Marlon Napier

Atlanta, GA 850-***-**** adrx04@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlon-napier-0038b4116/

Project Manager & Corp Lead Process Development Engineer

Engineering Innovative Solutions That Deliver Bottom-line Results

Well-qualified engineering professional with many years of directly related experience. Proven leader and project manager with an in-depth understanding of Project planning and scheduling. Offers a demonstrated ability to recognize and adapt engineering solutions to a myriad of environments. Highly adept at preparing employees, developing their skills, and sharing knowledge to support and ensure their growth and success within organizations. Career goal is to transition into a senior-level position with strategic planning responsibilities for the development of engineering programs.

Core Competencies:

Budgeting & Cost Control Roadmap Development Business & Process Solution Design Team Development Strategic Planning & Execution Project Planning & Scheduling Presentations & Public Speaking Project & Program Management Strategic Planning Lean/Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Methodologies Technical Data Package Development

Key Contributions

Implemented an outsource strategy to leverage vendors to build subassemblies which increased profitability resulted in net increase 3 million dollars

Identified a process improvement which corrected a 3-year delay and generated $12 million in profit increase

Implemented a process and quality improvement using lean manufacturing techniques that led to $15.7 million project award.

Developed a process to improve production rate by 1500% which yielded cost savings of $5.2 million worth of man hours.

Professional Experience

COX COMMUNICATIONS, ATLANTA, GA July. 2021 to Present

Process Manager III, Engineering Enablement

Provides continuous and visible leadership for medium size projects and scope current and future end-to-end (E2E) process improvement and quality-related initiatives.

Develop and lead the reliability process in a manner that has had a direct impact on equipment uptime, efficiency, cost management, quality, safety, customer satisfaction, innovation, and ultimately profitability.

Lead/ Facilitate cross functional discussion within Engineering as well as with boundary partners

De-escalate issues, identify risk with program/ project, mitigate and place control

Ensure efficiency gains envisioned in the “to-be”, become a reality, and the associated benefits are realized

Plans, performs, and implements process improvement and/or change management initiatives.

Develops policies, methods, and procedures to supporting and lending to improvement of business processes and in support of change management.

Develops metrics (KPIs) that provide data for process measurement, identifying indicators for future improvement opportunities. Diagrams and evaluates existing processes.

Interact with customers and employees to understand the true needs and requirements for a future state – while challenging senior leadership / SMEs to “lean out” processes to reduce cost and streamline the customer journey

Develop E2E roadmaps to forecast team activities and plans for the year

Develop budget for the team to present to leadership to ensure team success

Develop scope of work and Job descriptions for hiring in house and 3PL labor for the team

Build and manages detailed project plans to ensure the team meets key deadlines associated with the business integrator’s needs – a delay in the program will greatly impact the overall budget. Provide weekly communication of all milestones, accomplishments, and plan.

Drive implementation of desired “to-be” process including customer experience and the “new way of working” within the process (RACI, Workflow, etc…), policies (Payment schedule changes, customer contracts, etc..), and system (System currently under review)

Development of metrics to track process adoption and compliance by region/functional area.

MAUSER PACKAGING SOLUTIONS, Valdosta, GA May. 2020 to June 2021

Corporate Reliability Engineer II/PM

Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. Implement improvement activities that result in sustained product and operational cost reductions in a high speed/high volume manufacturing facility while leading cross-functional teams of 5-10 employees in each of the facilities

Develop and lead the reliability process in a manner that has had a direct impact on equipment uptime, efficiency, cost management, quality, safety, customer satisfaction, innovation, and ultimately profitability.

Improved OEE and Uptime for Pail Drum Tops by 36% yielding a savings of $150K per year within the first 5 months of employment without any capital investment.

Improved machine reliability, uptime and, performance of handle clip welder for Pail Drum Tops by 385% while reducing production time from 120 hours per week to 50 hours per week yielding a $400K per year savings within the first 6 months of employment

Implement E-Maintenance for the Homerville Facility (4 facilities in 1)

Through analytical tools, work with Operations to identify equipment end of life

(EOL) opportunities, required equipment process upgrades and develop while managing long-term capital

Investment plans

Identify, monitor, and maintain key performance indicators (KPI’s) which drives data access to the operator/craftsman level.

Develop maintenance benchmarking data / KPI’s to drive improvements amongst like sites and other similar corporate entities

Perform Root Cause Analysis of systems and subsystems within a manufacturing environment.

Develop effective PMs for equipment to support business unit metrics.

Interact with 9 Operating facilities to ensure consistent practices are maintained throughout the organization

Manage entry level and junior level Engineers

STRYTEN MANUFACTURING, Atlanta, GA AUG. 2020 to March 2021

Corporate Lead Process Development Engineer/PM

Identify and streamline processes using lean tools while maintaining a safe environment. Recognizes projects, develops business cases to support those projects and, manage resources in to complete plans on time that strategically align with business goals. (This company was formally known as Exide Technologies)

Project Manager for the entire company rebranding 3 million dollars

Project Manager Fort Smith DC Development and Implementation Project 4 million dollars

Project Manager SVLA (Neptune) USDOD

EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES, Atlanta, GA Oct. 2016 to Aug 2020

Corporate Lead Process Development Engineer/PM

Identify and streamline processes using lean tools while maintaining a safe environment. Recognizes projects, develops business cases to support those projects and, manage resources in to complete plans on time that strategically align with business goals.

