Manager Quality Assurance
Resume:
Ray Holland
McAllen, TX *****
**********@*****.***
Career Summary
Over 35 years of progressive, results oriented, managerial and leadership responsibilities in heavy and light diversified manufacturing/construction environments. Proactive management success includes organizational enhancements which marked improvements in processes, quality, and employee morale. A hands-on leader with strong teaming abilities, possessing exceptional organizational, communication, and problem solving skills.
Management Capabilities
Full P & L senior management responsibility in diversified business, construction, and manufacturing arenas
Challenge-driven, problem solving, risk-tolerant, self-directed management style possessing a true sense of urgency
Directs production utilizing QA/QC programs including AISC
Budget preparation administration, forecasting growth, capital requirements, manpower, and equipment utilization
Proactively manages operations in excess of 250 employees to include logistics, purchasing, production, quality assurance, design/engineering, maintenance, warehousing, operations, and vendors/subcontractors
Versed in industrial safety, human resources, OSHA, HAZMAT, and facility/maintenance management
Professional Experience
April 1, 2011 since January, 2006 - Midstate Steel, LLC, Utica, New York, General Manager
P & L responsibility quadrupling sales and profits
Successfully redefining, in all operational aspects, a historically poorly managed company
Enhancing a customer base by expanding sale marketing area to other states
Procured AISC certification
2006 from 1998, Self-employed business consultant to manufacturers and the construction industry
Utilized Management Capabilities in a consulting general manager role
Implemented operational changes to increase productivity, decrease overtime, enhance departmental efficiencies through associate input and involvement ultimately increasing fabrication proficiency by a conservative 45 percent
Aggressive interaction creating an unguarded atmosphere of cooperation
Strategically plan five year benchmarks, working in conjunction with one year tactical plans outlining sales, manpower, and equipment and capital requirements
Outlining, organizing, and further implementing lean manufacturing techniques, AISC, ISO, and OSHA criteria
1993 to 1998 - Palmer Steel Supplies, Inc, McAllen, Texas, General Manager
P & L responsibility directing the operation of a $20M structural and miscellaneous steel fabricator, nine direct management reports with over 120 shop and field personnel
Completed sagging jobs-in-progress while revamping the manufacturing and reorganizing the administrative workforce within the first six months
Generated record profits due to implementing process improvements in systems scheduling, production coordination, quality, and training
Successfully transitioned from the construction industry to manufacturing
1974 to 1993 - Ray Holland Construction, Inc., Tennessee and Texas, President
P & L responsibility directing the operation of a $10M international construction corporation conducting business in Tennessee, Texas, and the country of Mexico
Completed projects include industrial/commercial, institutional/medical, and residential
Diversified and created an in-house real estate and property management division managing, leasing, and selling medical office space, residential, and commercial developments
Professional Accomplishments
Projects completed include George Bush Presidential Library, College Station, Texas; Indiana Jones Temple of Doom, Anaheim, California; McCarran International Airport and MGM Grand Theme Park, Las Vegas, Nevada; Bush International Airport, Houston, Texas; WAS Thickening Hyperion Facility, Los Angeles, California; and numerous Corps of Engineer projects at Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas. One of only five general construction firms authorized to develop and construct projects for Hospital Corporation of America. Other construction projects completed for companies of note include Burger King, Worth Sports, Shell Oil, US Homes, and Exxon.
Personal Accomplishments
City Councilman, Municipal Safety Commissioner, Joint Sanitary Landfill Commissioner, Public Utility Board Member, Governor’s Commission Regarding Handicapped, Rotary Club President, honorably resigned military commission with rank of Captain, Tennessee Technological University completing major course work in journalism with minors in economics, political science, and English. Member of the Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity.
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