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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Pennsylvania, United States

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Driving Strategic Growth and Operational ExcellenceAs General Manager at Celestica-Maple Grove, I lead a team of over 200 employees, ensuring strategic planning, operational efficiency, and a culture of accountability to achieve sustained growth and profitability.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:Leadership & Strategy:Full P&L accountability, directing long-term planning, policy formulation, and objective setting.Partner with senior leaders to drive strategic initiatives across Defense, Health, Medical, Aerospace, and Industrial Automation sectors.Represent the organization in public forums, enhancing visibility and fostering partnerships.Operational Excellence:Implement LEARN principles through Kaizens and visual management, driving continuous improvement.Balance an empowered culture with rigorous execution follow-up to maintain high standards.Lead World-Class Manufacturing and Six Sigma initiatives to optimize performance in a complex environment.Process & Performance Optimization:Resolve SIOP challenges and deploy efficient manufacturing systems to support growth.Oversee manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and quality operations with a focus on inventory and materials management.Manage New Product Introductions and Product Transfers for seamless integration.Certifications & Compliance:Maintain compliance with ITAR, ISO 13485, ISO 9001-2015, and AS 9100 standards, ensuring operational integrity and quality.Leadership Impact:Reinvigorated teams to achieve ambitious growth goals and overcome operational challenges.Established a culture of flawless execution, leveraging data-driven strategies and proven methodologies.Consistently delivered measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, and team performance.This role highlights my ability to lead transformative change, execute with precision, and deliver sustainable results in competitive industries.

Fractional Chief Operating Officer | Small Family-Owned BusinessDelivering Transformative Growth and Operational ExcellenceAs interim COO, I led initiatives to drive substantial sales growth and operational efficiency, achieving rapid and impactful results in 2022-2023.Key Achievements:Reduced build times by 51% through workflow optimization, boosting productivity by 15%.Secured ISO 9001 certification, elevating quality standards and customer trust.Introduced systems to enhance manufacturing efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain product quality.Implemented inventory reduction strategies and created performance dashboards for real-time goal tracking.Recruited key talent and developed first-line supervisors to strengthen organizational capability.Fractional Global Vice President of Supply Chain & Operations | Medical Manufacturing CompanyScaling Operations and Aligning Strategy for Profitable GrowthIn this role, I drove strategic initiatives to align the organization with its scaling goals while enhancing profitability and value creation.Key Responsibilities and Contributions:Partnered with private equity investors to execute the investment thesis and scale operations.Provided P&L oversight, professionalized the organization, and fostered a growth-oriented culture.Led global supply chain and manufacturing operations across multiple facilities, ensuring strategic alignment.Represented the company in the marketplace, driving business development and operational improvements.Impact:Established a high-performance commercial structure, aligning leadership and board members.Delivered measurable gains in operational efficiency and profitability across industries, including automotive, contract manufacturing, and industrial automation.By implementing strategic solutions and fostering collaboration, I deliver operational excellence and sustainable growth in dynamic environments.

Wilmington, Massachusetts, Us

As Vice President, Operations led all manufacturing product lines in the semiconductor industry & Supply Chain's capital equipment manufacturing space. Six manufacturing operations including Minnesota, California, Washington, Massachusetts.LED TRANSFORMATION OF MANUFACTURING LEAD TIME REDUCTION•Led a 43% year over year growth compared to the second quarter of 2020 and 14% sequential quarterly growth with minimal supply chain interruptions during a pandemic. • Ignited an SAP turnaround: Revitalized a challenged ERP implementation project timeline & getting the project back on a schedule for a successful “Go Live”-Successful 1/2020.• Transformed planning & build schedule: which evenly distributed ship plan and revenue recognition more evenly throughout each quarter. Eliminated “Hockey Stick” build each quarter that previously had ~65% shipping last month of each quarter. • Free Cash Flow-Plan to reduce inventory by <$ 10M in year 1: Evaluated planning parameters, Bill of Materials (BOM) structure, routing set up, & negotiated with key suppliers. Additionally, managing SCaaS (Supply Chain as a Service) initiatives. • Incorporated Succession plan: Developed bench strength plan & further reduced the turnover of top talent. • Merger accomplishment ~$280 M: Due Diligence and fully outlined integration process on a publicly-traded company. A global leader with an expanded portfolio of leading-edge technologies that include: 3-D metrology & Inspection capital equipment including software applications, integration, & software test spanning everything on the chip from nano-meter scale transistors to micron-level die-interconnects; macro defect inspection of wafers & packages; metal interconnect composition; factory analytics; & lithography for advanced semiconductor packaging. Developed & drove a manufacturing and supply chain strategy with daily tactical execution on key initiatives that drive costs down, profitability up, & reduce turnover w/ our top talent.COO

