Vernon Shipley Email & Phone Number

United States

Management of the corporate facilities and office operations.

Nimble was acquired by HPE - Owned and managed facility operations teams for optimizing performance simultaneously at 9 sites at HPE, including; security, cleaning, repairs, building upgrades and resource expansions, waste and recycling, sever/RFI & hardware labs, health and safety. Created stipend food program for the Engineering sites, troubleshot procedure and addressed work place experience items. Held open house for new locations and closed old sites. Held steering meetings and collaborated with business units to improve the employee work place experience.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Planned, designed and managed relocation and expansion of over 100 employee facility space on time and under budget using end-to-end project management methods and tools. Executed all aspects of $300K budget while providing effective vendor coordination and communications to all stakeholders including executive management. Managed $1M Maintenance budget ($2M R&M). • Designed and implemented methods to proactively accommodate company’s 300% Silicon Valley headcount growth within 2 years. Performed demand and capacity management to accommodate growth while meeting regulatory compliance requirements such as OSHA and ADA.• Implemented and executed engineering server laboratory HVAC/electrical demand management process, including assessing and implementing a $70K power upgrade requirements due to increasing engineering assets. • Owned and managed all security requirements of the San Jose facility including 24 hour alarm systems, access management (vendor, employees, server rooms etc.), loss prevention investigation and mitigation, server room environmental monitoring.• Implemented and managed a companywide ergonomics program, including proactive risk assessment, employee training, solution implementation, and coordinating external consultants when necessary.• Developed and implemented companywide emergency and safety programs including defining evacuation strategies, conducting periodic evacuation and first responders’’ trainings and executing evacuation simulations.• Provided remote facilities support to the North Carolina site by identifying and coordinating local vendors and propagating facilities requirements from the San Jose headquarters. • Provided additional support to contract manufacturing facilities by modifying manufacturing and test processes, performing metal fabrications for test equipment, and managed installation of test instruments including 1 Ton product test chamber to a new contract manufacturing company.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Established $100K in new customer sales the first month in sales as a sales representative.• Performed multiple large scale mechanical projects, including Managed and executed a $100K budget 35 high speed rollup door installation project with zero defects.• Implemented strategies to maintain and improve fleet of service vehicles, tools/suppliers inventory, OSHA and other standard safety regulations.• Managed the Safety program by designing and implementing safety protocols including “The Near Miss” program, evacuation plans, developing various matrices including schedules for verification of safety equipment conditions and conducting trainings. • Reduced monthly “concerned customer” calls totals by 20% by designing and implementing tools such as the Discrepancy Report to improve quality.• Completely eliminated the cause of back logged preventative maintenance by identifying and implementing process changes.• Provided timely problem solving for customers through dispatch selection of 20 technicians, estimating/quoting, selecting vendors, staging equipment/materials and getting customer feedback.

Berkley, Ca / Honolulu, Hi

Engaged in all equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, quality assurance assessments, parts ordering and repairs for multiple sites.• Immediately improved quarterly audit ratings for facilities/equipment by achieving A+ ratings and defect free awards at the Honolulu site.• Developed periodic maintenance schedules to proactively address OSHA/Facilities and equipment issues.

San Francisco Bay Area

Supervised 10 hardware/calibration engineers and warehouse employees and implemented repair strategies. •Supervised the transfer of equipment repair processes from Connecticut to California, including development of technical documentation to facilitate the repair/calibration and safe handling of radioactive PCR/DNA analysis equipments.• Personally conducted repairs and validations for products as needed to stay on schedule.• Implemented strategies which reduced the repair time of the PCR equipment from 14 days to 4 days.• Ensured compliance to established calibration protocols developed for the Federal Investigative Bureau• Managed weekly staff meetings, completed monthly production reports, approved time cards and other activities with managing a team.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Lead a special quality improvement team and implemented multiple process improvements resulting in a reduction of scrap materials by 3% overall.• Maintained performance standards for automated disc manufacturing equipment including servo-writers, adept robotics, and wash equipment in a cleanroom environment.• Trained, certified and maintained matrixes for clean room processes. Implemented companywide materials including the “New Hire Clean Room Orientation”, government audited “On Track” training program.

Education record

o HR Development Training o Strategic Advantage Training o ISO 9000 Auditing Processional Sequence Award

Education record

Coursework: Handling difficult and demanding customers, Business writing, management and techniques, Performance management, What it takes.

Education record

Mil Spec Component Solder Training