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Took the leap and am enjoying retirement!!

Indiana, United States

Port Saint Lucie, Florida

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Program Manager• Manage all areas of the Carolina West region. • Responsibilities included selection and training of technical personnel for Inspection or Engineering services.• Balancing workload at several sites and customers at the same time.• Promoting quality by evaluating the issues and determining the best inspection methods while working with customer to resolve original need for outside inspection services.• Customer satisfaction by working directly with customer… Show more Program Manager• Manage all areas of the Carolina West region. • Responsibilities included selection and training of technical personnel for Inspection or Engineering services.• Balancing workload at several sites and customers at the same time.• Promoting quality by evaluating the issues and determining the best inspection methods while working with customer to resolve original need for outside inspection services.• Customer satisfaction by working directly with customer and on site staff to work with as little of interruption as possible.• Develop plans to increase plant efficiency by reviewing existing processes and procedures to streamline manufacturing, part handling, warehousing and shipping .• Hands on management style in all aspects by working at customer site to review issue or concern and provide written process and procedures for inspection or streamline of process. • Provision of daily reports for inspection services performed by my on-site team or recommendations for needed changes.• Contract writing and review for each new inspection or review, detailing process and procedures that would be used for inspection, prior to start of contract.• Quality control by daily reviews of work performed by myself or an onsite team lead. Show less

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Operations Manager• Managing all areas of the satellite facility. Responsibilities included profit and loss, facilities, and staffing.• Maintained positive profit & loss by constant monitoring of finances.• Maintained all aspects of facility and negotiated all preventative maintenance and service contracts for location. • Inventory purchasing and control, by reviewing and approving pricing and quantities based on forecasted requirements from customer base and negotiated pricing… Show more Operations Manager• Managing all areas of the satellite facility. Responsibilities included profit and loss, facilities, and staffing.• Maintained positive profit & loss by constant monitoring of finances.• Maintained all aspects of facility and negotiated all preventative maintenance and service contracts for location. • Inventory purchasing and control, by reviewing and approving pricing and quantities based on forecasted requirements from customer base and negotiated pricing with supply base.• Selection and training of personnel based on needs of the remote location that operated independent of the corporate office. • Negotiated contract for temporary staffing that corporate used as goal for other locations.• Balancing workload by ensuring proper level of staff was in all areas of the facility from the front office support staff to the warehouse and fulfillment team.• Promoting quality by ensuring all products meets or surpassed customers’ requirement. Earning a Most Improved Quality award from our major customer in 2010.• Customer satisfaction by maintaining 99% on time delivery and accepted parts per million requirement by customer base.• Plant efficiency by layout of warehouse, to get maximum rack locations for space available, and pick format to ensure best efficiencies of staffs’ time.• Maintained positive net-profitability with significant downturn in the 2008 marketplace.• Instrumental in evaluation and set up of all new product and procedures.• Performed consultant role in product evaluation for automotive customers.• Instrumental in finding, negotiating and update of larger facility for relocation• Successful relocation of business operations without any interruption to customer base. Show less

Electronics Engineering, Electronics

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