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Covington, Georgia

Covington, Georgia, United States

Covington, Georgia, United States

Macon, Georgia

Distribution Center Manager / Logistics

Macon, Georgia

Scriba, Ny

Elected Official (5 terms). Worked with 3 other councilors and a supervisor to manage budgets, create policy, manage personnel and continue moving the Town of Scriba forward in challenging financial times.

Oswego, Ny

• Close oversight for scheduling of all design review sessions, while ensuring the completion of all appropriate resources. • Hands-on management of overall operations, ensuring all local interests are represented and considered in the final design. • Efficient fulfillment of Oswego plant representative role in all corporate design reviews and business impact assessments.• Significant contribution in the replacement of existing Manufacturing Execution System (MES) with a new system.• Installation of the new version of SAP as the business ERP system.

Oswego, Ny

• Astute direction to daily operations of a high-performing team composed of 90 personnel within five separate plant sectors. • Proactive monitoring to the inventory of materials and finished products as well as truck loading and unloading capacity. • Collaboration with customers and suppliers to resolve delivery concerns and SAP issues. • Supervision of cross-functional teams to attain corporate goals, while consistently ensuring product availability and accuracy. • Constant communication with the top-tier management in accomplishing thorough investigations of occurring incidences and developing strategic plans to drive realization of customer requirements.• Strategic allocation of operational resources to maintain within budget; consequently generating in excess of $500K savings.• Establishment of a new department, which enabled seamless integration and management of SAP systems within the facility.• Employment of innovative techniques, which cut down truck load and unload times by 20% while reducing detention charges by 80% in a span of one year.

Oswego, Ny

• Direction to a team of 45 personnel across three machine centers. • Cooperation with the plant-wide team, driving the implementation of SAP systems to operations. • Coordination with internal and external vendors to incorporate electrical, mechanical, and automation upgrades into operations, prior to production. • Institution of three operational metrics, namely line speed, production pounds, and calendar utilization, which were used in monitoring production efficiency and safety. • Execution of extensive quality checks and audits for other production facilities. • Development of accurate workforce allocation and operational schedules to cater to persisting business needs.• Implementation of initiatives that minimized usage of solvents and reduced finishing overtime by 15%.• Utilization of various safety standards and protocols to promote an accident-free environment; thereby minimizing downtime.

Oswego, Ny

• Management of overall operations within the manufacturing unit, which entailed overseeing more than 125 personnel, efficiently budgeting $35M worth of annual budget, and developing strategies to improve customer satisfaction and complete corporate goals. • Maintenance of constant correspondence with various functional sectors such as ingot preparation and hot rolling machine centers. • Establishment of performance monitoring metrics encompassing safety performance, equipment utilization, machine efficiency, quality, spending, and whole-unit losses to drive operational efficiency and productivity.• Successful attainment of zero recordable or lost-time accidents within the facility.• Minimization of variance between forecasted and actual production, while simultaneously improving customer ratings.

Oswego, Ny

• Provision of complete oversight to more than 75 machine operators, tasked to accomplish daily production goals. • Proficient monitoring and reporting of performance metrics including safety, production plan attainment, overtime rates, and scrap/rejection rates. • Creation of work schedules that incorporated new weekly operation shift patterns to accommodate budget targets within unfavorable market conditions. • Implementation of an improvement project, which effectively eliminated process downtime, resulting in a 5% increase in overall productivity. • Evaluation of job tasks which minimized labor costs by encouraging the use of contract labor. • Completion of extensive quality and safety audits for other facilities.

Oswego, Ny

• Proactive headship to a team of 32 roll grinders and assemblers tasked to provide ground and steel rolls to two separate manufacturing units. • Systematic execution of maintenance and calibration procedures on all measuring equipment and standards.• Expert allocation of equipment staffing; thereby improving operational efficiency while minimizing costs.• Formulation of innovative techniques in measuring roll usability.• Application of safety standards to damaged roll handling procedures, while acquiring blast blankets and guaranteeing utmost safety for all personnel and equipment.

Oswego, Ny

• Utilization of documentation skill in maintaining accurate training and development records of more than 100 employees. • Generation of accurate training materials and established fair evaluation measures for all personnel. • Optimization of access to employee assessments by converting manual evaluations to PDF documents and uploading it to the online database.• Hands-on management to projects and initiatives to overhaul and improve communication lines within the unit.• Delivery of in-depth training programs on safety management across the whole unit.• Successful automation of the employee skill evaluation process; thus expediting the entire performance evaluation procedure.

Oswego, Ny

• Collaboration with various teams in identifying and accommodating concerns pertaining to environment, health, and safety policies and safety administration. • Facilitation of comprehensive training programs regarding operational safety as well as monthly safety meetings for all personnel. • Completion of periodic audits to ensure utmost compliance of all personnel with quality and safety protocols and standards.

Oswego, Ny

Oswego, Ny

Syracuse, Ny

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Information And Computer Science

Master’S Degree, Technology Management

Electrical And Computer Engineering