Gary Isom, Mba, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Sterling Heights, Mi, Us

Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States

As the Program & Performance Execution Manager for the 2025 Dodge Charger (Body, Chassis, Interior, and Mechatronics), I lead cross-functional teams to resolve issues and meet program milestones. I develop project plans, monitor progress, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of complex projects. Analyzing operational data, I identify performance gaps and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Collaborating with senior stakeholders, I set objectives, communicate project status, and mitigate risks. Utilizing Lean Six Sigma and PMP methodologies, I optimize processes and drive operational excellence. I also mentor teams, fostering a culture of accountability and collaboration, and contribute to innovative automotive solutions. My efforts resulted in a 65% reduction in open CNs and a 35% reduction in open GIMs.

Auburn Hills, Mi

Managed and executed company special projects, ensuring adherence to budget and timelines. Developed strategic methodologies to drive project progress, providing accurate status reports to stakeholders. Oversaw project scope alignment with budgetary constraints, ensuring each phase was completed within scheduled timelines. Managed work plans, assigning tasks, and resolving issues such as bottlenecks and scheduling conflicts to ensure timely and budget-compliant project completion.

Auburn Hills, Mi

Led a team of 15 UAW technicians in Physical Mockup and Waterjet Operations. Managed a yearly budget of $300,000 and achieved $265,000 in cost avoidance through process enhancements. Provided comprehensive reporting on key business metrics, including expenses, shop throughput, and annual budget development. Monitored and ensured on-time delivery of physical property, analyzing asset utilization, downtime/runtime, and forecasting machine usage and build-out times. Acted as a liaison with purchasing, finance, and customers, providing insights on internal production costs and external quotations. Additionally, responsible for estimating all project costs, including engineering, design, project management, construction, and commissioning.

Auburn Hills, Mi

Responsible for ensuring timely delivery of painted properties meeting engineering standards. Led a team of 13 UAW painters, overseeing day-to-day operations, including budget forecasting, operational efficiencies, and capital improvements. Managed a $400,000 yearly budget, achieving $75,000 savings through a 50% reduction in overtime. Managed teams by developing, monitoring and updating estimates and/or an integrated project plan so that the project may be executed in the most efficient manner possible for show vehicles.

Auburn Hills, Mi

Led a team comprising 1 Supervisor, 1 Shop Leader, and 14 UAW Machinists. Implemented a business model leveraging 'lights out machining' to enhance efficiencies and reduce turnaround time. Established a data tracking mechanism to optimize overtime based on workload, resulting in an $85,000 yearly cost avoidance. Developed a 5-year capital expense plan to mitigate equipment failure risks. Implemented a process for managing high-priority jobs to ensure smooth day-to-day operations. Introduced new technologies, including a CNC lathe with Y-axis milling feature and a high-speed CNC mill, to drive efficiency gains. Managed a $600,000 budget for direct and indirect spending. Applied methods and techniques, standards, processes, procedures, guidelines and templates, to efficiently manage, develop, and control project estimates.

Auburn Hills, Mi

As the Supervisor of Vehicle Development in the North Garage, I oversaw a team of 21 mechanical UAW technicians, managing work orders, assigning tasks, and ensuring timely completion of all projects. Additionally, I managed a direct/indirect budget of $250,000 and an overtime budget of $175,000. I developed and provided analysis of project estimates, leveraging CPM software, time impact and delay analysis, and reviewed periodic schedule updates.

Auburn Hills, Mi

As a Manufacturing Mechanical Engineer, I led the processing of complete manufacturing lines for engine blocks, cylinder heads, and crankshafts. Developed master and detailed schedules encompassing major milestones, detailed work breakdown structures (WBS), and allocation of costs, labor, and equipment to activities. Monitored and updated schedule progress towards project completion, communicating changes to the management team. Prepared schedule progress reports, trending charts, and analysis, forecasting significant project activities. Analyzed effects on critical path activities, identified changes impacting the schedule, and developed recovery schedules and alternative courses of action.

Utica, Mi

Facilitated real estate transactions between buyers and sellers, negotiating deals and preparing contracts in compliance with state and federal laws. Utilized the sales comparison approach (SCA) to estimate property values by researching sale prices of comparable properties. Demonstrated strong communication skills, including verbal and nonverbal communication, written correspondence, and active listening. Achieved multimillion-dollar producer status prior to the market crash.

Saline, Mi

Led project management efforts for large OEM programs, overseeing the processing, design, pricing, and sale closure of complete tooling packages for transmission, engines, and various suspension components. Required extensive global travel to commission machines, tooling, and validate processes to a quality standard of 1.67 Cpk.

Port Huron, Mi

Managed a multimillion-dollar territory with a focus on Chrysler and large OEMs such as Heller Machine Tool and NTC Machine. Initiated and negotiated multimillion-dollar contractual agreements, leveraging volume/price relationships to consistently increase market share year over year. Successfully closed a $2 million deal for the tooling required to machine the World Gas Engine (WGE) cylinder head at the Dundee Engine Plant, involving extensive travel to Japan during the commissioning phase of tooling and machines.

Southfield, Mi

Managed key accounts focusing on sales revenue from cutting tools and then applying those tools to optimize current process for end user costs reductions. By implementing an Iscar Metals Chamdrill on a dial machine making cast iron exhaust manifolds I saved Chrysler Mack Avenue Engine Plant $500,000 yearly.

Bloomfield, Mi

Program, set-up, and run 5-axis CNC to produce cutting tools used in the automotive business segment. Some skill sets include; GD&T, QS 9000, ISO 9001, CNC programming, metallurgy, blue print reading, AutoCAD, materials, sequence of operations, and welding.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, Gpa 3.75 Out Of 4.0

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Busines Management, 3.84 Out Of 4.0