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Addition Manufacturing Technologies provides tube bending and tube processing solutions for many industries including automotive, aerospace and power generation. Addition has a global presence and footprint with manufacturing facilities in Lebanon, OH, Queretaro, MX and Preston, UK.

ARCH Global Precision specializes in highly engineered precision machined products and the cutting tools designed to manufacture those products. The company consists of three segments, Precision Cutting Tool Solutions, Precision Components Solutions and Medical Solutions. ARCH consists of 15 companies that have been combined to form the three segments and is currently seeking additional growth opportunities.

Recruited to a role created to get placed into the company’s senior management team for the purpose of improved business results, succession planning and managing large growth initiatives. Expectations are to reverse the trajectory of declining businesses, reestablish corporate engineering as a go-to corporate resource and execute game changing growth initiatives within the corporation.Management & Leadership Successes* Teamed with extrusion business to establish and pitch business plan and capital justification for $40M, game changing expansion of aerospace extrusion within 90 days of conceptualization.* Stabilized power generation tubing business from free fall revenues to steady backlog within three months.* Shut down money losing condenser tube business, saving company over $500k per month of ongoing losses.Business Development, Production & Performance Results* Implemented new corporate engineering structure, investment and initiatives that increased billable hours 50% in six months, increased sales 82% from Q1 to Q4 and created backlog for equipment rebuilds with improvements in customer satisfaction.* Reversed trend of negative margin business acceptance in power generation tubing business by focusing on high value added applications and establishing profitability models to guide quotations to profitability.* Increased backlog of power generation tubing business from $0 to $7M in four months.* Teamed to establish new market centered teams to accomplish customer and market intimacy that identifies new, value added ways to provide winning solutions to the marketplace. Leading market team focusing on new large market opportunities.

Challenged to launch the US subsidiary during a record-setting residential construction market compression; a situation that required careful analysis, creativity, precision, focus, diplomacy and lots of good, old-fashioned determination.* Quickly established a nationwide distribution footprint; increased the opportunity pipeline from $0 to $15M in 2 years.* Improved production yields over 3-fold — from <20% to 70% using lean manufacturing and six sigma techniques.* Raised residential construction product brand awareness from 0 to >70% in 3 years.* Repositioned residential product approach to add a 3-pronged focus — light commercial projects, modular and panelized construction and solar array structural framing — to resuscitate stagnant sales in a deeply depressed residential construction industry.* Monetized business for corporate parent (deemed non-strategic) including liquidation of all working capital, closing of all accounts and closing asset acquisition by strategic buyer in only four months.

8-year tenure is distinguished by performance-based promotions during multiple changes in corporate ownership and structure. Recruited to drive top-line growth and improve bottom-line outcomes for an internal SBU struggling in a down-turned market; repositioned in a senior-level finance role subsequent to sale of the $400M Carbonless Division; final position in a newly created, high-level strategic position in charge of developing and executing an investor-relations program in tandem with plans to take the company public.* Grew new, value-added business from $0 to >$5M and gained competitive advantage with breakthrough technology - breakeven financially within 2 years.* Achieved 150% increase in revenue and 10-fold improvement in cash flow for a $125M BU in the carbonless division. * Enabled 10% increase in average selling price (in a flat market) without negative impact on closing ratios or sales. * Co-led investigation/acquisition of new corporate headquarters site — $10M investment in a >75,000 sq. ft. facility. * Reduced contract compliance costs by 40% for $1B in purchasing contracts.

Automotive component cost center accountability for >$70M in annual revenue. Managed manufacturing and supply chain strategies and processes in multi-site production facilities for $5B global tier 1 automotive division. Directed product development for >$1M automotive suspension control program. Managed development/implementation of lean manufacturing processes representing $5 - $100M in revenue.* Led the team that identified >$100M in annual savings using lean methods to reengineer the cost estimation process. * Delivered >$2M improvement in cash flow by spearheading modern lean manufacturing and capital forecasting methodologies.* Reduced overtime labor by 50% (>$500k annual savings) through workflow balancing methods and other lean techniques. * Improved equipment uptime 10% (>$250k annual savings) by introducing a formal preventive maintenance program.