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Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

I oversee the planning and execution of electrical maintenance, predictive maintenance (PdM), PLC automation control, and software programming for two mines that together produce up to 50M tons of coal annually. The electrical planners, engineers, electricians, and PdM techs report through me. My responsibilities include personnel and contractor management, manpower planning, discipline, training/employee development, task planning, budgeting, MSHA/NEC/NFPA regulatory compliance, technical consultation, software development, report development, data analysis, and project management.• Responsible for approximately $5M maintenance and repair budget that consistently performs within 0.5%.• Reduced total electrical MSHA citations per year by 43.5% – from 23 in 2010 to 13 in 2011 and 12 in 2012.• Directed 7.5MVA substation upgrade with 0 safety incidents, 0 citations, < 15 hours downtime, and 40% under budget.• Manage electrical apprenticeship program to ensure technical staffing in response to retiring workforce.• Championed Oracle R12 Training for 100+ users with various authority limits and user profiles in transition from SAP.

London, Greater London, Gb

• Led site reliability team of six people in RCFA, FMECA, NDT, data-based research, and projects.• Developed programs to institute thermography, ultrasonic emission, basic vibration, and lubrication practices in routine routes and failure analysis.• Assisted in contract reviews and negotiations for fuel and major component service agreements.• Analyzed data and developed new metrics for leading indicators of key performance indicators.• Identified a correlation with three-month lead-time between identification of repair tasks and equipment utilization.• Represented three site Maintenance Departments in Ellipse 6.3 Technical Upgrade, redesigning forms and data access.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Assisted in producing maintenance budgets up to $120M for three separate mining sites.• Responsible for the development of reporting documents used across sites.• Led efforts to align site reliability teams.• Championed cross-site communication and integration of failure modes, reducing analysis time by three months.

• Responsible for managing all maintenance Work Management performance for the site, including detailed analysis and communication of KPIs. • Led improvements of 8% in scheduled work, schedule compliance, and in planning accuracy. • Assisted in site leadership, plan communication improvements, and preparation for data transition from Ellipse to SAP. • Developed complex and encompassing planning tools for effective management of planned work using VBA and SQL to query data from Ellipse CMMS. • Improved communications and formal reporting across departments to realistic and actionable plans and to assist in reducing reoccurring mistakes and wasted efforts.• Facilitated planning activities for maintenance projects up to $1M using Kepner-Trego methods of Project Management.

• Supervised up to four functional areas and as many as 15 direct reports in the maintenance department. • Responsible for capital requests on a variety of equipment and materials.• Managed projects for HVAC improvements, building additions, buildings and ground improvements, equipment installations, allocation of light vehicles and support equipment across the mine site.• Led Hydrocarbon Excellence Team (HXT) and championed Hydrocarbon Management (HCM) implementation efforts.• Provided leadership for and assisted in data collection and interpretation for Defect Elimination teams consisting of up to 10 members from multiple departments.• Participated in Improving Performance Together (IPT) solution implementation.• Planned and Scheduled work orders through Ellipse for two of six primary workgroups.• Managed specification, purchase, and commissioning of new $250k lube trucks, improving functions in each generation.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Owned and managed technical power supply designs involving extensive supplier relationships.• Assembled and led multi-functional teams of two to ten people to resolve development problems.• Drove engineering changes in faulty designs to improve component selection and manufacturing processes.• Managed new designs and engineering changes in four generations of products to expand product features, regulate worldwide warranty impacts, reduce costs through supplier selection, and increase supplier quality.• Established on-line documentation procedure to eliminate hardcopies of documented test results.• Developed specifications for and performed detailed reviews of power supply designs.• Created schematics for System Power Control Network (SPCN) and control panel hardware.

Mba, Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering

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