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California, United States

Waxahachie, Texas, United States

Designers and builders of outdoor shade structures

Organized start-up custom cabinet shop to provide small interior remodeling projects.Created marketing program to obtain new customers.Met with clients to design and specify materials and finishes.Partnered with larger remodeling company to increase dollar size and scope of projects.

Itasca

Residential remodeler and custom cabinet shop

Oversaw operations of $72MM heatset ink manufacturing facility.Expanded vertical integration of raw material manufacturing from one to six machines. Reduced material supplier's history of regular price increases.Increased production and warehousing capacity by 50% to enter new market (news ink, sheetfed offset).Reduced variable production costs by strategically manufacturing certain products during off-peak production hours - Electrical $250M/year, Blanketing Gases-$40M, Renegotiated energy supply cost $100M.Initiated bulk loading and delivery project - added rail spur and 500000lb of bulk storage. Oversaw Production, M/RO, Health and Safety, and Shipping and Receiving departments.Reduced existing "off spec" inventory by half enabling company to save $120M in off-site storage costs

Oversaw production operations of unionized $12MM sheet-fed ink manufacturer.Motivated staff and employees to increase quality and productivity in order to improve sales.Instrumental in implementing new ERP system in order to better manage production costs and quality.Goal setting strategies with supervisors to reduce waste and improve delivery performance resulted in first measurable increase in over 4 years. Created cross functional teams of product development and union personnel in order to increase the efficiency of production equipment. Used same strategy to have departments agree on new equipment to be purchased.Initiated workflow documentation and process improvement strategies.Analyzed equipment logs to determine useful life of equipment versus repair costs.

Developed company-wide strategy to mitigate potential Y2K problems (across 15 divisions).Met with legal team to develop strategy to mitigate potential problem related to supply chain.Developed and implemented documents for each division to use as self-check and preparedness prior to event.Verified equipment manufacturers claims of "requires upgrade" to prevent unnecessary spending.Entire initiative resulted in only one machine downtime event of less than 24hrs. Earned company bonus for successful implementation.

Vertically Integrated folding carton manufacturer with 15 facilities.Met with Divisional VP's to evaluate and strategize on opportunities to reduce waste and improve quality and efficiency.Rolled out Kaizen programs to various divisions that resulted in 15% reduction in press downtime, and over $200M in waste reduction.Trained divisional quality managers in advanced quality techniques such and DOE, 5P and visual process controls. Folding Carton division reduced a single production line defect by 98% by using knowledge gained from DOE training.Presented cost saving opportunities and production improvement techniques to executive team.

Formulated automotive coatings and primers for plastics and metallic substrates.Provided on-site Quality Engineering support and travelled to customer's facilities on a regular basis to improve quality, consistency and to ultimately increase sales volume. Was instrumental part of team in obtaining contract for all coatings for the 1998 Honda Motorcycle line.Color matched and formulated coatings for future model year products - Toyota, Nissan, Honda.Assisted end users in rectifying technical concerns such as application difficulties and qualities issues.

Large TPO injection molding facility providing parts to Toyota, GM, Suzuki, Hyundai.Qualified and tested new equipment to improve parts quality and line processing speed - color monitoring equipment, fit and finish characteristics.Guided coatings supplier in color adjustment and application problems.Reduced color inconsistencies through real time color monitoring.As a supplier, created North American standard for checking fixture design submissions. Recognized by Honda of North America.

Bs, Industrial Technology And Management

Activities and Societies: Member ASQ CQE

Technical Diploma, Manufacturing Engineering

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