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Addison, Texas, United States

Responsible for overseeing all aspects of business unit operations (customer service teams, manufacturing teams, warehouse and retail stores) for multiple locations within the Northern geographic region of Texas. Driving the efficient and effective management of resources while achieving the strategic goals and objectives and ensuring that each location is meeting its operational and revenue goals, while also maintaining consistent high performance operational standards across the region.

Addison, Texas, United States

• Directly manage a team of 8 and actively play a role in new product development and design including engineering procedures, company design systems, and standards with codes such as ASME Section VIII, B31.3, and B31.8, as well as customer specifications while designing equipment in a cross functional leadership environment• Successfully reduced engineering and design cycle times through implementing strategic solutions, resulting in increasing project revenue significantly by managing 3rd party resources• Integral to holding P&L responsibility for the company, ensuring seamless operations through high-level management efforts• Instituted an ECO process for the engineering project schedule to hold staff accountable, leading to 50% cycle time reduction and completing in 10-12 weeks versus 22 weeks, dramatically dropping errors by 80% by catching it in the front end and saving shipping costs• Optimized facility to eliminate floor skids and reduced piping runs, increasing margins due to value engineering by 10% on a $9M project• Introduced KPIs to drive on time delivery, resulting in eliminating customer issues in the field and increasing customer satisfaction• Restructured the department to make it the gold standard for the company by increasing accountability and trust within the organization, resulting in gaining more responsibility and ownership within the group

Carrollton, Texas

• Led and managed 5 engineers, drafters/designers, and project managers while optimizing the end-to-end project development life cycle from RFQ to manufacturing, increasing business continuity• Developed new products including Ultra-Low NOx burners while ensuring the design and specifications is consistent with needs, commercial specifications, cost justifications, and time constraints, staying on budget and meeting requirements• Acted as the lead technical adviser for all Forney products concerning field service and equipment start-up, driving managerial processes for the line• Managed and maintained P&L for projects spanning $200K to $6M in the energy, utility, and oil/gas industries, ensuring designs and developments for new products with unique customer applications and technical expectations• Introduced a value engineering process to standardize and streamline processes, reducing the overall cost of products by 10%• Spearheaded engineering design meetings to reduce engineering cycle time, numbers of escapes, and ECO's by 15-20%• Instrumental to sales and engineering support to create a cross-collaborative and cohesive work environment, ensuring all staff was up-to-date and knowledgeable on processes• Stayed on schedule 95% of the time and completed over 300 projects, resulting in significantly increasing margin and revenue• Exceptionally skilled in on the fly new product development, including successfully completing a first of a kind 70 MMBTU/Hr horn igniter project

• Supported and managed the detailed design of all jigs, probe rings, and shelves for probe cards using 3D solid modeling CAD packages such as SolidWorks while leading all phases of development including creation, prototypes, testing and analysis• Acted as a subject matter expert by investigating and resolving technical problems involving product performance, improving processes to mentor and motivate a team for on-time and successful completions, ensuring customer satisfaction• Incorporated performance improvements to support existing products through continuous engineering developments, resulting in enhanced performance and manufacturability.• Cut down cycle time with extremely tight tolerances utilizing SolidWorks models for 6 different varieties of probe cards, lowering the cycle time from 6 days to 30 minutes

• Integral to the organization as project engineer for measurement tools and systems projects, leading execution of complex designs using advanced techniques, resulting in the development of industry leading systems, equipment, and/or technological methods• Acted as a technical leader, providing technical support for customers, sales, and manufacturing departments, resulting in business leadership and cohesion• Successfully modified and improved existing mechanical drawings to implement up-to-date technology and techniques, utilizing knowledge and research to increasing modernization within the organization• Adapted to various situations as a young engineer, utilizing mentorship and guidance to provide a successful engineering environment and increase interaction

Master’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of SME and ASME.

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Pre-Pharmacy Studies