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Dublin, Oh, Us

Painesville, Ohio

A shareholder, board advisor and member of the executive staff. Manage the company's capital expenditures, in 2012, a budget of $1 million.Managed the installation of the companies current network infrastructure consisting of several virtual servers.Implemented a plant wide WI-FI system to support mobile data acquisition devices.Oversee the support of 50 PC work stations, 10 data collection smart client terminals, and many printers / scanners.Managed the installation of the company's current Epicor ERP system management software system with migration from a Macintosh environment to PCs.Continued lead on dashboard development of Epicor for enhanced scheduling and resource management. Lead engineer converting large multi spindle vertical tapper from pneumatic lead to CNC lead screws.Led several research and development projects to improve the operational efficiency of the volume tapping division.

Columbus Ohio

Hired to assume lead design on a project to manufacture vending kiosks to rent, sell, and buy back new and used DVDs.Production machines were years behind schedule and the manufacturing process lacked proven engineering methodology.Migrated the company's first engineering drawings from 2D to 3D CAD.Built sheet metal models and rules to current manufacturers capabilities and specifications to eliminate form and fit issues.Redesigned a non-functioning media storage system.Established consistent communication with parts fabricators, robotics suppliers and robotics programming.Assembly began and Kiosks were being installed within 3 months of my hire.Moved the manufacturing facilities and built 35 initial kiosks.Retrofitted same kiosks with large HD touch screens and return media capability hardware.Oversaw the entire scope of project engineering and manufacturing of 2nd generation kiosk with Flextronics in Plano TX.Managed the million dollar budget for the purchase of 100 kiosks.Provided product specifications and prototype to production roadmap with Flex and Parker Hannifin for a 3 axis robot. Inventor of patented method to return media from multiple locations. Inventor and patented method of identifying media at a kiosk. Conceived of the printing and dispensing of fan folded return envelopes from kiosk.Designed a method of determining quality of media deployed or returned at kiosk. Lead member of several SWAT teams to attack various issues effecting kiosk deployment and uptime metrics.

Painesville, Ohio

Responsible for the growth of the hot parts division from $1.4 to $6 million sales in 4 years .Raised the efficiency of the company's two hot parts formers and tapping machines from 17% to 71%.Increased the life span of much of the hot parts former tooling by 400% by applying 4M methodology.Invented and Patented two methods of forging a locking feature in a nut that was previously a costly machined feature.Responsible for the regained business lost to China due to cost reduction in the near net forging from above patent.Transitioned the company to a 3D CAD system.Invented method of tapping left handed nuts with right handed cams of high speed tapping machines.Created the companies first parametrically driven die design solution, reducing design time by several weeksConceived and invented a high volume method and machinery to internally coat nuts with a dry dyed lubricant.The above process, trademarked Dyson Dy-Lube was awarded product of the year in 2002 by Steel Products magazine.Invented and patented method of manufacturing a self holding rod cap and nut protector for wind mill foundation bolts.Helped the company grew in sales from $8 Million in 1998 to $43 million 2012.

Columbus, Ohio

Award winning sales and marketing firm for various high tech computer products focused on the pre-press market and high speed networking solutions.

Columbus Ohio

Director of sales support for award winning manufacturers representative firm representing Apple computer hardware and software products.

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Activities and Societies: Foreign Summer study at: London School of Economics, University of Fine Arts in Moscow, and at Schiller College.

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