Theron Kee (T.K.) Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

Georgia

Hickory Hill Solutions, LLC helps people achieve greater job performance – going beyond their own self-imposed limitations to deliver exceptional results. We listen to the pain points through needs analysis and then identify skill gaps, define specific competencies, outline learning paths, and provide customized training. We provide needs analysis and.

Norcross, GA

• Built a strong, motivated & cohesive team of up to 18 direct reports, 11 indirect reports, and 9 contractors to develop training materials and deliver courses for onsite and offsite international class locations.
• Scheduled up to 750 standard, custom, solution partner, and distributor classes per year; along with roughly 470 associated equipment sets and accompanying classroom curricula; maximizing efficiency, satisfying.
• Demonstrated leadership skills promoting and establishing cross-functional interactions with business units and outside vendors.
• Assisted Operations in developing/deploying a semi-automated class and equipment scheduling tool.
• Interfaced with Operations and PLM sectors to specify internal software tool development for identifying projects, determining course offerings, updating class materials, and forecasting instructor/equipment.
• Developed business plans for new curricula, including developing partnerships, determining mainstream market viability, creating price points, and determining ROI impact.

Norcross, GA

• Managed a national team of up to 18 instructors, 6 company, and 14 partner training delivery locations.
• Coordinated the IACET accreditation process; became an IACET Provider of CEU credits.
• Coordinated with shipping to improve equipment database for equipment tracking.
• Defined specifications for web-accessible time tracking tools to accurately record time against projects for development planning, time, costs, and pricing.
• Created annual budgets for the training delivery segment of the Training Department with quarterly reviews to determine purchase postponements or accelerations to facilitate cash flow.
• Applied creative problem solving to satisfy unique customer requirements through resourceful and rational management.

Norcross, GA

• Managed a national team of 12 instructors in 3 locations.
• Introduced and developed training for emerging automation and drives products; coordinated product launches with Market Managers using needs assessment, time and cost estimations, and ROI.
• Spearheaded the MICROMASTER and G-Series Drive Certification programs; worked with product managers to identify goals, needs, and content; performed gap analysis to identify deficiencies, training requirements, and.
• Instituted the SITRAIN Instructor Certification program; qualified U.S. instructors for the SITRAIN World-Trainer Certification database by establishing stringent standards based on the Siemens Germany core criteria.
• Tracked scheduling, customer contacts, price quotes, logistics, and customer satisfaction surveys in a Learning Management System (LMS).
• Served as Department IT Administrator; installed hardware and software on 150+ Dell and Siemens computers.

Norcross, GA

• Managed a local team of 8 instructors/developers and 1 Technical Writer.
• Established partnership with SITRAIN Headquarters in Germany on course development using Dr. Robert Mager’s principles and methodologies for instructional design and delivery; became the only training division to.
• Secured agreement to develop materials in modules, stored in XML format, for easy course customization and reusability.
• Directed creation and updates for 150+ course titles; defined style guide parameters; established document control, software requirements, and computer image libraries.
• Contributed to making the Training Department profitable for the first time in over 10 years.
• Implemented certification procedures to include written and hands-on proficiency tests.

Alpharetta/Norcross, GA

• Managed a local team of 5 instructors for Drives and Factory Automation; delivered customized training to the aerospace, steel, energy, and automotive industries.
• Lead a curriculum project team to develop and deliver training to a Nuclear Power Plant, using INPO standards.
• Edited courseware and delivered classes, as needed..

Alpharetta, Georgia

• Redesigned Sales Training materials for automation and drives courses.
• Worked as Team Leader to produce documentation for the HR Broadband Job Restructuring Initiative.
• Collaborated with SMEs; created training materials and labs for new product courses.
• Taught S7 and S5 PLC courses (Level I/II Programming & Maintenance), Advanced S7 Programming Languages, Sales Training for industrial software, and WinCC SCADA courses, locally and abroad.
• Provided hardware specifications for networking computers with PLCs. Recommended software applications for upcoming projects.
• Assisted Course/Instructor scheduling for the Training Department.

Minneapolis, MN

♦ Traveled extensively overseas for the purpose of gathering and analyzing performance information from international market companies to improve documentation, training, machine and preventive maintenance program to reduce machine-operating costs.♦ Organized and facilitated annual International Technology Conferences gathering top 3 global issues to.

Lund Sweden & Minneapolis, Minnesota

♦ Designed controls for servo-driven thermoforming/liquid-food filling machine prototype♦ Programmed and debugged filling machinery. ♦ Generated bills-of-material drawings, and electrical manuals.

Carrollton, TX

♦ Developed and conducted courses on Allen-Bradley PLCs, GE drives, registration controls, inductive heating, computer software, and mechanical maintenance using “Train-the-Trainer” and “Instructional Design” techniques and assisted with CBT development.♦ Recommended hardware and software for data acquisition project to import into a cross-platform.

Electronic Engineering Technology, 3.68

Electronics Engineering

General Studies