Ayo O. Akinsanya

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U.S. Citizen

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

•Extensive knowledge of lean, six sigma tools and problem-solving methodology, with new program launch experience

•20+ years as Engineering Manager in manufacturing and mechanical environments

•20+ years of experience with managing capital projects (has run multiple concurrent projects ranging from $500k to

$500MM)

EDUCATION

•Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) - Industrial Management (2002)

oBaker College – Flint, MI

•B.S., Electrical Engineering (1985)

oUniversity of Bridgeport – Bridgeport, CT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Weyerhaeuser – Engineered Wood Products – Castleberry, AL 2022 – Present

Maintenance Manager

•Drive site vision for maintenance and reliability excellence through proper planning and scheduling, continuous skill-building, and predictive and preventative maintenance practices

•Manage maintenance performance (safety, quality of work, efficiency, cost, equipment analysis) utilizing Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), defined maintenance metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.

•Develop, analyze, and review preventative procedures for all automatic process control equipment.

•Identify, monitor, and maintain key performance indicators (KPI’s) for maintenance.

•Planning and leading major maintenance outages to ensure planned maintenance work is completed in the

outage window.

•Establishes and manages maintenance budget and continuously drives cost reduction.

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products - Pennington, AL 2021 – 2022

Reliability Maintenance Leader

Provided process engineering, static equipment and rotating equipment engineering & inspection, instrumentation & process control, electrical, areas of the mill.

Owned the site rotating equipment Proactive Maintenance program including all procedures and standards.

Analyze repeated breakdowns, perform root cause problem solving, propose corrective measures and optimize equipment life cycles

Develop and chart KPIs to track maintenance costs and overall equipment efficiency (OEE)

Assist in daily operation and troubleshooting, administration of continuous improvement system.

Promote and maintain Process Safety Management within assigned area of responsibility.

Ensuring the effectiveness of all employed technologies, processes, engineering designs, equipment, operating limits, and asset care strategies.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation – Mobile, AL 2019 – 2021

Lead Electrical Engineer

•Lead projects and initiatives in support of the manufacturing operations and group strategies

•Lead continuous improvement and corrective actions activities and projects.

•Improve process capability to deliver a reduction in defects and variability.

Lead efforts to implement lean management systems, lean tools and high-performance work teams and standardize key processes including materials management and quality systems

•Develop accurate investment proposals for capital and major maintenance ventures specify equipment and construction requirements to implement projects

Assess the needs of the plant site and redirect the DCS group work force to meet the needs.

Develop and mentor the DCS technicians to support the site’s future needs.

Georgia Power Company – Metro Atlanta, GA 2018 – 2019

Engineering Representative

Design and Manage construction of Metro Atlanta highway utilities relocation projects

Perform customer service, project management and interfacing with state and local representatives.

Electrical utility design, coordinating construction, and attending all DOT construction meetings, concept planning and region scheduling meetings. Prepare project cost estimates, budgets

Project design and construction coordination activities, preliminary planning, system design, estimating, budgeting, engineering, scheduling, permitting, construction coordination, operation, maintenance, accounting, acquiring easements, job tracking, billing, payments, documentation, reporting and audits.

Manage the construction schedule and assign projects to crew leaders and contractors.

Served as project manager for multiple projects

Honda Manufacturing of Alabama - Lincoln, AL 2013 – 2018

Reliability Engineer Stamping

Direct the plant Engineering and Maintenance staff on a day-to-day basis to ensure that systems and equipment are being optimized

Lead $5M capital improvement project, to update PLC/HMI/VFD on two stamping production lines.

Analyzing equipment performance, failure data, and corrective maintenance history to develop and deploy engineering solutions, improved maintenance strategies, preventative maintenance optimization, and other reliability techniques

Maintaining, troubleshoot and modifying PLC (Allen Bradley RS Logix 5, Mitsubishi GX Works & Omron) ladder

logic & industrial networks such as Ethernet, ControlNet, Device Net, Profibus, motor control systems, Servo drives, VFD and electrical distribution systems.

