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Aurora, Illinois, United States

Director of Operations for the production division of Control Solutions LLC.

Aurora, Illinois, United States

Aurora, Illinois, United States

Oversee daily receiving, warehouse, inventory control, and shipping responsibilities.

Aurora, Illinois, United States

Plano, Il

• Successfully overseeing sales and customer service for the entire North American market, increasing sales by 30% by expanding visibility to new regions.• Streamlining the quoting process, making it faster and more efficient with upgraded inventory and pricing spreadsheets, while also developing a sales quoting system that cut down quoting time by over 25%.• Created construction equipment and highway truck parts product guides and model breakdowns to increase product information flow to the Sales teams, the Inventory team, and for use as marketing materials distributed to customers.• Drove marketing campaigns that were designed to inform people about the new product availability, as well as built relationships with nearly 100 new customers to create avenues to sell the product in Canada and the Central and South America regions.• Promoted company marketing and incentive programs by informing dealers of the cost/benefit associated with participation, while identifying weak market segments and providing dealers and company management with specific action plans to improve sales.• Overseeing product development operations, ensuring that every phase of each particular project proceeded as scheduled and made adjustments to the development plan whenever the current idea was not working well.• Determining the process for creating a new item, and created a prototype of a new product in order to iron out flaws in the final design, while also gathering the raw materials necessary to build or create the product being developed.• Presenting new ideas to corporate executives in order to gain permission to develop product lines, and developing product information breakdowns of 4 major product groups which help the Sales team streamline information to customers.• Helping to launch the Highway Truck Parts division by creating information guides and marketing material for the sales teams, as well as providing and modeling breakdowns for inventory and customer reference.

Montgomery, Il

• Oversaw daily operations of the Loader Assembly operations and managing 50-60 employees who accounted for 60-70% of the company's total production.• Efficiently conducted daily 1:1 meeting with the Production team to cover production metrics, quality control issues, and goal expectations, and maintained near 100% of production and delivery goals, unmatched by any competitors and often surpassing Caterpillar’s targets.• Directed the Cleanliness & Contamination team that received a rare 5-star rating for the facility, which only 5 facilities in the entire worldwide network received at that time, while supervising a team that had 3.5+ years without a recorded safety incident by ensuring discipline and attention.• Seamlessly and successfully headed the Transition team in absorbing a competitor's work, with no training or instruction from the previous supplier, by utilizing company processes and reverse engineering the competitors’ products, producing assembly aids, and implementing quality procedures.• Served as a key player in helping the company secure the role of sole independent third-party assembler of over 100 different product types across 15 different product lines, for the entire Caterpillar Aurora facility, due to impeccable production, delivery, quality, and safety records.• Received a promotion to Head Production Supervisor & Facility Manager in August 2012, and led the entire manufacturing operations, maintaining a 100% production/delivery record, without any reduction to quality index level during a transition period with makeshift crews and layoffs.• Expertly spotted issues in efficiency, productivity, or profitability, generating reports on performance and progress and suggesting improvements, as well as implemented cost-saving strategies and techniques, saving the company $100K per quarter.

Montgomery, Il

• Effectively controlled quality production of all assembly divisions, implementing new programs that boosted already high levels, raising quality control metrics to the highest level the company had ever achieved, while bringing down defect write-ups by over 25%.

Montgomery, Il

• Facilitated the initial set-up of the Wheel Loader production areas and designing visual assembly aids for 75+ modules within the Loader operations, essential as training tools, reference guides, and quality control tools.• Seamlessly took on new work, including training and cross-training Assemblers, increasing quality numbers and work, while growing the division to generate the company's highest production volume.