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Asheboro, Nc

Greensboro/Winston-Salem/Highpoint, North Carolina Area

Asheboro Plant - Randleman, Nc

Led all IT functions that execute business and manufacturing systems within the highly automated and systems integrated Asheboro Bearing Plant. Managed internal/contract staff of 10-15 associates and yearly budget of $2.0M.Notable accomplishments:• Acted as member of Plant Leadership Team, managing strategy and tactic setting, operating decisions, and performance metrics attainment.• Product management responsibility for setting the IT vision, lifecycle strategies, and technical roadmap for delivering maximum current and future customer business value while complying with enterprise standards.• Implemented automated visual near-time LEAN kanban pull and takt signals throughout facility in support of plant lean initiative that reduced WIP 29%, reduced flow days 47%, and improved on-time delivery 12%. • Extensively enhanced KBE and MES systems in support of lean and product portfolio expansion.• Upgraded and re-platformed network, database, ICAD, & MES infrastructure with < 12 hours plant downtime.• Designed and implemented best-in-class master data management workflow process with 56% reduction in flow days.• Virtualized Windows server environment, reducing server footprint 67% and improving performance and up-time.• Developed and implemented web service-based engineering systems data download and revision control architecture, improving master data quality and reducing manual data maintenance efforts by > 25%.• Reduced year-on-year Cost of IT by 14% between 2009 and 2015.• Coordinated development of multi-tier cost variance tool set for identifying / resolving operating discrepancies and refined yearly standard cost setting process, resulting in significant improvements in actual vs. standard cost variances.• Oversaw build of intranet-based data structure and web app environment to support user ad hoc reporting and kpi generation.

Asheboro Plant - Randleman, Nc

Led a 45-member cross-functional team in the on-time and on-budget implementation of SAP ERP into the Asheboro manufacturing facility. Scope included MFG, PTP, DWL, PM, and FI elements. Concurrent with project, continued to lead all local plant systems management activities / processes with no detrimental impact to customer service requests, systems up-time, or business process execution timeliness. Notable accomplishments:• Achieved implementation with less than 24 hrs of plant downtime, including conversion of over 1000 in-process orders. • Ensured plant output returned to pre-conversion output levels within 10 days through manned 24x7 response center, one-day turnaround of logged issues, continual metrics monitoring / reporting / presentation to plant and executive stakeholders. • Designed and implemented web services infrastructure for upload / download interfacing of plant local systems and Corp SAP systems, ensuring data integrity and avoiding $250K in yearly software expense.• Successfully conducted 500+ unit/string/integration testing scenarios, 1000+ hours of end user training.• Championed integration of business-justified change management requests into SAP global design.

Asheboro Plant - Randleman, Nc

Coordinated all IT and Quality functions that executed diverse business and manufacturing processes within the Asheboro Bearing Plant. Led team of 18 associates, both staff and operative, that crossed multiple disciplines:• Systems Span of Control: IT Operations Mgmt, KBE, MES, Business Process Workflow Mgmt, Change Mgmt, Systems Administration, Application Development, Data Management and Reporting, Information Security, Business Continuity.• Quality Span of Control: Quality Systems Mgmt, ISO Compliance, CAR/PAR Process, Customer Complaint Response, Scrap Reduction, Supplier Quality Assurance, Metallurgy, Gaging Systems Calibration, Traceability, CMM support, Root Cause Problem Solving.

Asheboro Plant - Randleman, Nc

Coordinated all IT functions and led staff of 12 associates that executed diverse business and manufacturing processes within the Asheboro Bearing Plant.Span of Control: IT Operations Mgmt, KBE, MES, Business Process Workflow Mgmt, Change Mgmt, Systems Administration, Application Development, Data Management and Reporting, Information Security, Business Continuity.• Led systems elements of major plant expansion project - broadened product portfolio automation, incorporated aerospace business traceability/controls into plant MES, upgraded systems infrastructure. • Reduced computer room footprint 50% through server upgrade/consolidation and Storage Area Network (SAN) projects.• Successfully executed Y2K Conversion project with no plant operating disruptions.

Corporate Offices, Canton, Ohio

Broadened engineering exposure by advancing through Sr. Systems Analyst, Technical Systems Principal, and Group Leader roles. Responsible for leading small cross-functional development teams (internal and contracted resources) in the design and delivery customer-requested engineering systems applications. Entire life cycle accountability from conceptual design through NPV business justification, detail design, development, string / system test, implementation, and post-implementation support.Notable Accomplishments:• Converted hard copy engineering design specifications into a global user accessible relational database management system.• Developed global reporting query tool that generated a summary of all dimensions, tolerances, and special processing requirements for a given end-item product.• Led team that designed and implemented extensive knowledge-based engineering application for transforming finished product geometric models back through each stage of manufacturing to provide in-process geometric models, nominal dimensions, and tolerances. Data sets were used in a comprehensive KBE application for creating NC-based machine and gauging instructions for manufacturing.• Led engineering lead-time reduction project to address functional systems gaps and process improvement opportunities. Reduced overall lead-time 5-10 days.• Participated in global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software selection project.• Rolled out manual/electronic Statistical Process Control (SPC) in multiple global manufacturing facilities.• Developed and implemented global product outgoing quality audit data collection system.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance (Incomplete), 3.85 Gpa

Bachelor Of Science (Bs) With High Distinction, Operations Management, 3.72 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Intramural Sports (softball, football) Honorary Societies Concentrations in systems/programming, statistics.

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