• Very successfully hands on managed the transfer of high speed automated production lines to various other global divisions, including USA, China and Korea. Able to accomplish the transfers in approximately ½ the time with ½ the resources compared to the original equipment manufacturers in Japan.• Managed the relocation, liquidation of excess equipment and other various items, closing, sale and transfer of 1 divisional property (77K ft2 facility).• Created, managed and reported on corporate project schedules and plans for many various global process transfers.• Developed and implemented a Multi-Site Disaster Recovery Plan• Provided guidance and technical support to many global divisions for Kaizen improvements within their facilities.• Effectively created and managed multi department annual budgets in excess of $1.3M to support the development of new products and expand production to higher than 70 million relays annually.• Reduced maintenance spares parts budget by greater than 58% while maintaining older equipment producing increased output levels.• Supported Engineering with the validation and implementation of ELV and VAVE product changes that resulted in 15% Material cost reductions.• Managed the development of many various process improvements resulting in higher efficiencies, while reducing customer defect rates to below 0.5 ppm. Including a world class, automated, remote access OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) reporting system.• Managed the implementation of many world class best practices including, 5S, TPM, OEE, Maintenance reporting and tracking systems.• Provided key support in the development of a Corporate Global Manufacturing Engineering Standard for the design and production of products.• Provided Operational leadership for Division in the absence of the General Manager.• Negotiated and managed multiple annual and longer term contracts with external service providers for facility management.

• Established and maintained all departmental procedures and systems for certifications to ISO/TS16949 and ISO140001 Standards, including Test Lab compliance to ISO17025 standards.• Developed many various process improvements resulting in higher efficiencies, while reducing customer defect rates to below 1 ppm.• Implemented process and product changes that allowed for removal of non-environmentally friendly process stages (corona plastics treating machine).• Lead role in facilitating and developing a divisional Management Team Behavioural Charter Agreement which improved overall team’s effectiveness.

• Successfully introduced the first 2 products for this newly created division, which included: area supplies procurement and set-up, hired production personnel, established process work instructions and recording standards. This resulted in $1.4 million sales revenue for the first 10 months.• Transferred a manual production process to China with 5K units being produced in the first week and ramping to 4K units per day within 3 weeks.• Negotiated the full refund of $140K from an under-performing vendor.• Provided key information for establishing supervisory training and equipment safety standards for the entire company.• Developed an annual departmental budget increasing sales revenue to $20.5 million.