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Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Lead the contracted track maintenance programs for maximizing the life of the CSX track network. Drive productivity and cost savings for an operating budget exceeding $75M annually. Direct the rail grinding, shoulder ballast cleaning, ditching, ballast distribution systems (BDS teams), undercutting, yard track cleaning, and vegetation management programs. Supervise 70+ CSX employees and 200+ contractors working on CSX's 21,000 mile track network. Provide leadership in safety, productivity, quality, innovation, and scheduling. Subject matter expert in rail & ballast lifecycle management and research.Analyzed & Implemented changes to rail grinding program that has achieved a 37% reduction in TDD rail defects in 3 years and and 92% reduction in rail surface conditions that interfere with ultrasonic rail testing, resulting in reduced TDD broken rails.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Lead the contracted track maintenance programs for maximizing the life of the CSX track network. Drive productivity and cost savings for an operating budget exceeding $75M annually. Direct the rail grinding, shoulder ballast cleaning, ditching, undercutting, yard track cleaning, and vegetation management programs. Supervise 50+ CSX employees and 200+ contractors working on CSX's 21,000 mile track network. Provide leadership in safety, productivity, quality, innovation, and scheduling. Subject matter expert in rail lifecycle management and research.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Led Lean and Six Sigma projects that support the Engineering Department, and applying the board approved strategy of Asset Management principles focusing on unit cost, reliability, and utilization. Provided project management for strategic initiatives in the Engineering Dept, implementing Enterprise Asset Management and designing it for integration across systems and departments, as well as synthesizing output to be useful for both strategic decision makers and daily operations managers. o Implemented Enterprise Asset Management systems for yards and terminals, as well as developing electronic planning and reporting systems for track maintenance.o Created a structured management training program for Engineering. Identified skills, tasks, timeline & worked with HR for creation of general track supervisor role for mentorship, increasing proficiency and reducing time to value for new hires.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Member of COO’s 7 person “Tiger Team” deployed to operation areas needing support to conduct coaching kata and improvement kata. Conducted Kaizen events throughout the operating departments focused on reducing car cycle time for our customers. See Projects: Huntington Locomotive Shop Lean implementation as example.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Utilize industrial engineering techniques including Lean & Six Sigma to align mission, position, and processes. Conduct organizational risk assessments, identify world class operations, and develop strategies and processes to achieve world class excellence. Realigned the organization, creating or removing positions to achieve the mission, utilizing capacity analysis, SWOT analysis, time studies, value stream mapping, and establishing KPIs for every position. Benchmarked externally with other companies in the industry and with best in class companies with similar missions. Utilized coaching Kata with leadership and improvement kata to roadmap and achieve world class operations.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Project Management (budget & schedule), Survey, Design (utilizing Microstation), Estimate, and Construction Inspection.Managed 11 major projects, with budgets totaling over $12.8 million; 36 capital/industrial projects, with budgets totaling over $2.5 million; and provided oversight of General Engineering Contractors (GECs) for 108 outside party projects, with budgets totaling over $16.5 million

Fort Lauderdale, Fl

Front-line supervisor for 20 foremen who provided track protection for contractors working on CSX property, as well as conducting track inspections, and piloting on-track equipment for the $348 million Segment V Double Track Project. Duties include planning work agendas, coordinating with state officials, Tri-Rail, and contractors for track protection, placing new tracks in service, taking tracks out of service, approving payroll time and expenses, ordering and managing materials. Also coordinates with customer service, transportation officers and signal officers in getting materials, and on-track equipment in position, reducing impact to customers and train operations.Ensure track construction is built to CSX Engineering Standards prior to operation, through quality track inspections and communication of standards. Maintain safe operations through track inspection, slow orders, and track repair for the 44 passenger trains that operate daily. Project work was 7 days a week for 3 years, including supervising employees working night shifts and scheduled curfews every weekend.Work on project included: 47 cut & throws, 6 signal suspensions, 49 turnouts installed, 36 switches removed, 14 new crossings installed and 49 crossings replaced, 10 passenger station and 21 bridge upgrades, 35,353 feet surfaced, 88,963 concrete ties and 5,281 wood ties installed, with 44 miles of new track.Zero FRA reportable injuries from teams directly supervised and Zero track-caused derailments.Reduced number of life critical rule violations by 50% each year, finishing with zero in 2006. Reduced contractor violations/incidents by 58% from 2005 to 2006.

Covington, Ky

Held positions as Asst Brigade Fire Support Officer, Battalion Maintenance Officer, Battery Executive Officer, Fire Direction Officer, and Company Fire Support Officer. Graduated from Ranger School and Artillery Officer Basic Course.