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Canton, Ohio, United States

Canton, Ohio, United States

Management of multiple traction power projects ($40M).• Communicating with engineering, purchasing, production, QA, logistics, and field service teams the information on the contractual deliverables to maintain schedules throughout the project until customer acceptance.• Fulfill customer expectations within scope of contract documents.• Risk assessment to determine area(s) of focus for mitigation or contingency plan opportunities.• Multi-department awareness as ultimately responsible for project budgets and forecast, margin, schedule of values, change proposals/contract modifications, and closeout.

Electrical Division - North Canton, Oh

Project Manager • Simultaneously managed projects ($3-18M) from Sales kick-off thru stages of engineering, customer approval, manufacturing, testing, and commissioning to final closeout phase within budget and per the milestone dates. Main point of contact for the customer, sub-vendors and internally throughout project life cycle. • Utilization of the contract documents to establish schedule milestones communicated internally and externally via project meetings, monthly reports, and scheduling software.• Assessment of scope creep to negate the risk of margin erosion or negotiated a contract change proposal to adjust contract amount/milestones dates. Accountable for margin forecasting and adjustments.• Written and verbal communication internally/externally on the overall health of the project. Analysis of risk areas with proactive determination of actions for focus, mitigation and/or contingency planning. The assignment and accountability of team members for those tasks. • Project creation/maintenance of Schedule of Values, milestone invoicing, collections, monthly reports, and day to day responsibilities. Communicate tasks to project coordinators. Project Manager – Small Projects• Simultaneously managed short-term projects (25-30) from order entry through shipment (avg. total volume: $6-10M). Achieved a 95% on time delivery rate though coordination with Engineers, Procurement, and the Production department to ensure schedule dates were met or created a plan for realignment. Production Planner• Temporarily stepped up to alleviate manufacturing bottleneck by learning the process to release the switch product line BOM’s to fabrication. Engineering Administrator; Administrator• Re-entered main stream work force. Responsibilities included tasks for the HR, Engineering, Field Service and Purchasing mgrs. Interfaced with Sales department on switch projects.

Uniontown, Oh

• Website maintenance, Associate Publisher and Post Production Editor of daily video podcast; brainstorming and implementing marketing campaigns to promote book releases; copyright filing. Software use: Camtasia, Photoshop, Outlook, Excel, HTML

Akron, Oh

• Senior Manager of sportswear department ($3M+ annual sales) and manager of 23 team employees. • Executed buying functions to meet or exceed sales and gross profit goals while maintaining inventory allowance levels. • Analyzed sales based on real time data to adjust estimates to current trends to maximize on sales and profit.

Associate Of Business Management

Associate Of Marketing And Sales Technology