I am an inclusive, highly analytical, and nimble senior executive with 19 years of progressive leadership experience. I have directed substantial growth and leading the turnaround of underperforming organizations in the aerospace, automotive, distribution, industrial infrastructure, marine, and medical markets thereby increasing profitability and shareholder value. As a creative and resourceful problem solver, I possess the ability to invoke change, manage in all business climates, and maintain action plans toward strategic vision while attaining financial and budgetary targets. I thrive as a strategic thinker with extensive private equity expertise conceptualizing market positioning within competitive environments. I am also known as an instinctive strategic visionary leader overseeing crisis situations developing successful solutions to complex issues that seem unresolvable in diverse environments communicating and relating with individuals at all levels. Career Highlights:* Reinvented Delaware Dynamics from an automotive focused business to a diversified industrial manufacturing concern providing customized complex highly engineered precision machined parts, cast products, and molds for global based OEM’s in the in the aerospace, marine, automotive, industrial infrastructure, and medical markets. * Private equity based acquisition experience in both aerospace and distribution businesses. Directed private equity acquisition of aerospace company supplying aerospace OEM's with complex machined parts and custom tooling. Increased sales 900% since acquisition and led startup operation building out all functional departments.* Transformed Delaware Dynamics culture from fragmented divided camps to a team focused performance based culture with unity and purpose. Built trust and increased shareholder value 700%.* Integration with full P&L responsibility of four multistate PE owned distribution businesses forming the largest salt distributor in the U.S. Specialties/Skills & Expertise: Turnaround & Growth Situations • Leadership & Team Building • Operations Streamlining • Sales & Business Development • Acquisitions & Integrations • Crisis & Solutions Management • High Mix /Low Volume & Low Mix/High Volume Manufacturing • Customer Relationships • Domestic & Offshore Supply Chain Management • Risk Assessment & Mitigation • High Performance Culture • Strategic Partnerships • Competitor Analysis & Positioning • Policy & Procedure Development • New & Proprietary Product Development • Lean Process Implementation • Machining.
Listed skills include Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing, Product Development, Continuous Improvement, and 19 others.