Tom Brock Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, OH, US

Akron, Ohio, United States

Adventures in real estate investment.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Set the manufacturing vision and strategy to take company from near start up to noted player in the industry. Transformed the manufacturing methodology and built an empowered, high performing team for future success.
• Developed content and conducted on the job training in LEAN Six Sigma with a focus on being a data driven organization. Improved per person productivity by 55 percent and developed a continuous improvement culture.
• Scaled up operation to meet aggressive market share initiatives, tripling the production output.
• Led reliability analysis of field performance data and drove collaboration with Engineering to solve the top three issues, doubling mean time to failure.
• Engaged key suppliers to realize a 20 percent reduction in Cost of Goods Sold. Key improvements due to focus on building long term relationships, better forecasting and joint solving of quality issues.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Successfully started up a sister medical device manufacturing company, with accountability for supply chain, manufacturing, quality control, and servicing. Mentored and empowered the new team. Created key performance.
• Led a people limited team to a fully functional state in less than 3 months, set up at a new facility without impact to customer base. Enhanced validation standards and exceeded production goals.
• Improved sales and operations planning function and used that data to collaborate with 2 key suppliers to eliminate supply shortages on the highest output line and save 10% material cost/year.
• Identified opportunity to maximize usage of floor space and guided the development of a quick change flexible manufacturing line. Up to 40% reduction in manufacturing footprint possible.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Achieved aggressive growth targets for manufacturing of the company's flagship product. Improved quality and reliability of the device through team leadership and data driven methods. Implemented lean manufacturing and.
• Increased production output by a factor of 5 to meet business needs. Improved efficiency by 50% which saved hiring 9 full time employees. Four fold reduction in recurring non-conformances. This was achieved by building.
• Created kaizen (continuous improvement) program. Coached team through value stream mapping to identify flow improvements. Through this data and training, shifted culture from batch building to one piece flow, reducing.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Championed a rigorous statistical methods training program. Guided engineers and manufacturing personnel in problem solving and validation, culminating in the successful launch of the premier product.
• Solved the top two manufacturing issues using statistical methods. Optimized processes utilizing design of experiments. Yield loss improved from 10% to less than 1%, saving $1,000,000 a year.
• Implemented a reliability program and provided coaching and training to engineering team. Used highly accelerated life testing methods to identify design weakness prior to manufacturing transfer.

Nogales, Mexico And Draper, UT

• Led multifunctional team in the expansion of manufacturing capability from a U.S. location to Mexico and improved manufacturing capability as manager of aseptic processing and extruded tubing businesses. Two roles with.
• Successfully transferred a $2.75 million aseptic process manufacturing project resulting in a year over year cost savings of $900,000.
• Mentored receiving-site personnel and provided guidance in good manufacturing practices and compliance to regulatory requirements; exceeded start up productivity expectations by 25%.
• Achieved all time production record in aseptic processing through validated process improvements, eclipsing previous best by 10% and resulting in $500,000 annual cost savings.
• Reduced equipment down time by 30% through implementation of mold cleaning best practices and improved filter testing equipment, enabling company to avoid supply chain interruptions.

Draper, UT

• Provided engineering expertise for ongoing improvement of the injection molding, extrusion, aseptic processing, and pharmaceutical water purification systems.
• Implemented several process and equipment upgrades to improve the quality and process robustness of the distillation and reverse osmosis water systems. Equipment uptime improved 10% and removed that area as a.
• Collaborated with product and technology development to commercialize two newly designed extruded tubing products, resulting in expanded market share in the respiratory care area.
• Improved production cycle time of blow molded products by 15% through optimized and validated process settings; production resources were made available to focus on other business priorities.

Roswell, GA

• Developed processes and equipment to supply a competitive advantage in material attributes of nonwoven fabrics and established intellectual property for market differentiation via fabric performance. Held 2 roles with.
• Designed and developed proprietary equipment and processes that significantly improved Spun Bond material attributes; 3 patents awarded.
• Guided the successful introduction of novel processing technology to a full scale manufacturing facility. Project was ahead of schedule 10%, under budget 13% and resulted in product improvement of 30%. This saved the.

Bsche, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Specialization Certificate

Activities and Societies: Student Chapter Vice President of The American Institute of Chemical Engineers.Cum Laude

Six Sigma Green Belt, Professional Certificate