Responsible for identifying production and quality issues and rectifying them in order to meet tight customer service level agreement deadlines. Assisted in the supervision of 3 shift plant production and personnel while often producing more than 1 Million personalized embossed and thermally printed cards per week.

• Responsible for all engineering aspects of book and print plant manufacturing with annual sales of more than $1MM, including continuous process improvement, plant manufacturing layout, scheduling preventive machine maintenance for machinery, coordinate machine repairs with outside vendors, troubleshoot machine issues when needed, and specifying new machines.• Lean Manufacturing: Introduced Lean manufacturing philosophy, including 5S principles, for the first time into production… Show more • Responsible for all engineering aspects of book and print plant manufacturing with annual sales of more than $1MM, including continuous process improvement, plant manufacturing layout, scheduling preventive machine maintenance for machinery, coordinate machine repairs with outside vendors, troubleshoot machine issues when needed, and specifying new machines.• Lean Manufacturing: Introduced Lean manufacturing philosophy, including 5S principles, for the first time into production environment resulting in 20% reduced turnaround times and mistake reduction. • Recognized by Sr. Vice President of Operations as an integral member of Operations/Engineering staff and presented project and plant status updates in VP’s weekly staff meetings.• Assist Operations Manager in all facets of book publishing, print and binding manufacturing division that supports $180M Casket Company. Responsibilities include; overseeing all plant functions while plant manager is traveling, make key production decisions, interact with and supervise all plant personnel, and address all issues that may arise. • Business Development: Conducted cost analysis and developed long term strategy for product transition to outsource 4-color printing to local print shops resulting in a 20% cost reduction, this included decreasing the amount of chemicals, labor and all printing supplies. • Process Improvement: Reduced production turnaround time per order from 7 days to less than 3 days while manufacturing volume levels increased by 30%. This was done through culture change and implementing Lean process improvements, as well as recognizing and resolving production bottlenecks. • Safety Coordinator: Identifying and rectifying potential hazards, train 25-30 employees on Safety topic of the month as required by parent company Safety Director to meet OSHA requirements. Implemented first safety programs within the plant including written safety procedures, machine guarding and first safety glasses program. Show less

• Outside Sales: Sold electrical products to established customers in addition to developing new clients in untapped territories in multiple states. Products were primarily used by major electrical utility companies. While representing product sales for Manufacturing Rep firm, was responsible for multiple multi-million dollar accounts.

• Central point of contact for Automation Engineering channeling technical information within the company as well as to outside vendors to achieve company objectives of getting product to market. • Played key role on team that developed first department standards to comply with FDA design and production requirements.• Collaborated with multiple departments including facilities, controls engineering, validation, product engineering, manufacturing, and document control, to lead… Show more • Central point of contact for Automation Engineering channeling technical information within the company as well as to outside vendors to achieve company objectives of getting product to market. • Played key role on team that developed first department standards to comply with FDA design and production requirements.• Collaborated with multiple departments including facilities, controls engineering, validation, product engineering, manufacturing, and document control, to lead Automation Engineering activities.• Organized major machine moves including plant-to-plant transfers as well as interplant moves following FDA regulations and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines.• Designed and implemented numerous automated assembly stations which increased production, reduced machine down time, and improved overall machine speed for greater product output. • Tracked progress on all Automation Engineering projects and reported to upper management.• Created and entered into Document Control and SAP an excess of 15 machine operation manuals for use by mechanics and machine operators to guide them on how to set up, test, run, and troubleshoot the machines properly. • Designed critical automated production cells including laser sensor, vision inspection, and mechanical stations for fully automated and semi-automated machines that proved to increase production and reduced rejected products. Show less

• Design projects including, structural engineering, layout, mechanical design, field survey, environmental and piping projects in-house and on-site at company locations such as: Mack Truck, Specialty Minerals, Ryder Corp., Pfizer, FL. Smith, Just Born Candy.