Job experience

• January 2019 - February 2020
  Production Manager
  Guardian Industries
  

  Carleton, MI, USA

  Operational leader of a continuous 24x7x365 two-tank float, two vacuum sputter coating faculty employing 380. Provided strategic growth and development planning for people, processes, and operational excellence. Directly responsible for ~300 operations employees ranging from entry-level laborers to PhD technical resources. Owner of plant safety, compliance, quality, cost, reliability, and operational excellence performance and development.

• May 2016 - January 2019
  Regional Reliability Manager
  Guardian Industries
  

  Auburn Hills, MI, USA

  Responsible for the development of, and plant connection to, a corporate Reliability Vision.
  Established a “from-scratch” global corporate Reliability program. Global business owner of Guardian’s Centralized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Lead in the development of new CMMS capabilities to support Reliability-centered work processes. Established a baseline for the current Reliability programs in the US, Mexico, Europe, and India and support plant leadership in initiatives to improve Reliability through the application of the corporate culture. Global lead for Reliability techniques and tools including Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Weibull Analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, marginal analysis, Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Preventative Maintenance Optimization (PMO), and Predictive Testing.

• February 2012 - May 2016
  Global Supply Chain Manager
  INVISTA
  

  Wilmington, DE, USA

  Leader of the integrated supply chain for a family of intermediate chemicals in the Lyrca®
  Spandex business. Coordinate the planning and execution of +120kT/year of product globally
  from 5-7 suppliers to customers world-wide. Leader of the global Apparel Chemicals Marketing S&OP team (1 direct report in Shanghai, 1 direct report in Wilmington) including recruiting, hiring, and on-boarding. Business lead for the design, testing, and implementation of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and advanced planning and optimization system (SAP & SAP APO); Key user for the first deployment of the tool within INVISTA. Responsible for Supply Planning and Demand planning in a new SAP APO solution.

• August 2008 - February 2012
  Asset Availability Leader
  INVISTA
  

  La Porte, TX, USA

  Responsible for setting, achieving/exceeding, and tracking plant goals by implementing modern mechanical integrity and reliability-centered maintenance programs to optimize equipment availability. Coordinated the efforts of 5 reliability engineers. Excelled as operations work process improvement leader. Developed and implemented work process tools to minimize time between problem identification and problem resolution. Operations owner of all plant equipment continually assessing facility health and prioritizing site maintenance, reliability, and technical efforts.

• August 2006 - August 2008
  E&I Reliability Engineer
  INVISTA
  

  La Porte, TX, USA

  Lead Electrical and Instrumentation Engineer overseeing three production units. Managed installation, development, modeling, and maintenance of multiple process analyzers, control systems, electrical infrastructure, and instrumentation.

Education

• University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
  Bachelor of science in Engineering (Electrical Engineering)
  

  2001 - 2006

• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional
  SMRPCO
  

  January 2017 - January 2023