Elena Mcalpine Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States

Springs Creative is a world class digital printing operation that helps customers achieve their custom vision while also providing additional design services to help creativity come to life. Since joining the Springs team, I have tackled challenges in the operations, product development, supply chain, costing, planning, merchandising, and sales fields. I.

As department manager, more project-oriented tasks were delegated to me on top of the regular operations goals. This included eliminating excess off-quality inventory, coordinating with other department managers to systematically prevent late production, and re-vamping the training process for new employees.In this role I had my first experience traveling.

Inspection is the last department in the plant that evaluates the finished fabric before it reaches the customer. I worked closely with the department manager to understand the 100+ defects possible in worsted fabric. Daily activities included directly managing 25+ employees to meet their production, establishing quality standards, delivering late items.

As the finishing supervisor, I managed a team of 15 people to reach a production goal of 65k yards per week while maintaining inventories, labor cost, waste cost, and quality. In order to encourage employee engagement, I implemented weekly meetings to foster a positive and open environment. This allowed major safety, quality, and production issues to be.

Elevate Textiles is one of the leading yarn and fabric manufacturers in the world. The Burlington Raeford Plant produces top quality finished fabric for all military dress uniforms. During my first year, I gained a deep understanding of the yarn making process as I supervised 30+ people, led product development and efficiency trials, and waste-reduction.

Burlington, North Carolina

At ITG’s Burlington Labs (primary research and development center) I was actively engaged in the heart of the business while focusing on three main projects: Xalt GS waterproof breathable outerwear, No Fly Zone fabrics coated with an insecticidal finish, and general smart textiles innovation research. This internship gave me unique introductory lab.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Bennett Advanced Research (BAR) is small defense contractor located in the Raleigh area. During my time with this company I became familiar with the SBIR program, its bidding process, and I also conducted research for potential projects. As a smaller company, each employee had to wear multiple hats, and of them that I temporarily filled, was IT. Old SOP's.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

At NC State University, a Professor and his graduate students are developing projects relating to polymer based actuators and conductive fiber sensors. During my time aiding them with research, I gained experience using LabTech software, MTS 30/G machine, and other basic lab equipment used for tensile and electrical testing. This experience spurred my.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

During the summer of 2016, I worked with the Davis Moore team in order to optimize office efficiency. I completed two main projects: organizing and locating missing information for the consolidated comps system and revising the process manual. Daily tasks required mostly independent work such as composing building survey binders or researching potential.

Southern Eye Care is a small business that developed my customer service skills, and emphasized the importance of organization and efficiency within an office. As one of the few employees I managed patients’ files such as insurance information and prescriptions, and maintained the appointment book. Throughout the day I also operated and customized the.