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Seguin, Tx, Us

Marion, Texas, United States

• Provided executive leadership for Marion Oaks Utility District, ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations• Developed policies to benefit residents and utility customers, overseeing a $400MM budget for district operations• Resolved customer complaints, set property tax rates, and secured necessary service providers

Schertz, Texas, United States

San Antonio, Texas, United States

San Antonio, Texas, United States

In the shifting face of rapidly advancing technology, AV Calibrations remains committed to staying ahead of emerging standards and innovative product development by continuing to pursue education and training on all things AV.

Shertz, Tx

Strategically restructured organization (6 staff/30 indirect) to include staff and departmental leadership to bring business back on track with business goals and overcome COVID impact. • Resulted in 2 business units exceeding budgeted revenue, 3rd business unit was meeting budget and the 4th business unit met and exceeded budget with increased forecast to meet annual budget. • Developed and managed sales strategies to correspond to current product offerings as well as progressive new product launch support.• Sub-contracted services significantly reducing overtime, projected over $500k increase in unbudgeted revenue and reduced direct labor costs.• Improved marketing and sales scope through improved operational practices, resulting in over $4MM in quoted projects above budget for 2021.

Seguin, Tx

Orchestrated a tactical strategy to reform operation to enhance customer revenue and gain market share in new areas through operational efficiency and increasing capacity and capabilities.• Managed sales and customer service support for new and existing products. Leveraged CAPEX investment to open new markets and customers.• Spearheaded addition of management and labor (9 staff/75 indirect) resources to bridge skill gaps identified through Value Stream Mapping.• Leveraged customer feedback to reorganize operational departments reducing lead-time by 15% as well as reduce scrap to .55% of throughput. • Directed changes in front office operations in conjunction with manufacturing departments to increase revenue over 50% year on year.

Shiner, Tx

Established, staffed and chartered an engineering organization (5 staff/200 indirect) based on strategic needs of the business. Enacted standard work programs, manufacturing standards, price points, cost models, and KPI’s for the operation. • Conceived and in collaboration with Sales and Marketing completed world-class design, fabrication and engineering facilities.• Provided senior customer service support for both existing and new customers. Key executive support for business rebranding both in the eMarket place as well as the brick and mortar B2C environment.• Innovated reduced time to market methods for new products by 50% achieving “first to market” for all new year models. • Generated $2.4MM in additional unbudgeted revenue through new design engineering operations taking on additional development activities and manufacturing process improvements.

Manning, Sc

Developed and implemented Strategic and Tactical business plans to achieve stability and growth for start-up manufacturing business.• Directed effort to standardize production processes and shorten new product development.• Developed and launched technical sales methodologies to align new product development with customer needs. Managed New Product development and launch of enviro-conscious product family • Reorganized operations staff (8 staff/110 indirect) allowing us to achieve 98% on-time performance within 60 days.• Implemented cost control initiatives in collaboration with the new VP of Finance resulted in positive OPEX variances and new pricing strategy that had the business profitable within 180 days.

Reynosa, Mexico

Identified, developed and implemented innovative plans and actions to strengthen operation in support of global sales and disruptive market growth leveraging new product technologies.• Supervised all R&D, Product Management, Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain tasks (12 staff/250 indirect) resulting in $10MM in increased revenue within 18 months.• Promoted to act as final Gate Keeper for all new product development and launches. Aligning NPD with strategic direction of business in both engineered and commodity type product development• Achieved highest percentage of financial and productivity improvement out of all operations in Canada, U.S.A and Mexico.• Prior positions at Saint-Gobain included Engineering Supervisor, Site Engineering and Maintenance Manager, Operations Manager• Utilized air-laid nonwoven and carding forming equipment, needle punch, roll coat, spray coat, dry component application, calendaring and various methods of in-line and offline laminating. Utilized phenolic, both solvent and water based polyurethane binding systems, multi-directional air impingement drying and curing systems.