Manufacturing Engineering and Business professional with extensive experience including operations and supervision. Progressively responsible leadership and management expertise from the shop floor to the board room. Competencies encompass a broad range of functions starting out as an hourly assembly welder and progressing through a series of increasingly responsible positions. Recognized for technical expertise and problem solving ability to produce results. Command of lean manufacturing principles JIT, Lean, and full complement of engineering and business tools. Developed soft skills such as leadership and mentoring. Continually learning, adaptable and able to relate to people at all levels of an organization.Specialties: budget management, continuous improvement, cost control, directing, file management, functional, gmp, haccp, aib, hiring, innovative, leadership, marketing, materials management, meeting facilitation, microsoft office, microsoft windows, oracle, packaging, performance management, personnel, problem solving, profit, project management, quality control, safety, sap, sop, strategic planning, supervisory skills, trend, vision, unix, sustainable business, competative advantage