Manager Training

Ram Das

*** ********* ***** ****: 440-***-****

Painesville, Ohio 44077 ******.***@*****.***

Education, Certifications, and Professional Associations

American Production and Inventory Control Society Chicago, Illinois

• Member of APICS (2008-Present)

• Certificate in Production and Inventory Management (anticipated December 2012)

Bowling Green State University (BGSU) Bowling Green, Ohio

• Master of Business Administration (August 2008)

• Master of Organization Development (December 2004)

Cleveland State University (CSU) Cleveland, Ohio

• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (May 2002)

• Minor in Management & Labor Relations

Lakeland Community College (LCC) Kirtland, Ohio

• Human Resource Management Certificate (December 2002)

• Associate of Arts (June 2000)

Related Professional Experience

Avery Dennison- Medical Solutions Painesville / Mentor, Ohio 2010-2012

Operations Team Manager

• Supported safety as a core value and helped promote the vision throughout the facility

• Purchased departmental supplies and office supplies as needed

• Facilitated creative and flexible staffing to meet production goals and due dates

• Assisted in managing inventory for the facilities by conducting cycle counts, running raw material reports, updating the schedule, and ensuring that raw materials arrive on time.

• Experience with MFG-Pro, MS Office, and Outlook

• Managed personnel within area of responsibility including performance, development and discipline

• Written and provided training on Medical documentation as well as process changes

• Attracted, developed, and retained high potential talent

• Followed up on employee concerns and provided immediate feedback

• Managed Coating, Finishing, & Converting departments

• Created performance goals daily for each department and looked for ways to improve on shortcomings

• Lead daily Safety huddles with direct reports

• Enforce compliance to ISO 13485 standards

Thomas & Betts Bowling Green, Ohio 2005-2009

Production Supervisor/Plant Scheduler

• Championed Lean initiatives as well as Green initiatives for the plant floor

• Created new hire job books for schedulers and production coaches to assist with training new employees at a mid-size manufacturing facility

• Active member at weekly production scheduling meetings

• Produce short/long term production scheduling and forecasting in absence of plant scheduler

• Researched and implemented a Kanban system for Work-In-Process production lids

• Experience with SAP, MS Office, Mattec, and AS400

• Proactively researched, created, and implemented a new performance evaluation for Process Technicians

• Spearheaded over 100 new ideas aimed at process improvement and safety

• Assist associates in setting clear goals and developing a process to accomplish them

• Exercise sound judgment for policy interpretation when handling day-to-day managerial responsibilities and employee relations issues

• Demonstrate ability to objectively coach employees through complex issues

• Collaborate with upper management in developing, measuring, implementing, and training,for new company gain-share plan

• Provide technical training and assistance to team members

• Listen to team members’ concerns, challenges, and ideas

• Provide documentation of team issues/concerns and apply formal disciplinary action when necessary

• Conduct and effectively facilitate shift team meetings and other additional team meetings when appropriate

• Efficiently prioritize, plan, and execute assigned tasks in a timely manner

• Recognize, define, and address potential and/or policy and safety issues

• Conduct annual associates’ evaluation with input from team members

Additional Career Experience

Cedar Point Sandusky, Ohio Summer 2004

Assistant Trainer Intern

• Assisted Company Training Manager in delivering the Company Orientation Program for over 3,000 employees, over the course of 54 sessions

• Facilitated classes with diverse international employees

• Exhibited organizational, time, and project management skills by delivering training modules and programs in an organized, complete, and timely fashion

• Demonstrated leadership in developing and administering surveys to 250 new employees in order to evaluate Company Training program effectiveness

• Created a database of survey responses on Microsoft Excel

• Analyzed data using SPSS from survey, and created report for Company Training Manager on Company Training effectiveness

• Prepared and coordinated the site set-up of training areas, as well as logistics for the orientation classes

Continuing & Extended Education, BGSU Bowling Green, Ohio 2003-2004

External Consultant

• Conducted group interviews to assess the needs of the company and current responsibilities for the five employees of Professional and Community Education

• Established the work-flow and operations design for all employees

Gadzooks Richmond Heights, Ohio 2002-2003

Assistant Store Manager

• Set daily sales targets and operational goals for the store

• Assisted store manager in planning strategies to accomplish goals and objectives

• Organized shipping, receiving and inventory

• Motivated associates through feedback and modeling correct behavior and work ethic

• Maintained supply inventory and updates

• Managed sales floor, payroll and visual merchandising

• Enforced loss prevention

Leadership and Campus Activities

• Senator, Graduate Student Senate, BGSU (2003-2004)

• Springboard, mentored first-year students in a self-development course, BGSU (Fall 2003)

• Member, Organization Development Student Network, BGSU (2003-2004)

• Member, Psi Chi, National Honors Society for Psychology majors, CSU (2000-2002)

References available upon request

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