Andrew D. Ask

**** ****** **** **, ********, NH 03753, H:336-***-****, M:603-***-****, acqxbx@r.postjobfree.com

LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Pursuing a broader leadership position in a manufacturing organization to utilize my ability to leverage IT, Lean, Materials and Operations Management experience by leading others to improve business performance.

I have a history of recognizing, attacking and solving key business problems, seeing them as opportunities to make the most impact for positive structural change. I am decisive, action-oriented and results-focused offering 20+ years of leadership experience in manufacturing and IT organizations.

Able to capitalize on Information Technology and Lean background to add value to organizations.

Manage Materials and Logistics groups responsible for $14M Inventory, $60M of OE and intercompany sales

Expert use of SAP and Factory Planner ERP/Planning systems

Management of Lean CI and IT groups, training and continuous improvement projects

Creation of leader standard work for leaders at all levels of materials, systems and operations

Creation of electronic dashboards to make production pace and product flow visible throughout the plants

Development of multi-level production order variance review process and tools to address reporting and costing standards issues.

Creation of product costing model uses for all products/processes reducing annual unabsorbed to less than 1%

SAP systems integration site leader. 8 person team / $400k budget / $200k capital investment / under budget and on time

SAP go-live conversion site leader. 75 person team / 2 day cut-over plan / inventory $2.5 mil / WIP $3.1 mil / executed on schedule

Lead Engineering Systems Data Load project / Lean Kaizen process / reduced business process from 4 FTEs to 1 FTE in one year / done with internal resources and one outside contractor

Lead Manufacturing Gauge Cycle Reduction project / Created Model of production capacity constraints using business plan to estimate benefit opportunity / Coded and Implemented changes to Engineering Systems (KBE) to reduce constraint process by 65%

Lean training leveraged to reduce assembly processing time / part of team to define standard work, define future state process and implement changes that resulted in a reduction of 2 FTEs per shift

Project Leader to reduce on-going SAP Master Data load and maintenance / Lean Kaizen process / reduced from 5.5 to 3 FTEs in 6 months

4+ years Lead Manufacturing Execution Systems support and development / replacement pilot projects with SAP, Factory-Works and Oracle JSF (project budget of $350k)

Extensive web application design and development experience (Oracle J2EE, Web Services, Oracle SOA) / serving manufacturing, office, materials management, quality, safety, logistics and supply chain

Experience as Oracle Database administrator

Oracle Data Warehouse design, development and implementation

In depth experience and understanding of Supply Chain concepts and MRP Systems

Experience with international dealers, customers and colleagues in various roles

WORK EXPERIENCES

Timken Aerospace, Lebanon, NH. (2013-present)

Materials, Systems and CI Lean Manager (2015-present)

Responsible for $14M Inventory, $5M monthly sales, Production Planning, Computer Systems and Lean CI activities for the Lebanon Facility managing four Production Planners, Logistics Manager of a 15 person team, four IT Professionals and three Lean Professionals.

Focus on Lean improvements to the Planning and Scheduling processes through the use of Lean concepts implemented through standard work and IT solutions.

Project Management of a KBE (Knowledge Based Engineering) solution for the Lebanon and Keene Plants

Coordinate Lean projects and IT solutions for both the Lebanon and Keene manufacturing plants

Lean CI Manager (2014-2015)

Responsible for Lean CI training and projects across the facility managing four Lean Certified professionals.

Focus on engineered standards, loading and performance management tools, automation of scheduling tools to reduce indirect labor and information flow and accuracy.

Lead staff level projects and initiatives by creating and facilitating meetings and plans made by staff level peers; Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Logistics, Human Resources and Finance

Operations Manager (2013-2014)

Responsible for production in the plant including 5 direct report area managers with 12 supervisors overseeing 265 operative technicians.

Continued development of Lean culture with focus on engineered standards, loading and performance management.

Manage using leader standard work for myself, direct reports and area leaders.

Coordinate daily with Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Logistics, Human Resources and Finance leaders to achieve the daily, weekly, monthly and annual business plan objectives.

Managed through market down turns reducing operative manning by 15% in a year.

The Timken Company, Randleman, NC. (2001-2012)

Production Manager (2010-2012)

Responsible for production including 8 direct report supervisors overseeing 220 operative technicians.

Manage and drive Lean culture where all leadership completed TPS Lean Leadership training.

Coordinate daily with Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Logistics, Human Resources and Finance leaders to achieve the daily, weekly, monthly and annual business plan objectives.

Managed through market up and down turns hiring 52 operators and reducing 36 over a 2 year period.

Group Leader Mfg Systems (2007-2010)

Leading the Business and Manufacturing Execution Systems group (four direct reports).

Leading architect and project manager of the SAP Integration with legacy applications using the Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle 10g database. Also managing the budget and invoice payment for all new hardware, software, training and consulting services.

Lead architect of a Production Performance data warehouse project where I learned warehouse fundamentals of data modeling, sizing and ETL techniques.

