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Palm Beach Gardens, Fl, Us

▪ Acting Plant Manager; manage all production and manufacturing functions of the Dental Business on the site, including capacity planning, production schedule, manufacturing engineering and new product introductions. The process includes a machine shop, secondary operations, and a packaging clean room. ▪ Directed 12 staff members and 180 hourly employees, and control budgets up to $36M. ▪ Developed, mentored and coached three new supervisors that were promoted internally. ▪ Improved the lean manufacturing daliy production boards and Tiers meetings that facilitated a 50% increase in the escalation of the production and quality issues in the shop floor. Supported the use of Power BI for the business KPIs. ▪ Initiated and supported cost reduction projects with savings of $3M over a 4-year period. Key projects were PSP New Layout and One-Piece Flow, Packaging Automation, Core BU Scrap Reduction, Packaging One-Piece Flow, New L-12 Lathes and several Kaizen events. ▪ Managed production and delivered on time two key new product introductions with 425K units of build-up for global customers and impact of 10% of the company sales. ▪

Palm Beach Gardens, Fl, Us

▪ Manage all production and engineering functions of the make to order Business Unit including the capacity planning analysis, production schedule and new products introductions.▪ Led and directed 11 staff members and 60 hourly employees, and control budgets up to $8.0M. ▪ Initiated and established regular meetings and service indicators with the Customer Service, Sales and Marketing Teams that enhanced the customer experience.▪ Developed and implemented programs that improved parts on-time delivery from 83% to over 98% while absorbing a 75% increase in volume by emphasizing the use of lean manufacturing and visual management tools. ▪ Increased production efficiencies by 18% through the implementation of a flexible workforce, operations standard work, and inspection reduction with savings of $300K.

Warsaw, Indiana, Us

▪ Manage all production and engineering functions of the Knee Business Unit and the Packaging (Sterile products) Business Unit.▪ Directed 15 staff members and 220 hourly employees, and controlled budgets up to $20M. ▪ Successfully planned and coordinated the production introduction of the new Persona knee with the built-up of 300K parts for global customers. This included the purchasing, installation and validation of process, machinery, packaging equipment and materials.▪ Established lean manufacturing and Six-Sigma activities using production boards, DMAIC, VSM, and Kaizens events that generated savings of $500K per year. ▪ Administrate capital equipment evaluation and purchasing, approximately $7M for the 2011 year.▪ Led the establishment of the machinery, equipment, and sterile processes of a new 16,000 sq. ft. sterile Packaging Area.

Warsaw, Indiana, Us

▪ Managed all production and engineering functions of the Knee Business Unit. ▪ Managed and directed 15 staff members and 125 hourly employees, and controlled budgets up to $12M. ▪ Managed the manufacturing activities and production schedule of the Knee Business Unit generating $15M in absorption per year.▪ Provided leadership and development of the Manufacturing and Engineering Staff.▪ Planned and coordinated the licensing and introduction of new products.▪ Established the 5S program and the Lean Manufacturing activities in the business unit.▪ Administrated capital equipment evaluation and purchasing, approximately $4M for the 2009 year.

Warsaw, Indiana, Us

▪ Managed all engineering functions, including new product transfers, manufacturing and packaging processes, facilities and utilities, maintenance activities, new constructions, and CNC machining programming. ▪ Supervised and directed 22 staff members and 25 hourly employees, and controlled budgets up to $12M. ▪ Team Leader of the CEP Integration process for ZMBV which consisted of eight product licensing projects that added 150 employees to the site. ▪ Successfully completed 10 Facilities/Utilities Projects with a total capital of $5.5M that included a new sterile product packaging clean room. ▪ Administrated capital equipment evaluation and purchasing, approximately $8M per year.▪ Evaluated and implemented cost effective manufacturing processes with cost savings of $1.4M per year. ▪ Site leader of the construction of a new 100K sq. ft. facility for manufacturing processes, office space, warehouse and additional space with $12M capital. Supported the equipment/processes commissioning, installations and validations.

Warsaw, Indiana, Us

▪ Provided engineering and technical support to the metallurgical and machining manufacturing cells. ▪ Participated in the KAIZEN events and lean manufacturing concepts.▪ Performed all processes and equipment validations.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

▪ Provided engineering and technical support to the wave solder manufacturing area.

Masters, Engineering Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering