Robert Mcdonell Email & Phone Number

Virtual, Alabama

Experienced leader overseeing a $16.7M budget across 73 sites, consistently delivering cost savings and operational improvements:• Budget Management: Successfully reduced operational spend, coming in $1.9M and $2.4M under budget for 2022 and 2023, respectively.• Site Expansion: Led the launch of 12 new automated sites, tripling capacity compared to competitors within the business unit. Improved quality throughput from 80% on day one to 97% overall efficiency.• Team Leadership: Directly manage 12 site managers and 111 reports across all sites, including 3 network controls systems engineers. I founded the Controls Systems Engineers team, supporting network quality audits, high-severity troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Grew the network from 8 to 57 sites in 2 years while maintaining a 99.8%+ uptime YoY.• Capacity Growth: Optimized material handling equipment (MHE) systems, adding over $3B in capacity by improving mechanical demand and maintaining high safety standards for associate interfaces.• KPI Leadership: Drive key performance indicators (KPIs) across the region, including safety, preventive maintenance (PM) completion, store room health, building uptime, critical downtime events, and robotics metrics. Consistently lead the network in CPIM (Central Planning and Inventory Management) KPIs.• Innovation and Risk Mitigation: Led a network-wide project to guard E-stop equipment, reducing critical failures from 25 incidents in 8 months to 0 over the last 18 months, significantly improving site safety at a low cost (~$100 per site).• Data-Driven Improvements: Developed tracking dashboards for root cause analysis (RCA), trending data on high-impact equipment issues and work request backlogs, reducing downtime and optimizing workflows as the network expanded.

• Developed and implemented a standalone Root Cause Analysis (RCA) program, significantly improving the quality of new launches across Amazon Fulfillment sites.• Created weekly reporting mechanisms to identify systemic issues, driving cross-functional actions that reduced risks in both current and future buildings.• Designed and delivered training for the organization to build a targeted core team focused on RCA efforts, currently in the pilot phase for network-wide deployment.• Built a quick site dashboard for rapid data analysis, enhancing visibility and enabling targeted actions to address major operational issues at active sites.• Through multiple escalations and network-wide actions in 2020, improved site performance uptime by 3.7%, increasing from 92.5% to 96.2%.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Drove process improvements with partnership with Ops and reliability of equipment to go from 185k weekly throughput to 2.5M weekly throughput in 3 months.• Drove team from a 12% PM compliance to 80% while throughput grew by 1,351%.• Stepped in to drive commissioning and KPI results through launch of new Robotics Facility with over 30 miles of conveyance, 6,300 robots, and 5 high speed sorters. • Drive performance and training for more than 70 RME technicians and managers. • Oversee the planning and scheduling of comprehensive PM program for more than 11,800 assets.• Oversee and manage Budget of $175k monthly over 10 different accounts. • Oversee the management of over 3200 unique parts. • Lead team of 12 MHE techs, 1 controls tech, 1 controls lead and 1 CMMS Admin through successful IOQ and launch of 1 Million square foot facility to include commissioning almost 200 assets.• Successfully drove the completion of our 40 point site safety audit within the first 60 days of startup. • Implemented Pdm routes to include ultrasonic, strobe and IR scans for equipment to find several pre failure conditions and limit any MHE downtime during launch, first peak and first year with no MHE equipment SEV events. • Taken on the responsibility of Amazon Network SLAM SME TNS group owner and have drove TNS SLAM kick-out metrics down below new 1.4% weekly average. Also have best site type metrics in the network. • Completed Manager, Safety, and EAM Admin training within first 6 months of hire. • Drove individual and team KPI metrics down to acceptable level and percentages all the while teaching every technician their roles and responsibilities in becoming more proactive in their maintenance approaches to work. • Excellent communication with Amazon Senior Operations to plan, manage details, coordinate and complete projects all the while keeping overtime to a minimum.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Virginia Beach, Va

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Associate Of Science - As, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 3.87