Engineer Manager

Robert L. Sousek

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Canton, Ohio 44718 Phone 330-***-**** email: ********@***.***

MANAGER ● ECONOMIST ● INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER ● PRIVATE EQUITY●

PUBLISHER

STRATEGIC PLANNING PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION CAPITAL

MARKETS

Senior business leader who has strong background in successful strategic planning, productivity improvement,

engineering management and private equity across small as well as Fortune 500 companies. Excels at seeing

the big picture, identifying gaps and managing initiatives. Contributes within an organization by providing

collaboration, motivation and direction across teams in diverse environments.

Experience spans bearing manufacturing, integrated steel, healthcare, research, retail, consulting, investment

portfolio management, and E-commerce publishing.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

COTanalytics, LLC: Canton, Ohio Investment Website 2011 to

Present

PUBLISHER

Designed, marketed, and published subscription based investment information website issuing buy and sell

signals based on proprietary models. Investment models issue Buy/Sell signals for Futures, Bonds, Currencies,

and Stocks.

Proprietary Forecasting and Valuation Models: Published fundamental and technical models and

charts measuring valuation and forecasting price movements for 46 Futures’ contracts, 10 Cross

Currencies, 265 Equities. Stock fundamental analysis based upon the Dupont model. Employed

innovative models combining Multiple Linear Regression, ARIMA, and capacity analysis to forecast

price movements. Invented Traders Trackstm, a graphical representation that assists in the timing of

entry/exit of positions.

E-commerce: Designed communication strategy and content structure for a Word Press website. R

generated statistical analyses and charts published in PDF and PNG formats. Multiple charts reflecting

multiple model alternatives produced per investment vehicle explaining price movements, trader

positions, and available capacity of trader resources. Written in Word Press HTML5 and the “R”

Programming Analytical Language. Website: http:// www.CommitmentsOfTradersAnalytics.com.

Bohemian Investments: Canton, Ohio Private Equity Fund 1994 to 2011

Trader and Investment Manager

Developed, planned and executed trading strategies and portfolio design based upon supply and demand

metrics.

Portfolio Structure: Dynamic positioning based upon proprietary macroeconomic analysis and profit

models, sector dynamics, and individual company and/or commodity performance.

Wealth Management: Nineteen years of continuous portfolio growth. Investment models developed

for different investing time frames. Stocks, Futures, Currencies, and Options.

Macro-Economic Model: Developed proprietary model forecasting country level metrics.

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Lakewood Hospital: Lakewood, Ohio 400 Bed Acute Care Nonprofit Hospital 1992 to 1994

DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS PLANNING

First Business Planning Director hired to bring direction to organization awareness of service costs, productivity, and

cash flow growth. Established organization’s industrial engineering team. Selected projects include:

Labor Productivity: Implemented an Excel based flexible labor budgeting and performance measurement

system resulting in savings of $400,000 annually (10 FTE’s).

Physician Performance: Developed and implemented a monitoring report that measured a physicians’ patients’

average LOS (length of stay) by DRG category. Flagged excessive LOS by physician and resulted in LOS

reductions of 10 % for 5% of the physicians.

Customer Satisfaction: Conducted simulation of outpatient facility to measure capacity and patient waiting

times under various labor scheduling scenarios. Resulted in a reduction of 20 minutes in service times for the

average patient (from I hour originally) and an increase of throughput capacity of 30%.

Republic Engineered Steels: Canton, Ohio Alloy steel and stainless steel strip 1974 to 1992

SENIOR PLANNING AND PROCESS ENGINEER

MANAGER OF TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT

SUPERVISOR OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Led matrixed project and alliance teams that developed best practices, improved profitability, strategic focus, and

delivery of quality services to both internal and external customers during a time of rapid organizational and

infrastructure change. Selected projects include:

Infrastructure Development: Collaborator and member of six person task force responsible for the design,

justification, and implementation of a $650 million seven year strategic plan that replaced existing facilities with

world class production facilities while maintaining existing production and retention of customers.

Outsourcing: Managed third party computer simulations. Increased project turnaround time 50%.

Six Sigma: Principal in the implementation of a companywide Six Sigma program. Developed a cost of quality

model to monitor the performance and effectiveness of the Six Sigma program. Determined there was no cost

savings to implemented program.

Strategic Planning: Principal in team based rationalization studies of the company (Republic Steel). Included

detailed product profitability study and market forecasts. Resulted in the reduction of production facilities from

three plants to one plant and the concomitant reduction from 13,500 employees to 6,500, as well as proportionally

product line and input factor resources.

Labor Productivity: Led change management team with responsibilities to conduct wage roll rationalization

studies. Determined wage rolls could be reduced by 33% with no capital improvements. Used as negotiating tool

with union to justify cost reductions (LTV Steel).

Organizational Design: Designed management organization into four reporting levels resulting in a 10%

reduction in staff (LTV Steel).

Change management: Served as a trainer to both wage and staff employees on Six Sigma program. Created

unique and intuitive program for instructing hourly personnel with limited education.

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Robert L. Sousek Republic Engineered Steel continued

Member of implementation team that installed a standard cost accounting system for the corporation that allowed

accurate monthly performance measurements and quantifying product profitability. Initiated use of determinants

in solving for charging rates saving one week in development time or ten man weeks each update iteration.

Leadership: Managed seven industrial engineers (Republic Steel). Responsible for all industrial engineering

functions for the melt shops, caster, rolling mills, and shops and crafts maintenance. Responsible for the

preparation of the annual capital budget and the development of the economic justification of each individual

project (NPV analysis). Conducted post audits of completed capital projects. The company at this point in time

was reputedly to be one of the nation’s most profitable steel plants, and with its early adoption of continuous

casting, a technological leader. Responsible for developing and maintaining the plant’s capacity and utilization

report that was used in conjunction with cost and capacity studies related to capital project submission process.

Technology: Designed the layouts for two production facilities employing state of the art discrete event

simulation techniques and software: 1) a stainless slab grinding operation and 2) the finishing and material

handling for a proposed bar mill. Saved $40 million in excess finishing facilities for the bar mill, and confined the

grinding facility to one building as opposed to previously two building design saving $10 million facility costs.

EDUCATION

• Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, Ohio: Graduated 1980 M.A. in Economics

• Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio: Graduated 1970 B.S.I.E.

• Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio: Advanced Professional Degree coursework

• Baldwin Wallace College, Cleveland, Ohio: MBA coursework

TRAINING

• Supervisor Training(Republic Steel)

• Statistical Process Control and Six Sigma

• AutoMod Simulation & ProModel Simulation

• “R” Programming Language & SAS programming

• Microsoft Excel, Word, and Powerpoint

• CBOE Options Master Level

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS and MEMBERSHIPS

• Senior Member Institute of Industrial Engineering

• Senior Member Society of Manufacturing Engineers

• Member American Institute of Steel Engineers

• CBOE Options Master Certificate

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