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As President, I established an independent LLC from a division of Mitchell Rubber Products Inc. following the private equity sale of the parent company in 2017. In this role, I directed domestic and international manufacturing processes garnering $20M in annual revenue. My strategic vision drove performance and cohesion through reduction with a total overhaul of management structures, supply base, and product mix.• Achieved the company’s first profitable year (2018) in 15+ years without corporate subsidy.• Facilitated the smooth conversion to an LLC while preserving long-term, first-tier supplierposition with major original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers.• Attained +53% revenue YOY by redesigning the contract management policy alongside introductionof ABL; improved institutional cash flow without any equity or ownership changes.• Turned a positive gross profit on -52% revenue without breaking lending agreements; navigated acomplete business model conversion and an international operations shift during an economic decline.• Facilitated a 40% reduction in enterprise-wide production and SG&A costs through theimplementation of a new budgetary strategy.• Reduced raw material cost by 10% by introducing a method for production teams to report productionat the individual press using Enterprise Resource Planning software.• Accomplished a 100% on-time substantial completion in 2018 and 2019, with the lowest lead timefor playground equipment.• Earned “partner” status, a high-level recognition denoting absence of warranty and quality claims atmultiple Fortune 100 OEMs in 2018 and 2019.

I was promoted to this role, concurrent with my Product Manager position, to lead the restorationproject for a brown field manufacturing site (i.e., closed facility). The site had previously endured nearly 80 years of chemical manufacturing with minimal waste disposal regulations, and so I identified and executed critical rehabilitation projects to ensure its environmental safety.• Spearheaded the $4M rehabilitation after successfully winning the four-building property and equipment at a bankruptcy auction.• Turned a profit of more than triple the initial investment by expediating the site’s sale to the ValleyProcessing division in Virginia.• Secured a complex, multi-year $10M lease and plant production contracts as co-landlord/operator.• Solidified company’s return on investment by representing Gran Tree Investments throughoutcomprehensive negotiations with Valley Processing Virginia.• Received $100K in local and state grants/endowments to relaunch the factory location; collaboratedweekly with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to report on progress.• Awarded a Letter of Amnesty from the DEQ due to operational transparency and the improvement ofthe property to federal (EPA) standards.• Increased the company’s property and asset value, received better insurance rates, and massivelyreduced the operation’s exposure to costly brownfield site reporting because of the amnesty award.

In this role, I liaised with executives and Board members to report on enterprise strategy and business development for this division of MRP Inc. (sold in 2017).• Generated $50M in annual revenue via the management of product implementation projects and cross-functional engineering, sales, quality, accounting, and production teams.• Increased revenue by 30% from 2012 to 2015, one of the highest gross profit percentages in thecompany, by obtaining multi-year, cross-platform vehicle contracts.• Yielded a 60% cost reduction for molding tools and avoided domestic supply chain constraints throughthe engagement of global sourcing.• Expanded product portfolio to include emerging technologies in rubber compound development, whichled to extended trials and played a major factor in the 2017 business sale.• Promoted company’s commitment to technical support by prioritizing the chemical engineering team’scustom compound development projects (unique to each customer) around the sales pipeline.• Built relationships with technical raw material suppliers (e.g., Dow Chemical, Exxon Mobil, Dupont,and RT Vanderbilt) to access top-of-the-line polymers and provide better quality customer applications.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

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