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Director of Manufacturing/Director of Operations @ Maxtech/TripointGlobal From 1999 to 2002 (3 years) State College, PAEngineering Manager @ AMP Incorporated From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) Director of Operations @ STI-CO Industries, Inc. Responsible for Manufacturing, Engineering, Materials, and Customer Service at this manufacturer of Antennas for covert and mobile applications. From February 2013 to July 2014...

Director of Manufacturing/Director of Operations @ Maxtech/TripointGlobal From 1999 to 2002 (3 years) State College, PAEngineering Manager @ AMP Incorporated From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) Director of Operations @ STI-CO Industries, Inc. Responsible for Manufacturing, Engineering, Materials, and Customer Service at this manufacturer of Antennas for covert and mobile applications. From February 2013 to July 2014 (1 year 6 months) Orchard Park, NYGeneral Manager @ Thomson Industries, Inc East Aurora and St Kitts API/DelevanDirector of Operations @ Curbell Plastics Responsible for the Strategic Operations for this 16 facility manufacturing and distribution organization. Our continuous improvement culture is helping drive success, knowing that incremental change will drive long term improvement. With the customer as our central focus and a great alignment with our core values, we have the following goals: 1. Initiatives that focus on growth and sustainable profit 2. Identifying and developing talented, motivated and engaged teams 3. Ensuring that our internal activities align with the customer From July 2014 to February 2020 (5 years 8 months) Orchard Park, NYConsultant, Operations/Manufacturing/Engineering @ Millivision Inc As a consultant, I worked in most aspects of the business. We were working on new designs to improve the quality and reduce the cost for Millimeter Wave detection systems.1. Managed the project plan to develop a new LNA for receiving signals at up o 120 GHz.2. Building a Manufacturing Plan for the company.3. Implementing a new ERP system-FishBowl.3. Working on large scale cost reductions. From May 2012 to February 2013 (10 months) South Deerfield, MAGeneral Manager, Electronics @ General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies Maintained P&L level responsibility for State College, PA and Longview, TX satellite communications electronics and two-way radio production facilities with 250 employees, generating $100M+ in revenue. Controlled $80M budget. Maintained highest average profitability levels (20%+) within SATCOM Technologies for over eight years.Established growth-and-excellence business culture. SATCOM Technologies’ plant was mired in inefficiency. Assumed control of facility’s strategic growth and improvement. Turned a 25% on-time delivery record into 95%+. Enabled the business to grow from $30M to $70M in four years, while improving profitability 5%+.Planned product development process that led to sales leadership. Communications test equipment product line sales had declined from $12M to $8M. Made business case for $2.5M software-defined test platform development and product upgrade. Reversed sales decline and restored $12M revenue stream (with $14M projected for 2012) from what is now the most profitable product line in the company with 50% margin.Created high efficiency, lower cost vertical production organization. SATCOM suffered a continuing series of supplier quality and delivery problems for its high mix, low volume electronics manufacturing. Ensured company’s ability to secure small quantities of a large number of different circuit assemblies through in-house, Lean assembly capability. Achieved 15%-to-20% savings, more than possible through outsourcing. From 2005 to 2012 (7 years) State College, PAGeneral Manager ,State College Facility @ General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies Planned and managed all operating and financial elements of the company’s State College, PA production of global satellite and wireless backhaul communications solutions. Headed staff of 125. Controlled $20M budget.Combined benefits of job shop flexibility with standardized parts cost efficiency. Prioritized engineering resources to develop modular product platforms for individual product lines. Made possible quick, cost-effective customizations at lower cost. Eliminated previous system of starting every product’s design and assembly from scratch. Made possible revenue jump from $15M to 25M with stronger margins.Established credentials as effective multi-site manager and turnaround specialist. Introduced Lean principles at New Jersey facility. Created integrated approach involving Accounting, Sales, IT, HR and Engineering. Cut overhead costs from $4M to $2.5M. Turned every metric in the facility to positive numbers, and an organization running near zero in on-time delivery into a model performer running over 90% on-time.Prior: Director of Operations at VertexRSI. Director of Manufacturing with Vertex Electronic Products. Engineering Manager for AMP Inc. Process Engineer at Spectrum Control Technology. From 2002 to 2005 (3 years) Project/Process Engineer @ AMP Incorporated Sole process engineer responsible for the manufacture of inductor and capacitor based ceramic filters. The manufacturing processes at the facility included mixing, compounding, extrusion, electrophoresis, dipping, powder pressing, firing, cutting, plating, polymer impregnation, marking, plating, and testing of parts.Lead person responsible for improving the overall process yield from 30% yield to over 60% yield in 2 years. From 1995 to 1997 (2 years) Elizabethtown, PA