Bob Shelton Email & Phone Number

Mckinney

Allen, Tx

Desoto, Tx

Multitasking in a small manufacturing environment to provide leadership and functional expertise for manufacturing, Quality, technology, environmental and IT operations. Providing technical and management leadership in addition to customer, production quality and technical support of Sales, Marketing and Operations. Project leadership, process improvement and support, IT systems and quality systems development and implementation are provided to support the business and site objectives of effective customer support and profitability.Provide engineering and production leadership for Divinycell F boards extrusion production process, including hands on operation and troubleshooting of extrusion line. Lead “Continual Improvement” efforts for quality and productivity. Provides technical support for Divinycell F extrusion process including process conditions, optimization studies, process enhancements and production operations support. Responsible for Operating procedures and recipes, production reporting, process improvement, product testing and plant trials planning and execution.

R&D Manager for the Dallas, Texas site of a multinational manufacturer of engineering composite foam materials used in many structural applications in the marine, wind energy and aerospace industries. The position includes manufacturing process support, product development, materials development and product testing. A second function is that of the R&D Engineer for startup of line to produce core materials used in Aerospace and marine industries where high strength is coupled with need for good Fire, Smoke and Toxic fumes performance as required by new regulations on interior materials for air, train and marine transportation. Position provides technical support as well as Quality and experimental design for new operation.

• Designed and Implemented new Consolidated Quality Systems organization for NOVA Chemicals to support $1.5 billion Styrenics business. Operations included 8 North American and 4 European Manufacturing Sites enabling > $30 million in synergies.• Initiated and implemented standardization of Styrenics testing methodology to ASTM standards. This allowed product consolidation and resolved issues with test result issues between plant and customer laboratories leading to increased productivity across all manufacturing sites and reduced customer complaints and product returns.• Designed, developed and implemented a World Wide Customer Complaint process and computer system to provide over $250,000 reduction in customer claims per year.• Facilitated and issued a World Wide Quality Policy for the NOVA Chemicals company with standardized graphics and 5 languages creating uniformity of Quality perspective across the company.

• Directed training materials for a base SAP ERP implementation for Huntsman Chemicals and trained Huntsman facilities with base SAP skills.• Provided Business side leadership for developing programs for use of SAP QM module and SAP CRM system resulting in approval and base system design data for project implementation.• Drove initial ISO 9000 certification for 8 North American and 2 European sites. This resulted in successful first audit registrations for all sites and no major findings at all sites over a 12 year span of systems operation. • Directed the training and use of Quality principles, SPC charting, DOE projects and laboratory testing methodologies for improved productivity and customer satisfaction. Certified as a 6 Sigma Top Gun and assured the Lean Sigma training of Quality professionals across all sites to support Quality improvement and cost reduction projects generating over $10 million in annual savings.

• Designed, supervised construction, staffed, trained, commissioned and operated technical support and quality organization of 5 professionals and 40 lab technicians for a $750 million manufacturing complex. Results were delivered on time, on quality, with no injuries and under budget to maximize returns for this highly profitable capital project.• Implemented key Technology laboratory projects totaling over $500,000 resulting in greater than $1 million savings per year in reduced cost and increased prime yield.• Member of team leading program to instill Quality Tools for "Work Out" program for GE Plastics with materials development and delivery to all organizations in the Division from Vice President cascading down to operations and functional personnel resulting in over $100 million in savings across the division.

• Recognized as GE Plastics Technologist of the Year for design, development and implementation of Laboratory Information system which improved quality and testing data reporting while reducing system expenses by $450,000 per year from a $50,000 project.• Effective leadership and direction of plant laboratory and plant troubleshooting efforts resulting in ability to operate older production lines reliably and with addition of 90 million pounds of capacity with minimal capital investment.

Many experiences starting up chemical plants and providing operational supervision in chemicals and fermentation recovery systems. Two patents for chemical process improvement awarded.

Taught Chemistry and Advanced Chemistry at High School level.

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