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My entire career has been focused on how to solve problems in creative ways. This began early in my career while I was a Research Engineer for Avery Dennison. While at Avery, I was able to thoroughly learn and help to develop adhesive & silicone coated products. I also developed and automated lab & production test equipment to ensure the quality of the products. After Avery, I moved into the process roller industry. If it is manufactured continuously, it moves over some type of process roller. I continued to design, fabricate, wire, and program increasingly complicated equipment to fully quantify the geometry of our process rollers to a precision of 0.00001 inch. This inspection equipment helped my company become a leading supplier of precision rubber rollers. During this time I also started speaking at AIMCAL & CEMA conferences and publishing papers.As the lead implementer for our company’s LEAN manufacturing program, I was responsible for enabling the changes necessary to accomplish our goals in this process. I helped to supervise the cleanup & organizing of our facility. I redesigned the manufacturing layout of our 20,000 square foot facility in order to facilitate cellular workstations which boosted our through-put by 30% over the previous work flow. As a result of the many changes to our manufacturing facility & processes, our lead time for several of our product lines went from 15 working days down to 5 working days. Our customer returns went from approximately 3% of units produced down to less than 1%. Finally, our complete and on-time orders shipped (COTS) rate went from 50% up to 90%. To this day, I am responsible for conducting the daily GEMBA meeting (production related issues), administering the weekly KPI meeting and supervising our continuous improvement projects.

Listed skills include Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, and 24 others.