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Chattanooga, TN, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Developing/Designing innovative valve products with a focus on design for impact to performance, manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, & profitability
• Providing expert technical/engineering & leadership support, collaborating cross-functionally from customer facing leaders in Sales & Service to shop floor teams
• Leading cross-functional team/s of Product, Manufacturing / Industrial Engineers & manufacturing leaders in technical aspects & oversight of water products & solutions value streams; key influencer engaged in NPD &.
• Producing engineering deliverables to enable manufacturing for “engineered-to-order” customized valves/spec’s based on customer’s system application/s while using tools such as “Design for Manufacturing”, 3D CAD.

• Started up partnership & growing to multi-million dollar incorporated consulting business providing contract-based services & client engagements winning contracts & partnering with solid, diverse companies from.
• Directly lead client engagements, providing consulting services primarily in Lean Six Sigma-based Lean Manufacturing (Business Operating Systems) & profitable growth-focused Strategy Deployment with expertise through.

Zurich, ZH, CH

Lead entrepreneurial team of Industrial applications and Sales Engineers providing integrated industrial equipment, engineered products/systems, custom automation & robotics through ABB-engineered solutions & consultative selling to provide not only world-class ABB branded products & systems but complete solutions including expert technical support.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Lead/facilitated the Enterprise Strategy Deployment as a key, Lean Transformation executive leader on SVPs staff for growth division, “Integrated Solutions”;
• Lead top impact, Lean-based initiatives & strategic events in supporting the CEOs top Strat. Deployment exec. leadership team through the tier 1 enterprise SD process and monthly gap-based performance reviews.
• Sr Op’s leadership & Lean Six Sigma/Acuity Business System expert & Sr Advisor right hand to Div President for the “Growth Division” serving executive leadership team in driving the SD roadmap and related cascaded AIPs.
• Sr leader for Global Supply Chain Operations & ABS leader of Implementation team developing/deploying a QMS considered to be one of the top operational initiatives that enabled a BILLION-DOLLAR, HYPER-GROWTH.

North Ryde, New South Wales, AU

• Overseen Lean-centered extruded composites plant startup (business/plant/supply chain distribution operations)
• Lead R&D, Engineering, & operational startup aspects of project including greenfield plant op's, new product/process development elements for new, extruded composites products and business; lead overall.

Davidson, North Carolina, US

• Drove $75M P&L turnaround as GM through an effective transformational strategy deployment focused on innovation, effective business development tools and processes, a more robust QMS infrastructure, and operational.
• Achieved turnaround with breakthrough improvements through innovation and Lean transformation in 250+ employee business flipping EBT from red to very favorably in the black, on relatively flat sales and during a.
• Built high performance leadership team & culture while developing a transformation roadmap deployed to deliver dramatic YOY improvements & performance breakthroughs including productivity gains from process.

Huntersville, NC, US

• Championed LEAN deployment w/ integrated QMS for Rubbermaid with local process/industrial engineering team as the division Lean & Quality Leader
• Promoted to local site leadership with overall equipment/asset accountabilities for high performance textiles processes including twisting, warping, beaming, tufting, & looms in addition to some plastics molding and.
• Lead local sites operations (2 plants + DC) and engineering, reducing lead times by 25%, reducing L&VOH costs by 15%, reducing COPQ by 30% & improving on-time delivery from 90% to 98%; provided strategic “make vs buy”.

Denver, CO, US

• Overall Site Operations P&L + Safety, Quality, Productivity, & Delivery performance & matrixed engineered solutions business leader for “Engineered Products Group”
• Directly managed engineers, supervisors, maintenance, & support functions (HR, Finance, etc)
• Lead multiple capital projects, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt initiatives, & business team member on commercial & customer-facing initiatives

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Lead critical plant area & all manufacturing processes, equipment, KPI goals & related operations as the technical “process owner” with performance accountability for production & YOY goal of productivity &.
• Promoted to high visibility leadership role within Tier1 Automotive/Engineered Materials company/plant upon completion of executive MBA program at Wake Forest & certifying as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Overseen value stream with overall performance accountability for operations including Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, & Productivity; Drove KPI-focused improvements delivering over $2.3M in total YOY savings for.

Chattanooga, TN, US

• Lead projects in various functions starting on shop floor as a technician & craftsman, then design/manufacturing engineering, & sales/service operations
• Trained/worked hands-on in all crafts/cells in metal working & heavy equipment manufacturing environment including highly automated machine shop, welding, torch plasma cutting, saws, brake presses, stamping, drilling.

Executive Mba, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Highschool, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program