Michael Reilly

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Forked River, NJ 08731

732-***-****

ac7zev@r.postjobfree.com

Business management executive in the Specialty Polymers & Lubricant Market. Strong P&L operations (revenue driven), partnership mindset with R&D, manufacturing and customer service. Forward thinking, customer centric with keen instincts in client facing negotiations, developing product or service solutions and business development. Also, skillful in the areas of procurement, manufacturing, quality assurance and logistics.

Professional Experience

(Industrial Markets)

Polymer Process Solutions – Hillsborough, NJ 2005 – 2017

Founder – Managing Partner

I began Polymer Processing Solutions as a certified destruction and industrial plastics recycling center, eventually expanding the business to include the manufacture of specialty lubricant powders for sale into the printing ink, coatings and fluid lubricant markets.

Business development of trade sales and toll manufacturing (recycling) within the US and abroad. (Fluoropolymers, engineered plastics, and specialty lubricants.)

Management of global raw material purchasing and sales activity.

Coordination of manufacturing schedules.

Repair and maintenance of physical plant.

Financial management of operational income and reinvestment opportunities.

Product development and process design.

Heroflon, USA – Hillsborough, NJ 2014

Interim Managing Director

In the wake of the existing president’s abrupt termination, I was awarded a consulting agreement at Heroflon USA as acting managing director to reorganize national sales efforts for existing industrial products and enter the personal care market with FDA approved materials. Also consolidated sales and distribution efforts into a singular location to improve efficiency and allow for expansion.

Responsibility included sales and distribution of PTFE Virgin Resins, PTFE Compounds and PTFE micronized powders within the United States.

Selection and relocation of warehouse operations and sales office.

Staffing/training of physical plant and office personnel.

Development of divisional operating budget and sales forecast.

Shamrock Technologies – Newark, NJ 1994 - 2005

Director – Global Purchasing/Fluoropolymer Division (2000-2005)

Once promoted to this position, I used my manufacturing knowledge to renegotiate volume contracts and drive down spot purchases to a level that reduced annual expenditures by $5MM and lowered inventory stores from a 30 month to 10 month supply.

Plan, coordinate and execute purchasing strategies for PTFE and melt processable fluoropolymers.

Strategies included; monitoring inventory categories and levels (both in-house and in-transit), relate customer order patterns to raw material demand, maintain a continuous connection to the manufacturing group, monitor currency fluctuations, evaluate key market indicators of supply and demand trends.

Negotiate spot and contractual purchases of both prime and reclaimed materials.

Transportation rate negotiations with domestic overland carriers and steamship lines.

Monitor tariff classifications, dutiable rates from point of origin and US Customs clearance procedures.

Frequent supplier-site visits to evaluate opportunity, maximize packaging efficiency and strengthen business relations.

Company representative to the Society of Plastics Association (Fluoropolymer Division)

Quality-Manufacturing Manager / Salesperson (1994-2000)

Generation of electron-beam production schedules and related downstream manufacturing activity across two facilities.

Supervised up to 25 employees in the area of manufacturing, quality control and purchasing. Additionally, provided training, technical assistance and general guidance to the manufacturing group.

Review of customer orders to develop distribution schedules and manufacturing lead times.

Negotiated raw material purchases with several primary suppliers.

Consistently achieved production goals while maintaining high quality standards and reducing raw material costs.

Maintained sales accounts to the printing-ink, lubricant and grease markets in the greater Chicago area and Gulf Coast region.

Precision Micron Powders – Syosset, NY 1989 – 1994

General Manager – limited partner

This business was built from a boutique sales brokerage position and quickly expanded to manufacturing facilities in New York and Kentucky. We succeeded to a level that attracted the attention of our competitors and led to a merger with Shamrock Technologies in late 1994.

Operations management for a dual facility, lubricant-powder, manufacturing facility.

In-process and finished product quality control management.

Transportation scheduling and rate negotiations for overland and ocean freight moves.

Process design. (Fluidized bed jet mill, extrusion systems and radiation process handling system)

Additional responsibility included; raw-material purchasing from front line PTFE processors, coordination of outside process activity (toll manufacture) and general trade sales to the printing ink, lubricant and grease markets.

Dai-Color Pope – Clifton, NJ 1987 – 1988

Production and quality control supervisor for a lubricant powder manufacturing facility.

Logistics coordinator

E-Beam Services – Cranbury, NJ 1986 – 1987

Electron Beam Operator

Machine operator for electron beam accelerator. (Activities included the modification of polymers, sterilization of medical disposables and cross-linking of wire & cable through ionizing radiation)

Shipping/Receiving clerk

Maintenance assistant.

Professional Experience

(Hospitality & Service Industry)

Boulevard Seafood Company and Conlin’s Cafe – Somerville, NJ 2012 – 2018

Co-Owner (Boulevard Restaurant Group)

Conducted a feasibility study for a potential business expansion that included compiling demographic data, analyzing real estate market trends and determining a location that would support long term growth.

Project development included the site selection, author of the business plan, compilation of business model, contractor selection and supervision of the design-construction phase.

Additional focus on logo design, web-site, content development, marketing strategies, branding, advertising and community relations.

Boulevard Seafood Company / Wholesale Division – Kenilworth, NJ 2010 – 2016

Co-Owner (Boulevard Restaurant Group)

Jointly formed wholesale seafood business to service NYC and central NJ restaurants.

Additional focus on logo design, marketing strategies, advertising materials and developing a costing metrics to determine product price points.

Boulevard Five72 – Kenilworth, NJ 2008 – 2018

Co-Owner (Boulevard Restaurant Group)

Negotiation asset purchase and real estate purchase of Tosca Restaurant / banquet facility in Kenilworth, NJ.

Authored business plan and sales projections model.

Administrator of financial package application to lending institution and the Small Business Administration (SBA)

Additional focus on staffing, logo design, web-site content development, marketing strategies, branding and advertising.

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