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Athens, Georgia, United States

United States

North East, Pennsylvania, United States

• Augmented revenue growth and EBIDTA expansion across all operational and business endeavors with $100 million in P&L responsibility. Established strategic plans in alignment with company objectives and implemented.
• Developed a strong safety culture with an emphasis on training and standardization allowing for 25% Improvement in TWIR.
• Chosen to attend the CRH Senior Management program, designed to develop top talent.
• Implemented KPI’s to drive the business, following LEAN principles and methodology driving improvement operational costs of 3%.
• Developed a 3year strategic roadmap for the area, positioning us as a market leader. Including investment plan and growth strategy.
• Implemented the use of Sales force to manage the commercial program.

• Facilitated operational strategy and deployment at 4 North American facilities and 1 European based facility.Ensure the efficient and cost-effective production of approximately $300M annually with approximately 500.
• Strong safety culture with near zero TWIR.
• Developed an operational/supply chain model to allow more accurate planning of production, decreasing down-time and improving overall capacity by 25% annually.
• Implement LEAN manufacturing principles at all facilities: driving productivity gains by +4% annually.
• Consolidated the manufacturing footprint while increasing overall capacity: Closed two antiquated facilities, reducing divisional overhead by over $4million annually.
• Instrumental in reducing divisional scrap from 14.2% to 5.8%, using PDCA cycle and visual management, setting targets and utilizing data to drive decisions - saving more than $6M annually.

Latvia

• Full P&L responsibilities. Managed daily operations of 2 facilities (Australia and Latvia), 160 employees (18 direct reports) with annual sales of approximately €85M. Devised and executed customer focused cultural.
• Reversed prior $1.2M loss to a $4.5M profit by reducing cost, improving sales, Innovations, and trimming expenses.
• Boosted capacity of higher generating EBITDA SKUs by 50%. While reducing warranty claims
• Significantly reduced inventories at facility from €1.4M to €750K through LEAN methodologies.
• Achieved positive safety record going from 13TIR to less than 1 TIR.
• Directed continuous improvement across 26 European manufacturing facilities. Established operational excellence programs focusing on warranty (COQ internal and external) material savings (usage and inventory), capacity.

Oberon NSW Australia

Business unit was Purchased By JELD-WEN in 2000

Business Management

Education record

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt