A manufacturing leader who drives top and bottom-line performance by applying business acumen and extensive manufacturing experience. Approach taken to achieving results is by being persistent, engaging the workforce, and being decisive on the action plan to improve the business. Bringing this all together with the expertise and experience with diverse manufacturing processes. Extensive experience ensuring revenue growth and margin improvement through efficient process flows, easing material costs, minimizing lead-times, fortifying quality performance, and providing superior customer relations and service. Background includes fostering quality cultures and workplace diversity to enhance personal performance, company cohesion, and product production. Driven for success, and enjoy challenging myself and others. Methodology is to put issues in front of people and then spend time mentoring them through the process of resolving them. This allows the team to develop their skills to take on even more challenging issues. Thrive in a challenging environment that needs improvement. Excel with good problem solving skills and do well in drilling down to the root cause of the problem. This also allows collaboration with others to come up with solutions which the team may not have been aware of. Issues fall into categories such as manufacturing challenges, cultural issues, empowerment of the workforce, financial problems, and quality issues.