Operations Leadership

DAVID K. GIRDLER

**** ******* ***** • LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS 77573 RESIDENCE: 281-***-**** MOBILE: 859-***-****

E-MAIL: **********@*******.***

Dear (Executive Recruiter) or (HR Professional):

I want to present my credentials for your consideration, and hope to speak with you about your COO need.

I am a business leadership candidate who will add significant value to your success in Operations, Manufacturing, and business growth. My resume attached highlights proven accomplishments and a record of increasing responsibility that match any challenge. I have had P&L responsibility for up to $65MM in operating expense and $75MM in procurement accountability. As a Vice President of Operations and Global Director, my passion has been leading teams to enhanced profitability and best ever performance metrics by implementing best practices and developing organizational strengths.

My accomplishments and attributes include:

 Strong leadership and change management skills, a developer of strategic plans and vision, a motivator and communicator, and an implementer of tactical results that exceed objectives.

 Routine interface with Customers, contracts, and executive Boards.

 Disciplined process developer that establishes best practices and improved metrics, and holds the team accountable to achieve continuous improvement.

 Enhanced EBITDA and reduced costs by several million$ per year with a proven track record of leading plant closures/integrations and Lean Manufacturing/6-Sigma initiatives.

 Directed metrics enhancements of 20-70% for inventory turns & reduction, customer service, safety & environmental, maintenance reliability, quality, productivity, cost reductions, and morale improvement.

 International experience in directing multiple plants. Led teams of company directors, and enhanced organizational strength with development of company leaders.

 Developed and led successful international manufacturing, supply chain, and engineering teams in both union and non-union environments through a Lean culture. Significantly improved morale surveys to over 80% positive support with honesty, high integrity, constancy of purpose to the vision, and demonstration of strong technical and operational skills.

 Coupling technical knowledge and operating team leadership with strong financial and cross-functional business skills, including acquisition due diligence. Developed aggressive expense and capital budgets.

 Directed company engineering functions and capital investment strategy, design, financial justification, successful selling to Boards and implementation of major capital project appropriations up to $50MM, with a passion for project accountability to schedule and budget.

 Demonstrated excellence in and received recognition awards for safety, quality, and regulatory performance, while driving customer-focused values.

 Community leader and positive representative for the company with customers and the public.

 A demonstrated leader, who instills enthusiasm for excellence in a positive environment, motivates, develops & mentors, and generates commitment and performance from others.

Perhaps your opportunity requires this level of COO leadership and proven business performance.

Sincerely,

David K. Girdler

Attachment: Resume

DAVID K. GIRDLER

1405 MODESTE DRIVE • LEAGUE CITY, TX 77573

RESIDENCE: 281-***-**** MOBILE: 859-***-****

E-MAIL: **********@*******.***

Business & Operations Excellence in Leadership - COO

A senior operations executive with demonstrated progressive successes and proven leadership in pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals businesses. A results driven executive with excellent communication and team building skills and passion for the Customer. P&L responsibility for $65MM in operating expense and $75MM in procurement, with a focus on increasing EBITDA. A proven leader in achieving significant operational excellence in safety, quality, service, team and profitability metrics, who sets high expectations and standards, creates vision, and implements for success.

• Chemical/Pharma Manufacturing & Packaging

• International Project Management

• Continuous Improvement and Cost Reduction

• FDA/cGMP, EPA and OSHA Compliance

• Global Multi-Cultural Facility Management

• TQM-ISO Certifications and Leader

• Organizational Effectiveness and Restructuring

• Mentoring and Leadership Development

• Engineering & Process Development

• Customers, Contracts, and Community Relations

• Lean & Agile Manufacturing + Six-Sigma

• Profitability and Performance Improvement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and ACCOMPLISHMENTS

DIXIE CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., Pasadena/Houston, TX – 250 employees 2005-2009

$150MM/yr specialty chemicals company with 60+ products focusing on custom specialties, and pharmaceuticals

Vice-President of Operations:

• Managed non-union operations of manufacturing, engineering, quality, EHS&S, maintenance, process excellence, logistics, purchasing, accounting, and S&OP/materials management. $50MM/yr operations expense budget.

• Developed Leadership Challenge concept and Mfg Excellence Dashboard. Championed & developed LSS program that achieved > 40% employee participation on process improvement teams. Led > $2MM/yr in process cost saving projects. Reduced Safety RIR by > 50%, EHS events reduced 75% - both best ever performance.

• Both ISO and FDA-cGMP validation programs were enhanced with zero 483s/issues. Developed the training program to double the ‘Learning Organization’ focus and achieve recognition as the best trained workforce among many plants.

• Increased production on every major product by > 30% with focus on reduced cycle-times, quick change-over, improved yields, and reduced waste. Achieved > 10 production records on core products. Reduced quality issues by > 50%.

• Implemented PM program to increase MTBF reliability. Rebuilt engineering team and directed > $18MM in focused capital revitalization. Re-established organizational and equipment infrastructure to overcome years of degradation.

• Enhanced company insurance and 401K benefits, resulting in significantly improved retention. Renegotiated contracts for natural gas and electricity that saved > $2MM per yr. Renegotiated T/T lease contract saving ~ $500K/yr.

ELI LILLY and Company, Indianapolis, IN - $13B Pharmaceuticals Manufacturer 2002-2005

Logistics Project Leader:

• Program Manager (100+ associates) of several logistics, automation, and facility development projects. Led investment program for new finished goods International Distribution Center and new Materials Center for main Lilly campus.

• Projects included design, aligning multiple pharma customers, and achievement of Board level authorization. Technology included AS/RS, AGVs, centralized palletizing, Dispense Clean Rooms, Pick-to-Light, greenfield site development, etc.

