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Naples, Florida, United States

Naples, Florida

As Operations Excellence Manager responsible and accountable for:· Engaging senior leadership proposing new techniques and methodologies aimed at driving additional value to internal and external customers.· Implementation of Lean and Six Sigma principles across all business, shop-floor and new product development processes. · Develop, plan and execute strategic and tactical changes to improve operational efficiency and transform business practices.

Greater Atlanta Area

As Manager of Distribution directs all domestic/international operations and accountable for: · Tactical and strategic direction of largest distribution center and hub in network. Direct management of 85+ employees across the disciplines of engineering, quality and facility management. Develop and execute viable financial plans while exceeding expectations for service. · Implementation of lean principals and flow to optimize distribution processes with the purpose of improving process throughput, reducing operator fatigue, improving process stability and reliability. · Direct support of sales and front-facing business units via improving the customer experience. Implemented changes to improve internal and external customer satisfaction through reduction of quality issues, significant improvement in service-level. Created strategic relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to reduce transit times and standardize processes.· Working directly with Senior Management team to design and deliver a modernized global distribution network focused not only on being fast and cost effective, but scalable and flexible to meet future needs.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

As Factory Manager responsible and accountable for:· Planning, constructing and execution of factory-level budgets, to include Capital Acquisition Requests. Ensuring that factory functioned "in the black" in all operations. Directed 63 employees comprised 4 teams with a total of 9 engineers, 4 indirect and 50 direct labor members.· Supervision and alignment of diverse teams consisting of Project Managers, Junior- and Senior- level engineering resources and direct labor to deliver factory objectives. Established KPIs to monitor output and implement factory-level process changes to improve performance against KPIs. · Directed cost savings efforts to reduce bottom line costs. Worked through engineering resources implement lean-sigma techniques to reduce inefficiencies, free capacity and improve overall factory efficiency.· Implemented team building meetings to improve overall morale and establish rapport with all factory engineering resources. Added stretch targets in new technology areas to push teams to think outside of the box.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

As Senior Engineer, fine tuned project, personnel and financial management techniques:· Directed corporate-level re-patriation activities and significant cost savings projects. Directed multi-discipline teams involving facility construction initiatives as well as technology development for process improvements. · Established project plans and project budgets to monitor and deliver project financial targets. Focused on personnel resource management and elimination of project buffers to reduce cost and delivery times. · Continued to focus on technical development and implementation of technology. Authored two technical white-papers and developed new equipment to improve operator efficiency and safety. Functioned as subject matter expert for internal and external regulatory agency audits.· Mentored and trained junior engineers and engineering resources. Specifically worked to provide awareness on conducting proper testing, analysis through use of the scientific method and writing effective validation and verifications.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

As Manufacturing Engineer, functioned in various engineering roles (Engineer I-Engineer II) over a variety of focus factories. · Utilized experience gained in R&D and Technical Service in previous role to promote rational decision making, scientific method and project leadership to deliver on small and large-scale engineering projects. · Focused on team-building, technical knowledge and basic project management to establish rapport between groups and with upper management. · Delivered significant improvements in various processes to reduce cost and improve user experience using. Implementation of improvements through verification and validation to establish stability and reliability of new processes.

Greater New York City Area

As Senior Chemist was accountable for and focused on the following:· Specialty polymer creation, design and development through commercialization as part of an integrated development team. · Direct customer technical support for adhesive and adhesive technology systems. · Chemical and process safety point person for focused adhesive development team. · Internal collaboration with technical service, sales and internal chemists and scientist to deliver solutions for automotive and RV industries.· Laboratory work related to chemical properties, performance and application testing.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Golden Key National Honor Society American Chemical Society

Engineering/Industrial Management

Chemistry And Nuclear Engineering