Paul Arends Email & Phone Number

Liberty, South Carolina, United States

Develop and implement the strategy of the Commercial Turbine business unit for Champion Aerospace. Champion is held by TransDigm Group. Day to day responsibilities include owning and managing the $200M P&L, developing customer relationships, working closely with Operations to ensure timely customer deliveries and issue resolution, optimizing processes, forecasting sales and bookings, and managing large OE Customers and distributors. Also responsible for annual planning, new product launches, and integration with customer engineering and operations.

Seneca, Sc, Minneapolis, Mn, United States, And Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Provided clients with program review, organizational design, business planning and financial modeling services.

Edmonton, Alberta

As a Principal with Stack’d Consulting, Paul led the Firm’s office start-up in Edmonton, Alberta. In addition to comparable responsibilities demonstrated in previous consulting positions, this role included a greater focus on:• Recruiting new team members and developing a strong team-based culture. • Collaborating with the Firm’s Senior Leadership to develop annual budgets, coordinating operations and staff budget.• Facilitating workshops and delivering presentations to senior-level client representatives, highlighting project findings and recommendations.• Gathering requirements, defining scopes, allocating resources and establishing schedules to meet or exceed project demands. • Collaborating with clients from concept through final delivery of project deliverables.• Overseeing multiple project teams and maintaining quality-minded schedules and deliverables, producing detailed and relevant client reports to support their future business decisions.• Applying business development expertise to generate sales opportunities.

Edmonton, Alberta

As a Senior Manager in MNP's consulting practice, Paul continued to expand my previous consulting project experience while strengthening my leadership and management skills. Key responsibilities in this role included:• Leading various consulting engagements and effectively managing project teams (engagements ranging from $25,000 to $500,000 in professional fees). Required strong organizational and project management skills, and the ability to efficiently work across projects simultaneously and manage competing priorities. • Managing a consulting team of six direct reports. Providing ongoing coaching and mentorship to junior staff. Striving to provide colleagues with proactive, constructive feedback on all aspects of their work. Mindfully creating an environment for continuous learning and personal/professional development. Acted as a performance coach for junior team members which included goal setting, regular feedback sessions and completion of mid/annual review forms.• Leading business development and marketing efforts such as proposal writing and participating in debriefing sessions with clients. Familiar with the client relationship management lifecycle from problem identification and scoping of work to project execution, delivery and close out. • Possess strong communication skills with the ability to produce clear and concise correspondence and reports. Ability to convey effective messaging to clients and stakeholders. Skilled interviewer with extensive facilitation experience. • Project experience includes business processes and performance improvement; economic impact assessments; financial modeling; program evaluation; project management; strategic planning and development; organizational design and change management; stakeholder engagement and management; performance measurement; governance and risk.

Edmonton, Alberta

Responsibilities included liaising with clients, targeting and responding to key RFPs, and coaching junior staff. Types of projects included: • Productivity / Process Improvement (e.g. Conducted a business process review of Alberta Advanced Education’s Apprenticeship and Industry Training group – focused specifically on optimizing resources, eliminating process and procedural redundancies, and capitalizing on high quality service.)• Infrastructure Advisory / Procurement and Business Case Development (e.g. Supported the City of Edmonton on its proposed $2.5B LRT project. This project included preparation of delivery option analysis and Business Case development. Also included project structuring (choosing the most efficient PPP method), risk assessment, PSC and shadow bid development, VFM assessment, market sounding, and the development of key commercial principles and payment mechanism.)• Sporting / Cultural Events (e.g. Developed a Business Plan for Edmonton’s bid for Expo 2017, specifically focusing on the financial components i.e. financial budget, economic impact analysis and cost benefit analysis. The PwC team was also responsible for the consolidation of the overall Business Plan, working closely in collaboration with the Expo Team and other consultants.)• Sustainability Reporting / Greenhouse Gas Verification (e.g. Conducted multiple third-party GHG verifications of Specified Gas Compliance Report submissions to Alberta Environment and Offset Project Reviews, including Talisman, Sherritt Metals, Suncor Energy, Millar Western, Sherritt Coal, etc.)• RFP Development – Multiple (e.g. Developed RFI / RFPs (e.g., general maintenance and engineering outsourcing) for both the private and public sectors within Alberta, including the creation of a comprehensive vendor list and evaluation criteria.)

Rapid City, South Dakota

Paul has significant first-hand experience in developing, implementing and managing manufacturing processes, as well as manufacturing automation and robotics:• Developed and managed the service delivery and shared services consolidation of procurement practices, back-office inventory systems and the development of a center-lead model. As part of this created, implemented, and administered a new inventory control system, and development of a parts sales and dealer relationship program.• Developed and implemented processes and managing production for a manufacturing line at a new facility, involved international travel to establish supplier relationships (e.g. UK, Netherlands, China).• Responsible as a Special Project Engineering Manager for integrating robotics into production – including system control, cell design, robot programming, robot fixture design, etc. This involved proposal development and extensive travel to distributors across North America for client presentations. • Design engineer and process / production manager of a CNC front-gauging system for the Accurshear and a CNC sheet following system for the Accurpress, accounting for over 20% increase in machine revenue.

Savannah, Georgia

Performed quality control management and developed production processes.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Responsible for the design and machining of test fixtures; research and development e.g. hydraulic actuator & swivel testing; servo-valve testing; and actuator/valve assembly.

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Mba, Business Administration