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Technical Advisor Fleet Manager

Location:
Hopkinsville, KY
Posted:
June 24, 2021

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Barry Lamell

Hopkinsville, Kentucky ***********@*****.*** 253-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/barry-lamell-b46a4913a

Professional Summary

Positive team builder able to manage multiple projects effectively with vast knowledge of logistic and maintenance processes. United States Army Veteran with over 20 years of experience in fleet management, equipment maintenance and project management. Experience improving department efficiency with long lasting foundations. A leader by example with high achievable standards. Additional qualifications include:

●Strategic Planning

●Department Supervisory & Leadership

●Trend/Time Analysis

●SAP systems

●Organizational Vision

●Written & Verbal Communication

●Microsoft Office Suite

●Lean Six Sigma

●Knowledge of AUTOCAD

Continuous improvement Advisor

Professional Experience

Senior Ground Maintenance Fleet Manager U.S. Army – Fort Campbell, KY August 2019 – Present

●Serve as the senior ground maintenance technical advisor in large scale fleet management 7 locations 300 variants and over 6000 pieces of equipment.

●Assist department managers in the planning, coordination, and execution of maintenance support; provide technical expertise of maintenance doctrine to efficiently employ maintenance personnel and equipment in support of organization goals.

●Manage materiel readiness reporting for brigade and echelons above brigade organizations.

●Effectively use Microsoft Excel to build strategic sheets outlining fleet schedules, personnel management, budget, recoverable parts and man hour accounting for.

●Perform material readiness management duties at sustainment and sustainment command levels; performs research, development, test and evaluation duties; assists in coordination and evaluates maintenance performed by contract support.

●Performs duties in various environments and ability to manage multiple large-scale projects with varying deadlines.

●Reporting and analyzing progression and utilization of junior managers.

●Moved department from last place in maintenance to 1st for 26 straight weeks.

●Used strategic analysis to reduce spending on over servicing equipment saving $1.2 million and 400-man hours.

●Managed $12 million maintenance budget covering all logistic and contracted needs to maintain the fleet.

●Focused on continuous improvements of 19 department heads building a team that moved from last place in maintenance to holding 1st place for 26 straight weeks.

●Forecasted expected maintenance requirements both budgets and logistic requirements.

●Improved on Floor plans reducing unproductive time by 3.5% daily

●Daily use of the SAP system(GCSS-A) to pull wait times and down times. Using weekly time scores to find ways to improve times.

●Built easy to read trackers converting SAP data to Microsoft and Powerpoint presentations

●3 times a week sending time reports out and advising on where time could be gained back

●Chaired weekly continuous improvement meetings.

Senior Maintenance Supervisor U.S. Army – Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA December 2018 – August 2019

●Serve as the senior engineer maintenance technician for engineer equipment 4 different locations with 2200 pieces of equipment.

●Manage 23 different funding accounts with zero issues.

●Implemented Lean Six Sigma fundamentals to streamline work areas increasing throughput by 35%.

●Input weekly man hours.

●Used SAP System (GCSS-A) to pull daily reports

●Used strategic analysis to reduce spending on over servicing equipment saving $1.2million and 400-man hours

●Taught classes to operators on equipment functions giving them the skill set to identify small equipment malfunctions prevent them from becoming costly malfunctions.

●Built logistic assets tracker from data pulled out of SAP (GCSS-A) showing stock on hand stock used and cost per mile per type of equipment.

●Maintained monthly budget ensuring none of my 23 fund accounts were overspent.

●Advised director on strategic support and planning enabling a seamless flow of logistic support and minimizing lost time with equipment.

●Advised director on changed to promote continuous improvement

●Conducted time Analysis to find times and areas and route causes of where predictive levels reduced.

Senior Engineer Maintenance Technician U.S. Army – Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA August 2016 – December 2018

●Served as the senior engineer maintenance technical advisor in the department.

●As department director managed 7 team leads and 130 personnel.

●Won highest Maintenance Excellence Award in the army for large fleets two years in a row.

●Used Lean Six Sigma processes to strategically place tools and supplies to reduce wasted man hours by 3-man hours per day enabling higher throughput.

●Responsible for manhour input weekly.

●Prioritized work ensuring no customer had to completely stop working because of maintenance.

●Accountable for $2.7 million in stock and supplies with 0 loss over a 24-month time period.

●Mentored 5 staff in becoming directors themselves ensuring that skills and values were passed to the next generation of leaders.

●Reengineered the flow of traffic and personal to reduce unnecessary stoppages to productivity

Senior Engineer Maintenance Advisor U.S Army – Camp Humphreys Korea August 2015 – August 2016

●Build a maintenance program from the ground

●Communicated with higher department in 3 different time zones

●Managed Contracts with local nationals to provide logistic support

●Over saw the movementment of 1500 pieces to include weapons from 3 different states to Korea

●Managed a $6 million budget

●Negotiated new contracts reducing overhead cost saving 8% of annual budget

●Used SAP to track movement of logistics and equipment in transit daily

●Built motor pool layout and traffic flow using AUTOCAD to ensure enabling the use of all facilities and exits.

Engineer Maintenance Advisor U.S. Army – Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA May 2012 – August 2015

●Build Power Grid removing underutilized power generation assets saving 120 gallons of fuel daily

●Managed a team of 22 personal with 7 different job skills

●Trained over 300 personal in proper life support equipment implantation enabling the company to reallocate resources to areas that needed them.

●Negotiated contracts with outside sources to provide logistical support.

●Transition to SAP system (GCSS-A) moving 1700 pieces of equipment into the system.

●Built a new parking layout to improve safe flow of equipment in the motor pool.

●Did time analysis for work spaces to reduce time away from workspaces.

●held weekly improvement meetings to continuously improve workspace and productivity

Instructor/ Writer U.S. Army – Fort Lee, VA May 2010 – August 2012

●Advised on the the course curriculum required to prove proficiency

●Built training aids that allowed students to understand the concepts

●Build 25 PowerPoint presentation for class instruction

●Instructed classes to students and administered tests

●Built classroom layouts ensuring that n items would block or distract student learning.

Military Training

Engineer Equipment repair technician basic and advanced course 35 Weeks

SAP *GCSS-A* Maintenance Managers Course 40 Hours

SAP *ERP’s* Course Logistic Support Users Course 80 Hours

Army Safety and Composite Risk Management 40 Hours

Commanders Safety Course 40 Hours

Support Operations Course Phase 1 40 Hours

Project Manager Development Course 80 Hours

Fundamentals of Lean Six Sigma 80 Hours

Army Basic Contracting Course 40 Hours

Basic Instructor Course 80 Hours

Small Group Leader Course 120 Hours

Basic and Advanced leader Course 16 Weeks Total

Education

Diesel Technology, AS North Central Institute – Texas 59 Credits January 2005

High school Diploma GED June 2001

References

Professional

Ken Shepard

Worked with 3 years

Senior Director for maintenance

Phone 315-***-****

Bridget Day

Work with 18 months

Support Operations Director

Phone 419-***-****

Reference

Personal

Russ Brummett

3 years

Friend and old employee

901-***-****



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