Senior Development, Project Management and Operations Executive
Industrial Automation – Custom Automated Systems
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Industrial Automation Expert
Offering extensive successes utilizing the strong capability of forming a 360° view of the customer's objectives and project needs. Deeply accomplished in strengthening the industrial automation project and contract success due to leadership, team and communication capabilities built on an extensive technical knowledge base, strong financial capabilities, and summing into cost, technical, schedule and quality opportunities.
Proven Team Leader and Change Negotiator
Apply knowledge and experience of an extensive base of technologies built over a long career in a fast paced, high engineering content environment. Expert in managing project transition and periods of commercial or technical stress.
Product Development to Automation Line Commissioning
Move organization from a machine manufacturing company to a high value add company that delivers complex, custom capital equipment programs to the client's highest profile brands. Expand offerings to meet the newly identified needs by changing product offerings, corporate culture and expertise.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Aristech Acrylics, a Mitsubishi Company, Florence, KY
2007 to 2009
Chemical manufacturer of acrylic products for the kitchen, bath and spa industries.
Financial Analyst, Treasury Department
Built advanced spreadsheets to evaluate data to manage business. Created cash flow and forecasting models. Managed accounts receivable aging analysis and roll forward validation. Provided sales analysis identifying impact of volume/price changes.
Overall Results and Select Achievements
Served as the bank liaison with Wells Fargo Foothill bank by creating a relationshipto serve as daily contact in sales and AR collection reporting, AR aging and bank covenant management. Developed new computer programming with WFF to eliminate accounts receivable variances.
Created a key raw material analysis report to manage an inventory of $35 million in raw material components illustrating purchases, usage and aging.
PRECISION INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION, CINCINNATI, OHIO
1989 to 1998 and 2000 to 2005
Custom Automation Engineering & Manufacturer provider for Fortune 50 companies providing clients a unique process and technical competitive edge to many household name brands. Promoted throughout career from Project Supervisor to VP, Programs and Operations.
Vice President, Programs and Operations, Precision 2000 to 2005 Promoted to transform the operations of the business to instill flexibility and change management techniques. P&L management. 9 direct and 70 indirect reports in a 100,000 square foot facility. Including: purchasing, machine shop, assembly, test, shipping, facilities.
Overall Results and Select Achievements
Lead negotiator for a $9 million contract cancellation from DaimlerChrysler due to the sale of DaimlerChrysler's Dayton stamping and assembly plant. Yielded a 55% return on investment.
Won key supplier contract valued at $2.0 million in engineering and process development for P&G's Pringles brand.
Built company's Work Holding Systems product line recruiting key individuals from across the country providing the needed expertise, researched and upgraded engineering software to SolidEdge. Completed to better utilize machine shop capacity making the product line and machine shop a stand alone profit center reaching profitability within six months.
Served as a key member of the risk management team to determine contract and technical risk to all orders prior to order acceptance. This process yielded better transition from sales to project teams and executive management buy in.
Retooled company's purchasing department by setting project management style performance metrics for on time delivery and superior service expectations.
RA Jones and Company (an IWKA Company), Covington, KY
1998 to 2000
Industry leader in high speed cartooning, case packing and pouching applications for non durable consumer products. Strong international and US presence.
Project Manager
Recruited to join the newly formed Project Management department at RA Jones as this organization's new president changes management style.
Overall Results and Select Achievements
Provided expertise to company's initial PM team as part of a new management model.
Increased project margins by capturing and charging for change orders.
Managed co-vendor relationships to place equipment at PMMI show in Chicago, Illinois.
Worked with sales team to secure $5.0 million dollar CibaVision contract. Offered news sales approach and negotiating expertise to win contract.
Key clients include CibaVision, Johnson & Johnson, McNeil, Cott Beverage and Procter and Gamble.
Director of Programs, Precision
1994 to 1998
Promoted to install project management and project team concept across all product lines in the organization due to the success of the projects in the consumer non durable line. Entire organization moves from functional to matrix management.
Overall Results and Select Achievements
Managed Chrysler Toledo Machining Account due to size of the account. Built order from the initial $5 million dollar torque converter assembly/leak test order to a repeat business equating to $32 million dollars over the next five years.
Designed and implemented templates, schedules and processes and installed company wide.
Hired and trained Project Managers to fit different product lines and customer styles.
Manager of Programs, Precision
1991 to 1994
Promoted to build the Procter and Gamble business. PM of the Crest Toothbrush assembly program, a high engineering development content program to produce the first non-stitch technology toothbrush. This exclusive process led to the capability to control bristle positioning, length, sharpness leading to multiple, marketable toothbrush app...
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