Donnie Proffitt Email & Phone Number

Frankfort, Ky, Us

Greater Lexington Kentucky Area

As a Partner and Company Operations Manager at HD Construction, my role is overseeing and optimizing our operational processes to ensure efficiency, productivity, and excellence in project delivery. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, I drive strategic initiatives, manage resources, and cultivate a culture of excellence within the organization. From project planning to execution, I leverage my expertise to streamline operations, mitigate risks, and maximize profitability. With a focus on innovation and continuous improvement, I am committed to driving sustainable growth and success for HD ConstructionHD Construction is a commercial construction company with a steadfast commitment to safety, value engineering, and project management. With a solid reputation in the industry, we’ve built a strong portfolio of successful projects. Safety is a top priority for us, ensuring that all projects are executed with the highest standards of safety protocols and practices. The company maintains a secure work environment, prioritizing the well-being of our employees and stakeholders throughout the construction process.Our dedication to value engineering allows us to optimize project performance while reducing costs. By employing innovative approaches and leveraging their expertise, we identify opportunities for efficiency and cost savings without compromising the quality of our work.With a team of experienced professionals, HD Construction excels in project management. From meticulous planning to seamless execution, we ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget. Our focus on effective project management guarantees successful outcomes and exceeds client expectations.

Richmond, Kentucky, United States

TRB Lightweight Structures is a forward thinking company that strives to make a positive impact on the Environment. The company achieves this through creating solutions that lower energy consumption by reducing weight of vehicles and developing solutions for energy efficient structures. My role is to help build great teams of people at TRB and long lasting business relationships.The vision and goals for the Richmond Kentucky facility are to be a fully automated factory, producing mid-high volume structural parts for the Electrical Vehicle (EV) industry. The new facility means TRB can tackle some of the biggest challenges our customers face. This includes high-volume production of structural carbon fiber parts to meet automotive volumes, high-Speed bonding, and reducing cost.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

My current responsibilities are to directly supervise the engineering and maintenance departments. This includes providing technical and business leadership to electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, engineering interns, maintenance superintendent and maintenance associates. Essential duties are to track competencies and provide leadership to achieve organizational goals and objectives, ensure all planned KPI engineering goals are achieved, establish annual capital budgets and execute implementation, asses the state of manufacturing technology for both the current and future state of the industry, support safety, quality, materials and production technical needs, represent AGC in plant dealing with utility companies, government agencies (EPA) and all matters of codes, regulations and standards.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

Responsible for leading multiple teams in the research and development space to deliver new IoT products to the market. This requires technical, business, project management and project leadership skills. Our team's latest accomplishment is bringing an industry first RFID Color Laser Printer to the market.- Identifying new technology to enhance current core portfolio. In this case passive RFID.- Helping create profitable new business segments by implementing the optimal cutting edge components, streamlined HW and SW design for tooling and supply chain, and market pricing. - Building and recruiting strong team members.- Implementing networking skills to navigate new products through a large company culture. - Developing partner & customer relationships for longterm business growth.- Understanding vertical markets to grow new business segments. Examples are healthcare, pharmacy, manufacturing, retail, etc.- Working with the University of Kentucky engineering college to research new technologies and methods to implement in prodution environments to meet the needs of current customer demand. - Help drive marketing collateral, customer use cases, and customer engagement.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

Responsible for hardware development and quality assurance interface on laser high end mono printer devices. Main responsibilities are hardware development of hardware critical for paper transport and leading a cross functional development team to support the product qualification process. The goal of the cross functional development team was help collaboration across the development community with respect to engineering teams and geographies (North America, Philippines, and China). Various tools were implemented into the process that included data analytics software (Microsoft PowerBi, Web cameras to capture all test time and access, collaboration software (Innovate) and time effective meetings. Anther aspect of hardware development has been the implementation of multi physics software to predict paper behavior, which is a difficult task. The goal of the paper path simulation is to model paper media as it is transported in a laser printer with the intentions to increase engineering knowledge and decrease waste in psychical parts, test time and test material. The paper path simulation has required to work with multiple disciplines (i.e. kinematics physics, materials, thermal, and electrostatic), and multiple development groups (i.e. paper path, fuser, cartridge, and paper experts).Knowledge is being created at the component level, module level and system level. To date, 50% of the paper path has been modeled. Once the complete system has been modeled then fully loaded paper conditions can be studied. The system can also be used for next generation platforms and product engineering.This project has demonstrated long term vision with short term strategy within the engineering community. The benefit from the project has potential to challenge conventional wisdom and create a new way to do business in a leaner business environment

Lexington, Kentucky Area

My main responsibility was developing a sustained relationship with the University of Kentucky Engineering college. Another aspect was leading the research team in the area of IoT with an emphasis on passive RFID technology. The goal was to successfully lead a team of research students and engineering professionals to advance IoT technology where it could be implemented into Lexmark hardware to further expand the Lexmark solution offering. Breakdown of responsibilities are:Vision - Develop technology road-maps and connect it to Lexmark's shared interest. These road-maps range from 3-5 yeas.Strategy - Develop short term strategies that move the team forward and inline with the overall vision.Create and develop teams - Conduct interviews with potential candidates each semester, develop existing team members, and build over lap between constantly changing students. Funding - Create business cases that require research in order to achieve long term success.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

Main responsibility is leading a cross functional team on a common business issue, which is copy skew. The team consists of system architects, senior technical staff members, and team leads from each program in development (i.e. high end, mid range, low end, color, mono, engine, scanner, input options and PE).The vision of the team is work within the business design process and guide programs from initial development to SOP with respect to copy skew. These areas include matching anti-skew architecture to marketing requirements and cost, anti-skew hardware development, manufacturing adjustments, manufacturing repair process, field service and field issues. The strategy used to bring the group into the PPDL is through Four phases: 1) BUILD TEAM - build a team of subject matter experts across all parts of development. (2103 goal - complete)2) SHARE - present, share and build relationships between the different groups. (2014 goal - completed)3) CREATE - create best practices by capturing how the groups already operate. Also, Identify common methods, processes and terminology. (2015 goal - in progress)4) IMPLEMENT - implement best practices via the PPDL. (2016 goal)This project has demonstrated long term thinking with short term stratagies that are complimented using a cross functional team within development.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

HEM Fuser Development. Responsible for delivering the first belt fuser for HEM products. Developed and implemented anti-paper wrinkling technology. Developed and patented low cost self lubricating belt fuser.

Responsible for developing the first RFID enabled laser printer for Lexmark and a first for the market. This included researching a new technology and determine how to bring to market. New technical knowledge, development tests, PPQA tests, and hardware were a result from the effort.

Executive Mba

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering - Systems And Design

Research area in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in dynamic systems.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Theta Chi, Math Tutor