• Top Performer who offers proven profit-generating career results, and who can make decisions to reflect positively on operations in alignment with a company s vision, value, and goals to attain a significant competitive advantage.
• Visionary Professional who rises above challenges to ixxxxxxrease revenue, streamline processes, improve efficiexxxxxxies, and drive winning outcomes while thriving on complexity as an entrepreneurial-minded leader achieving quantifiable success.
• Excellent Communicator who builds and sustains synergistic relationships with globally based senior-level management and decision-makers, multi-site business / operational professionals, and customers; has experiexxxxxxe living internationally in Europe as an ex-pat; and who excels in autonomous and collaborative work environments.

Vice President Xxxxxx Operations (2015 Present)

  Capitalize on the opportunity to lead forward-thinking EMC operations in Xxxxxx for this global manufacturer of computer storage hardware and software generating $24 billion in sales, ixxxxxxluding mentoring and managing a top-performing team of 1,600 associates across 7 high-volume sites instrumental in driving core success.

  Developed positive relationships with local universities, government, and customers.

  Defined strategic plans while managing daily business operations for manufacturing plant in Xxxxxx, XXXXXX.

Senior Director Service Strategy & Operations (2013 2015)

  Strategically steered key service operations, ixxxxxxluding areas of service offering product development, lab operations, field change control, field procedures, product connectivity, and key partner program management and enablement.

  Effectively defined and implemented vision for low-cost model to drive process standardization across service business.

  Generated a 10% reduction in operating costs while ixxxxxxreasing headcount 23%.

  Successfully drove changes in lab operations to achieve a 48% reduction in capital expenses.

Senior Director Corporate Indirect Procurement (2007 2013)

  Maximized bottom-line performaxxxxxxe as a fuxxxxxxtional leader of globally based Indirect Procurement operations and systems and tools, ixxxxxxluding directing international procurement teams across 48 countries, as well as creating and implementing plans for Indirect Procurement systems and tools and use of PCard, eCatalogs, metrics, and key portal.

  Developed tactical procurement operations in a low-cost geographic area.

Entrepreneur

  Spearheaded the start-up and successful operations of this privately held manufacturer of diverse educational toys.

  Developed profit-focused product and manufacturing strategy, capital project, and sales plan.

Vice President ￨ General Manager Cabot Supermetals (Elected Position)

  Utilized broad scope of industry knowledge of global specialty carbon black, fumed silica, and tantalum chemical products toward driving business success with a profitable $1.8 billion in sales and operations across 20+ countries.

  Created strategic direction for business to maintain acceptable profit levels throughout customer contract endings.

  Successfully handled profit / loss for this $350-million global business.

  Restructured leadership to establish single-business identity across 4 units that were independent.

Vice President ￨ General Manager APW Exxxxxxlosure Products (2003)

  Led targeted decision-making coxxxxxxerning APW Exxxxxxlosure Products for this global manufacturer with $1.2 billion in sales and operations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia while meeting or exceeding goals.

  Directed sales, marketing, and product development for this $100-million business with results-generating sites located in Italy, Fraxxxxxxe, UAE, Germany, India, Singapore, Japan, China, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, U.S., and UK.

Divisional General Manager APW Standard Products Europe & Asia (2000 2002)

  Expertly handled profit / loss responsibilities with top international sales and manufacturing sites in Europe and Asia generating $100 million in revenue and employing 950 staff, ixxxxxxluding building strong customer relationships and maintaining employee goodwill as the parent company filed for Chapter 11 protection to recapitalize balaxxxxxxe sheet.

  Reduced employee base 32% and fixed overhead costs 40% after the dot-com crash.

  Led channels exxxxxxompassing cable and wire distributors and large-scale datacom OEMs.

  Initiated a formal partner program to reward European distributors based on performaxxxxxxe.

General Manager ￨ Managing Director APW Cork (1997 2000)

  Directed operations of a recently acquired $50-million electronics contract manufacturing business with 350 employees, ixxxxxxluding managing customer bases located in Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, and the U.S.

  Developed a new marketing and sales strategy that resulted in active transition from a loss-making situation to profit.

  Developed new revenue by selling valuable design and repair services.

  Successfully grew Cork-based business sales and profits at a rate of 100% per year.

  Challenged Irish law governing union recognition and won new rights for business owners, making Irish history.

Division Procurement Manager Cutler-Hammer (1994 1997)

  Applied strong leadership talents toward serving as a senior purchasing executive for a $2-billion division of a Fortune 200 global manufacturer, ixxxxxxluding driving efficient manufacturing of industrial control products with 30 large-scale global facilities in North America, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Philippines, Australia, South America, and the UK.

  Exhibited skill in mentoring and managing cross-fuxxxxxxtional teams for design-for-manufacturability analysis of items.

  Saved $45 million in material costs on purchases of $750 million annually.

  Developed an innovative supplier partnership program with steel and copper producers.

  Successfully implemented multi-plant commodity buying teams and consolidated a supplier base.

Plant Manager (1991 1994)

  Played a vital role in leading a high-volume manufacturing facility employing 400+ staff in the production of industrial controls and truck electronics, ixxxxxxluding planning and prioritizing workflow among self-managed teams.

  Ixxxxxxreased plant-wide productivity by 25% and overall shipment volume by 42%.

  Honored with Eaton s Quality Award in 1992 and ISO 9001 Certification in 1993.

Former Non-Commissioned Officer United States Air Force Reserves

Master of Business Administration Carnegie Mellon University

Member ￨ Board of Directors Xxxxxx Technology Associate