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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Collaborate with Team members to create Quality Policy documentation for three Kalamazoo manufacturing operations. • Utilize Six Sigma methodologies to resolve shop floor productivity problems

Lead and direct Manufacturing Engineering teams for a $50M Capital Equipment Fabricating business. Coordinate Manufacturing Engineering, and Laser Programming teams to achieve corporate business strategy goals. Collaborate department actions to provide support for manufacturing shop floor equipment fabrication. • Manage work cell instruction documentation for three manufacturing facilities including the creation of shop floor travelers and work cell drawings• Supervise the structuring of Work Orders in the Company's ERP system• Coordinate department priority planning scheduling with eight divisional product groups• Manage shop floor production scheduling for Laser and Brake Press work cells• Coach the development of department staff and help them achieve personal goals• Aligned department work assignments utilizing Value Stream Map techniques

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Lead and direct Manufacturing Engineering teams for a $50M Capital Equipment Fabricating business. Coordinate Manufacturing Engineering, Procurement, Inventory Control, and Laser Programming teams to achieve corporate business strategy goals. Collaborate department actions to provide support for manufacturing shop floor equipment fabrication. • Manage work cell instruction documentation for three Kalamazoo manufacturing facilities including the creation of shop floor travelers and work cell drawings• Supervise the structuring of Work Orders in the Company's ERP system• Coordinate department priority planning scheduling with eight divisional product groups• Administer $16M annual steel and commodity procurement purchases• Ensure material availability while managing inventory turns and stock levels• Manage shop floor production scheduling for Laser and Brake Press work cells• Coach the development of department staff and help them achieve personal goals• Coordinate capital equipment purchases from Taiwan and Italy

Planned, directed and coordinated the daily manufacturing operations of a Capital Equipment and Metal Fabricating business including the management of manufacturing and engineering personnel. Financially responsible for the profit/loss of the Kalamazoo Fabricating Division.• Streamlined production scheduling processes that achieved a 94% On Time Delivery performance • Implemented Standardized Work documents that reduced labor cost and increased profitability• Managed the Company’s Quality Control initiative including the creation of Process Control and First Article inspection quality documents for jobs awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency • Recruited and hired manufacturing team members• Developed productivity enhancing Standardized Work documents • Directed and lead annual fiscal inventory programs• Designed flexible workstation layouts that improved productivity

Championed the development and implementation the Company’s Lean Manufacturing initiative for the purpose of eliminating waste in an ISO 9001 registered contract metal stamping facility and a powder coating and assembly facility.• Utilized value stream mapping, production sequencing, Kanban, 5S, and standardized work lean manufacturing techniques to improve productivity that increased profits and helped obtain new business• Designed and fabricated cellular manufacturing work cells and assembly workstations that reduced product manufacturing lead times from 3 weeks to 2 hours• Managed stamping press Quick-Change Tooling Kaizen events that reduced Finished Goods inventory 25%• Purchased and installed a robotic welding work cell

Planned, organized and directed the daily activities of the Application Engineering Department. • Managed staff activities that exceeded Company goals for three consecutive years• Developed proposal preparation techniques that contributed to a 20% increase in Sales• Collaborated and developed standard cost models for product line offerings

Master Of Science (Ms), Manufacturing Administration

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Engineering Metallurgy

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aviation Technology And Management