Summary
14 years of technical and operations management experience in the aerospace and automotive service industries advancing team cultures. Values based leader with a track record of successes in turnaround, restructuring and thriving organizations. A proven professional practicing strategic thinking, risk mitigation and teamwork resulting in improving revenues, margins and productivity.
Experience
ASSOCIATED RACK CORPORATION - CHICAGO, IL 2010
Corporate Manager
Led the creation of succession and strategic plans of a 62 year old corporation which includes 7 plants nationwide with approximately 100 employees. Identified a corporate focus: developed, documented and implemented corporate values and goals. In 8 months restored the CA plant to two consecutive quarters of profitability after 5 years of quarterly losses.
THERMAL-VAC TECHNOLOGY - ORANGE, CA 2006 to 2010
Engineering Manager
Increased productivity and technical capability of the Engineering Department comprised of 4 professionals including a Metallurgist, Process Engineer, Material Lab/Planning Technician and a Planning Engineer. Responsibilities of the department includes sales, creation of work instructions, disposition of discrepancies, new process start-ups, continuous improvement, root cause investigations, contract review, NADCAP, auditing and customer service. Processed and joined exotic and challenging materials: Ceramics, Aluminum Alloys, Refractory Alloys, Titanium, Super Alloys, Stainless Steels, Copper Alloys and Tool Steels. Demonstrated expertise engineering and identifying service opportunities in brazing, thermal processing, plating, cleaning, chemical processing and Silicide coatings with the result of improving customer partnerships and market share.
Metal Finishing Manager
Tripled department revenue by marketing to our prime customers engineers and by delivering innovative and rapid technical solutions and services. The department supported programs such as Orion, Space Shuttle, Delta IV, Falcon 9 and New Shepard. The department’s sales to labor ratio was nearly double the company average.
PCA INDUSTRIES - FULLERTON, CA 2002 to 2005
Plant Manager
Managed an aluminum plating plant, a full analytical testing laboratory and a waste treatment facility with 60 employees, 5 semi-automatic processing lines, 3 Managers and a chemist over 24-hours of operation. Dramatically reduced material budget and annual purchases from 1 million to 0.78 million by strategic partnerships with suppliers and redesigning processes that reduced the nickel content of product. Upgraded the culture, created quality control and implemented lean practices which resulted in reductions in reworks from 30% to 8% and increased productivity from 600 units to 1000 units a day without adding additional labor or increasing the annual labor budget
Environmental, Health and Safety Manager
Over two years reduced annual work place injuries from 10 to 2 and remained violation free with the regulatory agencies. Point of contact and company representative to the AQMD, EPA, OSHA, Fire Department and Orange County Environmental Health Department.
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