Manager Sales

TROY G. SHULTS

**** * ********* ** *** ***, Danville, IL 61832 • Phone 618-***-**** • ****@********.***

Machining / Manufacturing Management Executive

PERSONAL PROFILE

A motivated, energetic and dynamic executive with excellent skills in

applying business and administrative principles.

A proactive leader with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Interacts well with all departments.

Well rounded management experience dealing with customers,

suppliers and employees

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

CUSTOMER RELATIONS

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

QUALITY MAXIMIZATION

COST REDUCTION

DESIGN TO MANUFACTURE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TRIDAN INTERNATIONAL Danville, IL (3/2011-present)

Plant Manager

• Identify manufacturing, procedural and office inefficiencies and implement resolutions.

• Identifiy and document positive procedures to ensure compliance.

• Clarified, redesigned and implemented procedures for ‘receiving / tracking / processing’

of inbound materials and paperwork in shop and offices.

FIELDMASTER, LLC Harrisburg, IL (4/2010- 11/2010)

Consultant / General Manager (3 point hitch equipment manufacturer)

Major achievements:

• Identified manufacturing, procedural and office inefficiencies and implemented resolutions.

• Identified and documented positive procedures to ensure compliance.

• Clarified, redesigned and implemented procedures for ‘receiving / tracking / processing’

of inbound materials and paperwork in shop and offices.

• Redesigned several implements to accept communal parts in order to reduce part numbers

required to make assemblies.

• Designed new parts that could be made ‘in house’ to replace purchased items.

• Redesigned major product (rotary cutter deck) to be produced with less parts and labor

and resulted in a stronger, less expensive item.

• Redesigned over 10 products to be produced with less expense while maintaining the

integrity of the final assemblies.

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SHULTS MACHINE, INC Golconda, IL (1997 - 2009)

President and General Manager (sub-contract precision machining)

Major achievements:

• Successfully oversaw start-up and development of $1m plus company.

• Acquired Caterpillar supplier number – became 1st & 2nd Tier supplier.

• Became supplier to over 15 major companies including Caterpillar, GE, Bucyrus,

CT Systems and Global Rail Systems.

• Received ‘2002 Governor’s Small Business Award’.

• Increased business from 5 employees in 6,000 sq. ft. facility (3 CNC machines) to

27 employees in 10,800 sq. ft. facility (10 CNC machines).

RL LEWIS INDUSTRIES, INC Pekin, IL (1988 - 1997)

General Manager (sub-contract precision machining)

Major achievements:

• Achieved (1996) zero customer rejects on $3m in sales

• Achieved 10 years ‘customer rejects’ of less than 1.5 percent annually when the acceptable

average for job shops was 3.0 percent.

• Acquired and maintained ‘Cat certification’ for ‘Machining, Prototype & Production’.

• Achieved ‘Cat certification’ for ‘Assembly, Dis-Assembly, Engineering Change’ operation.

(Second certification made us one of 17 companies in the world with 2 certifications

under one roof.)

• Designed and implemented tracking system for ‘internal scrap’ – all non-conforming material

produced. Averaged less than 3.0 percent for over ten years.

• Oversaw consolidation of two facilities to one location.

Duties:

Oversee day-to-day operations (42 employees)

Analyze requirements for purchasing steel, finished products, tooling and shop supplies

Track daily production on work in process to project shipping dates

Track all items relating to Quality – in house and customer complaints

Estimate 2-week production cycles for projected sales, ensure materials and tooling on hand

Review profit/loss reports for every part produced. Revise processes as needed

Design and implementation of processes and programs to track office and shop productivity

Employee safety: OSHA Compliance and safety regulations/right to know compliance

Analyze new equipment needs - cost and delivery

RL LEWIS INDUSTRIES, INC Green Valley and Pekin, IL (1976 - 1988)

Plant Manager / V. P. Marketing (sub-contract precision machining & fabricating)

Major achievements:

• Designed, programmed & implemented computer systems for timepost, payroll and

order scheduling.

• Created, published & implemented company ‘Quality Plan’.

• Assisted owner in planning and purchase of Pekin facility – 1982.

• Restructured all areas of inspection department and designed and implemented tracking

systems for all inspection. Set-up training system for inspectors.

• Doubled sales in 30 month period.

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Instructor for classes in:

Blueprint Reading I

Blueprint Reading II

Geometric Tolerancing

Computers – MS Word / Excel, Windows, dBase, FM Pro, MasterCam, QuickBooks Pro,

miscellaneous software programs.

Systems analysis - create and implement new systems, analyze and improve existing systems.

Process analysis - create, implement and review processes- from WIP to tracking to office procedures

Customer relations - deal with customers at all levels from marketing to sales.

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