Tri-Merit supports CPAs to help small-to-midsized business by serving as an extension of their advisory team to lessen tax burden and increase cashflow.

Tri-Merit is a professional services firm specializing in the calculation, documentation, and substantiation of R&D tax credits and other specialty tax services for companies of all sizes and across all industries.

MEA Services is a consulting firm that provides Continuous Improvement and Project Management support in various manufacturing industries. My past experience and network of professionals has led me to develop an interim consulting practice.

Joined Guardian in September 2017 as the vacuum coater department manager, expanded role in March 2018 to take over ownership of the wet coating department. •Oversee and lead 65 hourly operators and 7 salary team members toward creating a shared vision, under market based management principals, to drive long term value creation and safety excellence.•Improved focus and understanding of drivers of unscheduled delay and lead a 4.3% YoY uptime improvement. •Drove customer focus and reduced customer claims to less than 0.3% of net sales

Oversee the production of exterior trim, custom color panel and crown molding for the entire northern market. Responsible for all safety, quality, line performance, and financial results. Current operational responsibility includes managing a $3M+ monthly operations budget that includes ~$600k monthly indirect material spend. Directly or indirectly manage 13 salaried and 74 hourly team members.•Drove previously non-existent plant stability by removing items with major downtime that had prevented long continuous running; strategically added handling equipment to optimize operations around a bottleneck; reduced /stabilized quality performance on a new product line that was running from 15-50% reject rates.•Kept claims for trim products under $30K in FY17, an excellent result in overall quality as claims are a lagging indicator.•Collaborated with R&D to successfully execute textured trim NT3 product launch.•Represented the Peru site on the CEO’s Safety Culture Steering Committee.

•Oversee 169 hourly and salary resources and drive process improvements to safely manufacture over 200M lbs of quality aluminum plate products annually.

Acquiring Talent Program (2009-2012) - rotational leadership development program Managed daily operations for facilities maintenance, including: buildings and grounds, mechanical and electrical utilities, crane repair, waste water treatment facility and HVAC departments.

Acquiring Talent Program (2009-2012) - rotational leadership development program Led the rebuilding of the craft training department without losing ground on compliance training and apprentice programs. Responsible for the site reliability team — five skilled trade technicians, eight site oilers, and three training department employees. Restaffed the departments, hired a training manager, promoted a training coordinator for within the organization, hired a reliability engineer and established a new training strategy/vision.

Coordinated preventive and corrective maintenance activities across all shifts for four floor pan assembly lines. Identified and implemented process improvements to increase throughput and efficiency

Supervision of UAW skilled tradespersons while acting in accordance with the terms of the local and nation labor agreements.Technical support for a variety of plant operations, including but not limited to, floor pan assembly, engine cradle weld assembly and tube hydroforming.

Trained production personnel and skilled trades in practical problem solving.Lead cross-functional teams, suppliers, and other plant personnel to implement cost reductions and process improvements.

Worked with engineering functions, suppliers, plant personnel and others to implement cost reduction, process improvements, and support plant operations.Assisted in implementation engineering changes.

•Developed equipment designs for multiple GM truck programs.•Detailed assembly drawings and individual component parts utilizing AutoCADD.•Plant support follow-up designer.