Kenneth Clair Clayton

*** ***** ***** *******-*****, NC 27107

Cell: 336-***-**** E-mail: acpzkx@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Introduction

Adaptation and implementation of a company’s products and resources are what I do best. I believe in learning the

product line, implementing the product to our customer, and finally, teaching how to implement the product and st ay within

the company’s goals and standardized product concepts.

Technology Skills

Microsoft Word AutoCAD 2D Just-In-Time Inventory Database Concepts

Microsoft Excel AutoCAD 3D Cell Manufacturing Flowcharts

FileMaker Pro AutoLISP Coding Technical Writing ISO 9001 and ISO 14001

Management Skills & Experiences

Balanced daily the “company vs. client needs” on $25,000 to $3,000,000 projects

Negotiated with vendors, implemented better quoting, purchasing timelines, reduced cost, improved product

responsiveness, and improved final product quality.

Procured government funding through procedures and guidelines for continued product sales

Designed databases to support sales force training needs, NordSketch 3D allowed us to design a product system and

quote in 1/3rd the time spent using AutoCAD 2D. Another company used my concepts and reduced a $400,000 non -

conformance budget by 62%, eliminated secondary manufacturing notes, improved product shipments, and did not add

personnel to the process, thus allowing more room for growth.

Evaluated potential employees and empathically worked with employees upon their release.

Maintained an efficient and effective work ethic

Engineering Skills & Experiences

Facilitated the elimination of 1,100 blue printed parts and create d a computer based system to conceive parts

parametrically (in real time as needed), over $100,000 saved in less than first year implementation.

Proposed, designed, and crafted technical manual data for front end loaders and mounting for different tractor models,

reduced -to-sales by nine months

Drafted I-beam and angle frame grandstands, learned computer aid drafting standards and technics.

Engineered mechanical structures to adapt sports lighting fixtures to customer structures such as :

o Notre Dame University – designed cantilevered platforms and installed structures in less than four weeks

to meet customer’s requirements

o Orlando Magic’s TD Waterhouse Center – Task was to install our sports fixtures into very tight spaces.

Created a mounting bracket that could rotate and swivel in different planes to work around obstacles.

o Sydney Olympic Stadium – built structures to adapt our sports lighting to large architecturally conceived

towers, stayed within the architect’s conceptual design.

o Disney’s Wild World of Sports Complex – Due to limited space and time for installation to install our

sports fixtures, I designed lighting racks to be raised with a crane and utilized a specially designed U -

bolt to attach the racks to the structure, saved several days of crane service and met customer timelines.

Manufacturing Skills & Experiences

Worked closely with Sales staff to understand the needs of the client, learned how to apply product within budget

constraints

Communicated and documented drawings by learning from production workers, improved welding quality and

reduced weld warping on machines by documenting on the blueprint the welding sequence, improved rapport with

production staff and opened communications with engineering.

Trained our sales staff to be technically-sound when speaking with end users, sales staff in turn taught me how to ask

questions and listen to understand what the customer really wanted.

Gained experience with several specialty machines including:

Whitney punch and table plasma cutters

Laser cutting equipment

Press brakes and shearing equipment for prototyping

Kenneth Clair Clayton

344 Aztec Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27107

Phone: 336-***-**** acpzkx@r.postjobfree.com

Accounting Skills & Experience

Performed standard record keeping for four companies, one of which was self -owned and reduced inventory,

overhead, and improved accounts receivable collections.

Produced quarterly and year-end financial statements to meet banking requirements

Improved estimating accuracy and reduced the consumption of valuable engineering time resource, our team sold

33,000 sports lights with only 16,000 lighting designs, the next best region sold 16,000 sports lights using 18,000+

designs

Employment History

2007-2013 Nordfab, LLC Regional Account Manager, Inside

2006-2007 DAR RAN Furniture Director of Engineering

2005-2006 Gesipa Fasteners, Inc. Customer Service and Project Estimator

1995-2005 Musco Lighting Application Engineer, Engineering Co-Manager

1993-1994 Kinze Manufacturing Equipment Designer, 3D CAD Technician

1988-1992 Farmhand, Inc. Equipment Designer, 3D CAD Technician, Technical Writer

1985-1987 Stadiums Unlimited Grandstand Designer, Bill-of-Materials Checker

Education

BS, Business Management High Point University High Point, NC

Mechanical Design Certificate William Penn College Oskaloosa, IA

AA, Computer Programming American Institute of Business Des Moines, IA

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