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Philadelphia, PA, US

Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, United States

• Provide oversight of daily operational functions and executive strategy for company developing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing consumer products with CCA gross revenue of $15M and EBITDA of $1.5M..
• Restructured company operations to full third party turnkey manufacturing model.
• Rebuilt the culture from “management by criticism” to one of employee self-confidence and success.
• Spearheaded forecast planning by developing centralized production forecasting spreadsheet tool.
• Established forward-looking culture and ended cycle of reactivity.
• Secured mainstream banking lines of credit with market interest rates.

Plymouth Meeting, PA

• Provided technical direction and managed protocol and execution in the deployment and domestic distribution of four brands encompassing annual inventory of $12M at six facilities for company selling promotional.
• Appointed Acting CEO in 2012 and turned $1.5M in profit in year one (2013). Went on to achieve annual sales of $10M.
• Saved $250K in in annual interest expense in year two by refinancing $2.5M in operating debt from 12% interest through personal finance to mainstream bank.
• Successfully sold shampoo brands Denorex, Zincon, and Prell to Scott’s Liquid Gold.
• Successfully renegotiated all contract and payment terms.
• Reduced inventory by $1M in first six months. Reduced on-hand inventory from 16-20 weeks to 10 week average levels, simultaneously supporting increased sales growth from $2M to $14M.

Plymouth Meeting, PA

• Recruited by CEO to expand sales volume with QVC, retool manufacturing facility, and relocate corporate offices. Drove performance improvement through strategic and tactical planning, monitoring, long-and-short term.
• Developed operations and financial management infrastructure.
• Increased sales at QVC by 75%, growing from $3M to $10M within four years and profit margins from 20% to 45%.
• Reduced manufacturing equipment downtime from 30% to 0%, core product costs from $1.25 per unit to.65 per unit, representing 50% in savings in manufacturing costs.
• Transformed management team from a “culture of entitlement” to one of continuous improvement.

West Chester, PA

• Recruited to solve materials management challenges by supplier to all major transit car builders and transit authorities. Worked across engineering, marketing, production, and purchasing departments. Worked on bid.
• For four consecutive years, improved quality of products for seven different finished goods as well as provided operational oversight for seven manufacturing operations simultaneously.
• Oversaw and achieved ISO 9002 certification while overseeing day-to-day operations of QA department.
• Achieved sales targets by 20+% through internal monitoring, weekly meetings and traveling to client base.

West Chester, PA

West Chester, PA

Exton, PA

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