Experienced Director Operations, Plant/General Manager, Team Builder,

Thomas Sparks Phone: 336-***-**** *** Sonata Drive Alt: Family Cell: 336-***-****

Lewisville, NC 27023 E-Mail: ****************@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

A challenging Operations Management opportunity utilizing my mentoring, motivational, and technical skills within Industrial Food Manufacturing.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Created, Taught and Implemented 3-Rules Leadership achieving turn-around profitability, 4.5 out of 5 in Employee Satisfaction, and improved metrics throughout 3 organizations.

• Empowerment Strategies resulted in <3% Turnover, 950 days without a LTA, < 1% Absenteeism, 75% Waste Reduction, 50% cost savings in Direct and Overhead, 30% decrease in Variance.

• Converted 400,000 sq. ft. textile plant into an industrial bakery achieving a 98 score on first Siliker Audit.

• Determined Staffing Criterion and Hired over 300 Employees including Management.

• Directed Sourcing, Purchasing, Shipping, Installing, Testing, and Managing 5 State of the art High-Speed Production Lines producing over 100 million pounds annually.

• Drove Lean and 6-sigma methodologies for effective production manufacturing with 30% higher pounds per manhour, “best quality in 20 years”, lowest standard cost and high customer appreciation.

• Directed Strategies from P&L, Capital, Procurement, and Operations Indices resulting in $3MM savings in Direct Labor, Overhead, and Waste.

• Acheived superior results in Safety, Quality, and Productivity through participatory leadership, leadership development, team building of high performing self-directed teams, empowerment, accountability, and trust.

• Advanced problem solver certified in Kepner-Tragoe Problem Solving. Skilled in identifying defects, solving for defects, brainstorming best solutions, and implementing solutions.

• Skilled in New Process and New Product Introduction using the voice of our customers, design of processes, project management, start-up, training, operation and data collection for feedback with variance reduction through SPC, IPM, Lean and 6-sigma strategies.

• Developed and taught leadership training, employee development, positive discipline, alcohol & substance abuse attenuation, meeting facilitation, K-T problem Solving, Applied Technical Training, Unnecessary Waste and Work Elimination, Personnel Evaluation Techniques, Decision Making, SPC, and Integrated Process Management.

• Led management team of Plant Controller; Human Resources, Maintenance; Warehouse, Purchasing, Project Managers, Quality Assurance, and Operations Managers

• Implemented MRPII, Supply Chain Management, and participated in Enterprise Resource Planning and Sales & Operational Planning.

• I participated in several Union Contract Negotiations and was Plant General Manager when mechanics decertified their union.

EXPERIENCE

Plant Manager 1/2009 – 6/2010 Nonni's Food Company, Inc. Yadkinville, NC

Consultant and Writer 1/2004 – 12/2009 The 3 Rules of Leadership

Plant Manager/General Manager 1994 – 1998 Maplehurst Bakeries & Interbake Foods, George Weston LLC

Process Engineer, Shift Manager 1991 – 1994 Continental Mills Frozen Division

Production Management, Quality Assurance, Technical Director 1984 – 1991 Frito-Lay

Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Physics, Radiological Controls 1978 – 1982 Defense Department of Navy

EDUCATION

Brigham Young University - Bachelor of Science Business Management Finance

Provo, UT GPA: 3.08 1984

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