Work Force Programs Manager/Corporate and Continuing Education Department•Responsible for project management of workforce programs, including supervision of staff, curriculum development, and contract implementation. •Coordinate the design and implementation of short-term, workforce education and training programs to meet identified community and workforce needs. •Meet with industry representatives and college personnel to identify, develop, and implement internal and external professional development programs. •Deploy outreach and marketing strategies to promote Corporate and Continuing Education (CCE) programs. •Work actively to represent and increase community partnerships for CCE programs, including networking with partners, local non-profits and organizations, and internal and external committees and groups.•Develop and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external customers/partners through open communication and sharing of CCE goals, objectives, and activities.•Plan, develop strategies, and implement classes, programs, seminars and course schedules to meet identified needs, including classes for CCE continuing education, personal enrichment, youth, and senior programming.•Develop budgets, descriptions, objectives, and all details required for new trainings or CCE programs.•Compile CCE reports as requested, provide data, and monitor departmental critical performance indicators.•Review CCE course evaluations and provide recommendations accordingly, paying particular attention to customer needs and requested services.AREAS OF PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT/IMPLEMENTATION • Workforce Training Programs • Regional Economic Collaboration Trainings• Customized Employer Contract Training• Skilled Trades Programs• Community and Continuing Education • Lean Environment Simulator • Weatherization and Construction• Michigan New Jobs Training Program

Background Summary: Managed 3 large manufacturing facilities specializing in CNC machining and fabrication of precision thermoform and injection mold tooling. Produced sophisticated machinery, electrical systems and fabrications, servicing 15 domestic and 6 international production facilities. Direct reports 6 senior manager, indirect reports 16 supervisors, employees 365. Sales of over $70.5 million on a yearly basis, experienced with aggressive production increases and employee downturns. Established aggressive in-sourcing & out-sourcing program for fabricated and sheet metal parts, machine builds, and tooling resulting in outsourcing 50% of fabricated parts and 30% of machine builds.•Identified new machine tools and specifications, negotiated and purchased over $5 million in new equipment, realizing a 35-50% reduction in processing time on two product lines.•Implemented operator performance and process quality improvements teams reducing production scrap, set-up and down time increasing fabrication efficiencies and profitability.•Developed and implemented labor standards, employee efficiencies, and capacity load planning enabling operations to lower labor billing rates, generating additional revenue. •Managed $11million annual payroll, developing hourly and salary compensation standards, promotional guidelines, appraisal systems, performance improvement plans, disciplinary guidelines, employee appreciation teams, and conducted several reductions in force, exceeding expectations.•Created divisional safety system including safety teams, incident reports, quarterly audits, developing a safety culture which achieved zero incidents over one year.•Introduced Lean Manufacturing to production and professional departments, 5-S, cross function teams, with a focus on the Customer Continuously, improving production output, organization of work area, and streamlining work flow and processes.

Direct reports 5; employees 110•Materials Manager and Assembly Superintendent responsible for successful restructuring of the assembly labor force.•Established employee cross training teams between electrical and mechanical assembly increasing skill development and improving efficiencies. •Implemented quality audits and sign-off responsibilities for completed machine assemblies, improving quality by eliminating 99% of the assembly errors.•Created a Discrepant Material Notice reporting and replacement system reducing production errors, downtime, and improved equipment design.•Worked with Engineering on the standardization of assembly parts decreasing machine assembly and part fabrication time.•Created a cross-functional team between MMD, Engineering, and Drafting to improve production, design, and quality issues.

Direct reports 4; employees 70•Oversaw all Supply Chain Management for 3 production facilities operating in 3 different states. Responsible for materials management, logistics, purchasing, outsourcing and production scheduling teams. •Established consignment purchasing, blanket ordering and a program to adjust safeties, order point, and lot size to reduce inventory by over 4.5M•Increased production efficiencies through set-up reduction and elimination of downtime by 40% in milling, lathe, and fabrication work centers.•Reduced back orders to production facilities by 32% by establishing safety stock and order point programs aimed at just in time delivers.•Developed a low use, non-moving scrap inventory program by identifying order release and ECN errors, removing 2.9M from inventory•Co-chaired a corporate ERP selection team, implemented Pansophic C/A, successfully installing Master Scheduling, MRP, Order Billing, PDM, Capacity Planning, and Costing

•Responsible for leading a divisional team to select a mainframe manufacturing software system, developed training and implementation for a successful start up. •Installed Master Schedule, MRP, PDM, OE&I, Invoicing, and Inventory Control.