DERMOT A. ASHBY - B.Eng. (Hons), C.Eng. FIMechE

Rockford, MI 616-***-**** ad2saw@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Profile

Motivational leader and organizational problem-solver with advanced supervisory, team building, and customer service skills. Experience stepping into roles and quickly making positive changes to drive company success. Focused on using training, monitoring, and morale-building techniques to maximize employee engagement and performance. Results-focused General Manager offering many years of progressive leadership experience. Develops, leads, and maintains large teams in high-velocity environments to transform staff into outstanding leaders. Demonstrates creativity and savviness critical to financial and operational success.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Managing Operations and Efficiency

Human Resources Allocation

Production Order Review

P&L Oversight

Budget Management

Business Unit Oversight

Revenue Forecasting

Strategic Planning

Team Building Leadership

Teamwork and Collaboration

Employee Development

Customer Service

Documentation and Reporting

Process Improvement

Decision Making

Business Development

Customer Relationship Management

Certified Manufacturing Technologist

Project Management & Planning

Technical Proficiency

Hiring and Training

Performance Tracking and Evaluation

Professional Experience

Alternative Eng Inc. - General Manger; – Grand Rapids, MI Aug 2019 – Current

Develop and implement strategic plan to assist in turn-around businesses.

Motivate and coordinate plant activities to improve and sustain high morale.

Develop company growth strategy and training program for a 40% yr/yr increase.

Review all SOP’s for effectiveness, then implement key improvement plans.

Fully understand the breadth and depth of the organization, make adjustment.

Overview KPI’s such that they speak to the upstream processes.

Understand that each team member understands their role and position.

Review the supply chain for robustness, risk and diversification.

Install a companywide secession plan for future continuity.

Haerter Stamping – General Manager – Grand Rapids, MI Aug 2016 – Aug 2019

Company turn-around situation – organization re-structuring and definition of departments.

Drive and concur business plans of Haerters North American presents from German family owners.

Motivate and coordinate plant activities through departmental managers to accomplish corporate goals.

Meet and exceeded Quality and delivery by 7%, beyond corporate goals and other global plants.

Training implemented, leadership and technical staff. Including initiating a Trade Apprenticeship program.

Increase productivity by reducing scrap levels by 25%.

Achieve EBITA target of $1.5m by year end.

Increase annual sales from $17m by 10%, 12%, and 15% for the first three years.

Reduce inventory of raw materials, WIP, finished product by approx. 12%.

Mahindra/Mahindra – EVP Advanced Engineering/Manufacturing Sept 2013 – Aug 2016

Green field automotive OEM start-up position ii India

Road map all aspects of Mahindra’s Automotive Division first platforms and programs. Creating then leading the advanced vehicle engineering team’s cross functionality across Marketing, Manufacturing, Quality, Analytical modelling for new portfolio of vehicles.

Highly motivated leadership of initial strategic planning with marketing, product planning, manufacturing, procurement, development, quality to determine what and how to manufacture new products.

Intense hiring plan (total 3,000) with HR. Initial core team (60 engineers) supporting product plan.

Direct advanced product in regulatory and human machine interface with manufacturing capability.

Hands on approach for small electric commuter vehicle. Architectural layout and foundation calculations.

Generate 3 vehicle flexed base platform architectures supporting small car, light truck & SUV programs.

Implement multiple product line growth curves to a level of 22 programs on 3 platforms.

Development of new vehicle proving grounds for vehicle refinement / development / validation.

Enthusiastically drive the use of analytical tools to use for program optimization for body structure v mass, NVH v Ride, Thermal CFD v available space, Safety Engineering v structure stiffness.

Chrysler - Engineering Director - Auburn Hills, MI May 2007 – Aug 2013

Integrate chassis systems, engines / transmissions to current, ‘power-up’ and future programs.

Efficiantly deliver generated concept design, ease of manufacture, vehicle refinement to launch support.

Adaptation of current FIAT 500 to electrification of powertrain system within a 10-month deadline.

Responsible for $58M/yr. business transfer. Cost of $1.5m with zero quality concerns during start-up.

Develop N.A. supplier quality by zero defect concept to production designs and manufacturing processes.

Director of chassis supplier procurement strategy. Overseas assignment assessing low cost capabilities.

Develop standardized modular design/scalable technologies for reducing complexity, decreasing cost.

Implement technology road maps for chassis, ensuring supplier synchronization with future programs.

Participate in the development of vehicle level NVH ‘modal alignment” strategy.

Head the Directors forum for anti-vibration commodity from a revenue and risk analysis perspective.

Paulstra CRC (Hutchinson) - VP Engineering - Grand Rapids, MI Jun 2001 – May 2007

Divisional growth and development position.

Organize and chair yearly technical forums for all internal global innovators, suppliers and customers. General purpose was to promote cutting edge technology / processes and align suppliers / customers to future technology and manufacturing investments. Industry alignment mapping.

Responsibilities of all analysis, design, testing / development, prototyping and production introduction.

Drive and deliver the North American portion of a strategic move towards a $5M (PDM/PLM) communication system. Streamlining the all global corporate functions.

$160mm sales support of engineering in product technical presentation during customer sales meeting.

chairman for the annual Hutchinson global technical sharing in Grand Rapids, Tokyo, Paris, Stuttgart.

Tutelage for creating advanced technology driven product portfolio through advanced engineering.

Motivate and lead cross functional teams for cost effective, best in class function and ease of manufacture.

Actively seek out business partners communication identifying critical needs to support fresh program opportunities. Customer, supplier and educational - Ferris St. / Grand Valley State University) partners.

Ford - Motor Industry Research Assn. NA - General Manager – Plymouth, MI Jun 1995–May 2001

Green field start-up position from the UK to the USA – Vehicle Refinement and NVH

Problem solvers of vehicle Ride/ Handling & NVH refinement teams for N.A. all OEM’s.

Root cause analysis for problem solving strategies during the period of 3-12 months before launch.

Build relations with O.E.M’s & all Anti vibration tier one suppliers. Rubber Metal bonding to panel mastics.

Education

University of Central England - Birmingham, UK 1988 - 1993

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honors)

Thesis, front seat dynamics and occupant kinematics. FIMechE award.

Swindon University – UK 1975 - 1988

Bachelor of Manufacturing Engineering (Honors)

Bachelor of Electronics Engineering (Honors)

U of M Management Certified, PMP Certified, Six Sigma Certified, Dale Carnegie trained.

Professional Affiliations and Awards

Chartered Engineer and Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers - (PE equivalent, UK).

Patent US8657061B1 2/25/2014 – Specialized attachment to aluminum castings/extrusions.

Member - West Michigan Trade Association and The Economic Club of Grand Rapids.

Constitutive models for rubber III - proceedings of the Third European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber, 15-17 September 2003, London, UK.

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