OBJECTIVE

To gain a position in operational or technical management that will utilize my e

xperience in management and engineering
EDUCATION
Naval Nuclear Power School, Post-graduate level training in naval nuclear power
plant design and operation
October 1986
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
January 1986
EXPERIENCE
Trimedyne, Inc. (2007 - 2010)
Operations Manager (Trimedyne 2007 - 2010)
- Responsible for the entire FDA-compliant manufacturing process including the o
peration of a level 1000 clean room used to manufacture laser delivery systems,
laser system manufacturing, and the machine shop supporting those areas.
- Responsible for the Customer Service of all laser products in the field.
- Responsible for purchasing, storing, shipping, handling, and maintenance of al
l inventory and finished goods.
- Responsible for the company's Information Technology systems. I selected and i
mplemented a new Expandable ERP system used to monitor all manufacturing, sales,
and accounting processes in the company.
- Responsible for coordinating all facility services and maintenance for a 25,00
0 square foot building.
- Completed GMP/QSR training.
Carter Cryogenics Co. (formerly Argo-Tech Corporation) (2005 - 2007)
Manufacturing Manager (Carter Cryogenics 2005 - 2007)
- Responsible for all production and manufacturing processes related to the asse
mbly and testing of cryogenic pumps used in the Liquid Gas Industry, including a
machine shop that handled the production and engineering rework of pump parts.
- Completed a $500,000 upgrade to the existing test stand. The new test stand te
sted the pumps more efficiently and in a way that more closely approximated actu
al customer applications.
- Identified and implemented fundamental changes to the machine shop and assembl
y areas that allowed the facility to manufacture and assemble taller and heavier
pumps using existing technology and equipment. Not only did this save the compa
ny several hundred thousand dollars in unneeded capital expenditures, but it als
o allowed pumps to be manufactured15% faster, with improved safety.
Excellon Automation (1998 - 2005)
Operations Manager (Excellon Automation 2001 - 2005)
- Maintained all responsibilities of Production Manager and National Field Servi
ce Manager.
- Managed the production department responsible for manufacturing high precision
PCB mechanical and laser drilling machines. Company's total sales exceeded $50M
in 2001 during an extremely large economic drop in the technical industry.
- Responsible for establishing, organizing, and equipping a new production facil
ity in Chengdu, China.
- Managed our Customer Engineering Service and Parts organization that was the m
ost consistent revenue engine in the company, generating $650K - $750K per month
.
- Responsible for writing, managing and billing all service and parts sales agre
ements.
- Responsible for the company's granite facility in Rancho Cucamonga that cut an
d finished all granite bases for the drilling machines. Later, I was responsible
for organizing and dismantling this granite facility, accomplishing this $50K p
roject in three weeks with less than one month's notice.
- Implemented Demand Flow and other Lean Manufacturing processes into the produc
tion line for our new model 688 mechanical drilling machine. This was the first
application of this type to be successfully implemented in this factory.
- Suggested design and manufacturing changes to improve the building cost, assem
bly time, and overall quality of all drill machines. For the model 688, the buil
d time was cut in half.
- Managed and maintained the company's Quality Program, as well as all facility
services and building maintenance issues for two separate buildings with a combi
ned area of 500,000 square feet.
Regional Service Manager (Excellon Automation 1998 - 2001)
- Managed 12 Field Service Engineers (FSE's) and 2 Field Application Engineers l
ocated throughout the Western United States whose customer paid revenue totaled
approximately $2 million.
- Responsible for solving a variety of customer support issues ranging from bill
ing questions to the direction of complicated engineering solutions involving th
e coordination of various in-house and field resources.
- Designed and implemented a standard Contract quoting system to help FSE's quot
e and present service agreements in the field.
Fisher-Rosemount, Inc. (1991 - 1998)
Regional Service Manager (Fisher-Rosemount 1993 - 1998)
- Managed a Regional Depot Repair Center that averaged 43% growth in revenue fro
m $352,323 in FY93 to $1.428M in FY97 as compared to a national growth of 10% ov
er the same period.
- In FY97, received responsibility for all six western depot repair facilities (
combined revenue for FY97 totaled over $3.8M). These facilities covered a large
geographic area and included locations in Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San F
rancisco, Bakersfield, and Los Angeles.
- Integrated our new service data system and was the first person to use such pe
rsonal computer programs as MS Access and MS Excel to design on-line databases c
apable of extracting critical data necessary to measure the performance of our i
ndividual business units. Subsequently, my database designs were implemented nat
ionally.
- Initiated Fixed Price billing for transmitter depot repairs enabling our natio
nal facilities to better compete with local businesses, fundamentally changing t
he way Fisher-Rosemount charged customers for depot services.
- Pioneered a new contract format known as a Rapid Repair Agreement that resulte
d in a flexible and efficient way to quote depot repair and field service contra
cts to customers.
- Received management training in areas such as ISO9000 Auditor, Behavioral Inte
rviewing, Personal Communication, Total Quality Management, Selling Services, an
d Process Improvement.
Field Application Engineer (Fisher-Rosemount 1991 - 1993)
- Received a Factory Certification on the Rosemount System 3 (RS3) Distributed C
ontrol System (DCS), as well as Factory Certification for training customers on
the use and operation of the RS3 DCS.
- Effected several design modifications in many existing systems including chemi
cal and brewery batch applications, continuous and batch paper mill processing,
petroleum refining, public utility power control, and the continuous control of
a cement producing plant.
- Designed the Mount Vernon Denim Mills RS3 Control scheme as the only Rosemount
engineer assigned to this project valued over $500,000. This project was a firs
t-time application for this control system. One year later, Mount Vernon Denim M
ills expanded their use of the RS3 DCS to the rest of their plant.
- Participated in a Configuration Design Project as one of ten Rosemount enginee
rs for a Unocal facility project worth over $1,000,000 in hardware and engineeri
ng services.
- Created a system to quote service contracts from an existing Q&A Database - th
is modular contract design was later used as an example for the national format.
United States Navy (1986 - 1991)
Officer (US Navy 1986 - 1991)
- Qualified Engineering Duty Officer - responsible for approximately 100 men and
the maintenance of two nuclear reactors during the absence of the ship's Engine
er and Commanding Officer while in port.
- Reactor Training Assistant - responsible for the timely qualification and cont
inuous training of all the individuals involved in operating the ship's nuclear
power plants.
- Repair Officer - directed a 25 man division that effected repairs on the ship'
s engineering plants and other vital auxiliary equipment.
REFERENCES
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