SUMMARY

• Exceptional ability to motivate a team of colleagues or direct reports with enthusiasm and vigor.
• Vast experience in manufacturing and engineering environments to improve productivity and efficiency and to develop creative new applications and products with a strong strategic focus.
• Strong character fosters the ability to lead diverse teams to a higher level of success.
• Effective communicator at all organizational levels and able to tailor the communication to suit the audience and their receptive condition.
• Skilled in organizational design and facilitation of staff development activities with innovative ideas and concepts for learning and for encouraging employees
• Exceptionally organized and detail - oriented with skills to analyze and calculate;
• Strong character, able to keep a calm demeanor in a high pressure environment
• Recognized for implementing advanced technologies, analyzing an organization's critical needs, and identifying potential opportunities, which enhance competitiveness and efficiency and generate millions in income

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Operations/General Management
• Organizational Development
• Creative Innovation
• Strategic Planning/Vision
• Crisis Management/ Prevention
• Relationship Building/ Retention
• Team Development/Facilitation
• Assessment/ Evaluation
• PPAP/ FMEA/ DVP&R/ ETC

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• FMEA, DVP&R, Lean, APQP, DV and PV testing, Multiple Brainstorming techniques
• Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Project/CAD
• Member of SAE, SCCA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Executive Business Development, Sales and Engineering Consulting

• Consultant to manufacturing companies for improvement of business processes, operations, engineering, customer relations, logistics, material supply stream, negotiating and any other executive or technical problem for which they require my expertise.
• Represent clients to executives, engineers, buyers and managers at OEMs and Tier1 and Tier2 suppliers.
• Develop strategic focus with CEOs and board members.
• Negotiate payment on delinquent accounts.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

GMI Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Called on executives, engineers, buyers and managers at Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Tier 1 suppliers.
• Experience with a broad range of materials and processes enables unusual, creative solutions to the customers' issues.
• Built a new team of sales professionals as client transitioned from a sales rep agency to having their own in-house sales organization.
• Combined the management of Sales and Engineering to provide fast response to customers' concerns.
• Managed the engineering group, Research & Development and test lab including regular employees, consultants and interns.
• Developed strategic focus of company with CEO and President and company ownership board.
• Generated Annual Operating Plan and presented to executive board.
• AOP was proven to be accurate.
• Streamlined production processes to reduce labor and material costs using Kaizen, 5Y and other techniques.
• Developed new ideas using multiple creativity techniques such as brainstorming, de Bono's colored hats, biomimicry, SWOT
• Negotiated payment on delinquent accounts and purchase order terms with both domestic and Asian customers.
• Negotiated price increases on low performing products.
• Developed new cost estimating spreadsheets to more accurately reflect actual cost structures with more refined cost models.
• Used these cost estimating tools to quote new business and refine the quoting process.
• Improved manufacturing throughput on existing low performing machines

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Vice President of Engineering & Sales

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all engineering and sales for a midsized automotive manufacturing company reporting to the Owner, Dan T. Confidential III with 10-12 direct reports in Engineering, R&D and Sales.
• Products include multi-layer stamped heat shields and molded acoustic treatments.
• Products also included combination products with thermal and NVH properties.
• Called on executives, engineers, buyers and managers at Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Tier 1 suppliers. Experience with a broad range of materials and processes enables unusual, creative solutions to the customers' NVH and thermal issues.
• Built up a new team of sales professionals as Confidential transitioned from a sales rep agency to having their own in­house sales organization.
• Combined the management of Sales and Engineering to provide fast response to customers' concerns.
• Managed the engineering group, Research & Development and test lab including consultants and interns.
• Developed and set the strategic focus of company with CEO, President and company ownership board.
• Generated Annual Operating Plan using knowledge of sales trends.
• Sales prediction was accurate to within a few percent.
• Streamlined production processes to reduce labor and material costs.
• Negotiated payment on delinquent accounts and purchase order terms with both domestic and Asian customers.
• Negotiated price increases on low performing products.
• Purchase order to quote ratio of over 15% on new business.

