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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Self Employed                                                                                    

Rensselaer, NY

Property Manager,Confidential,7/09 - Present

• Purchased apartment building and managed demo and complete rebuild.
• Ensured project was completed within budget and in accordance with established schedule.
• Completed structural, building, plumbing and electrical requirements to appropriate building codes.
• Managed and coordinated various contractors including obtaining multiple bids, negotiating terms, and managing efforts of chosen vendor to ensure work completed as agreed.

Process Quality Engineer ,Confidential,          Schenectady, NY6/08– 7/09

• Ensured all work compliance to engineering specifications, drawings and ISO standards.
• Worked with internal departments to resolve in-house and supplier quality problems.
• Ensured all process validations and ongoing product reliability testing was done to written standards.
• Performed analysis of customer complaints; initiated and followed-up on CAR.
• Developed and presented to management monthly reports identifying quality concerns, trends, and costs.
• Conducted internal audits; prepared and issued summarized reports.
• Assured quality considerations were adequately covered in the design, testing, and release of materials, components, and products.

Manufacturing Engineer          , Confidential,Coxsackie, NY7/07 – 6/08

• Planned, directed and coordinated sheetmetal manufacturing processes on coating /chemical process line.
• Managed project for tear down and reconstruction of new coating /chemical process line.
• Wrote machine specifications for the procurement of new machinery and equipment
• Designed, installed, documented and refined production systems to meet safety, quality, and triple cell throughput.

Continuous Improvement Manager,Confidential, 11/05 – 7/07

• Managed and facilitated the entire plant’s Lean transformation initiative and strategy.
• Facilitated the use of such lean tools as Kaizen, Kanban, 5S, load leveling, set-up reduction, Problem-Solving, etc. in support of the Lean enterprise initiative.
• Provided leadership / mentoring / training to all levels of the company on the use and practice of Lean enterprise methodology and tools creating a culture of continuous improvement.
• Measured the effectiveness of continuous improvement efforts to report the results on a monthly basis across the plant.

Quality Engineer,Confidential,            East Greenbush, NY11/02 – 11/05

• Worked on several high speed weaving and needling projects with global interaction.
• Worked with R&D to develop new machines and new non woven product and processes.
• Measured weaving process capability Ppk and identified areas for improvement..
• Identified processes not operating at the desired capability levels and led efforts to improve the process capability from a .67Cpk to a 3.47 Cpk.

Process Engineer,Confidential, 9/99 – 11/02

• Applied continuous improvement techniques for weaving bonding and needling process and equipment and turned several R&D projects into full blown production products.
• Increased R&D bonding production more than 800% percent from 5 to 40 fabrics a week.
• Explored, developed and specified new process technology equipment.
• Made quality decisions / provide technical support and training for managers, designers and technicians.

Manufacturing Coordinator,Confidential, 1/98 – 9/99

• Implemented and utilized a plant wide yield program, resulting in annual savings of $130K. 
• Formulated a weekly production report encompassing all areas of plant manufacturing for both East Greenbush and St Stephen facilities.
• Developed a data acquisition system to track machine utilization, pieces produced, and downtime by operator.
• Developed data acquisition programs to gather and store all quality data from cardline.
• Worked between technicians and management to continually improve the manufacturing process.

Production Control Coordinator           ,Confidential, 1/95 – 12/97

• Scheduled all weaving and carding equipment for the east greenbush facility.
• Ordered all yarns and fibers for production and setup Kanban system for fibers.
• Implementation of the new MRP-2 computer system into east greenbush facility.
• Maintained plant finite capacity planning system (FACT).
• Updated all ISO documentation for Production Control to new MRP system.

MRP Implementation Coordinator,Confidential,          7/93 – 12/94

• Worked with a team of 25 to implement an MRP-2 computer system now used in 36 plants worldwide.
• Developed and maintained a coding document to address all system codes for MRP implementation.
• Conducted group training of plant and office end users of the MRP-2 system.
• Setup all stockroom items / machine parts and product inventory under the new MRP-2 system.

Integrated Data Manufacturing System Specialist,Confidential,         4/92 – 7/93

• Participated on a team of four to develop/ implement several data acquisition software applications.
• Prepared on-line documentation for all data acquisition systems developed.
• Trained Manufacturing Technicians on DOS, Windows and other in house developed software applications.
• Purchased, installed, and maintained all manufacturing computer hardware.

Weaving Technician,Confidential, 9/90 – 4/92

• Functioned as warp-out coordinator for all weave looms at the East Greenbush facility.
• Performed changeovers and setup of various products on all weave looms.
• Operated looms and maintained quality of product.

Education:

• M.B.A., Business Management            April 1999

B.S., Business / Public Management May 1989

• A.A.S., Business Administration May 1986

Software
Access, Excel, Powerpoint, Word, ERP, MRP, Minitab, SPSS, Lotus Notes