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Hickory, North Carolina, United States

Leading two teams responsible for fleet maintenance and facilities maintenance along with facilities engineering activities.

Hickory, North Carolina

• Managing installation of close to $7M worth of assets during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Worked through labor and material shortages by communicating with teams to find solutions and creating redundancy for critical roles, ensuring directional continuity in the event of illness.
• Collaborated with diverse team to investigate ROI of new pelletizer machine, looking at material costs and maintenance costs, and ultimately rejecting project due to overhead cost increase.
• Consulted with accounting while investigating project to move low-margin, low-volume product from a high burden rate line to a modified line. Collaboratively discovered that the cost to modify the line would not offset.
• Negotiated with vendor to rework faulty equipment at their cost, improving line OEE by 50%.
• Partnered with cross-functional team to create prototypes for products which could create up to $30M in revenue.

Conover, NC

Responsible for 3-man team tasked with designing and building equipment from concept to installation.Brought equipment from Sweden and Germany to the US. Installed and adapted the equipment to work with US filters. Coordinated installation of $1million sewing machine from Sweden including scrap and dust collection system.Designed and built assembly table.

Conover, NC

Lead 5-member maintenance and machine shop teams in on-going, preventative maintenance. Scope of responsibilities includes hands-on machine rebuild (from frame up), programming PLCs, machine rewiring, general fabrication (welding, grinding, cutting, etc.), and precision machining. Slashed cycle time in half (7 seconds to 3.1), markedly reduced wear.

Waynesville, NC

Although initially hired to re-design (mechanically) a device monitoring amount of silver in water (e.g., in photo processing) hoping to use technology for heavy metals, rapidly transitioned to research and involvement in anything making the product work, including circuit design and computer programming.Designed machine that was cheaper, simpler, better.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Wrote and revised documentation on process of building ABS units in the shop. Added file archiving software to Product Quality Instruction, added new gauges, took lubricants out of PQI, and improved/added all missing operations.Modified/re-designed existing fixtures in shop to hold more new parts needing assembly, capturing time/process efficiency. Worked.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 3.781

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Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering, 3.729