Cory Jackson Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Key Achievements:• Recognized as a driven and passionate team member with cross functional team leadership abilities.• Consistently maintaining budgets, delivery time and driving profitability for the company in fast paced 4-6 week lead time projects.• Contribute additional margin to my projects through purchasing negotiations and value engineering practices, as well as negotiating outsourcing some project elements when beneficial financially or necessary due to resource limitations.Daily Responsibilities:• Managing budgets, timelines and labor resources on a per project basis.• Create project timing and profitability reports that relay project status and profit projection.• Providing production tracking reports to assist team leaders in production planning and resource allocation• Create and Maintain graphics tracking sheets that define scope and production schedule.• Managing technical detail (Engineering/Design) process of each exhibit and booth. Reviewing designs to ensure they meet customer expectations and manufacturing best practices set by 1220.• Procurement of the materials and services as required for each project.• Information management in Shop Pak project life cycle software.• Travel as needed for Project Kickoff meetings, site dimensions trips and installation.

Nashville, Tn

Key Achievements:- A proven PM for Survivor Brand Cases, Griffins Top Performing Line- Successfully met target costs based on a 10% cost down goals- Managed multiple rapid development projects that resulted in 'quick wins' for Griffin- Proven in Case and Tool Development with International Manufacturers- Experience gained in Plastics Injection and Compression Molded SiliconeDaily Responsibilities:• Lead cross-functional teams towards a planned end result. Challenged each individual to their capability and build bridges between departments and team members where barriers exist. • Concurrently manage projects in 6 product lines and up to 6 international contract manufacturers. • Create and manage project timelines• Ensure projects come in under target cost and overall budget• Ensure that the projects meet internal and external customer expectations• Collect and coordinate DFM reviews and approvals by ID, ME and Quality team members• Ensure Engineering confirms CAD data is ready for tooling release • Release purchase of all tools for product design within my product lines• Monitor tool fabrication progress from tool PO release and the initial trial run through mass production.• Overseeing creation of all testing requirements on a unit basis for QA/QC inspections.• Coordinate all efforts for sampling pre-production parts and distribute for approvals from ME, ID and QA/QC.• Coordinate with creative teams to execute our product packaging design and oversee construction timelines to ensure they do not interfere with launch.• Sustaining Engineering efforts including tracking all tooling modifications, product design revisions, and day to day support. • Work with QA/QC to make sure that the contract manufacturer meets our design specifications and compliance. • Manage relationships with suppliers located in China.• International travel to approve projects on the ground that required immediate MP approval, or require trouble shooting from my team.

Bowling Green, Ky

Key Achievements:- Organized and lead many Initiatives to improve product profitability through vendor negotiations, material changes and process improvements.- Identified Accounts that were not profitable and through negotiations increased profitability on several occasions or reorganized product mix to be more profitable for Eagle..- Re-organized the Quality program and began creating controls and processes that improved customer satisfaction and consistency in product.- Introduced several sku’s that were top performers in companies product line- Contributed sales through the cabinet division, as well as seconds and overrun inventory.- 6 position promotions in my tenure with Eagle. Customer Service>Marketing Technician>Marketing Specialists>New Product Specialists>Product Coordinator>Marketing Research Analysts>Quality ManagerDaily Responsibilities:• Working with cross functional teams to meet Show launches of New Product. • New Product Development-Identify Market Trends and work with design engineers concept - MP• Quality Management: Both Assurance and Control. Working directly with building supervisors to address Quality concerns.• Create sales reports for Sr. Management. Evaluate GM on a sku level. Oversee operations for custom furniture and cabinet projects.• Drive cost saving initiatives based on my understanding of the production processes, materials and capabilities of the plant.• Oversee operations for custom furniture and cabinet projects.• Set up and oversee training for production employees• Sales of seconds and overrun product• Misc. Production support.