Brooklyn Park, Mn, Us

As COO provided the leadership, vision, and orchestrated a turnaround in both financial and operational performance. Led 2 Large Distribution centers and 14 warehouse locations from Winnipeg, Canada to Juarez, Mexico with over 350 employees and P&L on $132M in sales.Key leadership responsibilities include establishing and executing a company-wide customer service and operation strategy, leading the development and execution of operational efficiency plans to support profitable sales growth targets, overseeing the assessment, training, and development of a high performing service, distribution, and warehouse teams and improving our customer's experience. This position reported to the CEO and was supported by 8 direct reports and a team of approximately 170 supply chain, distribution and customer service professionals.KEY LEADERSHIP ACCOMPLISHMENTS:♦ $9.6M improvement in Operating Income: Developed strategic plan to swing profitability from a negative -$9.3M operating income to a positive $320K in the first year. EBITDA improvement 211% in 1 year turnaround: -3.95M to +4.4M ♦ ISO 9001-2008 updated to ISO 9001-2015 & certified within 90 days♦ Industry 4.0 (Manufacturing): Fully optimized warehouse automation Knapp Warehouse systems (intelligent automation solutions-OSR Shuttle) in Distribution / Logistics Company that include: Smart Shuttle, Pallet Shuttle, mobile racks, stacker cranes for pallets, pallet conveyor systems, AS/RS Miniload System. Resulting in a 22% labor savings, inventory accuracy from 94% to 99.7%. Driving a strategic plan to restructure operations footprint and outline a tactical plan to save $1.7M in overhead costs.♦ Talent Selection: Developed & implemented a formal High Potential & Next Generational Leader program that reduced turnover by 75% in the first 6 months. Program included coaching, mentoring, and visual management system that aligned personal & company targets.

-Open to initial call Saturdays 6 am-8am CST email first: ✉ georgecmurray@gmail.com | ✆ 952-221-8868Consulting, speaking, and advising businesses and professionals on ways to drive profitability, strategic growth, and operational excellence. Speaking engagements on the following topics:✓ Coaching/Mentor in the Workforce-“Get more bottom line results by driving more engagement and a positive work culture in your Company” ✓ Servant Leadership –“Driving the oldest leadership style into Today’s companies that increases employee engagement, reduce turnover, and increase morale"✓ Executive Transition- “Tools, Networking tips, and approach to cut your time in half” ✓ Supervisor Training-"Creating Daily Cadence-A Day in the Life-What to do Before, During, After each shift"☆ Employee Development and Succession planning-6 month project that including assessment, development plan for each High Potential Employee, outlined succession plan that outlined Next Generational Leaders and a 18-36 month plan which created bench strength, reduced turnover, and increased employee engagement. Strength Finders: Relator, Achiever, Competition, Strategic, Self-AssuranceMyers Briggs-ISTJUnique-Left Handed-less than 10% of US population is left handed. Combat Veteran-Less than 7% of the population is a Combat Veteran. Never gives up-less than 1% of the US population Never gives up.Coached and mentored business owners as a Fractional COO and Vice President of Manufacturing. Worked on several projects as a Project Manager and business coach to improve profitability, reduce inventory levels and manufacturing cycle times, as well as programs to reduce employee turnover.Manufacturing, Integration, & test of Robotics & Optics assemblies into Capital Equipment including Software (SAAS) for Customers (Intel, TSMC, and Samsung)