Project Manager Phase II Salina Formation Project 6 million Dollars

Project Manager Columbus Finishing line/DC Improvement Project 8 million Dollars

Project Manager Columbus Water Quality Improvement Project 2 million Dollars

Validated and commissioned a new 45 million Dollar plant facility project.

Provide Professional advice to the North America Plant Process Engineers to ensure company goals are met.

Use Lean Principles to design Process Specifications for North America Plants

Develop and implemented one-piece flow operations and processes

Create and preform Machine Validations using SPC data to implement product specification and control limits

Document Plant and Corporate PFEMA’s

Technical Report writing

Analyze Data which ensures a safe implementation or plan adjustment to the current or new product

CHEMRING ORDNANCE – PERRY, FL 2015 to 2016

Health Safety Engineer; Feb. 2016 – July 2016

Develop strategies and procedures to ensure safety of the facility, employees, and customers by examining equipment, and buildings to identify areas that can potentially cause health and safety hazards

Implemented safeguards and procedures through PSI, PHA’s and various safety tools in compliance with OSHA/NFPA regulation

Conducted all building safety inspection.

Conducted Plant wide energetic event inspection and reaction plans

Technical Document and Corrective Action Report writing including near miss/upset condition evaluations

Overseer of Corrective Action Implementation

Developed Plant wide safety talks and training's

Provide Preventative Maintenance schedules and updates to ensure the life of the equipment and the safety of the employees

Professional Experience (cont.)

Quality Engineer/Project Manager; Oct. 2015- July 2016

Ensure manufacturing processes are accomplished while using the correct materials, process. Develop and maintain product standards and testing those standards against critical performance characteristics

Project Manager over the M201A1 program 15.7 million Dollar

Ensured the quality of the product through various testing and Statistical Analysis

Supervise Quality Technicians by writing work instructions and clear-cut directives

Lead Quality Engineer of all Fuze programs. M201A1, MOD3, M213, M208

Technical Document and Corrective Action Report writing

Process Engineer/Project Manager; Apr. 2015 – July 2016

Create, develop and implement processes to achieve manufacturing goals. Maintain and improve processes using lean techniques and continuous improvement methods to achieve the proper tack time of deliverables in the most cost-effective manner.

Project Manager MK140 Project 22.5 million dollars

Design, development, and improvement of production build process for various programs.

Safely design one-piece flow processes using the TDP (Technical Data Package) provided by the government.

Program development and Staffing of each program

Lead Process Engineer on the MK140

Associate Lead Process Engineer on the M213

Save the company 12 million dollars by designing and assembling a military spec that had not worked and was three years behind MK140.

E-ONE OCALA, FL 2011 to 2015

Designer/ Electrical Engineer/Project Manager (July 2011-March 2015)

Develop new electrical systems, programs, and harnesses for various applications in emergence vehicles and apparatus. Produce schematics, wiring diagrams and, asbuilts for vehicle wiring and multiplexing systems.

Project Manager ARFF and EMax Fire Trucks (ARFF 2.5 million Dollar Project/EMAX 5-million-dollar project)

Design and the development of new technology usage in Custom Fire and Rescue Vehicles.

Harness Design, Power Distribution Systems Design, and programming to support Vehicles per industry codes.

Head Electrical Engineer for ARFF (Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting) Vehicles

Technical document writing and reporting (Asbuilts schematic design, failure analysis)

R& D/Product/Vendor Validation which allows new product to be utilized in the fire industry

Lean Manufacturing Trained/ Bronze Certification (1st EE in the company with Certification)

Project Manager over the Rhino Bumper Turret Design (ARFF)

Lead Field Support for Electrical Engineers of ARFF trucks.

Connected the company to a new vendor saving 3 million dollars in two years.

Lead a kaizen that removed 387 feet of 14-gauge wiring that saved $15,000 dollars per truck in raw materials

EARLIER CAREER HISTORY:

Electrical Engineering Tech General Dynamics Land Systems, Tallahassee, FL, 2008–2011

Education, Certification & Training

Master Business Administration, Western Governors University

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Florida State University

EMT (2012), College of Central Florida – Ocala, Florida

Fire Fighting, I and Fire II-State Certified (2013), Citrus County Public Safety Training Center - Lecanto, Florida

Bronze Lean Manufacturing Certification

IEEE Member

Mintab

WinSPC

Easylog USB

Pspice

Quartz

Altera

Max Plus

Matlab

Borland C+

E-Maintenance

Assembly Language

C Programming

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Project

Excel, Word

AutoCAD

PRO-E

EsKey

V-Mux

Lean Manufacturing

Quality Control

Manufacturing Process

Root Cause Analysis

FMEA

PFMEA

Process Capability

Production Line Balance

Cost Control

5S

IGraf

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