Monitor production runs and correct problems to improve MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) and MTTR (Mean Time to Repair)

Progress Energy Carolinas (Duke Energy) 2007 – 2013

Program/Project Manager Distribution Asset Engineering/ Systems Engineer – Florence, SC

•Maintaining the preventive and predictive maintenance program on all electrical distribution equipment and assets. This will involve coordinating efforts to monitor, test, repair, and optimize the operation of the high voltage distribution network, including the high voltage overhead and underground distribution systems (115 kV and 12.47 kV), co-gen generators, high voltage substations, transformers, switchgears, 2.4 kV and 4.16 kV starters, protection relays, motors, UPS and batteries, and SCADA System

•Managed the entire maintenance program for assigned area of Southern Region, which included all of SC and parts of NC. Worked with contractors that performed system inspections and reported on items to be repaired. Managed and assigned work to specialist in the affected areas, who write work orders for repairs.

•Monitored and ensured Capital & O&M expenditures for Distribution Asset Performance (DAP) projects and programs do not exceed financial budgets.

•Served as the Chairman of the Florence Operations Center Safety Council for 2010

•Worked with the maintenance group to increase power reliability, ensuring safe workplace practices are always followed and driving safety awareness through leading by example.

Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama 2003 – 2007

Assistant Manager Engine Assembly – Montgomery, AL

•Start-up of Engine Assembly Plant, conducted supplier surveys, visits supplier to assess capabilities, equipment, tooling, quality and prepared related report.

•Managed the operation of Maintenance department personnel to ensure equipment operational capability in order to meet production requirements. Lead maintenance team in establishing and maintaining a robust Preventive Maintenance Optimization program.

•Responsible for overseeing the entire manufacturing operations on 2nd shift, including safety, process efficiencies, employee relations, training, scrap reduction, First Time Quality (FTQ), daily production requirements and quality.

•Performing predictive, preventive and proactive maintenance analysis as well as designing and implementing long-term continuous improvement applications and systems to enhance mechanical reliability.

•Collaborates with plant teams including Operations and Engineering to support new product and technology implementations.

DaimlerChrysler Corporation 1996 – 2003

Stamping & Welding Plant – Sterling Heights, MI

Maintenance Area Manager Welder Repair (2001-2003)

•Promoted from Toledo Assembly Plant I to Area Manager Welder Repair to direct maintenance activities within Stamping plant.

•Managed the operation of Maintenance Department personnel. Lead maintenance team in establishing & maintaining a robust Preventive Maintenance Optimization program.

Toledo Assembly Plant I - Toledo, OH

Resident Product Engineer (2000-2001)

•Promoted to Resident Product Engineer, investigated vehicle shake issues, riding and handling issues.

•Provided sustaining engineering support to the manufacturing team through detailed failure analysis, test support,

alternate component recommendations, documentation revisions, assembly support, obsolescence analysis, and training

support to resolve issues in a timely fashion

Mack Avenue Engine Plant I - Detroit, MI

Electronic Specialist / Production / Maintenance Supervisor Head Sub and Engine Assembly (1996-2000)

•Maintenance & operation of all production equipment and plant systems & continuous improvement projects.

•Tracked and monitored equipment uptime to assist in setting up a preventive maintenance schedule and for recurring problems, trends, and cycles, motivated, and mentored production personnel.

•Established and maintained a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) for tracking work orders, spare parts supplies and maintenance history of plant equipment.

Duracell 1994 – 1996

Senior Controls Engineer and Safety Coordinator (New Products & Technology Division) – Waterbury, CT

•Was promoted from Electrical Technologist to Senior Controls Engineer, provided project management from design inception to hardware procurement. Planned, integrated, and managed projects and programs to ensure certification and smooth transition into production, while setting and achieving aggressive schedule and cost objectives.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation 1987 – 1994

Plant Electrical Technician/Trainer – New Milford, CT

•Responsible for the diagnosis and repair of mechanical, electrical, and electronic faults impacting the operation of high- speed, Automated assembly lines. Performed preventive maintenance procedures that maximized line efficiency and productivity.

•Based on expertise, experience and performance, was selected by Kimberly-Clark's engineering management team as an expatriate to assist in the start-up of a new paper pulp production plant at Barton-Upon-Humber, South Humberside, England.

Certificates:

Certified Reliability Leader

Low Voltage Qualified – e-Hazard

High Voltage Qualified – e-Hazard

NFPA 70E Electrical Arc Flash Safety Training

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