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Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Asheville, North Carolina

Alpharetta, Georgia

Full automated LCD Display bonding and enhancement for up to 55" displays

Weaverville, Nc

Implementation of Manufacturing Excellence: • Assumed leadership of US facilities after turnover of eleven previous Chief Executive Officers. • Established level loading of production schedule to reduce monetary losses in first quarter. • Restructured three facilities into a revenue and excellence-driven organization through improvements in Productivity, Quality and On-Time Delivery. • Developed a KPI-driven environment with focus on delivery performance and continuous improvement. • Added responsibilities as COO for Mexico City operation. Developed facility to the status of market leader in replication and distribution for the domestic market.Revenue Generation: • Secured Apple and HP as customers for the total physical media (CD/DVD) program, including a maquiladora location in Juarez, Mexico. • Played key role in the award of the exclusive Microsoft disc business in Mexico. • Added full turn distribution center in Mexico City. • Played key role in the award of Autodesk as a full, turnaround customer (manufacturing, distribution and licensing).

Weaverville, Nc

Startup of new facilities in Sydney, Australia and Manus, Brazil to manufacture x-box games • Hired management team• Secured local permits, directing the local engineering company• Imported and setup equipment• Facilitated production startupDeveloped and integrated strategy to manufacture Blu-ray discs in the US and later in GermanyParticipated in the Walmart RFID initiative and integration into the distribution centerSetup packaging and distribution center in Louisville, KY to include sourcing and integration of equipment, hiring of leadership team, and implementation of ISO9001/14001

Germany

Established quality circles with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement producing a 50% reduction in cycle timesDeveloped an internal employee qualification program “Sonopress University” to satisfy the growing needs for specialized employees. Employees were instructed in Manufacturing, Costing, and Profit and Loss, resulting in 90% of new positions being filled internally. Implemented ISO 9001 in all European locationsProject leader for the SAP/R3 implementation in Germany, France, Ireland, Madrid, US, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, and Hong Kong replacing all old system in to one SAP/JPF. $50million project including hardware software with a 6 week implementation window. Integrated a manufacture and printing location in Forbach, France for the growing network in Europe

Germany

Supervised staff of 50 to build a 1 million disc per day production plant for DVD’s, include equipment, process and procedure for manufacturing, packaging, facility and quality Redesigned warehouse, packaging and shipping departments into AS/RS system with integration into SAP, full automated raw material and data flow, and automated finished product flow

Germany

Optimized Compact Disc manufacturing in class 100 clean room environmentsIntegrated sourced components to a manufacturing line for CDDesigned and built 20 production systems for CD manufacturing operationsDeveloped a full integrated manufacturing system for CDReplicated 120 CD systems and install those in 8 countries around the worldBuilt all 250 compact disc manufacturing machines

Germany

Redesigned and tested molds for vinyl recordsImplemented CAD drawing with bill of materials Improved the injection molding process for laser disc Programming PLC’s and human interfaces

Master'S Degree, Machine Design And Process Engineering, Honors Graduate

Bachelor Of Science, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering, Honors Graduate