Michael Brown Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Global leader in developing and manufacturing strategic employee recognition and reward solutions
• Provide leadership, align to corporate mission, values & strategies; meet customer needs, continuously improve, develop future leaders and team members to solve problems and make improvements
• Independently carry out formal coaching, improvement plans and performance coaching to ensure team members grow and meet expectations
• Engage team members to become problem solvers by coaching them to embrace problems as opportunities; utilizing improvement KATA; build increased capability and adaptability into the team
• Support and maintain the creation of high performance teams (5S, operator maintenance, high performance roles and accountability)
• Independently drive improvements and maintain responsibility for results in areas of quality, safety, morale, output, delivery, and cost

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Specialty Manufacturer of contemporary containers, fire pits, benches, and elements
• Responsible for all aspects of the metal manufacturing process from concept to delivery. Developed and implemented policies, procedures, and Lean Methodologies that increased the efficiency of the operation and.
• Participated in strategic annual facility planning that resulted in sales growth of $1.1m to $6.8m in four years.
• Successfully developed and implemented continuous improvement initiatives and accountability programs that increased weekly throughput from $35K to $150K, while lowering operating expense 2% of sales.
• Improved service level, fill rate, and corresponding customer satisfaction, through Best Practice development and implementation. Methodologies included single piece flow, 5S, and RCA (Root cause analysis).
• Responsible for all material purchasing and equipment procurement; Increased sheet utilization 20% through nesting programs and purchase of various material sizes. Eliminated $150k annual outsourced expense by.

SLC, UT.

• Increased operating efficiencies 10% annually and decreased total operating expenses 3% of sales by initiating process, personnel, scheduling, and equipment evaluations and improvements.
• Consolidated delivery routes, retired and sold costly obsolete transportation and MHE equipment and negotiated FSL contracts with equipment and logistics vendors.
• Reduced damaged inventory by 30% through in-house training and increased accountability.
• Built relationships with outside freight carriers and negotiated freight rates on inbound and outbound rates to serve customers outside of service area. Proficient in DOT R&R, and FMCSR.
• Responsible for accurately and cost efficiently managing high volume inventory by implementing weekly cycle count procedures
• Improved safety compliance procedures and raised safety awareness, resulting in 3 years no loss time accidents

SLC, UT.

• Executed complete “turnaround” of operations, achieving worst to best in majority of metrics in two years time.
• Responsible for the overall direction, evaluation and development of assigned staff positions; maintained a culture of inclusion, positive development and training of associates.
• Recognized in 1999 as the lowest operating expense ratio division in the Western U.S.
• Compiled and presented necessary data to persuade corporate management to invest in a new facility to facilitate future growth; initiated the facility design and necessary racking layout.
• Project manager on a restructuring initiative from presentation to completion that required the consolidation of three separate Janitorial Supply distribution businesses into one 250,000 sq. ft. facility over a 6-month.
• Participated in Sales calls and in presentations with 40 Sales Representatives. Visited with top 25 customers quarterly to ensure optimal customer service.

Billings, MT.

• Managed the operations for the State of Montana with facilities in Billings, Great Falls, and Missoula.
• Successfully developed relationships in key strategic accounts.
• Promoted to Operations Manager, Salt Lake City, after three years successful performance.

Economics, Business Management

Six Sigma, Quality Assurance Technology

Education record

Alumni