Commercial Issues:

• Experienced in customer relations, sales & marketing efforts, commercial issues and complex contract negotiations.
• Conducted contractual reviews and administration of customer contracts/purchase orders.
• Experienced in all levels of quality and commercial correspondence with customers.
• Facilitated the dissemination of high level customer information to key Managing Directors.

Strategic Planning and Business Development:

• Developed, updated and implemented Business Plans which involved market assessments, inflationary trends, current and future anticipated product mix, forecasting for short and long term planning, capital expenditures, and human resource needs.  These forward looking projections focused on anticipated profitability, plant capacity levels and facility equipment requirements.
• Experienced with collaborating key strategy and brainstorming sessions with all levels of management, advisory committees and retained service providers.

Financial Responsibility:

• Developed & approved pricing structures for new work, including feasibility studies to determine any impact on current product mix, capacity constraints, and assessment of manufacturability with current processes.
• P&L responsibility
• Budget review & approval.
• Salary administration, including labor relations.

Technical / Advanced Engineering:

• Led application engineering efforts regarding program management with customer’s technical group, as well as new program implementation with internal manufacturing and quality personnel.
• Intimately involved and well versed with customer specifications, quality standards, dimensioning & tolerances, program launches and provided assistance to customer’s design group.

Quality System Implementation and Improvements:

• Successfully lead efforts of obtaining required ISO based registrations.   The key focus during the development of these ISO based quality systems was the use of a common sense approach and cost effective techniques to ensure the end product functioned without adding the typical bureaucratic baggage that is so common.  (Also supported the registration process for ISO14001 by structuring the system manual for the Environmental & Safety Committee.)
• Well versed in statistical analysis, root cause analysis and continuous improvement techniques.

Operation Efficiency and Productivity Improvements:

• Experienced in time studies/ergonomics, product flow for optimization, innovative processing techniques and plant facilities management.
  

Commercial Issues:

• Experienced in customer relations, sales & marketing efforts, commercial issues and complex contract negotiations.
• Conducted contractual reviews and administration of customer contracts/purchase orders.
• Experienced in all levels of quality and commercial correspondence with customers.
• Facilitated the dissemination of high level customer information to key Managing Directors.

Strategic Planning and Business Development:

• Developed, updated and implemented Business Plans which involved market assessments, inflationary trends, current and future anticipated product mix, forecasting for short and long term planning, capital expenditures, and human resource needs.  These forward looking projections focused on anticipated profitability, plant capacity levels and facility equipment requirements.
• Experienced with collaborating key strategy and brainstorming sessions with all levels of management, advisory committees and retained service providers.

Financial Responsibility:

• Developed & approved pricing structures for new work, including feasibility studies to determine any impact on current product mix, capacity constraints, and assessment of manufacturability with current processes.
• P&L responsibility
• Budget review & approval.
• Salary administration, including labor relations.

Technical / Advanced Engineering:

• Led application engineering efforts regarding program management with customer’s technical group, as well as new program implementation with internal manufacturing and quality personnel.
• Intimately involved and well versed with customer specifications, quality standards, dimensioning & tolerances, program launches and provided assistance to customer’s design group.

Quality System Implementation and Improvements:

• Successfully lead efforts of obtaining required ISO based registrations.   The key focus during the development of these ISO based quality systems was the use of a common sense approach and cost effective techniques to ensure the end product functioned without adding the typical bureaucratic baggage that is so common.  (Also supported the registration process for ISO14001 by structuring the system manual for the Environmental & Safety Committee.)
• Well versed in statistical analysis, root cause analysis and continuous improvement techniques.

Operation Efficiency and Productivity Improvements:

• Experienced in time studies/ergonomics, product flow for optimization, innovative processing techniques and plant facilities management.