Responsible for day-to-day operations of a remote Bridgestone airless tire facility.• Developed and enforced operating and quality procedures to ensure product consistency and customer safety. • Integrated 3D printing into the prototyping design and development process, resulting in better visualization of the product, reducing iterations and design time.• Assisted licensing partner to scale up for lawn mower tires by:• Traveling to the Atlanta GA plant to teach the technology and train employees.• Transfer of technology for design and manufacturing of NPT.• Designing tooling and layout for initial OEM product release in 2020 of 10,000 tire order.• Created innovative design for three patents and assisted with design of another.

Developed new concepts, tooling and processes to manufacture non-pneumatic tires.• Planned the facility layout at initial set up of a 10,000 sq. ft. facility to include:• Complete materials laboratory, rubber compounding lab.• Tire test dyno room.• Tire building lab and pilot production plant. • Served as an integral part of developing non-pneumatic tire technology:• Traveled to many tire companies to learn the needed skills.• Completed a technician course to learn rubber compound development. • Created innovative design – three patents with Resilient Technologies; the results of these patents locked in proprietary ideas related to non-pneumatic tire technology developed at this company thereby preserving the intellectual property.

Plant Manager of Powder Coating Manufacturer PlantResponsible for all facets of the plant including grounds, production, safety and environmental regulation.• Produced 25 million lbs. powder annually with sales of $50M.• Brought company into compliance for ISO 9001 certification.• Designed improvements to grinding system to increase throughput by 200%.• Assisted with set up and startup of the original 40,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant. • Supervised the building and installation of a new 250,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant: o Moved entire production line in 7 days from shut down to start up.• Insured compliance of safety and environmental regulations by implementing and enforcing established policies.• Directed project to install a large grinding system to increase plant output by 50%.• Initiated and implemented conversion to twin screw extruder technology to improve quality and throughput of the production lines, resulting in an increase in revenue of $2M annually. • Implemented a small batch cell for producing highly profitable small quantities of powder coating.• Supported daily operations of three shifts with three production lines. • Implemented lean manufacturing and 5S techniques to improve production efficiency and reduce downtime between batches, resulting in improved revenue.