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Newton, Nc

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

(Non Related Field)

Cheraw, Sc

(manufacture of high volume hand tools)- Delivered zero safety incidents, 2 % increase in fill rate to 98% while volume increased 30%, 15 turns, and 3.5% YOY cost savings. - Converted lower volume production lines to cellular layout for increased productivity and flexible capacity.

Cheraw, Sc

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

•Transitioned duties to new plant manager and drove continuous improvement in operation.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

•Managed P&L utilizing Value Stream Map, daily, weekly and monthly metrics.•Lead Continuous Improvement Efforts based on evaluation of value chain, quality management system data, strategic initiatives, and operational metrics.•Develpment, implementation/communications of vision and the plan to attain vision.•Elevated business units perception of quality. Shutdown a product line for 8 weeks to assure customer quality, added a quality manager to the staff, implemented a quality management system, Embraced / Engaged our most critical customers, defined quality standards and validated the quality management system data.•Doubled production of top line snare drums while increasing first pass yield from 10% to 86% taking a 26 week lead time with poor schedule conformance to "in stock". Progress allowed elimination of "seconds" quality product offering to improve brand image.•Reduced open orders byt 67%.•Direct reports included materials manager, quality manager, warehouse and production supervisors, product engineer, manufacturing engineer and human resource assistant.

Monroe, Nc

•Kiazen Promotions Officer, Annual Risk Assessment Business Continuity Planning with Insurance Representative, Capitol Budget, Supervision of Engineering and Maintenance Department, Subcontractors, Safety, Environmental Permitting and Waste Streams.•Direct reports included Product Engineer, two maintenance technicians and a utility operator. Successfully eliminated utility position through attrition during economic downturn.•Transitioned $5mm product line from sister company into Ludwig facility starting production on time and under budget attaining a 45% footprint reduction utilizing lean concepts.•Utilized phase gate system to introduce new mid-priced product line.•Reprogrammed robotic polish and buff cell (Equipment by Dan Technology De Antoni and Kawasaki Robotics) to optimize output and improve quality resulting in a 25% increase in Timpani production.•Researched OSHA Policies and Developed Site Specific Safety Policies, Documentation and Training Matrix.

Monroe, Nc

•Support of manufacturing and environmental compliance.•Drove out the use of trichloroethylene taking the facility from a Title V facility to a Small Quantity Generator. •Completed a competitive analysis on drum heads. Designed a low cost methodology to retool entire line allowing Ludwig drum heads to fit competitor’s drums reversing a downtrend in aftermarket sales.

Monroe, Nc

Justification and installation of 1.5mm facility improvements including pretreatment and powder coat system that doubled capacity and improved salt spray from 25 hours to 500 hours.

Monroe, Nc

Supervision and engineering support of automated forging cell (Eumuco Forging Equipment). Coordinated raw materials, tooling, labor, parts and PM. Tracked and analyzed downtime. Results: increased tooling life 30% and 88% increase in total productivity while adding a second and third shift.

Sumter, South Carolina Area

Responsible for the operation and engineering support of twenty five hourly associates, two product lines. (1500 SKUs and 4mm in sales).Formed Lean product cells with Kanban supply that cut lead time by 75% and generated 150k in additional cost reductions.

Sumter, South Carolina Area

Responsibilies included development of employee teams, tool and fixture design, capitol equipment justification / installation, process improvement, product evaluations and providing support to manufacturing process.

Earlysville, Va And Sumter, Sc

Four assignments with different areas of responsibility engrained a basic knowledge and respect for the various systems that must work in harmony for a successful manufacturing process.Project Engineer in Material Group of Crouse Hinds Earlysville VA Plant, Stockroom Supervisor (union environment) Earlysville VA Plant, Manufacturing Engineer in Cooper HandTools Sumter SC Plant, Quality Control Engineer in Cooper HandTools Sumter SC Plant.

Various Northeastern Indiana

Prior to attaining degree.Series of progressive assignments as part of an engineering training program.Positions included; Stockroom attendant, Machine assembly (injection molding), Manual drafting, Computer aided drafting, (ACAD), Design engineering tech (custom machinery group), Engineering group (support of five area manufacturing facilities).

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Engineering

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Bachelor Of Science, Industrial Engineering

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