Education

B.S., Chemistry & Math
25 semester hours toward MBA

Experience

2009-2011 MFG. MANAGER, Confidential, Douglas, GA

• Production Manager of 175-employee industrial wire and cable plant
• Team Leader for Lean/Six Sigma project
• Cut department spending by 15%
• Increased plant productivity by 35% over three years
• Reduced production LTA rate from 22.4 to 1.2

2006-2009 PROJECT MANAGER, Confidential, Douglas, GA

• Managed project to start-up a new industrial cable manufacturing plant
• Did equipment/production line layout and oversaw installation
• Supervised startup of machines, de-bugging, and fine-tuning

2003-2006 ENGINEERING MANAGER, Confidential, Marshall, TX

• Managed Process and Facilities Engineering in a 300-employee plant
• Reduced maintenance spending by $300K
• Developed new extruder screw designs that increased output by 50%
• Developed software for optimizing vulcanization line speeds
• Designed and implemented a multi-skilled maintenance job system

1998-2003 SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER, Confidential, Malvern, AR

• Responsible for extrusion insulating and jacketing departments
• Installed pipe extrusion machinery for manufacturing cable-in-conduit
• Project Manager for major extrusion department expansion
• Team Leader of Six Sigma project team

1996-1998 PROCESS ENGINEER, Confidential, Rome, NY

• Assigned to extrusion department doing setups and trouble-shooting
• Developed novel tooling for extruding striped PVC insulation
• Member of plant Quality Committee and ISO Qualification Teams
• Maintained plant machine standards system