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CAREER SUMMARY Highly organized, detail-oriented senior executive with a track record of growing, improving, and expanding Domestic and International Operations. Experience in Automotive Tier1 Supplier, Rubber Extrusion, and Molding, Engineered Products in Aviation and Defense Rubber Fuel Cells and Coated Fabric Manufacturing, Plastics Injection Molding. Packaging (Plastic and Aluminum Closures), with multi-plant EBITDA and P&L responsibility. Managed turnaround situations, Lean, and Value-stream Achievements based on ability to conduct and react to financial and cost analysis combined with demonstrated history of generating and providing the customer service expertise necessary to maintain and perpetuate long-term client relationships, additional to future Revenue Acceleration. Multi-lingual: English, Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, and French. Worldwide Hired as Senior Director Engineering and after reorganizing the department promoted April 2005 to Senior Vice President. Responsible for Sales, Quality, Finance, Purchase, HR, and Logistics. Tepro is an 850 employee company in a turnaround and reorganization situation. The company is a subsidiary of a Japanese Rubber manufacturer. Major Accomplishments: * Reorganized the engineering department for better service to production. Increased the extrusion output about 15% through less downtime, optimized maintenance, and lean manufacturing * Reduced short shipments to 0 from 700 a month * Reduced accidents with 20% to improve safety by training and implementing ergonomic behavior. Responsible for operations reporting and strategic planning for this 6.000 employee $1/2 Billion rubber extrusion company. This includes consolidation and out sourcing of manufacturing worldwide to lower cost facilities in US Europe and China. The position also involves moving the company toward more controlled manufacturing processes industrializing new products while reducing scrap and pushing operations to higher economies of scale. Acquired by GenCorp.