Resume of Business Operations Manager

Title
Business Operations Manager

Primary Skills
MAPICS Project Implementation Manager

Location
US-FL-Port Charlotee (will consider relocating)

Posted
Feb-18-08


Senior Manager, with varied expertise in manufacturing operations who is able to bridge the gap between supply chain and lean principles, while operating in an ERP environment. Proven leader with expertise in ERP implementations, global sourcing, outsourcing, planning, Kanban, line balancing, hiring, budget and capital equipment management.



EMPLOYMENT

Pall Corporation, Ft. Myers, FL
Manager of Manufacturing Operations Systems Integration, June 2006 to Present
Evaluate, standardize, and implement new business system processes to increase the operational effectiveness of fourteen manufacturing facilities with total sales of $1.6 billion, reporting directly to the VP of Global Manufacturing Operations. Serve as liaison between informational services and manufacturing operations, leading and coordinating activities at the site and department level to upgrade all fourteen sites into a single manufacturing environment. Responsible for providing applications training on multiple business systems modules to all sites, standardizing and implementing best business practices in the integrated environment. Responsible for data validation and the creation and execution of test scripts before integrating a site environment into the global platform. Responsible for FDA computer validation testing, to include creating process and operational test scripts.


Business Unit Manager, April 2000 to July 2002, November 2004 to June 2006
Manage and lead all operations of a cross-functional team, which generates, $32 million dollars in annual sales, resulting in better than a 21% net profit. Responsible for planning, purchasing, production operations, manufacturing engineering, design engineering, quality engineering and quality control, up to 85 individuals. Responsible for the management of an annual capital budget of $1 million in new equipment, and an annual expense budget of $ 400,000. Business unit is responsible for the manufacture of commercial filter elements supplied to distributors, OEM's and mobile OEM's. Reporting directly to the VP of manufacturing.

Key Accomplishments:
· Achieved 1-3 day lead-time to the customer base on 80% of the sales, with a 99% on time delivery rate. (2000-2002)
· Reduced inventory by 25% (2000 to 2002)
· Reduced scrap rate in 2005 by 20%, $300,000, and $545,000 in 2006
· Increased net profit on P&L from 6% to 22% within 9 months
· Managed a 50% increase in manufacturing volume in 2005, growing from 390,000 units per year to 600,000 per year, while reducing headcount by 5%.
· Implemented Paperless Manufacturing
· Implemented Kanban, simultaneously implementing cell manufacturing, and line balance scheduling using lean techniques.


Business Systems Implementation Manager, June 2002 to November 2004
Operations facilitator of MRP implementations for Pall manufacturing facilities throughout the Western Hemisphere. This encompasses 14 manufacturing sites. Provide instruction, training, and leadership at each site to maximize the operational modules within the business planning system. Create, implement, and standardize operational business solutions, which can be applied across all 14 sites. Work in concert with Director of MIS for Western Hemisphere to create mfg. system solutions and then implement these solutions through the VP of Operations or General Manager at each manufacturing site. Serve as advisor to each site to measure key individuals operational effectiveness and skill level, and make recommendations for improvements or restructuring. Reporting directly to the VP of Manufacturing Operations for the Western Hemisphere.






Key Accomplishments:
· Operations project leader of ERP Implementation for Puerto Rico plants implementing all aspects of ERP system in 5 months, changing the manufacturing culture. Results were a reduction of inventory of 30% in first 6 months, on time delivery increased by 20%, and lead times to the customer were reduced from 4-6weeks, to 2 -- 4 weeks on all products.
· Implemented ERP system in a total process manufacturing plant in less than 6 months, adopting new scheduling, and purchasing methodology, and operations tracking tools.
· Designed, tested, and implemented a new paperless manufacturing system via the company intranet in 8 weeks, and trained 350 employees in two weeks on how to use it. Leveraged this new system across other sites and saved over $600,000 per year in licensing fees for the corporation.
· Implemented ERP system in a facility that had a 25-year-old Legacy system within 7 months of start date, which had three failed implementations in previous years due to culture bias.
· In two years, operations project leader for six full ERP implementations impacting fourteen manufacturing facilities, with more than $1.2 billion dollars in sales.
· Trained over 1000 employees from operators thru Business unit directors, including support departments, engineering, customer service, quality, planning, purchasing, shipping and warehouse.
· Designed and Implemented new planning tool, IRP, Interactive Requirements Planning, which is used company wide at each manufacturing facility to bridge MRP with Lean techniques, to reduce planning and execution time.


Materials Manager, January 1996 to April 2000
Manage all planning, purchasing, and logistics aspects of the business to support, $65 million dollars in annual sales for an Industrial and Aerospace filter assembly manufacturing company. Managed up to forty individuals with departmental budget responsibilities, in a process and discrete manufacturing environment. Transitioned the organization from job shop, to make to stock, and finally to make to order. Reporting directly to the VP of Operations.

Key Accomplishments:
· Led and implemented a new Business System implementation in six months, MAPICS
· Aligned and trained planning and purchasing groups to support business units.
· Achieved $ 3 million in purchasing cost savings in two years through global sourcing strategy.
· Reduced direct material costs by 15% in a three-year period.
· Reduced lead-time to the customer base from 4-6 weeks, to 2 weeks on 80% commercial elements, 50% of machined housing assemblies.
· Reduced Inventory by 40% within 4 years, eliminating offsite storage facilities, closing down a sister facility.
· Managed the offload/start-up of a new business unit from a sister facility shutdown.
· Designed and implemented real time interactive planning tools through the company intranet, which reduced planning time by 50%, linked all departments to real-time information, eliminated shop floor dispatch reports, allowed purchasing and operations to move from a build to stock mentality to a build to order environment, and provided the customer with real time status of their order, via the company intranet.
· Designed and implemented inventory tools on the company intranet to track inventory trends, obsolescent inventory, and detailed inventory information by product line, business unit, item class, series, planner, and commodity.
· Designed and implemented tools on the company intranet to provide real time racking on manufacturing scrap, and component scrap, by item, work order, product line, series, and reason code.
· Designed and implemented tools to provide real time tracking on bookings, shipments, and backlog on the company intranet by business unit, series, product line, planner, market, customer, and item class.
· Designed and implemented tools to track manufacturing efficiencies and utilizations on the company intranet displaying information by employee, department, business unit, work order, work center, or shift.

Amerace Electronics, Punta Gorda, FL
Materials Manager, July 1993 to January 1996
Managed the start-up of purchasing, planning and inventory control for a $30 million dollar a year high volume electro-mechanical business that relocated from New Jersey. Managed all aspects of each of these departments including the budget requirements to sustain the business with as many as twenty people. Project leader of an implementation for a manufacturing business system, Quantel. Reporting directly to the Director of Operations.

Key Accomplishments:
· Led and completed the implementation of a Business system in less than 6 months for all modules related to manufacturing, including purchasing, planning, order entry, inventory control, and shipping.
· Developed a materials organization from scratch, training all individuals in planning, purchasing, warehousing, shipping, and inventory control.
· Reduced lead-time to the customer base from 6 weeks to 1 week through new scheduling methods, and inventory strategy.
· Developed new picking methodology in warehouse and shipping departments to reduce headcount and improve accuracy.
· Acquired purchasing cost savings each year, reducing direct material costs by up to 20% over a three-year period.
· Led the outsource of product to Mexico, in addition to subcontracting the manufacturing process of key product lines to new vendor sources.

Schott Fiberoptics, Southbridge, MA
Materials Manager, March 1988 to July 1993
Responsible for the material, production planning, shipping and warehouse functions for two separate manufacturing facilities in a $30 million dollar business for Night Vision and Medical Fiber Optic products. Directed purchasing in meeting the needs of the schedule in a process, repetitive and discrete manufacturing environment. Project leader of an implementation for a manufacturing business system, DATA 3. Reporting directly to the VP of Operations.

Key Accomplishments:
· Selected and implemented a new Business system in less than 8 months.
· Improved on time delivery from less than 70% to 95% or better
· Reduced inventory by 50% on raw material
· Implemented Inventory control system, which raised inventory accuracy from 80% to 99%.
· Implemented scheduling techniques to accommodate cell manufacturing.
· Lead and directed planning techniques to use co-product /bi-product tools to reduce process scrap.


Prime Computer, Framingham, MA
Master Scheduler, 1983 to 1988
Worked as the Senior Operations Specialists in a new products manufacturing facility to support high-end computer manufacturing. Coordinated all scheduling aspects of taking a product from pilot/prototype phase into production, while managing the master schedule for all current products. Facility coordinator of an implementation for a manufacturing business system, MADIC.

Key Accomplishments
· Reduced of obsolescent inventory by 25%, through Marketing and Used Equipment program.
· Developed phase in/phase out program for New products
· Implemented shop floor scheduling via MRP II
· Wrote test specifications for all new manufacturing modules to be implemented
· Developed capacity planning program and implemented formal MRP capacity planning tools.

Riley Stoker Corporation, Worcester, MA
Purchasing Expeditor and Project Coordinator, 1981 to 1983
Entry Level manufacturing position responsible for the delivery of all purchased material to each work site. Coordinated logistic requirements from plant to site, while developing schedules with vendor plants in support of steam utility fabrication at offsite locations.



US Army -- South Korea, and FT. Lewis, WA
1st Lieutenant, 1979 to 1981
Field Artillery


EDUCATION

MBA Candidate, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft Myers, FL
BS Business Administration, Worcester State College, Worcester MA
CPIM
ROTC, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA
Officer Basic Course, US Army, Ft. Sill, OK


COMPUTERS
Business system software, MAPICS, Quantel, Quad, Data 3 and MADIC, operating on an AS400 platform, prime systems platform, and Quantel hardware.
Worked in a Novel network environment and PC LAN environment using Lotus Notes, Excel, Lotus 123, Microsoft Works and Word.
Have assisted in developing databases on Lotus Notes to automate key purchasing aspects, which include corrective action forms, Non-conformance reports, MRO requisitions, and Intercompany requisitions.
Front Page & Photoshop, MAPICS Paperless, and Workflow

Certifications
APICS


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