Chad Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Towson, MD, US

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Leads engineering support efforts for customer projects associated with mission command systems. Expertise and knowledge in the areas of sustainment engineering, configuration management, integration, test, quality.
• Reviews, supports, and leads assigned engineering efforts in acquisition and/or sustainment.
• Maintains liaison, collaboration and cooperation with government, academia, and industry in addressing technical and program execution issues.
• Participates with the supervisor in workload planning and budgeting and provides input to proposals for ongoing and future efforts.
• Provides guidance to effectively lead team members in the execution of assigned projects.
• Resolves informal complaints of employees as well as programmatic issues.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Provide engineering support to the Program/Product Manager and Integrated Logistics Support Command customers in sustainment related areas critical to life cycle management. This support includes:
• Acquisition Requirements Package (ARP) Development (i.e. Market Research Reports, Performance Work Statements, Statements of Work, Independent Government Cost Estimates, Technical Evaluations of contractor proposals.
• Providing engineering expertise to technical documentation (e.g. Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), Technical Manuals (TMs), technical data packages (TDPs), test documents, Bills of Materials (BOMs), and white papers).
• Providing engineering support to TM updates and validation/verification.
• Resolving Product Quality Deficiency Reports (PQDR).
• Evaluating Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) cases.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

• Primary responsibilities include providing engineering expertise to the 900,000 sq.ft. distribution center with regard to material handling systems, facilities improvement, ergonomic design, production methods and.
• Design and project management of conveyor sortation, workstation, software, and processes required to incorporate direct to consumer e-commerce order processing into existing distribution center operations.
• Served as lead data analyst and key member of the material handling and WMS design teams for the development of a new 900,000 sq.ft. distribution center. Also served as lead engineer in the commissioning of.
• Implemented multi-variable standards for several functions, resulting in productivity increase of approximately 10%.
• Created engineered standard based staffing tools used to predict daily staffing requirements for more than 1,200 production associates across multiple shifts in one distribution center, and 600 associates each in.

US

• Responsibilities included providing technical support to project managers and customers to identify technical requirements as well as WMS system configuration. Also assisted project managers and customers to determine.
• Managed a successful integration between the shipping sortation conveyor system and the WMS for a leading sports apparel manufacturer and distributor.
• Managed the testing and installation of new cycle counting functionality for a leading sports apparel manufacturer and distributor.
• Served as the primary contact and technical consultant to a leading semiconductor manufacturer and distributor. The project included data analysis, testing, and execution of programs to update historical production data.
• Led several WMS configuration and advanced user classes for numerous clients.

• Responsibilities included working in a team environment to analyze, design, develop, and manage the implementation of warehouse management systems, material handling systems, and packaging lines for manufacturing.
• Provided project management for a warehouse management system implementation and material handling equipment installation for a retail goods distributor. Trained employees on the use of the warehouse management system.
• Reviewed existing warehouse operations in order to develop site functional specifications to select one common warehouse management system that would interface and support the functionality of five existing.
• Managed WMS implementation for a leading paper products manufacturer. Trained employees on the use of the system via RF and GUI.
• Performed a process material loss evaluation and developed recommendations that would improve material loss variances for a leading beverage manufacturer.
• Completed and presented conceptual re-designs of the materials handling capabilities of the manufacturing and distribution facility for a food processing company to accommodate forecasted growth for the following three.

• Responsibilities included the design and implementation of various plant improvement projects, while serving as the primary AutoCAD designer and the Management Quality Representative for ISO 9000, API, and Otis Q+.
• Designed and managed the implementation of safety guards and fixtures for several manufacturing lines including a new extruding/compacting process line.
• Measured and drafted in AutoCAD a floor plan layout of the entire manufacturing campus, including the addition of a new pallet racking system.
• Managed several projects to update and verify production information on the newly installed ERP system.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining manufacturing standards for each of the stranding, closing, and extruding process lines.