President And Chief Executive Officer
Brake Resoures, Inc. & Braking Technologies, Llc
• Founded, led and grew start-up company, BTI, to annual revenues of $37M and over 200 employees, within 18 months. Became widely recognized as best-in-class for quality, production capacity, and on-time delivery of over 10M units, supplying to Ford, Chrysler, and GM, through Bendix/Honeywell, among others. • Established critical partnerships with industry leaders such as Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, Bosch, Honeywell, Continental Teves and TRW.• Recognized need for international manufacturing as competitive advantage and opened manufacturing facility in Navajoa, Mexico. • Initiated and drove quality and manufacturing process certifications, including: ISO, QS9001 and TS16949, Six Sigma - Black Belt, and LEAN. These accomplishments lead to:• Increasing productivity by over 25% and forecasting accuracy by more than 95% by streamlining the production process and eliminating non-value-added factors affecting production.• Producing the lowest external defect rate in the industry worldwide, reaching only 3 parts per million (reduced from 150 PPM).• Realizing savings of 83% by reducing internal scrap material to only .5%. • Established one of the safest work environments in the industry, by taking the company from a previous high of 91 days without incident to over 850 days. Reducing the companies Worker Compensation modifier by more than 60%.• Established and managed a distribution system serving over 300 international customers at 98% with order turns as low as 48 hours. • Developed a raw inventory control system reducing the total raw inventory by 40% and related labor cost by over 50%.• Managed a Supply Chain with more than 300 total vendors as well as an inventory consisting of over 26,000 raw part numbers, and more the 3,600 finished sku numbers.• Reduced lead times from 2 weeks to 48 hours and increased line and unit fill rates 95% to 98%. • Responsible for all HR materials within the facility consisting of over 300 people.
