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Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Copenhagen, Dk

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Lead all engineering aspects from operations support, R&D, new product development and sustaining core technology. Provide sound operational value streams for manufacturing. Serve as a core member on the quality team. Four direct reports with 20+ in the engineering group.• Set a structured and documented vision for the engineering department.• Focused on changing 20+ years of engineering focus from New Product Development to Operational Excellence.• Led engineering in a company wide effort to assure quality at the source based on Shigeo Shingo’s Zero Quality Control that led to a reduction of customer rejects from 10% to 1.5%• Senior team representative on the Safety committee to ensure a safe and productive working culture.• Direct and coordinate with operations, quality assurance, sales, testing and maintenance departments to define and measure KPIs and to achieve enterprise goals.• Led all project and program management efforts including budget/financials, scope, timeline accountability, customer involvement, system development and overall project excellence.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Responsible for commercial operations and customer support efforts for the organization including order processing, customer issue resolution, contract negotiation and achieving sales targets. Understand the customer and their markets, problems and value proposition. Was the face of Quartzdyne to the customer. Direct reports: 3• Negotiated first agreement at Quartzdyne that established a level loaded ordering system with a major customer. • Lead the global sales operations efforts on the first, non-core product in company history.• Created and sustained long term collaborative relationships with core customers.• Acted as the customer's advocate to the organization to ensure the highest quality and best delivery of their product.• Managed and negotiated all master purchase agreements with customers.• Developed and implemented standard work in sales processes and a practices.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Responsible for all manufacturing operations including production, supply chain, inventory, maintenance and shipping/receiving. Direct reports: 3 with 35+ in operations group.• Owner of the manufacturing KPIs: Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery.• Led all lean efforts and initiatives within manufacturing and supported the lean journey of the organization.• Worked closely with Quality manage to create accountability and problem solving around quality.• Asked to lead sales after 6 months due to a change in senior management.

The Woodlands, Texas, Us

Reported to GM of bearings division and member of division executive team; responsible for sales, R&D, testing, and new product development. Lead all production and design engineering staff and senior scientist. Direct reports: 9• Established vision and executed division strategy for all engineering and sales to meet growth targets.• Lead a team that reduced quoting lead time from 6 days to less than 24 hrs.• Implemented lean principles in the sales funnel to improve velocity from awareness to close.• Developed systems and tools to understand business gaps, created actions to fill the gaps and then created measurements to understand progress and efficiency.• Managed engineering budget, sales and travel budget, testing budget and capital requests.

The Woodlands, Texas, Us

Reported to VP of Sales; responsible for all aspects of a large customer account, including productstrategy, R&D, NPD, manufacturability, supply chain and understanding the voice of the customer. Direct reports: 1• Lead customer team to support all product development efforts from concept and R&D through final production and delivery. This included leading CI events at the customer.• Established and drove key performance measurements for increasing revenue, driving new product development, and understanding existing product success.• Assisted customer in understanding the best technology for each application and segment.

The Woodlands, Texas, Us

Responsible for a targeted project to confront influx of low cost, foreign competitive product.• Led team to capture 30% of new cost driven market in 15 months through a 30% cost reduction. Contributed heavily to team's work method, vision and execution. • Won corporate award for leadership and project impact.

The Woodlands, Texas, Us

Reported to VP of Operations; Provided vision for achieving factory goals on quality, cost, delivery,safety and people. Responsible for 60+ employees and production for $65 million in sales. Direct reports: 4• Managed the startup of a new plant for a $25 million product line.• Improved monthly delivery from 1,800 to 12,000 inserts in three months to achieve start up goals.• Oversaw hiring of complete production staff from team members, team leads and supervisors to meet the needs of the new factory.

The Woodlands, Texas, Us

Responsible for production processes, and product quality support for assigned factory.• Partnered with factory manager to reduce labor by 50% and to increase cell productivity by 20%.• Assisted and educated entire factory in problem solving activities to achieve factory and company goals.

Batesville, Indiana, Us

Responsible for new product development, introduction of new products into manufacturing and capital management for each project. - Saved a new product launch into manufacturing from failure. Revamped project to account for loss of NPD resources and to address manufacturing design deficiencies. Project completed on time and on budget.

Batesville, Indiana, Us

Responsible for all engineering and process improvements, supervisor development, quality/safetymeasures and vendor relationships for operations unit. - Designed and managed the manufacturing of an innovative machine from concept to production that reduced rejects by 75% and maintenance work orders by 80%.

Batesville, Indiana, Us

Identified as a high potential employee and spent eighteen months in a cross-functional rotationprogram gaining management experience. - Implemented a Toyota based production system in the electronics division of Hill Rom Co. that reduced production lead time by 50% and missed deliveries by 25%.

Mba, Entrepreneurship

Bs, Mechanical Engineering