Operations Manager Manufacturing Engineer
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CHRISTOPHER L VICKREY
Las Vegas, NV *****
*****.*******@*******.***
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Accomplished, tech-savvy business professional who is adept at listening, communicating effectively, and providing experience and enthusiasm to solve problems. Over 15 years of expertise in new site development, streamlining of production processes, introducing new and effective process improvements while implementing Lean methodology. Excellent ability to establish and maintain relationships with customers, vendors, staff members and business partners. Resourceful individual; inventor and developer of software solutions for production problems. Excellent managing large teams successfully under deadline-driven environments. Highly organized and detail oriented with skill in conflict resolution, financial and technical reporting.
SKILLS
Cost Control
Continuous Improvements
Capacity Planning
Meeting Production Quota/goals
Change Management
Lean Manufacturing
Safety Awareness
Budget Management
Market Growth
Project Development
Workflow Planning
Policy and Procedure Implementation
WORK HISTORY
Operations Manager • PLI International
February 2023
Aggressively reorganized daily work of 4 divisions and 356 employees, changing production layout and reducing non-conformances by over 30% while overseeing greatest production improvement in company history for single year
Vigorously supported ESH efforts, identifying unsafe, or ineffective practices reducing TRR by 35% in first year
Reorganized inventory procedures dramatically, reducing losses by 10% and improving accuracy by over 35%
Devised automated tracking method for inventory.
Manufacturing Engineering Manager • Kratos UAS
October 2017
Successfully hired and trained 45 Manufacturing Engineers in the development, production, engineering, and manufacturing of eight unmanned aircraft drone platforms
Designed and built secured production document library of over fifteen hundred build plans for three company sites while successfully leading development of new operational procedures for prototypes
Introduced Design for Manufacturability system and introduced the first Corrective Action Board, serving as CAB Board Chair for Engineering
Controlled spending via balancing of 4 multi-million-dollar yearly fully inclusive operations budgets.
Sr. Product Manager, Operations Manager • Amazon
April 2016
Designed and implemented first time QMS procedures for Trade-In implementing DPMO measurement accuracy
Introduced SOP documentation for vendors, slashing customer concessions by 25% during first year and 10% thereafter
Strategically planned and then aggressively moved all product grading to new Amazon internal sites, established manpower requirements, saving $750,000 by repurposing existing hardware and equipment for grading line.
Board Chairman • Lockheed Corrective Actions Board
January 2004 to January 2015
Designed new CAB for Marietta Production Operations and Engineering Technology Departments, managing internal corrective actions and customer Audit Findings for Production Operations at Marietta, Clarksburg, and Greenville Sites reducing audit findings by 15% in first year
Organized all BSI and AOI record keeping processes saving ~200-hours per year.
Manufacturing Engineer (Senior Staff) MPS Group Supervisor/Lead
January 2004 to January 2006
Supervised operations of Manufacturing Process Standards Group of 13 Manufacturing Engineers, implementing libraries and ensuring configuration control and security of 1500 aircraft proprietary documents
Modernized technician production by developing “video process instructions” saving ~240,000 hours per year on C130 and C5 aircraft, 1600 hours per year on F22 aircraft.
CERTIFICATIONS
Master of Science - Management • Texas A&M University - Commerce
Commerce, TX • November 2015
Honor Roll 2013 to 2015 all semesters
GPA 3.9
Ranked in 5% of class
summa cum laude graduate
Bachelor of Science - Business Management • University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ • May 2011
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