Manufacturing, Operations, and Engineering leader

Kevin Patrick Herlehy

*** ******** ******* #***, *** Antonio, TX 78232

830-***-**** *****@***************.***

SUMMARY ________________________________________

• Proven COO, SCM, and Manufacturing operations executive with 20 years of international manufacturing and production operations experience including 10 years executive management in operations.

• Experienced leading operations for complex, highly engineered, regulated, high mix, low volume manufacturing.

• Champion of global organizational continuous improvement, Lean and Six Sigma, and Earned Value Program Management.

• Successful leadership of P&L and operational turn-around.

• Successful track record of building highly effective international design and manufacturing teams, negotiating and managing major subcontracts.

• Managed multi-plant and multi-national manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain operations.

• Record of reducing span time, increasing revenues, and on-schedule on-cost program management.

HIGHLIGHTS ________________________________________

MAKH Enterprises 2011 – current

Business development consultant. Work with companies to implement lean practices, diversify customer revenue streams, and develop and capture new business. Penetrated new markets and opened distribution channels. Developed product, operational, and market strategies.

Emivest Aerospace, VP Integrated Supply Chain – San Antonio, TX 2008 - 2011

The company had been idle for three years while seeking new investors. As the senior operations executive, I restarted production operations, and rebuilt the supply chain. Created and managed the production strategy (for the San Antonio and West Virginia facilities) and cash flow plans to go from development to low-rate to full-scale production.

Implemented Program Management methods. Overcame production stops by identifying critical paths and recovery plans, and innovative solutions to manufacturing and supply chain issues.

Developed critical supplier relationships and negotiated high value contracts that minimized NRE/NRCs; managed cash flow.

Executive team leader of the successful effort to sell the company.

Comtran International, Director of A/C Modifications – Horseshoe Bay, TX 2006 - 2008

Initiated operations from start-up to convert regional airliner jets to business jet configurations. Created engineering, production and supplier operations from scratch. Developed cash flows, supplier contracts, and production plan. Developed and managed designs, drawings, specifications, SOWs and subcontracts, for the part 25 STC program.

Mooney Airplane Company VP of Operations – Kerrville, TX 2005 – 2006

Single Engine High Performance Aircraft Mfg.

Turn Around. Recognized for doubling annual production deliveries from 44 to 88 in less than one year. Built sustainable lean processes, effective teams, and achieved the best P&L performance in a decade.

Responsible for all aspects of operations including: 400+ employees, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Assembly, Quality, FAA certification, and regulatory compliance. Stream-lined management and processes. Implemented empowered hourly team throughout Operations. Overhauled the supply chain and implemented KPI’s and process control.

Implemented Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma from ground zero. Reduced build span time by 40%, increased flow by 100%, reduced quality squawks by 50% and COGS by 30%, implemented a “pull” process (demand flow), takt time, master scheduling, and cellular manufacturing.

NetJets, Inc. VP of Engineering and Operations – Columbus, OH 2004 - 2005

Business Jet Fractional Operator.

Engineering Program Manager a fleet of 760 jets. Improved aircraft operational availability by 10%, resolved long-standing reliability issues with the OEMs, and reduced maintenance time per flight hour. Developed innovative process control and corrective action programs. Resigned due to family issues requiring relocation to TX.

Midcoast Aviation, Director of Program Management – Cahokia, IL 2003 – 2004

Business Jet MRO and Completion Center

Enabled the company to achieve a 33% growth by implementing Earned Value Management and production control methods for programs resulting on reduced span times, on-schedule deliveries, and high fidelity weekly program tracking. Introduced and implemented KPIs.

Fairchild Dornier, VP of Engineering – San Antonio, TX 1999 –2003

Regional and Business Jet OEM

Led a multi-disciplined design and manufacturing engineering organization. Implemented engineering and manufacturing program management, re-engineered manufacturing operations for wing production, led the design effort for the 328 Envoy (12 seat business jet) engineering and certification. Transferred the Dornier 328 wing production line and associated engineering from Germany to the Texas. Implemented significant improvements in product quality and reduced the production man-hours from 2,800 hours to 1,800 hours per wing and COGS by 30%. Re-engineered the factory for CNC machining including high speed 3 spindle 5 axis gantry machines, hydro-forming, chemical processes, heat treat and composite assy. Created infrastructure of design and process engineering, configuration management, Material Review Board (MRB), including all necessary engineering and manufacturing processes & procedures for the 328 jet wing production. Obtained German LBA DRE authority (equivalent to FAA DER).

Led the Envoy 3 business jet executive configuration design, FAA certification (STC) and completion. Reduced cycle time by 40% and completion costs from $3.5M to $2.0M. Responsible for engineering and manufacturing operations.

Directed international electrical, mechanical, systems, aeronautical, material, process, tooling, manufacturing and production engineers, in the development of a new wing for the Fairchild Dornier 428.

Boeing Aircraft Company, Manager/Sr. Manager positions in Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, & Program Mgmt 1986 –1999

Four years engineering, and 10 years management positions throughout the company in Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, and Quality. Managed multi-plant and international engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain operations.

Manage international engineering and production programs on the MD80/90 and MD11 programs.

Engineering program manager of “co-production” of the MD80 in China. Developed and led several international seminars for build-to-print and design-and-build suppliers. Implemented corrective action boards and achieved multi-million dollar cost savings on MD-80/90, MD-11 and B717 production lines.

Experienced in Lean, Six Sigma, Product Certification (FAA TC/STC), MRB, Materials & Processes, Configuration Management, Program Mgmt, EVMS, cGMP, MRP, JIT, TQM, MIL-I, MIL-Q, ISO, DOD, and FAA.

Member of the High Potential Mentoring Program from 1987-1999 and the Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Merger Team.

EDUCATION ________________________________________

University of California, Los Angeles. BS in Chemistry and Material Science

Training & Certifications: Systems Engineering; Lean & 6 Sigma; DOD Program Mgmt, Earned Value Mgmt, Proposal Writing, Executive Leadership Training.

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