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Rochester, NY

• I remove obstacles to make everyone else's work easier and more enjoyable. Both in my professional and personal endeavors, I strive to adhere to the following core values.
• INTEGRITY: Behave in a manner that demonstrates respect, trust, and honesty. DO THE RIGHT THING!
• QUALITY: Take pride and continuously challenge standards. Deliver quality in everything to achieve superior results every time. DO THE THING RIGHT!
• SERVANT LEADERSHIP: Care for and meet the needs of others ahead… Show more I remove obstacles to make everyone else's work easier and more enjoyable. Both in my professional and personal endeavors, I strive to adhere.
• SERVANT LEADERSHIP: Care for and meet the needs of others ahead of oneself. Make a difference, work as a team, and have fun doing it. HOW CAN I HELP? Show less

Rochester, New York

Helping you do your thing better.Steadfast helps you do your thing better through an engineering approach to identify and remove bottlenecks from your current business processes.Steadfast takes an engineering approach to identify bottlenecks in your business and removes those obstacles.We dive deep into your operations, identify inefficiencies, and develop.

Rochester, New York Area

• Collect Voice of Customer to steer teams in developing custom solutions and robust business systems. Actively listen and capitalize on the specialized knowledge of each team member to identify obstacles and leverage.
• Amid… Show more Collect Voice of Customer to steer teams in developing custom solutions and robust business systems. Actively listen and capitalize on the specialized knowledge of each team member to identify obstacles.
• Amid the global pandemic, the critical need arose for the rapid deployment of vaccine manufacturing lines under the ‘Operation Warp Speed Rochester’ initiative. Taking the helm, I orchestrated a swift mobilization to.
• The lack of real-time performance data for executive decision-making posed a challenge. To bridge this gap, I developed integrated business intelligence systems and dashboards to track Key Performance Indicators.

Rochester, NY

• Directed the development of electromechanical systems in adherence with organizational goals and regulatory standards. Led cross-functional teams to achieve aggressive schedule and revenue targets for medical device.
• Challenged to identify a new market white space for bedside X-Ray imaging, led project to commercialize a revolutionary technology based lightweight mobile X-Ray system from multiple remote locations across the globe..
• Manage multi-million dollar portfolio of products and projects strategically aligned with business goals and worldwide market landscape. Utilize market intelligence data to analyze and identify gaps within the company.
• Technically savvy and able to discuss, understand, and make decisions regarding a wide array of engineering disciplines and complex technical issues. Drives teams to execute on tasks and deliverables. Develop a sense.

Webster, NY

• Managed multi-million dollar automation projects from concept to integration within Consumer Product, Healthcare, Automotive, and Energy industries, embodying a complete project lifecycle management approach..
• Managed fast track $7M project, where process development ran concurrently with design and build phases. Through regular risk assessments, potential pitfalls including critical path schedule items were identified and.
• Implemented a dashboard tool to instantly report project status including EAC vs. budgets by discipline, procurement activity, labor and material spend profile, burn rate, and resource monitoring which automatically.

Rochester, New York Area

• Coordinate and manage a department of professionals. Direct execution of concurrent multi-million dollar projects and energy conservation programs across multiple locations. Provide strategic oversight to space.
• Manage owned and leased 1,000,000 sq. ft. facility portfolio, maximizing existing footprint utilization while remaining flexible to adapt to changes in program awards and business fluctuations. Allocate and oversee $10.
• Business segment growing 250% required additional manufacturing space to support booked revenue. Facilitated definition and characterization of requirements with customer and, utilizing lean manufacturing techniques.
• Implemented project-planning system resulting in improved financial analysis and reporting to manage $4 million of additional capital, while reducing headcount. Created live project status allowing project managers to.
• Strategically define and analyze capital funding requests as well as generate business cases and financial justification to ensure every project executed adds value to the organization, and the investments are the best.

Henrietta, NY

• Directed a department of project managers and engineers across multiple divisions, overseeing the implementation of multi-million dollar industrial manufacturing automation systems. Involved in conceptual development.
• Implemented a project scheduling system, enhancing resource allocation to manage an additional $8.4 million revenue with less than a 50% staff increase, reducing annual overtime by $135K and improving delivery times.
• Reorganized historically underachieving engineering department, introducing skill-building and innovative practices, resulting in elevated customer satisfaction, market penetration, and sustained annual revenue.
• Led the design and development of the company's first standard product line, generating an additional revenue stream of over $1 million annually, balancing resource utilization during workload peaks.
• Created a customer tracking database that automated estimating and proposal development, reducing proposal development time from 6 hours to 30 minutes and order processing time from 2 hours to 15 minutes, promoting.

Victor, NY

• Developed an automated spreadsheet for generating bills of materials and 3D drawings, resulting in an annual cost reduction of $195K in engineering design and enabling automatic custom equipment pricing.
• Created an automated database to control job order flow, tracking, history, production planning, quoting, and automatic faxing of quote follow-ups, resulting in increased throughput of 15% with a consistent size.
• Launched a new equipment line, enhancing gross… Show more
• Launched a new equipment line, enhancing gross profit by 24.6% compared to the previous line, improving design quality, and reducing warranty claims, indicative of product innovation and profitability management. Show.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Addressed a major manufacturing bottleneck by developing a custom, adaptable fixture to run 70% of the products, increasing throughput by 17% and reducing inventory, showcasing problem-solving and process optimization.
• Identified and resolved a constraint in the finishing line by reallocating resources, achieving a sustainable 10% throughput increase, demonstrating resource management and operational efficiency.

Orchard Park, NY

• Developed a custom program to automate a 17 hour burn-in quality test on a military aircraft FLIR assembly, according to government specifications. The solution eliminated manual errors resulting in an increased.

Mba, Executive Program, Concentration In Finance, Economics, Strategy, 3.85 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma High Honor Society Among Top 10% in Class

Bs, Mechanical Engineering