Advised/consulted various global million/billion dollar industries to improve efficiency, reduce overall costs, and program implementation that drove profitability in operations and manufacturing. Also served as a Fractional COO.★ Adjustment Leader - Improving Business Strategy and Execution without losing recipe and culture of the company ★ Turnaround Expert – Transforming struggling businesses★ Growth Catalyst – Delivering revenue improvement to over 200% (More than doubling company revenue and net profits in 3 years)KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:☆ Tier 1 & 2 Automotive Supplier-18 month assignment-Fractional COO; As COO and Company Officer, directed a $180M organization (1450 people) and over 1.5 million square feet of manufacturing space with full accountability for strategy, Design and manufacture of products for the automotive Tier 1 and Tier 2, commercial, and appliance business. Created & led first ever in company's 109 year history strategic planning session that outlined a growth plan to improve revenue 250% & improving net profits over 1000% within the next 5 years.☆ Global Equipment Manufacturer with over $4 Billion in sales - 6 month assignment: Product transfer and developed walking line principle & Toyota Production Systems (Automotive concept): Machinery company of over $400M that increased output by 350% through automation and streamlining logistics by creating 3PL improved cash flow 30%.☆ Plastics Card and Printing Company- 6 month assignment: Assisted the US CEO in restructuring eight companies for Brazilian public entity. Closed transaction & restructured eight US companies out of consolidated Section 363 bankruptcy. As a single legal entity, Valid USA, implemented broad restructuring. ☆ Machine & CNC Company - 6 month assignment: Interim (President) to develop business strategy grow the company $12M to >$36M over 3 years.

Oegstgeest, South Holland, Nl

Directed global vision, strategy, and operations that drove profitable and sustainable growth.Responsible for Global Operations including the US, South America, and Europe (EMEA). Revenue of over $510M and Supply Chain spend of $208M. Employees of over 1600. Led all aspects of the global markets for the RFID inlay & secured card division including Sales, Marketing, R&D included 8 global plants & distribution center. Promoted 3 times:◄ VP; Americas (North & South America) at Smartrac Technology 2012-2013◄ VP & Head of Operations BU eID-Bangkok, Thailand 2011-2012◄ Head US Operations & U.S. Corporate Officer 2009-2013Appointed by CEO to fix a broken manufacturing operation in the United States. Hand-picked & developed a team to create a professional highly-automated manufacturing world-class infrastructure & create the Smartrac US standard. Implemented an ISO quality system (9001 &13485) & NASPO certification. ▲ Improved sales, marketing, & engineering team w/ $40M increased sales & 3 customers. First-year achieved 100% customer retention & 18% improvement EBITDA.▲ Asked by CEO, to be a leader & an expatriate assignment in Thailand to turnaround under-performing operations (6 factories & Distribution center). 90 days into the turnaround all operations were impacted by the worst flood in > 60 years (all factories under 25 ft. of water). Designed & executed disaster recovery plans to ensure the original customer commitments (+500 customers) were satisfied & retained market share during a most challenging time to Bangkok / Ayutthaya, Thailand (> 50% of the overall business impacted). < 2 months all operations back online &consolidated that resulted in an increase in 225% improvement in EBITDA w/o losing a single customer.

Oegstgeest, South Holland, Nl

Promoted to President, US Operations of the RFID and embedded technology of both highly secured printed inlays and government identification products.After a successful turnaround in financial performance and business growth strategy was promoted to President, US Operations. Asked by the CEO to outline new opportunities to further grow the business, further improve profitability, and assist in Due Diligence activities.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:✔ Developed two additional verticals that increased sales 41%.✔ Implemented automated systems to reduce labor costs by 23%.✔ Asked by CEO to do an expatriate assignment for over a year in Thailand to turnaround falling EBITDA; increased from 8% to 29%. Developed new local leadership that reduced the need for future expatriate contracts that reduced overall costs.AWARD:☛ Best Supplier Award from Government Agency

Oegstgeest, South Holland, Nl

Heavily recruited for startup of new RFID Operations-Internet of Things, Manufacturing 4.0. Outlined an operations transformation of the struggling operations which included highly efficient automation, strengthening of the current supply chain , as well as Talent Assessment and top leveling. * Developed and executed plan to break-even within 6 months.* Increased output from 35,000 units per month to over 1,000,000 units per month in 7 months. * Transitioned new Supply Chain in the US due to the requirements of the customer base (US Government)Key Words: Vice President, Supply Chain, Logistics, Integrated Logistics Support, Configuration Management, Program Management, Continuous Improvement, Cost Reductions, Warehouse and Inventory Management, Distribution Centers, Global Multi-sites, Asset Utilization, Metrics, KPI’s, Contract Negotiations, Procurement, Distribution Centers, Customer Service, Manufacturing 4.0, Internet of Things, IoT, Automation, Embedded Technology.

Mini Masters Degree, Project Management

Black Belt Lean Six Sigma, Statistics

Mba, Business, Marketing, Leadership

B.S. B. M, Business Communication, Marketing, Statistics, Business Law

Honor Graduate, Aviation/Airway Management And Operations

Business/Corporate Communications

Fire Safety, Fire Science/Fire-Fighting

High School Diploma, General Studies