Resume
PERSONAL DETAILS:
•Name: Michel Segers
•Current function: 20 years as lead consultant by Absolem engineers (Inc.)
•Email: ******.******@*******.***
•Phone: +1-480-***-****
SKILLS
•General Management
•Supply Chain
•Automation
•Continuous improvement
•Change Management
•CADCAM
•6S
•Manufacturing
•Lean management
•KANBAN
•Flexible
•Technology minded
•Creative
•Analytical thinking
•Eager to learn
•Hands-on
•Cost control
EDUCATION
•Executive master in Supply Chain at Vlerick business school Ghent, Leuven.
•Higher education Mechanical engineering + Cad Cam design in PTS at Boom.
•Supplementary training management and teambuilding.
SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE
•Baan, Solid Edge, Microstation, Autocad, Inventor, BPCS, Smarteam, Lotus Notes, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Adobe Reader, Solid Edge.
SPOKEN & WRITTEN LANGUAGES
•Dutch: Mother tongue
•English: Very good
•Spanish: Learning
•German: Good
•French: Good
EXPERIENCE
COMPANY: ABSOLEM engineering – Reynaers Inc. (September 2015 - present)
Position: General Manager
• Leading all operations of 2 production plants 90 people) in the USA with 6 direct reports, production, purchasing, quality, supply chain, engineering, aftermarket.
COMPANY: ABSOLEM engineering – Atlas Copco Airpower in Belgium (1,5 years)
Position: Project leader
•Start-up PIBA + serial production ER, AIRNET, re/sourcing new suppliers, reduce + optimize the stock in the customer centers global.
COMPANY: ABSOLEM engineering – Atlas Copco Compressors LLC in Houston (1 year – 3 months)
Position: Operations Manager
•Relocate the production plant from Wisconsin to Houston + start-up, launch new products, lean manufacturing, lead the production, shipping & receiving and supply chain.
COMPANY: ABSOLEM engineering – DAF Trucks in Westerlo Belgium (8.5 months)
Position: Project leader relocations/migrations
•Relocation of production cells + migration of new robots, managing and follow-up, interaction with subcontractors, production, logistics, TD, safety, purchasing and SQA.
COMPANY: ABSOLEM engineering – Atlas Copco in Belgium (7 months)
Position: Project leader aftermarket
•Problem solving for customer centers worldwide, manage technical meetings with production, purchasing, marketing, management, engineering and quality, technical presentations and trainings in the customer centers worldwide.
COMPANY: ABSOLEM engineering - Meyvaert in Belgium (1.5 years)
Position: Plant Manager
•Optimization engineering, start-up new production plant and production lead, setting-up a CADCAM system between the 2 plants, purchases of machinery.
COMPANY: Absolem – Atlas Copco in India (2.5 years)
Position: Operations Manager:
•Move the production from Europe to India and start-up, launch new products in India, production lead, follow-up of the project budget, time and production costs, taking corrective actions, qualify suppliers in connection with clean rooms and technical specifications.
COMPANY: Absolem – Atlas Copco in Belgium (2 years)
Position: Project leader product development & engineering
•Prototype design & research of quality Air products, start-up production, management and support test engineers and assembly workers, deliver basic records for marketing (manuals, info, AML, …), Follow-up of the project budget, time and production costs, taking corrective actions.
COMPANY: Absolem – Meyvaert in Belgium (1.5 years)
Position: Operations manager
•Optimization and reorganization of engineering & production, develop new procedures and prototypes, implement standards in Autodesk Inventor (3D), negotiating with suppliers national and international, production lead, developing new prototypes.
COMPANY: Absolem – Pharmacia/Pfizer in Belgium (1.5 years)
Position: Project leader
•Mechanical follow-up of the machineries, systems and automation systems of new plant.
COMPANY: Absolem – Atlas Copco in Belgium (1.5 years)
Position: Prototype designer tooling.
•Prototype design, design and drawing of automation projects.
COMPANY: Absolem – Fabricom Logistic Systems in Belgium (4.5 years)
Position: Project engineer
•Design and calculating the capacities of the project, order parts and follow-up, design of new systems and techniques, visit sites in Europe, follow-up and mapping on site
COMPANY: Alvey Europe in Belgium (4 years)
Position: Project engineer
•Project development, calculation the capacities of the project, order parts and follow-up, new systems and technical design, visit sites in Europe, follow-up and mapping on site.
COMPANY: Verhaert in Belgium (1 year)
Position: Designer
•Mechanical designs for aero- spatial projects.
Army: National army duty as petty officer class 1 accomplished (10 months)