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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Cincinnati, OH

Cincinnati, OH

• Led the development and execution of a 5-year departmental strategy to double production volume and reduce defect creation by 60% across multiple work cells.
• Facilitated the rewrite of key change management processes, workflow processes, and quality processes in pursuit of our long-term vision.
• Developed a $3 million capital investment strategy to support manufacturing while integrating new technology to address the increasing complexity of electronic components.
• Manage a team of 11 engineers and service technicians responsible for developing and supporting the production processes for $150 million in electronic systems for military and aviation products.
• Developed a long-term training and staffing plan to address skills gaps, business growth, and succession planning, resulting in multiple team member promotions and zero turnover.
• Coached the use of lean manufacturing and Toyota Kata management techniques to drive foundational improvements in quality and guide improvement projects.

Loveland, Ohio

• Responsible for operations of content sites MojaGear.com, ILoveClimbing.co, and Vanvaya.com.
• Develop content for education and entertainment of the climbing community.

Mason, Ohio

• Managed a team of 7 engineers, Intern to PhD.
• Orchestrated the defining of our department mission, vision, and success factors. Facilitated the department through the strategic planning process.
• Managed the protection of trade secrets, trademarks, and patents. Managed four products through the patent process. Performed internal training on how to identify intellectual property and identify the proper method.
• Enabled organizational action by transforming the R&D process of producing test data into a process of producing training, reports, presentations, whitepapers, and webinars.
• Personally authored technical content to bolster the thought leadership of Makino, which was deployed and adapted across every communication channel including; white papers, webinars, sales presentations, email, web.
• Utilized lean techniques such as eliminating waste, 5S, level production (heijunka), kan ban, and poka-yoke to reduce the unnecessary challenges engineers faced in achieving their goals. To ensure that the team's.

Mason, Ohio

• Reported to the Director of Marketing.Competitive Intelligence
• Managed an independent facility for 4+ years dedicated to competitive intelligence projects.
• Developed and maintained a digital "toolbox" of competitive information for sales engineers. This included competitive analysis of how to position our product and what type of buyer would be most interested in our.
• Negotiated purchase and installation of over $1 million in milling and EDM capital equipment.Product Management
• Product Manager and Marketing Lead for the launch of a new CNC software platform.
• Organized and managed multiple cross-functional teams including service, sales, product management, and engineering through the product launch process. Acted as Marketing Manager by identifying the target audience's.

Mason, Ohio

• Presented Makino technologies to various audiences: academic conferences, internal training meetings, and at customer facilities for customer/sales support.
• Researched and tested machine capabilities for 5-axis machining, profiling, stability, repeatability, and coolant flow/pressure.
• Designed and executed demos to exhibit the capabilities of Makino's newest solutions.

Makino

• Executed and negotiated turnkey project runoffs in China, Mexico, United States, Canada, Japan and Argentina.
• Technical analyses include linking dimensional requirements to machine/environmental temperatures, tool wear patterns, work piece/fixture deflection and CMM gauging methods.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.87

Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering, 3.62

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