Experience

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  Endress+hauser group

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Manufacturing director/project manager

  Endress & Hauser designs and manufactures fuel storage measuring and gauging solutions. Project Manager/Manufacturing Engineer to transfer and establish a newly acquired manufacturing unit from California to Georgia. Promoted to Director due to strong performance.☆ Key Accomplishments ☆ ● Project Management role included creation of plant layouts, utilities installation, unloading/staging of arriving equipment, implementing employee training programs, and installation of assembly configurations aligned with a time phased schedule.● Reduced overhead costs by 35% by establishing a Kan-Ban inventory processes for automatic stock replenishment to support an open inventory system.● Founded continuous improvement programs to stabilize and improve production processes/procedures.● Improved overall operational performance by introducing employee cross-training programs to support team based manufacturing.Specialties: ✔Management ✔Employee Training ✔Reporting and Documentation ✔Cost Savings ✔Cross-Functional Team Leadership ✔Analysis of Bills of Material, Drawings, Specifications & Reports ✔Packaging ✔Kan-Ban techniques ✔Continuous Improvement✔Microsoft Suite Show less

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  Meggitt training systems

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2017

  Planned, managed, and concurrently executed multiple domestic/international weapon simulation projects in the commercial and military markets. Managed and delivered ROM proposal as well as detailed estimates to support sales teams.☆ Key Accomplishments ☆ ● Managed development for $34M+ in business value for the last 3 years in this role. ● Successful delivered 8 complex simulation projects with NRE values from $.5M-$8M for a total of $18.2M. ● 100% of customer and 90% of internal projects delivered on-time and within budget for all gated reviews and sign-off from concept to delivery.● Technically knowledgeable and able to lead multi-disciplinary teams.● Multi-faceted background from sales, manufacturing support, business improvement, and engineering development allows for practical experience collaborating with operations and sales organizations.● Employed PMI standards for project planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, to include Earned Value techniques, to more effectively plan and track project performance, deliver on time and on budget.● Significantly improved engineering quality of output and efficiency by championing and establishing for engineering both Jama Software for Requirements Management and Test Plan Execution, and Atlassian Jira for Defect Management and Agile/Scrum Development which contributed to real dollar savings to all engineering projects by reducing rework, acceleration of defect resolution, and establishing agile methods.Specialties: ✔Project Management ✔Engineering ✔Program Management ✔Product Development ✔Software Development✔Cross-Functional Team Leadership ✔Hardware Development ✔Project Plan Development ✔Project Estimation ✔Reporting and Documentation ✔Project Schedule Maintenance ✔Project Team Management ✔Analysis of BOM, Drawings, Specifications & Reports ✔Production Support ✔MS Project Server ✔Microsoft Suite Show less Led Engineering improvements as part of a select core team working with a consultancy that specialized in business improvement and leadership development. Individual efforts focused on project management, mentoring, cultural change, and process improvement. ☆ Key Accomplishments ☆ ● Accelerated the Engineering department’s execution rate while reducing cost through promoting and deploying methods similar to Six Sigma within cross-functional teams.● Increased Engineering efficiencies and reduced engineering costs by 6% through daily planning of all engineering activity. Aligned and linked activities to business and program objectives while having full traceability and verification of performance through a KPI structure.Specialties: ✔Process Improvement ✔Business Improvement ✔Project Management ✔Engineering ✔Cross-Functional Team Leadership ✔Reporting and Documentation ✔Project Team Management ✔ Microsoft Suite Show less Managed manufacturing engineering department responsible for supporting virtual products manufacturing. ☆ Key Accomplishments ☆ ● Accountable for components obsolescence issues, identified and qualified replacement components, managed vendors, modified designs to improve quality, reliability, manufacturability, and introduced new products into production. ● Successfully managed a $14.1M construction project for the design and build and relocation of the new 205,000 sq. ft. MTSI headquarters, engineering, and manufacturing facility while in this support role. This required the management of subcontractors and the mobilization of internal implementation groups. ● Decreased manufacturing labor costs, eliminated production stoppage, decreased production shortages, and generally increased profitability by establishing ISO compliant manufacturing documentation processes, image based production methods, predictive obsolescent management system, and an Engineering Change Notice (ECN) control database. ● $250K (average) saved per year by implementing cost-saving initiatives to process and materials.Specialties:✔New product release✔Obsolescence Management ✔Reporting and Documentation ✔Cost Savings ✔Product Development ✔Hardware Development ✔Cross-Functional Team Leadership ✔Analysis of Bills of Material, Drawings, Specifications & Reports✔Microsoft Suite Show less

  • Project Manager for Virtual Technologies

    Jan 2010 - Jan 2017

  • Business Improvement Leader

    Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  • Manufacturing Engineering Manager

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2009
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  Epm services, llc

  Jan 2017 - Sept 2018

  Engineering and project management

  Seasoned, versatile, and self-motivated engineering and project management professional with more than 20+ years collective expertise in IT Consulting, Regulatory Compliance, Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering Management, Change Management, Construction and Technical Project Management. ● Experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams in fast pace environments for new product development from inception to sign-off, manufacturing engineering support from product release to closure, and engineering process optimization requiring significant roll-out efforts and training. ● Led sustaining and development efforts with highly technical products consisting of electrical, electronic, mechanical, and complex software components in the commercial, law enforcement, and military sectors. ● Able to conduct Regulatory Compliance activities with FCC, CE, various military standards, and environmental testing. Show less

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  Raytheon missiles & defense

  Sept 2018 - now

  Section manager - engineering services and prototyping