Confidential, Howell, MI

Technical Sales Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for sales and technical support and new product engineering, calling on engineers and managers at Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and many Tier 1 suppliers.
• Engaged multiple OEMs in projects generating purchase orders in excess of $75 million in sales over the next five years
• Designed and launched acoustic barrier for subwoofers of 2013 Viper
• Designed and launched battery insulator blanket for 2014 Jeep Cherokee in "record time" - 9 weeks
• Invented new PET fiber based materials for acoustic and thermal applications resulting in two patents
• Streamlined production processes to reduce labor and material costs
• Quoted over $100 million in potential business
• Saved Carcoustics millions of dollars in material costs through multiple purchasing initiatives such as
• Aluminum ingot purchasing program (vs buying from local distributors) o Alternate PET suppliers
• PET /Al/adhesive lamination and blanking supply o Perforated aluminum foil supply o In-house adhesive application

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Sr Technical Cost Reduction Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for searching opportunities for Confidential vehicle cost reduction.
• Duties included coordination of discovery, analysis, testing and implementation of concepts to reduce the cost of Confidential vehicles.
• This position included extensive interaction with vendors and release engineers and managers within Confidential .
• Responsibilities also included a broad range of automotive technologies including NVH treatments, interior components and HVAC.
• I generated cost savings of more than $20 million in annual savings which far surpassed all others in the group.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Diagnostics Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completed Tech-II OBD-II diagnostics for all Confidential front wheel drive automatic transmissions and all-wheel-drive coupling.
• Responsibilities required coordination with transmission engineers to develop diagnostics procedures which would aid the service technician in determining failures in the transmission.

Confidential, Warren, MI

Sr. Cost Reduction Manager

Responsibilities:

• Special assignment at the Confidential Warren Tech Center to discover cost reduction opportunities in HVAC systems in Confidential vehicles.
• Duties include coordination of discovery, analysis, testing and implementation of concepts to reduce the cost of HVAC systems.
• This position included extensive interaction with vendors, engineers and managers within Confidential .
• Achieved greater than $10 million in annual savings on Confidential vehicles.

Confidential, Milford, MI

HVAC Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Development of manual and automatic climate control systems, testing in extreme climatic conditions and lab testing in climatic wind tunnels.
• Lead on-road vehicle testing trips to Nevada, Texas, Florida, etc.
• Developed auto HVAC systems for Chinese Buick minivan and Regal as well as Confidential domestic Pontiac Grand Prix and Confidential Impala.

Confidential, Flint, MI

HVAC NVH Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• NVH development in HVAC systems including noise due to airflow, refrigerant, blower motors, actuators, aspirators, aux blowers.
• Designed and built a semi-anechoic chamber for NVH testing.
• Achieved best-in-class NVH levels on 1998 Cadillac STS.

Confidential, Livonia, MI

R&D Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Development of tools and prototypes of auto seat systems.
• Developed and tested the Confidential integrated child seat including sled tests and packaging studies in many different environments.
• Developed an articulated seat concept for occupant safety.
• Managed R&D functions and was responsible for Plymouth Prowler all-aluminum seat.

Confidential, Windsor, Ontario

Manufacturing Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Set up computerized preventive maintenance program at a green field startup.
• Equipped maintenance machine shop.
• Designed safety equipment for plant machinery.
• Designed and built production fixtures for seat manufacturing.
• Led Fire Safety Committee and designed evacuation plan

Confidential, Newmarket, Ontario

R&D Prototype Builder

Responsibilities:

• Developed urethane foam seat cushion mold-in-place tooling concepts and prototypes.
• Built prototype runs of seat frames, electric and manual seat adjusters, seat frames.
• Did extensive precision machining, welding, fabricating, sheet metal forming, epoxy tooling, composite bodywork forming and other techniques related to prototype building.