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Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Talladega, Al

Leading privately owned industrial castings and machining businesses.• Increased profitability by utilizing LEAN principles, eliminating waste, and implementing strategies based on market segmentation, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and Voice of the Customer. • Merged two businesses previously ran independently and had separate P&Ls. Integrated business systems and eliminated SG&A; gained efficiencies and economies of scale. • Offset loss of oil and gas and defense contracts by obtaining multi-million dollar new business in energy, lock and dam, and metals market segments.• Invested in key capital equipment to increase product offering and market share.• Cut Total Recordable Incident Rate from 10.7 to 1.48.• Eliminated Days Away Restricted or Transferred (DART) from 3.04 to 0.• Transitioned shop employees from 5-day, 8-hour/day workweek to 4-day, 10-hour/day workweek.• Implemented meaningful incentives at low cost.• Negotiated substantial improvements in employee healthcare benefits with minimal cost increase.• Facilitated significant strides in shaping company culture and employee behavior toward accountability, teamwork, integrity, productivity, innovation, and customer relationships.• Led establishment of company’s social media presence on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/talladegacastings/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/6450313), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/tcastings).

Talladega, Al

• Increased on-time delivery from 62.6% to 83.3%. • Worked with new Quality Manager on implementation of functional quality system driven by metrics and root cause analysis.• Reduced cost of quality from 1.96% to .98% of sales.• Created inventory traceability of raw materials that improved purchasing accuracy and eliminated obsolescence.• Established community outreach with area high schools focusing on vocational education in manufacturing.

Windsor, Ct

Managed overall growth of $30M fossil-fuel power plant rebuild business, i.e. gearboxes, journals, and coal compartment assemblies. • Directed development of multi-million dollar proposals between market channel and inside sales force to ensure best product/service offering is presented to customer. • Guided strategic direction for each sales opportunity to ensure value proposition was accurately communicated to secure order. Tracked and recorded competitive intelligence to create advantage for Alstom.• Provided technical support to sales force and operations personnel related to gearbox rebuilds.

Cleveland, Oh

Directed team in plant operations, scheduling, process planning, and purchasing for $27M repair division. Managed execution of post-order functions, customer visits, and engineering troubleshooting of disassembly/assembly issues. Promoted to increase throughput of rapidly growing Industrial Repair Business.• Streamlined assembly process by creating and implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) based on best practices, empowering technicians while driving accountability to shop floor employees. • In rapidly growing business, created training program and aligned teams of technicians (one high and one low). 1) Processed three times amount of projects in shop at one time; increased labor utilization 30% in three months. 2) Improved on time delivery from 69% to 91% in 12 months.• Maintained pre-recession profitability and staffing during economic downturn by consolidating vendors, improving production scheduling, and eliminating overtime.• Enhanced all SOPs to ensure value-added to satisfy most stringent customer expectations and eliminated variables that increased time and money of executing a job. Grew key rubber industry account from $2M to $5M in annual revenues over 12-month period.

Cleveland, Oh

Managed applications engineers while coordinating priorities for subcontracted disassembly and cleaning operations. Continued account management role for key power generation customer. Promoted to provide accurate and timely evaluations/quotes of repair projects for $12M repair business.• Executed 35% increase in quoting activity without adding overhead.• Built/trained team of new-hire engineers under new quote process to improve accuracy and order throughput. 1) Reduced quote times from 35 to 21 days in 12 months. 2) Increased hit rate by 5% and actual margins by 6%.• Led implementation for service division and attained first ISO Certification in company’s 120-year history.• Managed high-profile emergency breakdown project in record time, exceeding $2M of profitable revenue while exceeding customer expectations.

Cleveland, Oh

Managed key power generation account as single point of contact, including execution of commercial and technical demands. Oversaw open orders to ensure proper execution and manage $1M of inventory.• Increased account gross margin 15% by outsourcing non-value added activities.• Re-engineered entire quote process by evaluating common repairs and pulling historical data to justify improvements and common repairs as standard to eliminate variables that required decisions and approvals.

Dayton, Oh

• Helped develop standard routings and part families that increased visibility of quoting, manufacturing accuracy, and performance that led to standard tools and design for manufacturing to increase part commonality.• Reduced set-up times, enabled creation of work cells, increased accountability to standard that cut manufacturing cost in job shop environment.