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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Carmel, In

Manage all quality systems, manufacturing operations, and information systems. Responsible to design and optimize business processes throughout the organization, implement dashboards, KPI systems and other data focused decision making tools.

Westfield, In

Global responsibility for design, procurement, implementation, and support of all manufacturing processes. Project manager for larger projects (~$1MM).

Westfield, In

Responsible for all manufacturing equipment, line design, and support throughout the organization.

Responsible for fabrication and delivery of sprinkler systems to field operations while ensuring zero work stoppages. Personally perform most significant purchase negotiations. Manage threading, automated welding, and hanger fabrication processes. Responsible for logistics and management of the delivery fleet. Manage the operation of a tool rental process for field operations as well as internal plant maintenance. Responsible for inventory control and accurate costing of materials issued to jobs. Minimize fabrication labor costs. Manage item databases for estimating, purchasing, and design..

P&L responsibility for a large precision metal stamping facility. Business is 65% automotive and utilizes more than 90 stamping presses. Plant is TS16949 and ISO14001 certified. Performance measured on NOP, ROIC, and various safety, quality, and delivery measures. Responsible for Materials, Planning, Logistics, Quality, Production, Maintenance, Tool Maintenance, Plant Level Human Resources, and Plant Level Accounting and Administration. Manage approximately 180 employees through 6 salaried direct reports.

Through nine direct reports, manage all production stamping operations and approximately 100 hourly employees. Manage continuous improvement team with focus on cost reduction activities. Ensure that production schedules are feasible and met in a timely fashion with quality stampings utilizing a minimum amount of resources. Analyze sales forecasts and execute long term capital, workforce, and manufacturing structural planning. Coordinate facilities, machine, and tooling maintenance activities within production. Ensure that manufacturing and continuous improvement budgets are efficiently utilized to maximize ROIC. Optimize production batch sizes

Logansport, In

Quality Engineer responsible to perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions. Provide customer support to rectify any and all quality concerns.

M.B.A, Business Valuation And Risk Analysis

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma SigmaGraduated in top 5%. Member of winning CAPSIM Challenge Business Simulation Team. Elective work.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa ThetaAcademic Honors included Purdue University Semester Honors and Chrysler Freshman Engineering.