company’s strategic and operational targets and overall business aims.

Hired to improve process performance, increase productivity and coordinate supply-chain manufacturing and procurement processes. Coordinate science, engineering, production and assembling departments.

Plane, schedule and reviewed workload to ensure production output is manufactured correctly in accordance with specification to insure on-time delivery targets.

Seek opportunities to improve production processes so that equipment is operating at the optimum utilization.

Proven track record related to coaching, training and development of your staff.

Ensuring that the factory floor has the necessary manpower competence, skill, knowledge, and equipment required to achieve production targets.

Key Accomplishments:

Profitably managed 15% growth in total business.

Increased productivity twice by integrating and coordinating science, engineering and production departments.

Initiated, implement and successfully developed MRP system.

Implemented quality management system ISO 9001:2015, AS9100.

Aligned business plans and linked key performance indicators to relevant milestones.

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Mercury Industrial Group, Moscow, Russia 2002 – 2015

Privately held, $23 million aerospace manufactory. 20+ years in business

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Hired to improve process performance and increase customer satisfaction through variability and defect reduction, resulting in consistently producing high quality services, products, or processes. Challenges with expanding sales of new orders from $1 to $18 million per year. Empowered at with full accountability for manufacturing and assembly, design application engineering, purchasing and vendor qualification, politicians job costing, margin calculation, new materials evaluation and staff development. Advice President in all aspects of new business development, market expansion, capital expenditures and all operating budget.

Key Accomplishments:

Expanded sales of orders from $1 to $23 million per year.

Increased profit margin by another 15% after securing Lean methodology.

Transformed company from one-shift-machine-shop to 24/7 cycle metalworking and assembling manufactory that has 150 employees and 200 units of CNC machine tools.

Initiated and successfully developed Lean and Six Sigma principles.

Implemented ISO 9001 quality management system.

Mercury Industrial Group, Moscow, Russia 1995 – 2002

Privately held, $ 1million aerospace manufactory. 5+ years in business

Manufacturing Engineer

Manage daily manufacturing operations. Responsibilities included purchasing materials and supplies, staffing, delivery, capital budgeting and implementation and reorganizing shop floor for maximum productivity.

Key Accomplishments:

Reduce metalworking cost by $2500 per day through reengineering of processing methods.

Significantly reversed over $45,000 operation loss to $ 350,000 profit in 7 month by lowering shipping costs and preparing to monthly production schedules, which further decreased cost by eliminating production shutdowns for special product runs.

Decreased cost by Improving tooling life.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Six Sigma Lean Black Belt Professional, Management and Strategy Institute, Downingtown, PA

Metal Cutting Technology, Sandvik Coromant Academy, Cypress, CA

Certified Team Supervisor (CTS), Management and Strategy Institute, Downingtown, PA

Advanced of Master CAM X9, NTMA Training Centers, Santa Fe Springs, CA

Masters of Science, Mechanical Engineering (Missiles manufacturing), Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU), Russia (GPA 3.5)

Data Science, University of California, Irvine, CA in progress

Business Law, Santa Monica College, CA

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