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Principle of Monatgny LLC a consulting company involved in Management and Investing.

Responsible for leading the IT Business of Schneider Electric. A global entity focussed on solutions, services and products for Data Centers, Secure Power and Secure homes. Responsible for developing and driving the strategy in order to provide a great experience for our customers. Alos responsible for the Solar Business and Japan.

Principle of Montagny LLC a consulting company involved in Management, productivity improvement, and strategy consulting.

Responsible for leading the Global Supply Chain Strategy. Put in place a Global organization to ensure that the Safety, Quality, Service, Productivity, Simplicity and Environmental programs of the company were performing at World Class Standards. Also responsible for the Global Customer Satisfaction and Quality as well as Real Estate consolidation programs.

Responsible for an Autonomous Business Unit of Schneider Electric Came in to replace a CEO who left the company to drive a business that was in a full turnaround mode with a topline drop in the range of 40%. Adjusted costs to stabilize the business and get to break-even, made key management changes and finished a critical negotiation with the largest.

Responsible for the Supply Chain Strategy, the IT strategy, the Global Business Process development and various other Global Projects. Supported the doubling of the business over this time period while driving a strong rebalancing of the Supply Chain from High Cost Countries to Low Cost Countries, moving from 13% of COGS to 40% of COGS sourced in LCC's..

Responsible for growing the business in the ASEAN countries, this included turning around the Philippines from consistent losses to strong growth and profitability, buying out a JV partner in Malaysia to ensure control over the Country, functionalizing the Supply Chain and stabilizing the R+D operations. Redeployed a number of resources to take best.

Responsible for the Product Marketing and Technical teams of Schneider North America medium voltage and low voltage businesses including the product development roadmaps and the allocation of technical resources, this was also the key coordination point with the rest of the world's technical teams.

Responsible for the global development of the low voltage circuit breaker, switches and transformers. This was also a business development position with the responsibility to support the global growth of the business and included two JV's in China as well multiple design centers and factories. Level 3 support and pricing control were included inside the.

Responsible for the technical resources associated with the Power products business this job involved a complete reorganization of the engineering teams, building of University relationships and a recruitment initiative.

Responsible for managing the North American distribution centers and a selection of low voltage component manufacturing plants.

Responsible for a group of Medium Voltage and Low Voltage equipment manufacturing plants in the US and Canada.

Responsible for a 80MUSD Business with full P+L responsibility including product development, marketing, and manufacturing in the US and Mexico.

Led a grouping of 4 factories and the consolidation into one over a 15 month

Duties included implementing cell manufacturing concepts by studying existing processes and working closely with department personnel, then purchasing new equipment and blending it with existing equipment to create work cells. Involvement in the start-up of a Maquiladora facility. Managing multi-million dollar international capital projects, day to day.

Responsibilities included evaluating new designs for manufacturability, analyzing competitive products, and setting new product goals. Other duties: specifying and monitoring various new and existing manufacturing processes, working with vendors, implementing costs reductions, defining tooling requirements, being on International Task Force Teams, and.

Supervised second shift operations, including toolmakers, CNC machining, inspection, stamping and new employee training.

Set-up and operated various conventional machining equipment.

Operation various roll-forming machines and supervised assistants.

Bsme, Bsme

Graduate Studies, Engineering

Doctoral Studies, International/Global Studies