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Fife, Wa

• Provide operations support in the running of the Amazon Robotics (AR) floor.• Assisted in bringing the AR floor online at MGE9 Union City, GA as a member of an Away Team supporting start-up of the new state-of-the-art sortation facility, and training of new Amnesty Floor Monitor (AFM) associates.• Manage floor operations as necessary.

Anacortes, Washington, United States

• Advise Center in meeting its goals and to ensure that Maritime Industry is well served thru its efforts.• Support the Center of Excellence (COE) as a subject matter expert in Maritime Apprenticeship.• Speak publicly at the request of the COE to audiences in the educational field on the subject of the Maritime Industry and its future education needs.

Bremerton, Washington, United States

Facility Operations Manager • Managed and coordinated a team of 22 direct and indirect reports, six facilities, and developed and maintained a multi-million-dollar expense and capital improvement budget including monthly reviews, with oversight of the individual capital projects. • Supervised team development, mentorship, and engagement for one Program Manager, one Project Manager, six Facility Supervisors and 14 facility staff.• Led facilities safety, planning, project management, maintenance/preventative maintenance planning, external vendor management, site access, work schedule, and final inspection/acceptance. • Spearheaded efforts to increase the service that the Facilities Department delivered to the company’s working organizations. One primary increase included the assimilation of more than 11,000 tools into two Facilities tool rooms.Apprentice Program Manager • Managed the FSG – Maintenance Modernization and Technical Services Business Unit (MMTS BU) Apprentice Program in the Norfolk, VA area, including running the day-to-day operations, scheduling of classes and hearing issues for the 30 apprentices. Training Manager • Developed new, evaluated existing and scheduled training classes for the 700+ trades in the MMTS BU.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

• SME for MS Project - supported training and project schedule development for 4 major projects. • In 2012, selected to manage the AMSEC Apprentice Program. Recruited 10 – 15 new apprentices per year and coordinated day-to-day operations.• Acted as Business Development Manager leading proposal efforts on U.S. Navy Request for Proposals (RFP’s).• Aided the Southeast Maritime and Transportation Center (SMART Center), a National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education Center as a presenter at 1-2 national seminars and workshops about Apprenticeship in the Maritime Industry.• Completed course on LEAN Six Sigma principles. Assisted the MMTS BU with the implementation of LEAN principles.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

• Led the development of a Microsoft Access based program to assist the MMTS Business Unit in allocating 700 trades amongst its waterfront operations. • Member of the Workload Forecasting Group that met bi-weekly to discuss workforce needs for task orders managed out of the Norfolk area. • Assisted the MMTS BU with quality issues supporting the business Quality Manager. • Assigned to a troubled ship design program in the Logistics and Engineering Service BU as a technical and managerial assistant. I developed an integrated series of financial, deliverable, and product-tracking tools that, taken together, substantially contributed to the savings of approximately $11M from the projected cost at the start of my assignment to its completion.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

• Facilitated capture activities, including writing of past performance, facilities, and resume sections of four proposals. • Coordinated training of approximately 700 tradespersons.

• Managed the company’s main security project and directed one Project Manager for a start-up security company. • Equipment installation, configuration, and project oversight for CCTV and Lenel Access Control Security Systems.• Proposal preparation including technical approach, pricing, and project schedules.• Preparation of engineering drawings, including but not limited to shop and as-built drawings using AutoCAD.

Chesapeake, Va

• Supervise front desk staff in the sales of memberships, scheduling of special events, and interactions with customers.

Chesapeake, Virginia, United States

• Assisted the Information Technology Department as a project member on multiple projects. • Supported conversion from QMS to SAP during the transition from Huntsman Chemical Corporation to Nova Chemicals Inc. • Converted R&D and Quality Control Laboratory Information Management System (LIM) Systems to Honeywell TotalPlant v.150 LIM System. • Developed Customer Complaint Resolution System using Siebel 2000. Efforts brought visibility to the company’s active complaints from the individuals assigned to investigate them through the manufacturing and quality management areas, and to the sales and corporate management. The overall impact was to reduce the response to the customer by 20%. • Instrumental in converting the Certificate of Analysis System to SAP, enabling SAP to become the standard for the generation of COA’s for the Corporation.

• Tasked with delivering an IT solution for Quality to replace a Y2K deficient system in the Styrenics Division. • Facilitated design sessions with business representatives, mapped business practices, developed best practices and designed/configured system. • Assisted with the purchasing and sales modules as they related to quality information.• Successfully delivered the project on time and on scope to meet the Y2K deadline.

Chesapeake, Virginia, United States

• Supervised nine quality technicians, one chemist, three color matching technicians, and two operators for the Quality Department that was responsible for color concentrate manufacturing and all physical testing of raw materials and finished product for an operation that manufactured crystal, impact and specialty polystyrene. • Performed all activities for site’s ISO9001 registration including management overview, internal non-conformance system, customer communications, and scheduling of all internal and external audits for both the production facility and the corporate offices (co-located at manufacturing site). No major non-conformances were issued to the production or corporate offices during my tenure.• Site contact for all customers re: complaints against products/services including responsibility for root cause analysis and corrective action implementation. • Planned and executed equipment maintenance schedule.

Chesapeake, Virginia, United States

• Directed a department with 33 full-time and 12 contract employees producing 130M+ lbs/yr of specialty polystyrene compounds utilizing six single screw extruders. • Led Synchronous Flow Manufacturing (SFM) efforts to increase efficiency and thruput.• Increased first-time prime production of the specialty flame retardant production line from 88% to 96% by designing a process improvement study to increase quality. The data analysis I performed led me to recommend the upgrade of existing blending technology to loss in weight feed systems, resulting in the first-time prime production improvement of 8%, and a 4MM pound per year increase in output.• Acted as Process Engineer facilitating quality improvement projects and oversight for 1-2 major capital equipment upgrades per year aimed at technology integration improvements to the production process.• Managed maintenance and preventative maintenance within a work order management system.

Clinton, Tennessee, United States

• Managed production and scheduling of a new state-of-the-art plastics color concentrate manufacturing operation producing ~6M lbs/yr of specialty plastics color concentrates for the fiber, blown film, and injection molding industry. • Performed studies and process engineering in the purchase, installation, and operation of new plastics processing equipment for both the manufacturing department and quality control/research and development laboratories.

Compton, California, United States

• Plant Manager - managed plant operations for a two-line color concentrate manufacturing facility with 14 employees, producing 1.6M lbs./yr.• Material Planning Manager - purchasing of raw materials, including the purchase and scheduling of materials from US, Korean and Japanese suppliers. Maintained pipeline of raw materials, minimizing quantities on hand to maximize available cash on hand. Coordinated purchases of finished materials from vendors to supplement our production capacity.• Quality Control Manager - QC operations for a small two-line color concentrate manufacturing facility with four direct reports.• Quality Control Engineer - worked on projects to improve quality and production of a small two-line color concentrate manufacturing facility.