• Lead a team of 5-20 technical employees (wage and salary) to maintain the cycle and quality of more than 30 pieces of production equipment. • Employee Engagement improved from under 50% to over 85% in the first year in role and maintained since (measured with company standard employee engagement index). • Responsible for delivering Scrap and Right First Time results for the tire building shop (continuous improvement, DMAIC)• Developed an electronic system to eliminate the need for paper based quality instructions, resulting in a drastic reduction in the time and effort required to maintain quality documentation in the shop. Documents are now served to over 100 PCs and Thin-clients on the shop floor (ColdFusion, PDF)• Apply root cause techniques to treat equipment and quality failures• Developed a production planing system to dynamically calculate required shiftily production rates by part number based on current inventory and anticipated demand. Including algorithms to treat machine recovery and overstock (SQLDeveloper, ColdFusion).

• Managed all operational aspects of a material delivery unit with over 40 non-unionized employees, including human resource functions. • Implemented systems to track product age and to locate missing products resulting in a 97% reduction in product non-conformities due to ageing.• Developed an inventory system to assist the operators in identifying storage locations for more than 100 different rework items.• Reduced backlog of rework product from 250 Ton to 175 Ton• Managed a budget of over $3M including tooling, materials, and wages

• Supervised ~ 225 non-union production workers on rotating 12 hour shifts.• Responsible for safety, quality and production on a shiftly basis.• Prioritized equipment breakdowns to ensure minimal impact on internal and external customers• Improved uniformity of inventory by strategically relocating workforce away from high stock equipment and developing recovery plans after equipment failures.• More than 75% of shift saw an improvement in quality of inventory.

• Responsible for tooling design, maintenance co-ordination, and process optimization on a Troester triplex co-extruder (tire tread line).• Work daily with non-union machine operators and management to work through machine issues and guarantee delivery of quality product to our customer.• Close interaction with quality definitions group to quickly assess and ratify any quality concerns that may arise.• Developed tooling to assist in industrializing new rubber compounds and tire designs for the central R&D group.• Took the initiative to create various web based applications to improve communication and productivity within the department• Provide support and upgrades for several existing database applications used in the shop, and developed several new databases to streamline processes.