Repeatedly promoted to oversee all aspects of daily operations, I attained revenue and margin goals through effective direction of the engineering program. In addition to overseeing manufacturing project development and implementation—to include engineering purchasing, production, assembly, and installation—I also managed customer engagements by establishing technical specifications, negotiating sales contracts, and ensuring achievement of fulfillment requirements. My achievements included:• Meeting targets of up to $60M in annual sales production, and fulfilling more than 40 international equipment projects within 1% of the budget.• Advancing company financial performance through improved low-cost manufacturing methods, project standardization, and risk management, with early results showing a net profitability increase of 7%.• Expanding the company’s international footprint by collaborating with the Poland-based parent company to cultivate new means of delivering low-cost, high-quality solutions to global customers.• Re-engineering business processes to improve compliance with ISO 9001 standards.

Managing manufacturing projects from contract initiation through on-time, on-budget product and service delivery, I interfaced with customers through needs analysis, negotiation, and project plan development and managed active projects to include supervising design review, quality control, contract administration, and user acceptance testing. My achievements included:• Readily meeting the challenges of fulfilling schedule and budget targets for large-scale projects running up to 24 months.• Entrusted to ensure success of several high-value projects ($100M+) in sales, supporting global business endeavors across China, Japan, Kazakhstan, and the U.S

In this role, I oversaw four departments of a $60M coating operation serving customers in healthcare, aerospace, and consumer electronics markets. Beyond supervising a team of 250+ personnel supporting the operation of six thin-film vacuum coating machines in a 24/7 environment, I also liaised with customers and senior operations management to lead new product innovation and development and steer continuous improvement initiatives to maximize factory utilization, cost reduction, and on-time delivery.My achievements included:• Fostering a 25% revenue growth over a four-year period through the integration of aggressive price reduction efforts.• Personally managing the rollout of a new department and staff to achieve multimillion dollar revenues by year-end.• Fulfilling continuous improvement objectives by increasing employee productivity, boosting uptime and yield, attaining near 100% rates for on-time shipment metrics, and driving total annual safety incident rate to nearly zero.• Ensuring successful outcomes for the consolidation of Santa Rosa operations, devising and engaging a plan for the reduction of total site buildings by more than half alongside elimination of 200+ employees.• Routinely meeting the challenges of seasonal production demand, introducing a new staffing plan to better accommodate seasonal volume swings of up to 50%.