Wesley Nelson Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Wellington, Missouri

• Owned by Orscheln Products, a privately held/family-owned business, the QuEST Rail division has three site locations with 55 employees providing engineering services and manufacture safety-critical devices for the rail.
• Oversees the P&L statement including $15M in revenue and $500K in capital expenditures annually. Since 2017, the division has grown 3X while exceeding customers’ expectations for quality, on-time delivery, and customer.
• Leads strategic planning, in partnership with leadership, to create long-term strategies that guide the business which has improved inventory control systems through cycle counting (from 85% to maintaining 99.8%.
• Builds trusted relationships with key stakeholders including clients (10+), vendors (80+), cross-functional partners (50+), and employees (50+) by acting with integrity, earning trust, communicating directly.

Grain Valley, Missouri

• Start-up privately-held custom metal fabricator of specialty trucks and trailers with $18M in revenue and 50 employees.Oversaw key projects with significant constraints, processes to drive efficiency, system.
• Developed implemented and verified best practice standards for quality control and design to drive consistency which led to a 70% increase in sales in one year.
• Drove efficiency by auditing processes through on-site field surveys, writing technical narratives to document processes, and maintaining records to track against changes; Systematized part numbering to improve.
• Led the RFP process to successfully identify and implement an ERP (Misys) system to improve the supply chain and business operations processes.
• Led large-scale projects, including building proprietary process equipment, to drive successful on-time and on-budget completion despite aggressive constraints.
• Improved the customer sales process by overhauling the design process (including the 3D CAD sales and engineering process) and partnering with marketing to develop an innovative approach to better target customers.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Drove continuous improvement, optimized day-to-day plant operations, achieved KPIs, coached team members, achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification, and exceeded customer expectations through improved on-time delivery (reducing lead time from 8 to 4 weeks) while maintaining high-quality product deliverables.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration And General Management

Industrial Electronics Technology (Coursework)

Industrial Electronics Technology (Coursework), Electronics Technology Program

High School Diploma