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Springfield, Missouri, United States

Single Family Homes, Multi-Family, Apartments, Commercial

Springfield, Missouri Area

• New Product Development:
• Performed 12 on site Voice of Customer sessions with sales channel partners and customers.
• Utilized First House of Quality new product development process to identify new solutions to satisfy the customers’ wants.
• Used the Least Waste Way Production Process to build timeline for designing and manufacturing a new solution.Profit Optimization:
• Developed product rationalization plan to drastically reduce the number of skus offered and increase gross margins by 2%.Business Development:
• Authored sales playbooks for liquid ring and rotary piston vacuum pumps to help channel partners with sales strategies and in house training.

Springfield, Missouri Area

Carthage, Missouri

• New Product Development:
• Invented new UPS-able design. Expected to be approximately $50M in revenue for the business unit.
• Designed and sourced new support bracket that eliminates $350,000 in warranty claim and saves $1,239,000 in material costs annually.
• Invented new ready to assemble concept. (Patents pending) $10M+ revenue potential.
• Explored new aesthetic material leading to new sales program. Beginning at $9M in revenue.Design for Manufacturability:
• Developed a common steel platform on which other programs can be cost effectively manufactured.

Springfield, Missouri Area

• March 2016 – business sold.Business Development:
• Directed manufacturing, sales, P&L, and general operations. Represented company to bankers and investors.
• Developed new business in Japan, Mexico, S. Korea, Singapore, and Dubai by working with Missouri Department of Economic Development, the United States Commercial Service, and key licensing partner, The Hershey’s.
• Increased fundraising business segment from 1% of sales to 10% of sales. Cost Reduction:
• Reduced cost of goods sold 30.6%, decreased expenses 20.2%, and increased bottom line by 84.5%.
• Reduced shop personnel by 50% while maintaining product quality and meeting sales demands.

Springfield, Missouri Area

• April 2008 – layoff due to company closure.Quality Improvement:
• Implemented quality checks resulting in 100% 1st pass acceptance, 10% labor savings, and 50% efficiency improvement.
• Reduced customer returns by 35% after becoming Quality Director in April 2007. New Product Development:
• Developed bill of material costing, analyzed labor requirements, and designed steel pressure vessel and metal fabrication for more than 50 projects.Production Improvement:
• Created value stream map of shop floor. Implemented layout changes to increase production efficiency.

Greater St. Louis Area

• August 2006 – relocated to Springfield, Missouri.New Product Development:
• Launched new line of snack vending equipment in use worldwide. Recipient of two patents from design and development: 61/189,647 and 61/196,465
• Product launched 5% under budget and according to timeline.Cost Reduction:
• Reduced cost by 16% on new product designs and existing products.
• Participated in Kaizen, 3P (Production Preparation Process), and Value Stream mapping events; 5S.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Supplier Management:
• Developed and maintained technical specifications of Buy-to-Packages for multi-million dollar subcontracts.
• Prepared competitive source selection scoring criteria, performed risk assessments on supplier proposals, and negotiated position strategies with suppliers.
• Analyzed supplier proposals for subcontracts ranging from $50,000 - $16 million. Fact finding resulted in savings of $1 million on a program.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Production and Process Improvement:
• Managed bill of material and assembly for 13 Apache Flight Simulators. ($91 million project)
• Created and consolidated detailed work instructions to serve as a guide for the assembly of parts and major components. Reduced number of work orders by 50%.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Developed countermeasures for problems encountered with production parts and processes used in assembly of Honda Accords, Honda Civics, and Acura CLs.

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Mee, Mechanical Engineering