Adam Nelson Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, TN, US

I interact daily with senior manufacturing leaders who need to do more with less to be successful. Invent Automation designs and builds efficient work centers, machine vision systems and leading-edge automation solutions to meet their strategic objectives. With a seasoned team of amazing engineers, we invent and solve complex manufacturing problems to make.

06034 Foligno (PG) - Italy, IT

Umbra Cuscinetti, Inc. is a leading provider of ballscrews, repair station services and flight critical components to the Aerospace industry. My role is to help lead the North American group through a period of rapid expansion and growth, while maintaining our world class quality and service.

Knoxville, Tennessee, US

• Perceptics is a high-end, imaging technology company.Drove 25% growth in only two years.Retained by CEO to reinvigorate revenue growth, expand customer base, upgrade personnel and establish clearly defined goals and.
• Executive Leadership: Built consensus with Board and other senior management around need to shift from solutions-based to product-focused company. Developed a strong, well-organized sales team; increased sales in.
• Market Growth:Increased leads 400% and generated a $XXM pipeline in less than one year by repositioning products and penetrating new markets; revamped messaging and guided company to the leadership position industry.
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Partnerships:Advocated for new Middle East joint venture and grew commercial safety vehicle enforcement market from zero to fastest growing market by partnering with top five players. Led.

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• Chief Executive Officer (02/04 – 08/10) | Vice President of Operations (02/02 – 01/04)Delivered 30% growth YOY for seven consecutive via careful planning and strong execution.Reinvigorated 20-year-old aerospace parts.
• To broaden appeal of parts facility to high end market, applied expert manufacturing knowledge of aerospace parts, transforming it into a full service gearbox design, PMA manufacturer and MRO operation.
• Improved both quality and profitability as reputation skyrocketed, successfully increasing backlog from $1M to $14M and revenue from $3M/year to $10M/year.
• Distinguished company from competition and increased customer base by adding seven new manufacturing processes, creating an FAA-certified repair station, and instilling principles of 5S; gained reputation for being one.
• Increased revenues 500% by attaining AS9100 and FAA Part 121 repair station certificates; attracted major clients, including Boeing, Rolls Royce, Bell Helicopter, and Lockheed.

• Semi-conductor material handling equipment manufacturer.Championed innovative product development to facilitate company’s sale, multiplying proceeds.Operations Manager (06/99 – 01/02)Grew bottom-line by delivering.
• Product Development: Collaborated with marketing and leveraged design engineering expertise and knowledge of manufacturing processes to streamline and reduce time to commercialization.
• Divestiture: Facilitated transfer of intellectual property upon firm’s sale. Pivotal original design constituted primary reason for company’s 2001 acquisition by Hover-Davis.Design Engineer (06/97 – 06/99) Converted.

Bs, Manufacturing Engineering

Bs, Industrial Engineering