Robert Lee Sousek
Canton, Ohio 44718
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PROFILE
Problem solver with industrial engineering, operations research, applied statistics, economic analysis both micro and macro level, financial analysis, programming skills in MS office, simulation languages, Fortran, VisualBasic, SAS, and SPCC. Twelve years managing professional engineers and accountants.
PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
Secure a mid-level supervisory or senior level Industrial Engineering/Analyst/Operation Research/Economist position focusing on productivity improvement, cost/economic analysis, and capital equipment justification.
EDUCATION
Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, Ohio: Graduated Master of Arts in Economics
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio: Graduated Bachelor of Science Industrial Engineering
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio: Coursework towards Adv. Prof. Degree 33% completed
Baldwin Wallace College, Cleveland, Ohio: MBA coursework, 25% completed
PUBLICATIONS
Developed commercial software for a programmable calculator to specify batch material requirements to produce ice cream products according to desired quality and taste specifications.
TRAINING
Supervisor Training(Republic Steel), Statistical Process Control and Six Sigma(LTV Steel), QGERT Simulation(Purdue), SLAM Simulation (Purdue), AutoMod Simulation(Bountiful, Utah), ProModel Simulation(Central Michigan Univ), SAS data mining(LTV), CBOE Options Master Level.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Senior member Institute of Industrial Engineering, senior member Society of Manufacturing Engineers, member American Institute of Steel Engineers.
WORK HISTORY
Bohemian Investments | Canton, Ohio | Trader
Private equity trader in options and stocks. Developed macro economy forecasting model utilizing the National Savings Identity, Fed Flow of funds report, demand forecasting models, and monetary and shadow banking statistics. Determined the fiscal situation requires a 10 % of GDP adjustment to reach long term solvency. Identified the sources of the structural unemployment problem.
SimTech Associates | Marco Island, Florida | Consultant
Consulting practice in industrial engineering and operations research. Performed production capacity analysis for an aluminum scrap remelter that resulted in a 30 % increase in capacity with minimal investment. Performed simulation studies and linear programming models to determine the location of satellite maintenance stations in an auto assembly plant. Determined LAN system and software requirements for a physician based billing organization. Performed marketing analysis and created a mail campaign resulting in the increase in billings of 50% for the billing service.
Lakewood Hospital | Lakewood, Ohio | Director of Business Planning
Managed four accountants and two industrial engineers. Implemented a Windows based flexible budgeting and productivity monitoring program for the nursing floors. Developed a length of stay report and analysis system that measured physician performance relative to local and regional mortality and LOS standards. Developed a GPSS/H simulation for an outpatient laboratory to analyze alternative schemes and their costs, to reduce waiting times for patients.
Republic Engineered Steels | Canton, Ohio
Senior Planning and Process Engineer |
Member of six person task force responsible for the design, justification, and implementation of a ten year strategic plan that completely replaced all production facilities with modern facilities while maintaining existing production and customer base.
Supervised and designed the development of third party computer simulations. Assisted in the implementation of a company wide Six Sigma program. Developed a cost of quality model to monitor the performance and effectiveness of the Six Sigma program.
Manager of Technical Development |
Served as an internal management consultant with responsibilities to conduct wage roll rationalization studies, organization review and design, and rationalization studies of existing production plants. Determined wage rolls could be reduced by 1/3. Designed organization into four reporting levels resulting in a 10% reduction in staff. Rationalized production facilities and product lines from a three plant operation to a single plant.
Developed a SAS program that analyzed product pricing history and behavior. Authored a statistics and quality control manual. Served as an instructor to both wage and staff employees on quality control and statistics.
Supervisor of Industrial Engineering |
Managed seven industrial engineers. Responsible for all industrial engineering functions for the melt shops, caster, rolling mills, and shops and crafts maintenance. Responsible for the preparation of the capital budget, individual project justification (NPV analysis) for all capital requests. Conducted post audits of completed capital projects. Part of implementation team that installed a standard cost accounting system. Designed the layouts for two production facilities: a stainless slab grinding operation and the finishing and material handling for a proposed bar mill. Responsible for developing and maintaining the plant’s capacity and utilization report, all incentive plans, wage roll job description/classification, and cost standards.
Industrial Engineer |
Only industrial engineer in Republic Steel’s history to be promoted from and entry level trainee non-exempt to an exempt supervisor in a single promotion.
Tyson Bearings | Massillon, Ohio | Industrial Engineer
Staff industrial engineer for a tapered roller bearing manufacturer. Duties included incentive development and capital project justification.
Lazarus Department Stores | Columbus, Ohio | Industrial Engineer and Floor Supervisor
Staff industrial engineer and supervisor for floor operations of marking and labeling of merchandise.