➤ Managing overall operations, leading the effective, successful management of labor, productivity, quality control, and safety measures as established and set for the Operations Department, ensuring safe and efficient operations➤ Leading a team of 5 area managers and over 70 associates while overseeing the production process, managing the production schedule, monitoring product standards and quality-control programs to ensure that products are produced on time➤ Seamlessly overseeing vendor management, meeting with third-parry providers, purchasing materials, and negotiating favorable contracts, while directly managing a $10MM annual budget on manufacturing components➤ Serving as the company representative on regulatory issues while enhancing the operational procedures, systems, and principles in the areas of information flow and management, business processes, enhanced management reporting while looking for opportunities to expand systems➤ Driving full project management and budgeting responsibility for new facility construction and move➤ Combining three facilities into one $15M 270,000 square foot operation resulting in annual multi-million dollar logistical, energy, and efficiency savings➤ Implementing laser-cutting automation that resulted in an annual savings of $1.5M through increased productivity and reduced workforce needs while reducing safety risks through decreased handling of heavy materials➤ Interviewing new employees, assigning or directing work, authoring and discussing performance appraisals, and addressing performance with corrective action plans➤ Developing operations systems by determining product handling and storage requirements as well as evaluating operational policies and procedures➤ Maintaining a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures, complying with company policies or legal regulations including OSHA standards

➤ Led project scheduling and budgeting to successfully and quickly complete engineering projects, specifying system components while directing product modifications to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications➤ Supported engineering designs through analysis and simulation, providing technical direction to other engineers, designers, and technicians while liaising between customers and manufacturing to design new products➤ Worked with management at the project level to ensure expense plans are achieved, completing projects by effectively applying engineering, technical, and maintenance procedures➤ Implemented schematics, diagrams, and written or verbal descriptions to effectively solve engineering project issues, overseeing the calibration or monitoring of devices as well as programming and troubleshooting devices following installation➤ Communicated customer issues with operations team and devising ways of improving the customer experience including resolving problems and complaints, working closely with GM and management team to set or implement policies, procedures, or systems including following through with implementation➤ Provided operations information or recommendations to strategic plans and reviews including preparing and completing action plans while implementing production, productivity, quality, or customer-service standards➤ Updated job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations➤ Worked closely with the inventory manager and team to perform analysis of inventory and to ensure effective inventory utilization, purchasing the right equipment, maintaining solid inventory data, and reducing sub-rental expenses