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Chapel Hill, NC, US

Reston, Virginia, US

Greater Chicago Area, IL, US

Lead daily focus meeting to present on daily and shift performance against set production goals.Assumed line leader position for equipment performance from mixing ingredients, to baking, to packaging on all three floors.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Excited at this new opportunity to be back in an industry that is growing and expanding! Ready to learn the industry and use my previous expansion experience to help insure a successful upgrade to the facility!

Richmond, VA, US

What a great experience to coach my kids for 15 years with Chesterfield United and Richmond Kickers! Will always look back with fondness working for this incredible organization!

Kansas City, KS, US

• Responsible for team of 32 employees, consisting of Document Storage Clerks, Imaging Specialists and Warehouse Coordinators. Ownership of warehouse’s throughput, equipment availability, preventive maintenance, cycle.
• Negotiated purchase of automated microfiche scanner. Increased productivity from 2.5 sheets scanned per hour with manual process to 170 sheets per hour with automated scanner.
• Increased warehouse storage capacity from 100,000 cubic feet to 650,000 cubic feet in two years through negotiated warehouse expansion and racking installation.
• Reduced costs of storage from.68 cents per cube per month to.31 cents per cube per month through expansion and cost reduction efforts.
• Increased number of Company Divisions serviced from one to three through training and onsite facility purges.
• Converted third party vendor storage inventory to onsite storage for multiple facilities to save $6.4 million dollars in 2012.

Head coach for team 'Italia'. Team consists of Varsity High School and Travel soccer players. We have several consecutive seasons of making it into the playoffs, and we're hoping for that elusive championship this season!

Garner, NC, US

• Contract position serving as project manager overseeing removal of factory stocker system, coordinating efforts between four teams of subcontractors responsible for deinstallation, packaging, and shipping of the.
• Developed methods to eliminate scrap when breaking down clean room racks. Previous methods yielded a 40% failure rate.
• Restored communications to the factory’s fan hepafilter network by utilizing network testing equipment. Replaced damaged CAT5 cabling, dead signal repeaters, and rerouted crossed networks. Network restored to 100% from.

Munich, ., DE

• Production Manager at a leading global DRAM company consisting of 13,500 employees worldwide. Our products were found in major game consoles and PCs, with customers including HP, Sony, and Microsoft. Responsible for up.
• Coordinated extensive off-site technician training with vendors to improve equipment availability by 6%.
• Implemented changes to RTD dispatching rules and overhead automation system to reduce product cycle time from +21 days to target to -8 days to target in a 5 month period.
• Introduced multiple manufacturing reports to assist managers and technicians to monitor real-time performance to improve product flow.
• Instituted and drove improvements to significantly reduce product scrap and achieve established targets. Area scrap reduced from ~3500 wafers in 2007, to ~1700 wafers in 2008.
• Reorganized department reporting structure to provide enhanced supervision of all on-shift personnel.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Manufacturing Supervisor at a global DRAM manufacturer consisting of 18,000 employees in 19 locations worldwide. Responsible for multiple areas’ throughput, equipment availability, cycle time performance, scrap, yield.
• Project lead on several productivity improvement teams consisting of manufacturing associates, equipment engineers, and process engineers.
• Most substantial achievement resulted in a 30% improvement in the line’s bottleneck toolset.