• Developed business case, organization/governance, validation, IT/automation integration, and strategic engineering designs. Program Leader for engineering, operations, quality, and multi-national consultants, etc.

• Completed the International Distribution Center project, with much automation, on schedule and on budget of $48MM.

• Developed final design for Automated Materials & Logistics/Dispense Center, and stakeholder alignment for $40MM.

• Led successful transition of US Distribution business conversion to new facility on schedule.

• Led conversion to SAP-ERP/WM business system platform on schedule with no business outage, and only minimal short-term dip in customer service rates (94% to 89% to 94% within 6-weeks of Go-Live date).

TYCO HEALTHCARE – MALLINCKRODT 1985-2002

$9 billion company and a $2 billion/yr+ division focusing on healthcare with medical products and high purity chemicals supporting respiratory care, imaging diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals.

MALLINCKRODT BAKER, INCORPORATED, Phillipsburg, NJ 1985-2002 $250 million/yr division manufacturing pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, laboratory research chemicals, and micro-electronics chemicals.

Director of Global Manufacturing & Operations: 1997-2002

Managed five sites of 700 union and non-union employees in US-KY+CA+NJ, Mexico, and The Netherlands. Directed plant managers and global staff directors for divisional functions of manufacturing, packaging, quality control, warehousing/distribution, finance/accounting, human resources, engineering, safety, environmental, procurement and logistics. Budget responsibility - $65 million/yr.

• Received the President's STAR award for leading a complex customer team project that solidified $15MM in business and drove a 30% sales increase.

• Champion & leader of safety improvement processes, resulting in the company's best performance with 90% TRR improvement that was 70% below industry average, with multiple sites achieving > 1-2 million work-hours without an LTI. Twice recognized with President's Safety Award.

• Developed several leadership candidates to plant managers and directors with mentoring and career direction.

• Performed due diligence for acquisition analysis, and led strategic planning for business infrastructure development to achieve global excellence in pharmaceuticals and microelectronics manufacturing.

• Led several plant closure and integration projects that saved $2.5MM/year in consolidated expenses while increasing customer service by 5-20%.

• Achieved savings of $2.5MM/yr as the champion of Six-Sigma and Lean & Agile Manufacturing initiative. Created numerous project TQM teams and Kaizen events resulting in noted improvements of 30-70+% in service, safety, cost reductions, 5S, TPM, cycle time reductions, productivity, yields, inventory turns, quality, on-time shipments, and waste elimination.

• Managed cost justified capital projects up to $8MM on budget and timeline to streamline processes and increase productivity. Directed capital investment budget of $15MM/yr.

• Facilitated business growth of > $3MM/yr by developing Strategic Contract Manufacturing capabilities in pharmaceutical processes that utilized customer cross-functional teams.

Plant Manager, Phillipsburg, NJ - Chemicals / Pharmaceutical APIs/BPCs 1995-1997

Managed plant staff of operations business managers for manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, EHS, quality control, accounting, human resources, logistics, and warehousing/distribution, including a waste treatment plant on the Delaware River. Responsibility for 250 union employees and a budget of $31 million/yr.

• Directed plant restructuring and associated cost reduction projects saving over $1.8 million/yr in plant expense. Reduced cost per unit shipped by 20%. Implemented Six-Sigma and Lean Manufacturing.

• Led achievement of Practice-in-Place for CMA - Responsible Care Codes: CAER, Product Stewardship. Developed Community Advisory Panels. Achieved zero LTIs and waste treatment excursions – reduced RIR by 80% to ~ 1.0.

• Achieved $500K/yr savings in contract concessions and enhanced utilization of labor in union contract negotiations, while expanding management controls and flexibility in a High Performance Work System.

Operations Manager, Paris, KY - Specialty Chemicals / Pharmaceutical APIs/BPCs 1989-1995

Directed an operations management staff of 15 supervisors, engineers, and admin managing 170 non-union employees in the daily operations of a high purity chemicals manufacturing and distribution facility. Budget responsibility $12 million/yr.

• Developed a Packaging Engineering process to establish industry leadership in regulatory compliance and 25% complaint reduction.

• Led ISO-9002 and ISO-14001 certifications, and received President’s Quality Award.

• Designed and constructed several high purity chemical, packaging, and manufacturing processes with multiple clean rooms, agile work cells, mix vessels, reactors, distillation columns, & processing systems.

Production & Engineering Manager, Paris, KY 1985-1989

Directed team of 8 supervisors, 4 engineers and 120 non-union employees in a high purity chemicals plant. Managed capital investments of $2 million/yr and an expense budget of $6 million/yr.

• Implemented TQM and CMMS - PM/MWO management systems for three companies; reduced emergency work (EWOs) and downtime 20-50%, improved productivity 25%+, achieved record process reliability of 99%+.

• Designed and implemented chemical/pharmaceutical packaging lines and clean room dispense processes.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

Superintendent Production & Engineering and Part-Time University Instructor of Engineering Curriculum

EDUCATION

B.S.M.E. and President of ASME Student Section, University of Kentucky

High School Valedictorian and Sr. Class President

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Certifications in: Leadership, (cGMPs) Current Good Manufacturing Practices, (TQM) Total Quality Management, Lean & Agile Manufacturing, ISO-9000, Quality Auditing (ISO & ASQC), project management, finance, and PC skills.

CIVIC AFFILIATIONS

• Community Advisory Panel/BAYCAP, Business Alliance/Alliance of Bayport Companies - ABC, Economic Development Council/BAHEP, and East Harris County Manufacturers Association. (Pasadena, TX)

• Hospital & Foundation Board Trustee, Chairman of several committees, Economic Development Council - Board, and Board of County Business & Education Alliance – SHADOW. (Warren County NJ)

• Junior Achievement Executive and high school economics instructor. Youth Soccer Coach. Church leader. (KY)

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