Dave Fulton, P. Eng. Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

New York, NY, US

• Reporting to VP of Global Engineering, responsible for strategic projects.
• Currently leading setting up a greenfield manufacturing facility in Juarez, Mexico.
• Lead corporate DFX (Design for Excellence) activities.
• Developed capital plan for startup NPI (New Product Introduction) facility.
• Implement, qualify and commission new manufacturing process.

Boston, MA, US

• Reporting to site GM, leads, directs and coaches a cross-functional Customer-Focused Team (CFT) of Program Managers, Engineers, Supply Chain and Manufacturing Leaders responsible for approx. $30M in revenue.
• Develops and executes a thorough customer account plan to be responsible for P&L, cash flow and C-level relationships to ensure customer profitability and increased spend with Creation.
• Leads CFT to deliver exceptional performance metrics including revenue attainment, customer satisfaction results, inventory, quality, on-time delivery, A/R days outstanding, forecast accuracy.
• Accountable for the success, with the engagement of the CFT, for new customers and new product launches.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Program Manager responsible for division wide initiatives.
• Developed division capital plan by working with GMs from three manufacturing and one engineering site and presented to senior JCI leadership.
• Coordinated COVID-19 activities for three manufacturing sites, corporate supply chain, a newly acquired company, and one contract manufacturer.
• Took over failing project to lead transfer of production from Toronto to Matamoros, México. Pivoted production to reduce customer backlog. Developed recovery plans as well as new plans to resume the transition in.
• Led Continuous Improvement activities for JCI Toronto manufacturing site.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Reporting to VP, Global Supply Chain responsible for transferring all production from a manufacturing facility in Israel to a contract manufacturer and injection moulding supplier in China and closure of the facility.
• Project saved over $7M annually in production costs.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Reporting to division VP, led a virtual global team including Sales, Product Management, Product Development, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance and HR to standardize customer offerings to global platforms.
• Reduced SKU count by 30%.
• Led organizational change by refocusing global design centres to become Centres of Excellence for specific product segments.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Corporate lead and Subject Matter Expert for Flawless Launch activities (New Product Introduction, New Customer Introduction, Product Transfer Process) for operations covering all business segments to ensure successful.
• Developed and implemented global best practices that improved the performance of projects performing to plan by over 10%.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• For a two-year period, took on an additional role to lead corporate projects that successfully integrated newly acquired companies into Celestica.
• Developed integration plans with functional leads, managed executive communication of project status and activities, and successfully drove integration activities to closure.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Managed projects where budgets typically ranged from $500K to $2M supporting revenue of $40M to over $100M annually with a matrixed team of 5 to 25 people spanning several months to over two years.
• Led the transfer of production for multiple customers from one manufacturing site to another in different geographies.
• Successfully managed and completed concurrent transfer projects, including one site shutdown from México, Europe, and United States to Asia.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Six-month assignment in Monterrey, México to lead test engineering team in introducing a strategic new customer from the consumer marketplace.
• Operations consultant during project implementation. Used Lean principles to develop optimized process flow of production during factory bring up.