Manager Plant

DAVID A. CARSTENSEN

P. O. Box *****

Anaheim Hills, CA 92817-8222

714-***-**** ***************@*********.***

SUMMARY

Manufacturing professional with extensive experience starting or rebuilding plants for both large and small corporations, significant strengths in team building, facilitating, troubleshooting and implementing statistical process improvement, a tireless, self-starter with excellent communication skills and fact-based, data driven thinking. Established production-reporting, standard operating procedures, best practices, shop floor guidelines, work instructions, manufacturing bills and routings, data reporting and recording for all the facilities

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NATVAR, City of Industry, CA 2008 – Present

Manufacturer of Medical Tubing and Profile Extrusion, a Division of Tekni-Plex

Production Manager

Recruited as a “Turnaround Agent” to repair a mismanaged production unit, analyze and solve production problems, return to profitable plant, this plant needed to be retrained from the ground up. Basic manufacturing principles needed to be put in place. Worked with the crews in place and taught them without dismissing anyone and keeping a great deal of experience in the plant.

• Efficiency, downtime, scrap and good pounds per hour all increased and the P&L turned profitable. The last year has shown 11 of 12 months very profitable.

SOUTHERN DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES, Baldwyn, MS 1989 – 2007

Diversi-Plast Manufacturing Division

Machinery and Process Improvement Manager 2006 – 2007

Determined plant problems and provided solutions. Traveled weekly to a newly acquired sister division in Green Bay, WI, to evaluate machine processes and facilitate improvement by representing the operators’ knowledge and presenting data to the management team.

• Reduced scrap material by 20% in less than 2 months.

Extrusion Manager / Startup Manager Line X 2003 – 2006

Joined a team to design and build the next generation machine process to serve the plant for the next 20 years.

• Advised consulting engineers and assisted in the design of $10 million replacement process line for plant. Reorganized historical data and reported new needs based on history, traveled to all eight vendors’ sites for initial design specifications and vender inspections, the machine was dedicated in July, 2006, at a rate higher than promised.

Extrusion Manager 2000 – 2003

Created a new manager position to reduce scrap and improve quality in plant extrusion group. Analyzed the data collection techniques and trained the operators to use upgraded electronic devices that recorded into Excel worksheets. Standardized all data collection into one database for the operators to use Modernized the SPC process with Lean manufacturing principals Defined the reasons for machine or process downtime.

• Project resulted in 50% reduction in downtime with additional solutions and cost reductions implemented.

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SOUTHERN DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES (continued)

Plant Manager 1990–2000

Relocated to restructure mismanaged plant that was losing low six figures per month Established main reporting systems, data collection, quality, process and human resources, Eliminated autocratic management style with a team approach that included SPC and quality teams for problem analysis. Restructured the management team and employees into process teams rich with cross-training and process specific training, taught the plant to use less expensive alternate raw materials

• Plant became very profitable after 1 year and later became the most profitable in the entire corporation.

Plant Manager, New Hope, MN 1989 – 1990

Relocated to restructure mismanaged plant that was losing low six figures per month, established main reporting systems, data collection, quality, process and human resources rebuilt a team approach that included SPC and trouble shooting teams for problem analysis. Installed new processes to offer more value added capability. Restructured the employees into process teams rich with cross training and process specific training

• Plant became profitable after 3 months.

SENTINEL PRODUCTS (A Division of Packaging Industries), St. Johnsville, NY 1987 – 1989

Plant Manager

Relocated to open new plant, established main reporting systems, data collection, quality, process SOP’s and work rules. Created a team approach that included vender trained (Ford) trouble shooting teams for problem analysis and SPC.

• Plant was up and operating at 90% capacity in five different process types within 1 year.

KEYES FIBRE COMPANY (A Division of Van Leer) 1981 – 1987

Process Technician, Troy, OH 1985 – 1987

Relocated to modernize plants, a $5 million dollar process improvement was created to offer value added capability. Established new process procedures, SOP’s and improved processes. Created a team approach that included brainstorming, fishbone and troubleshooting teams for problem analysis.

• Plant was up and operating at 95% capacity in the new and improved process types after 1 year.

Process Technician, Memphis, TN 1981 – 1985

Joined the international engineering team as a process technician to expand process-troubleshooting capability of company, on assignment to start or troubleshoot operations in licensee’s plants in Japan, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, Columbia and Australia.

EDUCATION

Management, AutoCAD, J.D. Edwards,

Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access,

Itawamba / Northeast Community College, Tupelo, MS

Lean Manufacturing, Paulson Extrusion Training,

Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Extrusion, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (Extension Campus at University of Mississippi, Tupelo, MS

Communications, Leadership and Vietnamese, US Marine Corp

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