PAUL MULLEN, Ph.D.

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A proven leader who is gifted at managing multi-team functions including design engineering, operations, manufacturing and industrial engineering. From initial design launch to stream-lining outdated manufacturing processes, a results-oriented efficiency expert with over twenty years of experience in meeting or exceeding the annual budgeted goals and this also includes implementation of the long-term visions of the executive board.

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

ARMOR METAL GROUP Manufacturer of industrial washers, mobile medical vehicles Mason, OH

Operations Manager Dec. 2006 to Aug. 2007

Plant Manager Apr. 2006 to Dec. 2006

Cross Functional Team Leader

Responsible for the layout expansion and subsequent six-week move of equipment and personnel from a 120,000 square-foot job shop facility with multiple lift cranes to a former over-head conveyor line 300,000 square-foot OEM manufacturing facility with no existing lift cranes. This also included the consolidation of corporate business units into what was once non-existent office space.

Accountable for a 50 million-dollar revenue stream with full P&L responsibilities

Streamlined the multi-business unit products into functional work cells for a forty percent improvement in the overall work flow

UNITED AIR SPECIALISTS Manufacturer of industrial and commercial air cleaners Blue Ash, OH

Acting Plant/Manufacturing Manager Apr. 2003 to Jan. 2004

Manufacturing/Facility Engineering Manager Oct. 1998 to Apr. 2003

Acting Plant/Manufacturing Manager

From 2003 to 2004, overall sales decreased 5% but due to cost savings improvements and labor efficiencies employee profit percentages rose to 2.75% for the first time since Clarcor purchased the company five years ago

During that same year in 2004, increased on-time deliveries from 92% to 98%. Recorded no lost time accidents for a record first of 3.5 years.

Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Manager

Reduced manufacturing quality defects to less than one tenth of one percent of sales dollars

Installed a T-1 telephone system in 3 days. Installed an Amada sheet metal laser/punch over a weekend. Installed a call center in less than a month with redundant phone system back-ups. Responsible for Kaizen work team meetings and implementation of cost saving suggestions.

As a result of moving BOM Kanban parts directly to the production line where product was assembled per Toyota Production System (TPS) guidelines reduced in-house inventory from 4 million to 2 million dollars and saved 20 percent of the total square footage in the plant.

Was instrumental in saving the company 800,000 dollars through the re-engineering of costly component parts, a computer automated nesting software program, and through the use of less expensive roll-threaded screws for panels instead of the more costly and labor-intensive rivets.

MILLER GROUP Vertical textile manufacturer of T-shirts and sweatshirts Schuylkill Haven, PA

Production Support Supervisor 1990 to 1998

Labor Efficiency Expert

The hourly labor workers threatened to join the Teamsters due to a bonus incentive system that had been put in place by a consultant group. Through the inputs of the operators, I developed efficient work methods and fair labor time standards via MOST and stopwatch cycle times that resulted in quelling the operators’ animosity and thus the workers voted down the union.

Managed the production labor reports and incentive pay system of three hundred employees

Purchased a million-dollar state of the art tenter frame, bleaching and dyeing and finishing equipment for enhanced fabric quality and to stay globally competitive in the textile industry

TEACHER/AUTHOR/HUMANITARIUM

BEIJING LIMAI Private K-12 school Beijing, China

Grade 10 on-line. (English Literature, AP Human Geography and SAT). Aug. 2016 to current

The first teacher of both AP and Calvert online courses for grades 9, 10 and 11

Responsible for monitoring class-room management behavior, homework assignments, teacher-parent meetings, report cards. The principal has commended my teaching skills as exemplary.

THE DAY I HIT A HOME RUN ENTERPRISE Oxford, OH

Owner/Publisher/Author/Speaker 2007 to 2016

Executive Team Leader

Cultivated excellent long-term relationships with school board members/principals/reading specialists and executive literacy organizations and Fortune 500 outreach managers

Built a strong team of editors, graphics design engineer, regional/national sales and marketing channels, book publisher and distributor and PR representative for TV/Radio/Media print

Collaborated with the Reds, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati Arts Association on the play Chance for Greatness

Over 500,000 students and thousands of teachers have been inspired via my Every Child Dreams of Greatness national literacy campaign

Community Development

Partnered on book giveaway programs with Ronald McDonald House, St. Joe's Orphanage, Cincinnati Public School's YMCA Community Learning Centers, Philadelphia and Des Moines Public Schools, ESPN's Operation Outreach, Cincinnati Arts Association, Boys and Girls Club, and numerous state and regional reading associations

EDUCATION

Ph.D. ADMINISTRATION/MANAGEMENT, WALDEN UNIVERSITY April 1993

Dissertation summary published in Industrial Management, Nov. 1993

MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Major GPA: 3.9/4.0 May 1990

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

Major GPA: 3.5/4.0 May 1984

ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

ITT Aerospace/Communications Division GOES/SINCGARS 400 million in sales Ft. Wayne, IN

Cost Estimator/Industrial Engineer for hourly labor time standards 1988 – 1990

Stanadyne OEM grinding/assembling of valve lifters 40 million in sales Garret, IN

Industrial Engineer Supervisor 1987 – 1988

Aeroquip OEM tube bender & machine fittings 50 million in sales Van Wert, OH

Application Engineer for Navistars’ S-Series refrigeration hose lines 1985 – 1987

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

22ND MILITARY AIRLIFT COMMAND (MAC) Travis Air Force Base, CA

Special Handling Supervisor (E-5) 1981 – 1985

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