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Brethren, Mi

Purchase land, equipment, livestock, train additional staff and all other duties to grow young business. • Instantly successful grass-fed beef cattle business uses only sustainable farming methods in the Manistee National Forrest.

Peoria, Illinois Area

Created, organized and developed instruction methods for the company's Scheduler/Planner and Site Manager classes. Subjects included Safety, Word, Excel, and basic Outlook usage. • Enthusiastically shouldered innovative training of Site Managers. Graduated a record of Site Managers with 17 graduates and doubled retention rate in the first year. Prior extreme turnover for position was eroding morale, deliveries and customer service. Seen as the most difficult training by senior management. Rewrote curriculum to reflect real-world scenarios, like safety and contractor relations.

Peoria, Illinois Area

Responsible for the operational, financial and safety performance of ATS teams in six sites across diverse manufacturing sectors and geographic locations, with revenue totaling over $15-million. Managed relationships with key stakeholders including senior operations leadership both at ATS and customer locations.• Consistently surpassed revenue goals in 11 quarters. Also, reached the highest level of customer satisfaction. This was achieved by monthly customer metric revue meetings and proving through performance like downtime reduction that management was effective. • Steadily produced 100% contract renewal during challenging business conditions. Would quickly adapt to the customers needs and budgets while accounting for the effects of the major world wide business down turn that all parties had to endure. • More than doubled revenue in the first year of an auto parts supplier. By proactively expanding services not in original contract like technician work and Human Resources for direct hiring, the client was able to meet orders from the “Big Three” automakers when it wasn’t possible before. This success led to an upgrading of the contract that brought $7-million in revenue in 6 months, when only $3-million was expected. • Deftly provided technical expertise to support the creation of four new startups in three different states. Worked with the Sales Executive to ascertain client needs for the extremely sensitive period when a start-up is born.• Praised by management for enthusiastically mentoring and supervising 6 subordinate Site Managers. Developed talent by goal setting and training in Human Resources, customer service and workplace safety with monthly site visits, meetings and phone calls. Site Managers had to be very independent for they were essentially running a business within a business.

Jackson, Mi - Macomb, Il - Peoria Il

Responsible for running a business within the customer’s business. Typically contracted to run production maintenance, facilities maintenance and introduce Safety, Lean and RCM concepts to customers. Requires a great deal of daily customer and employee interaction. Plus, hiring and managing all programs within the business. • Dramatically reduced savings by $500,000 and critical downtime from 200 hours-a-month to five hours-a-month This was accomplished by reducing maintenance avoidable downtime and rationalizing and reducing parts to lower inventory.• Innovative efforts in first year increased preventive maintenance for manufacturing plant client from 2% of man hours to 35%, reduced preventable machine downtime by 48% and achieved corporate Profit & Loss and performance metrics for the first time in 6 years. Promoted to Area Manager after 14 months as a result of client’s happiness. • Always exceeded metric goals set by clients. Accountable for innovatively managing the entire customer relationship, often in challenging and dynamic circumstances. • Eagerly shouldered both a Site Management position and the extra duties of managing a separate P&L team. Management’s satisfaction led to promotion Area Service Manager. This unique position required excellent communication and leadership skills as well as a deep understanding of 6 Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, as well as planning and scheduling.

Central And Southeast Wisonsin

Installed, Repaired, performed preventive maintenance on Liebert (now Emerson) Uninterruptible Power Supplies used in IT applications. Worked independently in an area covering South East Wisconsin to include the Milwaukee metro area. I was responsible for scheduling all my own work and all customer relations with my clients.

Various positions in a military environment to include multimillion-dollar budget responsibilities, maintenance responsibilities for up to 12 Naval Aircraft and the 150 skilled trades people maintaining them. Responsible for the leadership and mentoring of up to 1130 young sailors at one time in a training environment. Held multiple instructor posts and achieved Master Training Specialist certification. Multiple overseas deployments and postings. Trained as Avionics Technician as main skill during diverse and challenging career.