Kenneth J.

Ferriabough
Plano, TX 75025 Phone: 214-457-5183 kferriabou@aol.com

Vice President of Operations

Senior business leader with a balance of manufacturing operations and commercial leadership experience, and
proven success driving revenue and profit growth. Strengths in:
Business Operations Leadership - P&L leader for two businesses a $40 million technology enabled repair and
manufacturing facility and a $28 million unit. Doubled sales from $20 million to $40 million, improving gross
profit from -14% to 25%. Significant cost reduction and business consolidation experience.
Team Leadership - Respected leader of creative teams, with a cross-functional management style. Significant
experience top grading functions. Managed union and non-union organizations of up to 250 involved in
manufacturing and repair activities. Multi-site responsibility, including two facilities in Mexico.
Turnaround and Crisis Management - Significant business process reengineering experience. Strengths in
financial and marketing modeling. Reduced obsolete inventory by $15 million. Led major recall. Primary point of
contact for relationship with major customer that declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Sales and New Product Development - Led sales, marketing and business development for a $180 million region.
Expert in technical new product and services development. Proven ability to drive record-high marketing
campaign response-rates and execute successful product launches. Introduced program that included 12 PMA
compressor airfoils. Drove 30% increase in part sales.

Professional Experience
CHROMALLOY (1991 TO PRESENT)
Chromalloy is a $1 billion technology company and supplier of production parts and advanced repairs and services.
The company was public until 2007, when it was acquired by the PE firm Carlyle Group.
Director of Commercial Operations, 1/2011 to 12/2014, Carson City, NV
Selected to turnaround the commercial operations of Chromalloys largest unit, the $180 million SW region.
Responsible for all sales and business development activities including sales/marketing analysis, market and sales
strategy, new business development, spare part sales, and customer support.

In addition, served as Interim Plant Manager in Mexicali, Mexico, responsible for managing growth through
transfer and consolidation from US based facilities, and for redesigning and reorganizing the operations
organization. Facility had 200+ employees and annual revenues of $38 million.

Developed key metrics, bringing operations and process improvement/Lean approach and experience to
improve sales and marketing

Redesigned the sales and customer support teams, retaining the best of the best

Managed the first recall (SB/AD) in the companys history

Negotiated a multi-million dollar bankruptcy settlement with a major US airline going through chapter 11, and
served as primary Chromalloy (all divisions) point of contact and customer interface

Top graded 50% of the customer support staff in the largest CGT site in Nevada

Advanced go-to market strategies to expand territory and customer base for the largest CGT site in Nevada

Generated sales war room and forecasting models

General Manager, 9/2001 to 12/2010, Dallas, TX

Full P&L leadership for this $40 million multi-site parts manufacturing and repair business that shipped up to
80,000 parts per month. Direct management of manufacturing, repair, product development, inventory
management, human resources, engineering, finance and strategic sales planning and customer management.
Significant business process optimization, change management and international responsibilities.

Led extraordinary business recovery after 9/11, downsizing from 400+ headcount to 120, consolidating
business units from 7 to 4, then rebuilding to 240 headcount by 2010 and doubling sales from $20 million to
$40 million

Led four facilities including a maquiladora in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico with more than 100 unionized employees,
and three facilities in Dallas that were non-union.

Solidified business unit as parent company went public to private while reducing working capital to 8.14% of
sales

Cultivated business growth through product expansion to include 12 new PMAs

Liquidated $15M+ of obsolete inventory, without compromising the P&L

Executed multi-million dollar long term contracts while improving gross profit from -14% to 25%

Reduced average A/R balance from $5M to $2.5M on increased sales level

Led planning for the facilitys closure and transfer of production to Chromalloys Atlanta business unit

Transitioned from GM position to global sales position as a result of the planned closure of the Dallas facility

Progressive Advancement at Chromalloy

7/1998

Business Unit Manager

P&L leadership for the $28 million airfoils business for

multiple engine lines. Managed 100-150 people. Led
manufacturing, repair operations, and business
development including customer visits and support.

7/1997

Customer Service Manager

Communications, logistics and traffic of entire facility.

Significant interaction with major customers including
American Airlines and Rolls Royce.

6/1996

Production Manager RB211/NPM

Represented ~$12 million of Business

1/1995

Production Control Manager

Production control team using CDAL

9/1994

Production Control Coordinator

Coordinating/Planning/Scheduling of Logistics

10/1992

Production Lead

Machining/ brazing/ deburring/ inspection and assembly

10/1991

Production Inspection

Blueprint reading and use of precision measurement tools

Education
Amberton University, Bachelors Degree (Complete in 2016)
University of Texas at Dallas, Business Management
Richland Community College (Associate of Arts & Sciences)
Additional Training
Effective Supervisory Management, Effective Management Development
Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting for Non-financial Managers
Various Lean Manufacturing Events

Kenneth Ferriabough - 214-457-5183

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