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Tejon, Ca

Custom modular housing construction• Manage manufacturing operations in two locations • Orchestrated the installation and commissioning of $12MM automated equipment• Control of RFIs and inspections to fast-track permit approvals • Evaluate equipment for readiness including capacity model, SOPs, critical spare parts, preventive/predictive maintenance, hiring plan• Establish and expand vendor services relationships • Coordinate knowledge transfer between departments and plants

Azusa, California, United States

Electrical power transmission and distribution systems, sensors, hardware, emergency recovery systems • 230 hourly, 20 salaried staff, three shift operation • Expand capacity and market share by 350% • Led gross margin improvements focused on tooling, process control, DFM, SOPs, supply chain • Propose / implement $1.2MM automation projects• Eliminate imported aluminum castings by machining from billet at lower cost • Develop and mentor vertically integrated improvement teams reducing nonconformance +50% • Institute formal Engineering Change Management, reduce R&D cycle time, development cost • Implement manufacturing engineering function to support shop-floor • Reduce hourly turnover +30% through data analysis and comprehensive action plans • Conduct machine guarding, electrical hazard and housekeeping inspections, CAPS

Sylmar Ca

Commercial refrigeration display glass doors and systems • Manage team of tool and die makers and tooling engineers• Introduce CNC machine center to manufacture parts for tooling• Create management system for +2,000 tools improving inventory and configuration control• Facilitate standardized tooling between domestic and international plants• Design tooling critical to launch new products

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sustainable beverage packaging systems • 250 hourly, 30 salaried staff• P&L management• Led margin improvement and JIT to grow market share 120% with highest EBITA ratio in division• Implemented 24/7 operation with no increase in salaried overhead • Prepared plant-wide annual financial plans and zero-based budget • Strategized B2B capacity optimization through commercial agreements achieving +90% OTD• Achieved world's first process-print for litho, reducing setup time and waste +80%• Orchestrated commissioning of and training for $17MM automated equipment• Led IT changeover of ERP system, executed on time, under budget, without customer shortages • Introduced Greenbelt 6Sigma-Lean for supervisors and operators • Achieved and sustained division lowest controllable waste • Achieved and sustained ISO 9001certification • Implemented employee engagement programs earning company wide highest score

London Ontario

Aircraft manufacture• Managed methods engineering, creating BOM / Routers / Work Instructions for 6 aircraft or +20K parts and sub-assemblies / week • Support implementation of model-year changes • Managed Bom and Router for internal rework and customer repairs and upgrades • Managed serialized traceability per FAA requirements on critical parts and equipment • Managed a Tiger Team for composite repairs off-shift with traceable temperature map • Reorganize assembly-lines to consolidate models, reducing WIP $6MM • Hire and lead assembly tooling / 6Sigma team, supporting composite, sub-assembly, machine shop, assembly line, avionics, reducing build hours 15% / aircraft • Initiate track and communication of final inspection snag data, reducing assembly snags 40% • Manage line transfer of DA42 model from parent plant in Austria, production of first 14 units• Coordinated security to comply with civil aviation standards of adjoining international airport• Represented Methods Engineering in in First Article Inspection of new and modified parts and tooling • Analyzed and solved the cause of crankcase seal failure on DA42 diesel powerplants• Introduce and test vacuum infusion molding to eliminate voids in composite construction• Represented Ontario plant in Austria for analysis of best practice manufacture and assembly• Improve curing of composites through process control upgrades • Initiate record keeping and storage of tooling to support legacy / aftermarket parts • Create FMEA model to prioritize tooling improvement requests and ideas• Manage stationary equipment and fixed asset maintenance team

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Beverage Packaging Systems• 180 hourly, 4 salaried staff • Formed and led improvement teams to de-bottleneck, raising OTD from 60% to +90%• Analyzed and improved print technology reducing press downtime 25%• Designed and patented tooling described by CEO as a ‘competitive advantage’• Commissioned $1.6MM automated packing / palletizing eliminating 14 positions• Reduced downtime 60% on automated packing line through analysis using high-speed camera

London, Ontario, Canada

Beverage packaging • 65 hourly, 4 salaried staff • P&L Management• Raised EBIT ratio to the highest percentile in the division• Facilitated SOPs and training that drove OEE to division best practice• Refined print technology to achieve division’s lowest controllable print wase in 50-year history• Implemented High Performance Work Systems, achieving highest category score • Formed & led vertically integrated improvement teams sustaining OTD above 90%• Introduced tool coating that extended tool life expectancy +500%• Developed closed-loop process control that reduced non-conformance +80% on sealers• Improved collaboration between planning, customer service, supply chain to achieve division best inventory turnover

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Green Belt

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