TONY NIGRO IT / MES PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

864-***-**** • ac50cm@r.postjobfree.com 313 Chenoweth Drive • Simpsonville, SC 29681 Significant business aptitude and experience in IT manufacturing, specifically in aligning business functions and processes that drive operational and financial performance for the last 16 years. Detail-oriented professional with proven knowledge of plant operations, manufacturing, supply chain and function within all IT platforms. Accomplished leader with record of building effective and cohesive teams while simultaneously managing multiple projects and programs at multiple sites within multiple levels of business functions to completion. Proven analytical mindset and strategy to overcome new business challenges with innovative solutions. Regional IT/MES Management Professional with a passion for finding solutions, accomplishing objectives, leading and growing top tier firms to success. Areas of Expertise include:

IT Project Management

Risk, Issue and Scope

Management

Change Control Management

Problem Resolution

Agile Project Management

ITIL Methodologies

Project Budget Management

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Project

Microsoft SharePoint

IT Governance

MES Application

IT Automation

.Net

Cisco

EDI

Sequencing

ERP Software

SAP, QAD

SCRUM / Kanban

PMO Processes Management

Team Leadership

Application Implementations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

YANFENG AUTOMOTIVE • Fountain Inn, SC • July 2016 – Present IT REGIONAL OPERATIONS PROJECT MANAGER

Regional Manager with full responsibility for all IT initiatives in 9 facilities across 6 states and Canada. Deliver, implement, and project manage full scale implementation of MES, SAP, QAD, EDI, Sequencing, JIT, eKanBan, and ERP to each facility. Currently engaged in full plant IT infrastructure upgrades and/or new installs including IPT phone systems, fiber, networking, servers, disaster recovery, IT security, and monitoring systems. Lead and facilitate daily, weekly, and monthly, executive committee and steering committee status meetings and approve all North American region 2 IT projects. Lead and create technical demonstrations and develop standards used for tier 1 supplier demonstrations.

Key Accomplishments:

• Successfully managed our most complex full plant merger integration project, to completion without production loss

• Recovered 29% revenue back into plant by strategically reconstructing the MES, ERP and process flow

• Awarded (Vanguard Award) for continuing to exceed in MES and IT performance improvements with in the region

• Successfully created and delivered several BMW technical demonstrations

• Created technical demonstration standards presently used company-wide for all tier 1 suppliers, where no such standard existed before

• Created and standardized documentation for new and upgraded IT automation implementations, including SOW

(scope of work), CCM (Change control Mgt), FMEA (failure mode effects analysis), and many other PMO documents. FAURECIA AUTOMOTIVE • Fountain Inn, SC • April 2014 – July 2016 (acquired by Yanfeng Automotive) IT MANAGER

Directed team of eight IT analysts. $4.1m budget for 24x7 JIT Manufacturing facility. IT project manager for all IT infrastructure, MES, EDI, SAP and many other IT systems related to BMW North America. Efficiently managed PMO processes, including producing weekly activity reports (WARS), managing contracts, procuring all IT-related equipment, and creating documentation for training key users. Key Accomplishments:

• Managed Project from initiation to close of a new IT / MES Application solution for 8 new production line launches

• Skillfully negotiated pre-merger IT integration, carve out and IT turn around engagements. TONY NIGRO 2

864-***-**** • ac50cm@r.postjobfree.com

• Engaged, partnered and negotiated with stakeholders, executive management, operations management, process engineers, procurement and vendors to develop advanced analytics that directly contributed to project completion

• Redesigned Plant infrastructure, MES, and sequencing and saved the plant 6% annually in revenue. ZF Group • Gray Court, SC • March 2012 – April 2014 IT AUTOMATION LEAD SUPERVISOR

Directed, installed and managed IT Automation for 1.5 million sf plant start up. Coordinated and worked with various engineering and operations teams to strategically design production line process flows. Created highly complex fiber networks within each production line to manage copious amounts of PLC, MES, and digital 2D optical and micron sensor scanning data.

Key Accomplishments:

• Published and designed ZF hirshmann switch install industry standard and training to troubleshoot still presently used company-wide

• Coordinated install of 32 production lines between 8HP and 9HP product lines

• Increased company profit by successfully managing production line viability and functionality below forecasted budget

• Developed tools promoting system evolution using .NET, SQL,HTML, CSS, and C# for IT users to obtain root cause and 8D troubleshooting solutions.

Compucom Consulting at BMW Group • Greer, SC • Jan 2007 – Feb 2012 IT/ITP LEVEL 3 LEAD ADMINISTRATOR

Created SOW and negotiated with BMW to ensure SLA’s were met or exceeded. Project experience includes leading and working on many successful projects for various departments and groups. Responsibilities included global helpdesk support and software implementations, asset management, knowledge base transfers, site surveys and training. Oversaw technical operations and support of all plant IT applications from secure remote access, file print sharing, NT 4.0 domain integration, to auditing HTML code routines and managing FTP for web based applications. Key Accomplishments:

• Evaluated and tested new production line technologies, assessed and recommend upgrades and revisions for tooling and software

• Created and implemented Asset management system to manage 12000+ production users computing devices including scanners, MES thinclients, production printers, etc,

• Trained users and staff in advanced production system troubleshooting to mitigate downtime Associate in Applied Science

ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Littleton CO, September 1993 Pursuing Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE Expected 2018

Certificate in Information Technology Management

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE LIBRARY (ITIL) FOUNDATION March 2016 COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION January 2009, 2010 A+, Server+, Network+

Dell, Toshiba, HP, MCP, CNA,

Technical Proficiencies

Active Directory, MS Exchange, SMS, Server 2012, Ghost, SCCM, Oracle, Siber systems, Symantec, C#, Kepware, Hydra MPDV, Insequence, Matrix, JITs, IPC, HTML,.NET,VB, Java, SQL, PLC programming EDUCATION CERTIFICATIONS TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

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