Mark Zapatka Email & Phone Number

Garden Grove, CA, US

Evans Manufacturing specializes in plastic products for the promotional products industry in categories including Healthcare, Household, Drinkware, Writing Instruments, Pet, Office, Tech, Travel, Auto, Outdoor and more.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Happier Camper is an innovative designer and fabricator of fully customizable vintage ultra-light travel trailers that you can tow with a car. The flexible Adaptiv(TM) system enables users to customize their.
• Initiated and executed a manufacturing capacity expansion (50%+) within the first 3 months
• Pivoted from HC1 product line over to a totally brand new product (Studios) within a 3 month period

Santa Fe Springs, California, US

• LeFiell Manufacturing fabricates precision tubular products for aerospace customers (ex. Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, Aerojet Rocketdyne) via their engine shaft, structural components and rocket tubing business units. In.
• Responsibility for manufacturing and facilities, navigating through Covid impact to business

Irvine, CA, US

• $2B public corporation that is the worldwide leader in technology solutions utilizing instruments, subsystems and process control solutions to enable customers to measure, control, power, monitor and analyze critical.
• Responsibility for 4 product lines (P&L-$100M+) and 1 cost center (CNC Machine Shop).
• Project Manager for moving largest department to Nogales Mexico

El Segundo, California, US

• $100M Privately held corporation, with 400+ employees worldwide, that is the worldwide leader in the manufacture and repair of ULDs (Unit Loading Devices) used in the air cargo industry, servicing: Fed Ex, UPS, DHL.
• Added capacity to fulfill largest sales in 49 year history. 2nd shift implementation, 45 persons hired/xfer (23%).
• Safety program and bilingual merit based performance evaluation process implementation.
• Created new fabrication capacity at one of the satellite sites, giving the corporation redundant capacity capabilities.

North Hollywood, CA, US

• A PCC company that provides components and assemblies to the aerospace & defense industry. Core competencies are sheet metal forming, complex machining, assemblies and processing, serving industry key players such as.
• Initiate hiring and training of additional resources (20%) to meet needs of ramp-up and recovery effort.
• Drive VC/ESH down by over 12% and increase productivity by over 7%, within the first 2 quarters.

• $250M privately held corporation, with 800+ employees worldwide, that is a global manufacturer of composite structures and panels, servicing the aerospace industry. Director of Operations – Panels & Laminates.
• Executed multi-shift expansion plan to generate capacity to successfully take on new business (>10% of sales).
• Implemented metrics system to target On-time Delivery(>97%), Scrap(<0.5%) and Labor Productivity(>100%) goals.
• Initiated direct labor consolidation (17%) which led to more than doubling the results of Gross margin as % of sales.
• Helped create training curriculum to develop leads and supervisors to enable doubling size of corporation in 5 years.

$150M+ privately held, 500+ employees worldwide, global plumbing products (metal fabrication & injection molded plastics).Responsible for Manufacturing, Engineering, Maintenance and Facilities, reporting to Executive VP. Developed and implemented a Lean Manufacturing strategy that placed nearly 1/3 of the CT based employees into actual Kaizen events in the.

• $35M division (largest) of a $90M, 500 employee, global corporation that is an employee-owned (ESOP) manufacturer of reflective film safety products (Top 15 Small Companies for 2007 - Wall Street Journal).Responsible.
• Developed operators so that the percentage reaching the highest skill level went from 16% to 66%.
• Visited top customer base (20+ customers within a year) on manufacturing “roadshow” initiative to support sales.
• Directed offshore outsourcing activities on low margin product in excess of $1.5M that resulted in margin improvement and acquisition of additional sales exceeding $750,000.

• Product ManagerImplemented mechanisms to maintain control of $4M budget, led staff of 8 (management) and 80+ (hourly) personnel in shaping and finishing operations to supply assembly of all product lines, coordinated.
• Reduced space utilization by over 70% with new factory layout configuration.
• Implementation of special Model ’94 Centennial Rifle program (1,000 Hi-grade & 5,000 standard units).
• Improved finishing lead times (bottleneck) through eliminating transportation and quicker drying process.

• Production Planner, Finishing Supervisor, Process Improvement ManagerSchedule production for plant wide operations, design and lead employee involvement programs, work closely with Quality Control to monitor and.
• 48% set-up reduction in external elements alone (chipboard press/diecut process).
• Implemented new process for printing/cutting press die modifications that increased throughput and reduced space requirements by over 40%.
• Led printing team to identify process improvements leading to scrap reduction, improved throughput and quicker offset press plate turnaround.

Dublin 2, IE

• JIT Projects – managed projects incorporating: set-up reduction, cellular design, kanban systems, reductions in inventory, lead times, work-in-process and space requirements, product oriented sub-plants. Instructional.
• Inventory and lead times cut by 75%, Work-in-process slashed by 60%.
• Customer service level (on-time deliveries) went from 65% to over 90%.
• Reduced labor requirements by 24%.

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