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Las Vegas, NV, US

Corte Madera, California, US

Corte Madera, California, US

Corte Madera, California, US

Wells, Maine, US

• Led an efficient and timely transition of the sale of WASCO to VELUX including employee retention, ERP systems, and inventory processes, resulting in a 48-hour turnaround with customers and vendors.
• Managed teams to realign Wells, Maine and Reno, Nevada locations with new ownership goals and policies while maintaining on-time shipments, exceptional quality and record sales from facilities.
• Oversaw sales, marketing, operations, engineering and IT, including 100 overall staff.
• Built a successful sales team and strategic partnerships with customers to sustain continued sales growth of approximately 10-15% annually.
• Led estimating team to expand growth opportunities resulting in increased capacity for growth and increased sales.
• Implemented new strategic customer program focused on the end customer and increased sales by 12% in residential distribution.

Wells, Maine, US

• Oversaw estimating, finance, human resources, operations, engineering and IT.
• Recruited and built operations team to support sales growth in the custom commercial side of the business.
• Developed and installed a new production strategy focused on creating repeatable processes, resulting in reduced overall manufacturing costs, reduced lead-times, and improving manufacturing productivity.
• Identified and sourced new state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment to improve quality and reduce reliance on manual labor resulting in 50% increase in sales.
• Led the successful facility move from Sanford, Maine to Wells, Maine with no customer interruption.
• Facilitated successful launch of Reno, Nevada manufacturing facility.

Wells, Maine, US

• Managed customer service and planning for commercial and residential skylights.
• Improved efficiency in call center by implementing call tools to reduce average call time allowing increase of sales volume (double) with same staff levels.
• Implemented electronic boards throughout production and office areas to allow for easy to manage operations triggered by visual cues.

Malvern, Pennsylvania, US

• Managed Divisional Inventory.
• Initiated and integrated two distinct manufacturing operations of the global organization to ensure best business practices and more efficiently manage inventory worldwide.
• Planned and coordinated the inventory programs for strategic customers such as Bosch, Delphi, Visteon and various distributors.
• Coordinated an MLCC buy/resale program with a Taiwanese supplier resulting in increased sales and improved customer satisfaction.

Malvern, Pennsylvania, US

• Coordinated and implemented delivery program to meet customer needs during business upturn that created a worldwide allocation for all molded chip tantalum manufacturers.
• Led Business Planning through the industry downturn by reducing production output and reducing inventories quickly.
• Managed worldwide business planners in four countries.