Doug Cook Email & Phone Number

Franklin, Tn, Us

Franklin, Tn, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

Dal-Tile is a subsidiary of Mohawk Industries representing over $3B of the organizations total revenues. • Intentional in targeting the right balance of technical and leadership expertise when building core teams for each operation and in an effort to minimize risk and drive the culture of continuous improvement before the first production was ran, the team executed a failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) which was key to our success in not skipping a beat when firing up the plant.• Communicate as needed on daily / weekly / monthly frequencies where we are to targets and guide corrective actions, both positive and paths to recovery. • In support of our quality management system, we successfully attained certification of ISO 9001:2015 on our first attempt of the first plant and well underway and expected to obtain certification on the second startup in Q3 of 2019.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Recommend and establish key strategies, objectives and policies to support the total goals and financial objectives for the business with focus on our core pillars of safety, quality, cost, delivery and morale. Engage in detailed analysis of plant performance with specific emphasis on productivity yields, consistently targeting and yielding an annual savings year over year of at least 3% of prior year COGS.• Key business partner in organizational mapping of resources through a major acquisition, resulting in a reduction of 15 (30% of incremental hc to base company) positions via use of synergies between the organizations.• Contributed to process improvements across functional areas via a corporate kaizen event to reduce month end reporting timeline from +15 to 10 business days. Have reduced required resources in my department from 12 to 10 simply through the means of identifying waste and automating consolidation, analytical tools for daily, monthly and weekly reporting.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Establish and maintain current policies and procedures for the management of a $92 million expense budget and a multi-million dollar capital budget.• Identify lean management opportunities for improvement through gains in utilization of resources (e.g. labor, materials and overhead).• Develop internal reporting tools and provided training for management and supervisory staff to promote the effectiveness of attaining goals through metrics that relate directly to the bottom line.

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The Brunswick Boat Group, headquartered in Knoxville, TN, is the largest maker of pleasure boats in the world. This segment of Brunswick Corp exceeds $1.5 billion in manufacturing several domestic brands of boats.• Facilitated the aggressive production startup of seven different product lines in six months while simultaneously completing a multi-million dollar contract for 14 yachts to assist in leveraging fixed and variable costs incurred with the acquisition of the Navassa facility.• Developed, implemented and ensured Sarbanes-Oxley compliance while changing ownership through acquisition from a private organization to a public organization within a six month timeframe.

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• Responsible for analyzing product profitability, economic impacts and establishing forecasting assumptions to be used in bottom up budgeting. Strong emphasis in project evaluation, and streamlining / standardizing the Finance functional group reporting structure from the manufacturing plants to corporate consolidation reporting.• Standardized and developed analytical tools used by each manufacturing facility in an effort to establish best practices and improvements in the Finance department’s efficiencies. These efforts contributed to each facility being able to close out their monthly activities while being able to research variances and provide reconciliations within two days time.• Worked various projects with several functional groups to evaluate the impacts on the organizations strategic goals that resulted in the introduction of some new technologies that reduce both labor and material costs.

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• Responsible for the budgeting, forecasting and monthly / quarterly reporting as well as managed a staff that supported eight general ledgers spread over four different physical locations within the United States.• Orchestrated, tracked and maintained the costing controls for over 5,000 different SKU’s that were distributed to several boat manufacturing facilities within the US Marine division.

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