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Huntington Beach, California

• Advanced, factory-trained champion providing advanced level troubleshooting services for defense, space, medical, and solar industries.
• Provide manufacturing solutions from prototype to high volume production needs.
• Design turnkey manual and automated production lines as well as installation,relocation, and decommissioning services.
• Redesign, modernize, and perform complex modifications and organize lead retrofitactivities to eliminate downtime due to obsoletion.
• Developed support solutions to improve overall customer equipment uptime to 95%by administering preventive (and predictive) maintenance programs.

El Segundo

• Supervised staff of 100 supporting Sales, Technical, Production, and Logistics.
• Sustained facility equipment and manufacturing support for 3 locations as well asspearheaded company-wide expansion, includes design and relocation efforts.
• Deployed operational and managerial restructure within 180 days, resulting 20%increase in workforce efficiency, 65% sales growth.
• Established KPI's, JIT inventory strategy, FIFO, and TPS Lean methodology tostreamline workflow, improving operations and manufacturing productivity.

Worldwide

• Provide domestic and international engineering and technical support for LTCC, Hybrid, and Solar Manufacturing.
• Factory trained Baccini equipment specialist proficient in troubleshooting key technical issues at component level.
• Perform complex retrofits and organize lead retrofit activities for Baccini automated and manual lines.
• Offer equipment startup and decommission services, spares business support and scheduled service business operations.
• Deliver Turnkey Production and Capacity expansion solutions for LTCC and Thick Film Hybrid Manufacturing.

Carlsbad, CA

• Directed daily operations with a staff of 20 to support multi-volume product lines including resource planning, capacity ramp-up, and line balancing efforts.
• Accountable for all facets of Environmental Health & Safety including HazMat and Waste Stream Management in compliance with Local, State, and Federal agencies.
• Instituted and sustained outside vendor contracts for manufacturing and facility support including HVAC, fire/security, mechanical/electrical, gas/chemicals, janitorial, grounds-keeping, and calibration services.
• Administered facility expansion, consolidating 5 independent operations, including plant design/construction based on facility load calculations and emissions.

Irvine, CA

• Provided engineering and facility support for National's LTCC manufacturing operation.
• Managed a staff of 8 full-time technicians over a 4-shift, 24/7 coverage.
• Coordinated and facilitated the 8” Automated Line Expansion including equipment design, procurement, and the production line transition from a manual 6" to an automated 8”configuration increasing overall capacity from.
• Developed CMMS equipment history database and performance tracking system increasing overall availability from 75% to 95% on $20.5M worth of capital equipment.
• Increased MRO inventory accuracy from 40% to 99% by developing and implementing an inventory control system.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Accountable for over $300.5M in capital equipment involving all phases of operation from procurement, installation, and process qualification of new systems to complex troubleshooting of existing equipment.
• Responsibilities included project management of fab expansion and plant closure activities, parts forecasting, preventive maintenance development, and supervision of all maintenance and vendor actions to continuously.
• Provided training, technical support, and prioritized daily maintenance requirements for an engineering staff of 30 technicians.
• Performed preventive troubleshooting in order to identify possible production, process, and equipment problems and to assert corrective actions in the most efficient manner.
• Increased overall efficiency by developing parts tracking system for all consumable and non-consumable inventories.

Newbury Park, CA

• Analyzed, evaluated, and resolved maintenance requirements and problems to ensure maximum performance levels and availability on high volume, state-of-the-art production and test equipment.
• Assisted Process, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering with equipment related problems to improve product yield production methods, product throughput time and better utilization of production and test equipment.
• Researched the selection and acceptance of new equipment by evaluating maintenance requirements and costs, including suggesting operating parameter and configuration changes.
• Significantly improved overall equipment availability from 67% to 90% by enhancing preventative maintenance methods for all Final Process production equipment.
• Developed and analyzed maintenance records and tracked equipment failures to identify equipment design or reliability problems and failure patterns.

Huntington Beach, CA

• Managed day-to-day operations for the Credit and Accounts Receivable departments.
• Supervised 5 full time employees including personnel growth, training, and development.
• Responsible for 5000 dealers nationwide with over $8 million in accounts receivable.
• Established credit lines, involving extension of credit for new and existing accounts in accordance with established company policies.
• Created new sales territory regions due to company growth and expanded department personnel from 2 to 5 employees.
• Developed and implemented new policies and procedures increasing overall efficiency within the company.

Santa Ana, CA

Responsibilities included management of newspaper circulation and carrier personnel, which consisted of training of new hires and continuous employee enhancement.