Oversee the day to day operations of the manufacturing plant while hiring and managing all employees

Monitored daily project activities and updated project team and management on the status of objectives, schedule, issues, and risk. Managed overall project management functions encompassing requirements gathering, assessing/minimizing risks, scheduling, project metrics development, and communication plan formulation. Prepared developed business cases for new products to continuously track project metrics.Key Accomplishment• Effectively communicated project scope, schedule, and budget with both customers and contractors.• Identified clients' needs in order to recommend the most effective products based on the individual project budget.• Developed new strategies to solve complex integrated technology and product challenges thus ensuring the efficiency of operations.• Constantly refined team roles, procedures and documents to reflect changes required to provide visibility to application teams to keep them abreast of the changing environments.• Worked closely with the end-users, business technologies, and others to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs related to the project.• Implemented product development tollgate process to plan and measure progress of new products being developed • Product manager lead on 125 major new projects and over 300 minor change, improvements and or platform additions

• This position was held in conjunction with the Product Manager position during an internal transition period which required multi-department • Provided leadership and growth opportunity to a team of 20 employees • Responsible employee relations (time cards, PTO forms, disciplinary actions)• Implemented production processes and controls which lead to an all-time monthly record for units shipped as well as record gross monthly profit for the month of December 2015• Order and managed consumables to meet production needs• Worked with procurement and sub-contractors identifying and relieving daily production constraints• Corrected transactions inside of ERP system (labor tickets, work order corrections)

• Lead design engineer for developing new weapons platform and weapon accessories from concept to production • Responsible for managing prototyping and live fire testing• Perform material, coating and supplier sections

• Design fixtures• Flat pattern layout work using AutoCAD and Solidworks • Programming four CNC Trumpf 4000 watt lasers and 3 CNC Trumpf press breaks• Scheduled production for four press breaks and 3 lasers

• Programming and operating one CNC LVD impulse 4020 laser• Flat pattern layout work using AutoCAD• Created routings for manufacture