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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Unpaid volunteer work 2-3 times per week sorting, packing & delivering food items for those in need throughout Kalamazoo County.

Portage, Michigan, United States

Verona, Virginia, United States

Unpaid volunteer work 3-4 times per week sorting & packing food items for those in need throughout the Shenandoah Valley Region.

Staunton, Virginia

Clearfield, Utah

• Reporting remotely to President of Malnove Holding Company, drove the timely and safe production of high quality folding cartons for the food and medical device industries. Fully accountable for delighting customers.
• Increased manufacturing efficiencies a minimum of 15% across all departments.
• Reduced overall process waste 17%.
• Improved profits $1.5 MM on same volume of Sales.
• Received Clif Bar’s 50/20 Award for leadership in Renewable Energy use & Green Manufacturing.

Woodstock, Illinois

• Directed the Print Services management team, responsible for all Press, Pre-Media, Warehousing and Paper functions. Managed 4 direct report Process Managers, 7 supervisors and 125 indirect report hourly employees.
• Reduced Average Make-ready Impressions and Run Waste percentage by 5% and 6%, respectively
• Lowered OSHA Total Recordable Incident rate by 48% (3.10 YTD in 2014 vs. 5.99 in 2013)
• Improved overall Press Throughput by 14% (42,980 vs. 37,770) from the date I assumed Print Director role

Woodstock, IL

• Led the Finishing management team, including all Bindery, Shipping and Logistics functions. Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of 24 major pieces of production equipment producing 600 million books.
• Instituted use of labor management tools, reducing non-machine direct labor from 15% to under 7%
• Championed Platform Stitcher & Perfect Binder Make-ready Kaizens, resulting in over 15% improvements
• Lowered direct labor cost per M lbs. bound (key metric) by 17% over 2 year period, 2012-2013, resulting in over $4.5MM cumulative wage savings

Woodstock, IL

• Set overall direction for the Manufacturing and Distribution operations of a 650 employee printing facility producing 600 million magazines & catalogs annually. Full responsibility for achieving manufacturing unit cost.
• Served on Micro-Design Team for Brown’s complete organizational Transformation in 2010
• Interviewed, selected, hired, and trained Operations staff of 15 direct reports consisting of multiple cross departmental roles previously not in existence

East Greenville, PA

• Led the Finishing management team, including all Bindery, Shipping and Logistics functions. Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of 18 major pieces of production equipment producing 400 million books.
• Reduced Direct Unit cost by over 10% from prior year, equating to $1.864MM in savings at Actual Volume
• Improved OSHA Recordable Incidents by 52% (14 vs. 29 and Rate by 39% (4.43 vs. 7.31) over prior year
• Year over year improvement in Major / Critical Complaints per MM books metric of 47% (0.025 vs. 00.47)

• Managed all manufacturing operations (digital platemaking, web-offset press, saddlestitch bindery & mailing, and Quality) for a 400,000 square foot facility producing over 500 million high quality catalogs annually..
• Consistently met monthly KPI and Expense Control goals.
• Originally hired to manage Pressroom, given responsibility for entire Manufacturing operation after four months on the job.

• Privately held Direct Marketing and Direct Mail Company with annual revenues exceeding $16 million serving the Retail, Educational, Financial Services and Advertising Agency markets. Directed all aspects of variable.
• Increased average daily mail production by 10% through actively engaging employees on the shop floor and seeking their input on how to improve performance.
• Spearheaded and attained USPS Optional Procedures Certification, streamlining bulk mail approval and saving 2-3 hours of Mailing Supervisor overtime per day.

• Privately held BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) firm providing a broad spectrum of print and print related services to over 1200 clients, including numerous Fortune 500 companies. Led a team of 50 Print Production.
• Managed supply chain activities for network of 1600 vendors, including new supplier identification and certification.
• Established internal capability to accurately estimate market pricing and vendor costs on catalog and magazine work, resulting in 50% reduction in quote cycle time and increased gross margins.

Managed long range production planning and job scheduling for a platform of 6 manufacturing plants with annual sales of $800 million. Directed a staff of 9 supervisors and 43 planning professionals with an annual expense budget of $3 million.* Retained sales volume generating $10 million in gross profit through aggressive management of external outsourcing.

Managed production planning, short term job scheduling for a 2 plant-manufacturing platform with annual sales of $300 million. Directed a staff of 9 planning professionals with an annual salary and expense budget of $600K.* Initiated and drove change to integrated production planning for 2 distinct plants onto a single, common planning platform, resulting.

Managed a full service 24 / 7 digital pre-press and high-speed web-offset press operation producing one billion high-end mail order and retail catalogs annually. Led a supervisory and craft employee staff of 225 people with an annual expense budget in excess of $26 million.* Generated 10% productivity improvement by combining aggressive throughput targets.

Led ISO 9002 and Continuous Improvement efforts for a 450-person business module.* Mentored one of the first Six Sigma Black Belt candidates in the corporation through certification projects, which resulted in $500K annual cost savings through reduced bindery spoilage and press run waste. * Successfully led ISO 9002 team through re-certification audit.

Led a cross-functional internal consulting team during temporary assignment to company wide cost control initiative.* Applied data analysis, benchmarking and best practice techniques to quantify savings targets in each subject plant equal to 40% of annual non-fixed costs.* Generated, evaluated, selected and prepared detailed implementation plans for.

Directed all long and short-term operational aspects of a 7 press Gravure pressroom and automated digital cylinder engraving department producing weekly publications, catalogs and retail inserts. Prepared and controlled expenses against annual budgets.* Led capital planning and start up of a new $21 million gravure press, resulting in the retention of a.

Provided daily production planning leadership for an electronic preliminary module of 106 crafts people providing high-quality prepress services. Directly supervised a production staff of 14 coordinators and functionally supervised 5 customer service representatives administering $12 million in annual revenues. Prepared and administered annual budgets.

Supervised a staff of 7 price administrators in developing timely, accurate price quotations and profitability projections on new and existing work. Performed all budgeting, recruiting, and training. Interacted extensively with senior levels of management to gain consensus on price proposals and contract terms.

Analyzed bid requests from national sales force and developed optimum manufacturing plans and price proposals for magazine prospects based on available plant, equipment and materials. Prepared detailed profitability analyses for potential new sales and current contract work.

Bs, Operations Management / Economics

*Worked full time (35 hrs/week) at local printer while attending college full time and maintained 3.79/4.0 final GPA. *Member of DeKalb.

Graphic Arts

High School Diploma, Offset Lithography

Activities and Societies: Vocational Industrial Clubs of AmericaOffset Lithography