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Lino Lakes MN

Oversee all operations at the Minnesota facility.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provide leadership and direction for the testing operation. Responsible for metrics, scheduling, productivity, staffing, quality and communication shift to shift.

Waseca, MN

Accountable for business process improvements within operations. Merged and managed 5 businesses into one collaborative functioning unit. Responsibilities include budget, productivity, planning, quality, training, safety and staffing.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Manage the Fiber Optic connectorization department including new product introduction and legacy products and processes. Work closely with product management and design engineering to ensure customer commitments and expectations are met throughout the development phases. Support the roll out of these products and processes to facilities worldwide. Utilized.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Accountable for all aspects of manufacturing, warehouse, shipping and receiving, and facility maintenance departments of a specialized truck utility company. Custom truck service bodies built to customer's specifications. Responsible for developing metrics in order to track and improve production schedule, cost, quality, safety and customer satisfaction.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Operations Leader for an aeronautical unit, comprising subsystems and final product teams. Responsible for departmental productivity, quality, scheduling and staffing.Leader of a Lean Manufacturing event which created a one piece mixed model flow. Result: 25% increase in output and a 60% reduction in WIP.Worked to ensure process proficiency for existing.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Accountable for Fiber Optic connectorization department of 125 employees, comprising four product families, all built-to-order. During the last 18 months responsibilities moved to the sheet metal fabrication area. Responsible for departmental staffing, scheduling, quality and on-time delivery. Assisted in facilitating a team responsible for increasing test.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Accountable for the performance of the imaging and shipping departments consisting of 60 employees across four shifts running 24x7. Responsible for department quality, budgets, staffing and inventory levels. Implemented weekly communication with plant management at related facilities to ensure the quality of our product quality. Benchmarked best practices.

Bachelors Degree, Business Administration & Management

Education record

Completed 2 years of Pre-Engineering requirements.