Miles Brown Email & Phone Number

Santa Rosa, CA, US

California, United States

As a manufacturing and software implementation consultant I am leading the team to build configurators and steamline processes. We use data from a largely varied set of customer selections to automate ERP inputs, CAD modelling, and sales systems, thus reducing quote to manufacturing turn around. This process also reduces errors through standardization of.

Santa Rosa, California, United States

• Designing Commercial Kitchens and Food Manufacturing facilities. Meshing customer requirements with appropriate products, building & health codes.
• Designing kitchens with CAD and industry specific software. (AutoQuotes, KCL)
• Coordinating Planned Foodservice Utility drawings with Architectural, mechanical Engineering, and General contractors. (HVAC, Gas, Water, Electric)
• Guiding projects through local health and building departments. Reviewing and addressing Plan check comments and approvals.
• Performing Site surveys and On-site customer meetings

Petaluma, California, United States

• Responsible for managing an 11-person team consisting of Toolmakers, Drafters, and Tooling Engineers to maintain a fleet of ~500 plastic injection molds; roughly $50 Million in assets. My department supports operations.
• Created system to identify at risk molds and immediately inform production floor to have them quarantined
• Directed team resources to reduce past due mold preventive maintenance by 60% and Reduced down-cavitation in active mold fleet from ~9% to 5%
• Writing new SOPs to document deviations for ISO compliance reducing future risk.
• Collaborated with site finance officer to create and track department budget Identified underspent categories in toolroom, submitted new budget plan for department ($1.5-2M)
• Implemented department component inventory management system and Rev control for documentation

Santa Rosa, California

• Drafting and Design Support for Commercial Kitchens and Food Manufacturing Facilities.
• Drafting plans
• Equipment schedules - Mechanical Electrical planning
• Health & Building Code Enforcement

Santa Rosa, CA

• Epicor CPQ (KBMax) is a complete solution for automation of mass customization manufacturing. this tool helps to take user selections from a CPQ module and automatically output them into necessary sales, engineering.
• Worked with teams to analyze, create and implement custom tailored CPQ software decreasing engineering design time. communicating between Developers and customers to craft proper solutions
• Responsible for the automation of 3D CAD models, sales documentation, and Database deployment.
• Managed implementation, customer support, and software unit testing.
• Reduced sales to shipping throughput from Weeks to minutes across four different companies and industries

Richmond, California, United States

• Engineering support for crude oil distillation and Refinery operations on site at Chevron refinery.
• Maintenance for large boilers supplying Superheated steam to Refinery operations
• Maintenance of Cogen facilities for Power and steam
• Pipeline maintenance

Paso Robles, CA

• Paris Precision is a sheet metal manufacturer that services many different industries including: Medical, Aerospace, Manufacturing, and Entertainent. Paris has a wide variety of in-house processes making them a.
• Used value stream maps to effectively communicate bottlenecks to management while creating technical instruction manuals to support production. Also, determined, lead-times, takt times, and plant capacity.
• Working with management to implement more accurate cost collecting methods. Analyzing overhead, labor, material costs to help determine our standards for quoting and business profitability
• Responsible for creating and maintaining: BOM’s, master routers, work orders, costing settings
• Developed work cells for specific customers for larger volume projects; optimized an assembly line for a medical optics chassis.
• Interpreting customer drawings and specs while communicating requirements to manufacturing