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Russellville, Alabama

Muscle Shoals, Al

• Work with core team members to assess and align customer feedback to improve product development.• Develop and maintain lines of communication between customers, NAL departments, outside vendors, and upper management to achieve milestone dates.• Management team member to resolve customer quality issues.• Assembly equipment maturation from design concept, vendor selection, and delivery to production start-up.• Implement new tools, processes and systems to improve assembly equipment development capabilities.• Provide significant project management, cross-functional acumen, and lead internal team members during lamp development.• Participate in Kaizen and Yoketan improvement events.• Advise on DFMEA’s and PFMEA’s on new products launches.• Research new methods, technology, and equipment changes to enhance our assembly production process.

Directing and coordinating, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools, and equipment .Implementing a new Total Preventative Maintenance Program to reduce machine downtime and increase production. Developing teamwork among maintenance personnel, department supervisors, and machine operators.Consulting with plant management, engineering, and quality control personnel to resolve maintenance problems and recommend measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment.

Coordinated machine improvements with other departments. Analyze electrical equipment and procedures to decrease labor cost, equipment lead times, and engineering time. Implemented new PLC design that reduced material cost and man-hours by 25% per machine.Standardized procedures, drawings, and equipment to increase productivity in many areas of the electrical department. Research new electrical equipment and devise new ideas to improve the overall machine design.Solved problems that arise in machine production or at customer's facility. Schedule electrical equipment shipments and drawings to guarantee timely delivery of each machine.

Oversaw multiple projects ranging from $100K to $1M. Analyze project specifications and budgets to execute projects that are in budgetary compliance and on schedule. Streamlined our company procedure that reduces engineering time by 25%.Supervised all phases of a project including submission and approval of security equipment, correspondence with architects and general contractors, shop production, lab testing, and devise field installation.Executed project objectives to ensure our company delivered a product that satisfied customer specifications, electrical codes, and building regulations.

Communicated the needs and problems of the customer to service techs and mechanics to solve customer's problems.Provided customer service in a fast paced service industry.Analyzed each customer's needs and problems by effectively communicating to the customer the correct solution in a timely matter.

Updated facility floor plans that covered over 1M square feet. Developed computerized netting charts to provide faster and accurate quotes to the sales department.Provided cost quotes for netting products to the sales department. Update daily reports of labor cost of production to department manager. Conducted motion time studies in the packaging department. Assisted in the calculations of the daily labor reports and the costing of netting products.

Associate Degree, Electronics

Bachelors Degree, Manufacturing Technology

Associate Degree, Drafting