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Gary, Indiana, United States

As a leader reporting to the Area Manager, I am responsible for overseeing the daily maintenance and operations of the Gary Works Pickling lines, which produce approximately 210k tons of steel per month. My duties include managing operations, maintenance activities, breakdown response teams, and planning major outage activities. I have four direct reports.

De Pere, Wisconsin

Gary, Indiana

Manage a diverse unionized team including slab yards, slab processing, hot roll finish and hot warehouses. Currently working on several waste elimination projects in hot roll finish to better meet customer demands.

Harvey, Illinois

Was able to reduce yield loss by $1.5m by driving best practices from kaizen events. Reduced lead times by 6 weeks on Telspar line to better meet customer demand. Improved product flow through push/pull pickle line thus allowing us to reduce labor and overhead. Successful startup on additional shifts at the rigid plant taking less than three months where.

While running the maintenance department we have achieved an all time record for delay rate and production. We have brought in innovative systems to sustain the grown that we have achieved. Recently moved to production operations manager to incorporate culture changes within the work group.

At ArcelorMittal I was a casting shift manager. This was a very high pressure high intensity career. Safety takes no back seats in this industry and requires strong leadership to operate safely.

Merrillville, Indiana

Custom made furniture, built-ins, and everything else custom. Several pieces are in Image House's art displays.