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San Antonio, TX, US

New York, NY, US

• Acquisition and investment company targeting both profitable businesses and special situations requiring financial crises management, pre-bankruptcy debt restructuring, and/or operational turnaround management to.
• Consulted with $100mm portfolio company to improve operational efficiency of labor-intensive processes. Using Lean methodologies increased process efficiency achieving the same throughput with 20 fewer employees..
• Led team of over 100 laborers, supervisors, managers, and technical leads to complete process improvement project. Worked collaboratively with upper management to develop project plans and budgets, tracked progress to.
• Led turnaround of $6mm distribution company. Analyzed business performance and developed operational strategy leading to reduction in costs of over 50% bringing the company back into profitability.
• Spearheaded project to create a sales funnel targeting potential acquisition principles. Led a team of remote workers in the creation of a proprietary list of over 6,000 potential acquisition targets. Developed.
• Perform pre-acquisition due diligence including P&L and balance sheet analysis, creation of financial models and forecasts, calculating ROI and IRR, calculate business valuations, negotiating deal structures, and fund.

Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US

• MRO division specializing in repair and manufacture of turbine jet engine components
• Tasked with building and leading new manufacture R&D team overseeing project feasibility analysis, new process development, tooling design, and project management.
• Analyzed new process and equipment expenditures for IRR and ROI, creating capital expenditure budgets for R&D manufacturing operations, and developing process improvements using Lean, six sigma, and statistical process.
• As leader of a Lean manufacturing initiative led a team to develop and implement documentation of tribal knowledge into SOPs leading to a decrease in quality defects of 15%
• Trained employees on the practices of Lean manufacturing
• Introduced modern manufacturing techniques, and adapted solutions to specific requirements and environment (i.e. high speed machining techniques, ceramic tooling, and statistical process controls) resulting in 20% cost.

• Contract manufacturing company specializing in machined aerospace components and assemblies
• Head of CNC programming department overseeing a team of programmers and manufacturing engineers.
• As a member of the management team assisted in the development of a quality system to successfully obtain AS9100 certification
• Project manager for contract to design and manufacture tooling in support of Piper’s Altaire Jet program. Successfully lead the $1mm + project to deliver over 500 unique parts on time and on budget
• Worked with programmers and machine operators to develop and continually improve program setup sheets increasing first run success rates by 10%
• Reviewed engineering drawings and developed NC programs, machining processes, tooling requirements, and setup sheets for manufacturing

• Aircraft manufacturing company specializing in single piston engine aircraft
• Hired as an aerospace alloys welder and was rapidly promoted over the following 12 months to machine shop supervisor and finally operations manager. Charged with leading all manufacturing operations as well as.
• As operations manager for Mooney Aviation Company, I was tasked with leading 9 work centers and 80 employees to supply manufactured components for aircraft assembly, as well replacement components to an existing fleet.
• Lead process improvement initiatives across all manufacturing departments utilizing Lean manufacturing techniques
• Trained employees on the practices of Lean manufacturing
• Lead teams in the creation of value stream maps and the implementation of Lean manufacturing methodologies to reduce average turnaround time of fabricated components from 2 weeks to less than 3 days

Randolph AFB, TX, US

• Aerospace alloys welder certified in 4130, Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Titanium, Magnesium, Hastelloy, and Nickel based alloys
• Manual and CNC machining of aircraft components
• Design and manufacture of tooling to repair aircraft and ground equipment components