Lead architect of a Master Data warehouse to load SAP. Designed and coded ETL process that manipulated over a million rows of data. Did all DBA work for this effort including creation of table spaces, tables, indexes, triggers, stored procedures, and functions to manipulate data from KBE table structures, into a data warehouse and then into SAP.

Sr. Mfg Systems Analyst (2003-2006)

Working with a team to maintain the MES called CELLworks from the Brooks Software company. The MES was integrated into I2-Factory Planner demand scheduling, WIP management, Operator Interface, SCADA, SPC and corporate reporting systems.

Creating J2EE web applications to support business systems needs using Java/JSP/Struts with Oracle and the Oracle IDE called JDeveloper and the Oracle Application Server.

Working as a data administrator for Oracle, managing the core data model with skills in SQLPLUS, PL/SQL, Creating Views, Triggers, Snapshots and Constraints for 5 databases on 4 Unix Servers.

Working as the lead developer on a MES replacement project using the newest Brooks Software product called Factory Works. Working with MS Visual Studio to create C++ server side rules and .NET user interfaces, this system was integrated to SAP using Web Services.

Crew Supervisor (2003-2005)

Worked in a self directed work team manufacturing environment as a coach to a crew of 35 machine operators and maintenance associates. During this assignment I learned how to work through HR issues, lead, coach and communicate with operational staff.

Sr. Mfg Systems Analyst (2001-2003)

Worked with a team of engineers to maintain and integrate a Knowledge Based Engineering System called ICAD. This position includes software architecture design, project management and lisp programming using ICAD on a HP-UX platform.

Provided technical and development support for CMM like gaging equipment, Integration of corporate DB2 database models into Oracle using Web Services.

Reduced the gauging equipment cycle times by 65% using Lean/6Sigma tools for analysis and modification of the existing KBE based programming system.

Striker Systems Software Inc., White House, Tennessee. (1994-2001)

Post Systems Manager (1998-2001)

Managed a team of developers to create a new NC output processor module for our products. This position includes software architecture design, project management and C++ programming using MS Visual Studio.

Developed custom applications to interface our main software modules to our customers CNC machinery.

Increased production of product volume by 50% over a 2 year period. Reduced the number of bugs reported in software by 75%. Resolved technical and communication problems, established standards for development and organized a team to handle a changing workload.

Production Manager (1998-1999)

Accountable for projects and provided project leadership in both functional and technical areas.

Worked with all departments of the company to implement software.

Planned, scheduled and monitored individual tasks for all project related activities.

Domestic/International Dealer Support (1998-2001)

Acted as first line of contact for dealer and then communicate dealer needs and suggestions to Sr. Management.

Identified technical problems and escalated to Quality Assurance.

Assisted dealers in software implementations.

Primary International relations was with dealers in Japan, Korea, Singapore, India and China, including travel to Japan and Korea to establish operations.

Custom Projects Developer (1998-2001)

Utilized expert understanding of manufacturing processes and software to design custom software solutions.

Support Systems Manager (1996-1998)

Responsible for instructing and supervising other Trainers.

Aided in and worked with support team to create product documentation, created new formatting standards to completely rewrite all product help files.

Conducted staff performance reviews, hiring, promotion, termination, and salary increases.

Software Trainer/Technician (1994-1996)

Pope County State Bank - Computer Operator Glenwood, MN (1987-1989)

SYSTEMS RELATED SKILLS

Programming: MSVC ++, MS C# .NET, Java, JSP, JSF, Java Script, Struts, MS and Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, BPEL, Hyperion Brio Reports, Visual Basic/MS Access, XML, HTML, VAX PASCAL, VAX ASSEMBLY, Unix Shell script, Borland Turbo-PASCAL, Borland ANSI C, LISP, CNC programming of more than 75 different machine controllers, communication software script languages for Telix and Procomm.

Platforms: IIS, SQL Server, Unix – HP-UX, Oracle DBA, Oracle SOA, Apache, MS Windows, MS DOS, VAX/VMS Mainframe, VAX DEC-Windows Network, Telnet, Mac, NCR Mainframe.

Software Applications: Oracle BPEL, Oracle Enterprise Application Suite, Oracle JDeveloper, Toad for Oracle, SAP, MS Developer Studio, CELLworks MES IDE, MS-Project, CA-Super-project, MKS Source Integrity, Subversion, AutoCAD, Striker Systems sheet metal modules, MS-Office Suite.

Bemidji State University Computer Services - Computer Operator Bemidji, MN (1991-1993)

Glenwood Welding & Fabrication Inc. - Generation – Welder Glenwood, MN (1990-1994)

EDUCATION

Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota.

Bachelor of Science Degree, 1993

Major: Computer Science

Minor: Mathematics Concentration: Music

University of Minnesota Morris, Morris, Minnesota (1989-1991)

REFERENCE

References available upon request.

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