Managed capital investment projects focused on safety, quality, on time delivery, customer satisfaction. Activities included: Engineering Specification, Drawings, Lay Out, Risk Analysis, Request for Quotation, Proposal Evaluation, Selection of Equipment, Contract Negotiation and Assignation, Scheduling, Installation, Testing, Training, Start Up, Budget Control. Projects included: Vertical Turning Lathe with Automatic Tool Changer, Custom Grinders with laser measuring system and reporting, Heavy Duty Turn Mill, Hard Facing Automation, Horizontal Lathes.

• Implemented new safety program to change mind set of personnel and supervisors. Reached 1,000,000 hrs no labor loss on 2009 and not accidents on 2012-2013. • Trained leaders on risk analysis to perform evaluation of every production activity.• Coached supervisors on environmental inspection to ensure plant complies with every EPA regulation.• Reduced operative interruptions from 38% to 17% by improving manufacturing performance from 2008 to 2011. Actions included preventive maintenance activities, upgrading forming straightness, improving centering process, etc.• Increased capacity 30% by addition of a third shift by hiring 65 additional people. Performance of 3rd shift was an immediate success mainly because of the selection process and training planning of new personnel.• Managed and coached a complex team of 12 supervisors on 3-4 shifts with total personnel up to 250 employees on forming, machining, coating and assembly. • Created a statistical testing system to improve machinery dimensional reliability with minimum 1.4 CPk.• Developed layouts and detail engineering of future investments.

• Performed worldwide Supply coordination for Sales and Operation Planning Process, defining capacity of each plant and compared to the sales forecast. Expansion projects and force reduction were a consequence of this effort. • Changed mind set to a team of 6 ME’s and CNC programming department.to add customer service and creativity.• Main responsibilities were assessing new product design for manufacturability, CNC programming, tooling, standards, routers and BOM, special improvement projects.• Applied for a patent for a chaser to thread wedge threads and reduce threading time 30%. Benefits are increasing revenue by 2 million dollars a year in gross margin.• Applied for patent for creation and development of a pipe forming operation. Potential benefits could reach 7 million dollars on gross margin including productivity improvement and increased market share.• Chairman of the technical improvement committee, leading the objective of increasing gauges tool life by 300%. This was possible as a consequence of developing new surface treatment and testing which saved the company 1 million dollars per year.• Reduced overall cycle time on all machining operations by 12% by optimizing CNC machining parameters and tooling globally with additional gross margin of 10 million dollars per year.• Reduced cycle time by 3.5% for a family of premium connection products which lead to an additional gross margin of 2.5 million dollars in 2003.

Subject Matter Expert on forming and machining tooling. Evaluated manufacturability of new products. Designed, managed manufacturing, and tested forming presses of 1500 and 500 Tons.• Received special award for customer service from Singapore, Aberdeen, and Mexico plants.• Designed quick change tooling, reducing set up time up to 2 minutes on heavy equipment. Examples were jaws for the 1500 and 500 Ton press and large jaws for the 700 Ton press.• Redesigned forming tooling, improving productivity on threading lines by 8% on mature products with potential gross margin of $1.5M.• Created design criteria for forming tools for new family of products, saving $500K on new tooling by finding equivalent tooling applicable to multiple products.• Reduced chatter on threading operations by designing a gage to ensure cutting insert is aligned to centerline of spindle.

Managed expansion projects consisting by redesigning lay outs of buildings, machinery, and storage areas. Transferred and installed manufacturing equipment: 20 Ton presses, handling conveyors, and saws. Negotiated product requirement deviations with product engineering when it was required.• Increased productivity by 15% on threading machines by establishing superior machining conditions with benefits of $1M per year.• Defined a new truing process per product family, eliminating rejects due to ovality conditions.• Improved performance of threading and roughing inserts up to 40% by encouraging continuous improvement to vendors.• Increased stock available for machining, meeting product requirement.• Reduced forming defects by 66% from 6% to 2% by improving tooling design and rebuilding presses.• Reduced set up time by 90% for manufacturing operations (80 minutes to 8 minutes in forming shop), expander shoes, machinery height adjustment, and stress relievers.• Simplified handling system for the saw operation, eliminating non-value activities.