John Ivey Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Greater Pittsburgh Region

Work with the FactoryXT team and vendor partners to build solutions and technology offerings which enable manufacturing customers to connect their plant floor operations technology (OT) to their enterprise information technology (IT) systems. This convergence of IT and OT is critical to ensure clients in the manufacturing industry can meet the challenges of today and the future.• Build and collaborate on compelling software demos and presentations.• Participate in customer discovery meetings.• Provide experience, guidance, and input for application ideas and solutions. • Facilitate successful project execution by ensuring a seamless handover to delivery providers.

Led, managed, designed, and executed all aspects of the product development and release process. Managed development teams and stakeholders to achieve development milestones and customer success. Defined, coordinated, and led the involvement of remote and contract engineering teams. * Managed, executed, and tracked development tasks and project timelines.* Led, coordinated, and supported 50+ remote contract engineers on multiple projects.* Conducted reviews, coordinated technical resources, and ensured resolution of issues.* Drove communication efforts among relevant stakeholder groups to influence and define design guidelines and best practices.

Managed development teams and stakeholders to achieve development milestones and customer success. Defined, coordinated, and led the involvement of remote and contract engineering teams. * Coordinated technical resources and ensured resolution of issues.* Wrote and coordinated extensive product documentation.* Provided design guidance and experience to product design and planning sessions. * Established and maintained development / test lab and resources.* Wrote test plans and work packages for remote engineering contractors.

Led, designed, and executed the development of custom manufacturing information software solutions. Managed development teams and stakeholders to achieve development milestones and customer success. Contributed to proposal development and pre-sales activities.* Provided and coordinated timely, effective support for numerous customers and implementation sites around the world. Established and maintained collaborative relationships with partners, delivery personnel, account teams, and key customer contacts to ensure timely resolution of issues.* Led technical team to deliver an $800,000 scheduling and manufacturing execution system which integrated with SAP and improved manufacturing efficiency. Identified and documented customer requirements, established technical design, trained and directed development staff. Participated in system development, configuration, factory acceptance testing, and user training.* Designed, managed, and executed a $175,000 scheduling system implementation project which integrated with SAP. Developed and programmed sequencing logic for synchronizing complex assemblies. Enabled customer to improve lead times, reduce work-in-process inventory, and improve delivery performance. Secured $150,000 in additional projects with the customer.* Worked individually and on teams to develop custom scheduling and manufacturing execution systems for FDA-regulated medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Participated in system development and regression testing activities.

Twinsburg, Ohio, United States

Led the industrial engineering function. Designed plant layout, established manufacturing performance measurement systems; participated on an Enterprise Resource Planning software implementation team.* Led shop floor implementation of an ERP system that successfully replaced the old system one month before obsolescence. Established and documented system procedures; identified and resolved transition issues; trained shop floor personnel.* Saved 1,400 labor hours a year by simplifying the production entry process.* Led and participated on cross-functional Kaizen teams: developed new methods for tracking and reducing scrap; created innovative methods to display performance on key business metrics.

Rochester, New York, United States

Internal consultant. Identified and implemented manufacturing productivity improvements.* Refined plant layout for a new manufacturing facility in Ireland. Streamlined material flow and characterized differences in manufacturing strategies.* Led cross-functional problem solving teams. Developed solutions for streamlining delivery, locating new production lines, preventing quality problems, and analyzing computer network failures.* Saved a healthcare customer $425,000 annually with a large-scale simulation model and statistical data analysis. The results identified low cost operational improvements that cut cycle time by 40% and increased throughput by 20%.* Reduced loading dock material handling 50% and improved inventory accuracy 15% by conducting and implementing an integrated material flow improvement analysis. * Assisted in successful implementation of ISO 9002 certification program.