PO Box 4827
Mooresville, NC 28117
ph: 704 408-1704
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Recent ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Independent contractor for process engineering services for a multitude of industries. Client projects include:
● Functioning as an On Demand engineer to improve profitability for various manufacturers in the coating, non-wovens, adhesive manufacturing, and pigment dispersion industries. Responsibilities include investigations and assessments of equipment, reducing setup times, reducing waste, facilitating in-house teams, and improving process controls.
● Mining business data (Sales, Marketing, Customer, Process, Manufacturing) for actionable data and executive activities to achieve improvements.
● Transforming organizations to achieve a "simple and effective" business system which meets requirements of ISO9001:2015 Management System and achieve Registration.
● Design and develop and maintaining a HIPAA compliance program for a Business Associate.
● Achieve HITRUST validation certification for an IT company.
● Providing Commission and Start up services for a manufacturer of on line monitoring equipment in the coating industry.
● Specifying and investigating the used equipment market for a variety of clients to help solve manufacturing problem and/or improve efficiencies.
Previous Experiences
● Facilitated numerous teams using various problem solving tools. Key results included realizing incremental annual savings of over $1,000,000 in yield and inventory savings and reducing the number of complaints by 30%.
● Improved all areas of the Quality Department including internal auditing and document control while reducing headcount. Responsible for transitioning to ISO9001-2000.
● Led efforts on cost savings and throughput enhancement projects to achieve savings of over $500,000 per year in sustainable savings.
● Developed new film which generated over $300,000 in new business in the 1st 18 months of its product life cycle.
● Instituted and refined film supplier development programs – multiple sourcing of films, improving suppliers on-time delivery to near 100%, reducing number of quality events (defective rolls), with improved leadtimes.
● Represented Company in a Black Belt project to achieve $1MM in new customers for Clear UV product line.
● Developed 2 proprietary processes which resulted in annual savings of $300K and capacity improvement.
● Cross qualified product line so that each product could be run on at least 2 different coating lines (improved customer service) while improving line speeds 33%.
● Exploited process quality tools to solve chronic process/process problems, improve efficiencies and reduce scrap.
● Supported Company Wide Quality System upgrade to QS9000 rev 3.
● Developed numerous coating technologies resulting in over $3 MM annual sales.
● Used Experimental Design for Scaleup of new products/process resulting in over $1MM annual revenues.
● Trained all production workers on a monthly basis for GMPs.
● Interfaced with numerous customers regarding new processes, FDA audits and production issues.
● Led emission reduction program which resulted in a 59% reduction in emissions and over $1MM cost avoidance. Reduced emissions such that the plant moved from 4th largest emitter to drop out of the top 20 in less than 2 years.
● Planned capital budget with a successful consistent annual 98%+ spending rate for 5 years.
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PO Box 4827
Mooresville, NC 28117
ph: 704 408-1704
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