About Me

With over 45 years of engineering, maintenance, operations, quality control, sales, and executive experience in the flat-roll steel industry, I’ve developed a complete understanding of all the disciplines within the manufacturing process. Over my career, I’ve established life-long relationships with other industry professionals. Though my experience gives me a plethora of knowledge, it also gives me the ability to ask the right questions - and if I do not know the right answers, to find the people who will.

Curriculum Vitae:

Engineering:

• Designed, redesigned, built, and installed coil coating manufacturing processing equipment, secondary processing equipment, support processing equipment and material handling equipment

• Redesigned and remanufactured existing equipment to improve productivity and to support new product development (NPPD)

• Orchestrated facility expansions and greenfield startups

Maintenance:

• Developed extensive CMMS, PM and PdM systems for manufacturing processing equipment and facilities.

• Helped with creation of work order instructions that meet OEM requirements

• Devised risk analysis systems to prevent catastrophic downtimes and establish Critical Spares analysis

• Established processes for tracking and recording maintenance downtimes that focused on uptime improvements, capital investments and the maximization of cycle times

Operations & Quality Control:

• Instilled employee empowerment and ownership through extensive training and mentoring to attain high levels of product quality, employee buy-in, and accountability of their work environment

• Implemented continuous improvement processes (PIT) to focus on waste reduction and the elimination of productivity obstacles to achieve constant productivity improvements

• Established comprehensive and accessible (by all production personnel) quality policies and product specifications that met or surpassed customer requirements

Sales & Marketing:

• Created technical sales workforce and proactive customer service departments

• Established new business through internal and external new product and process development (NPPD)

• Mentored and educated sales teams to better integrate within customers’ businesses, therefore creating barriers for competition

Executive:

• Brought about effective turn around and cultural changes within divisions and organizations

• Established short and long term strategic plans for capital growth and expansion, with a strong focus on sustainability

• Developed and managed CAPEX programs for numerous companies

• Abolished corporate bureaucracy through the “thinning” of management levels to create a responsive organization

• Experienced with P & L management and board relations

• Provided due diligence on M & A growth and evaluation analysis of equipment and shortfalls