Professional Profile Chuck Marks 032515

Professional Profile Chuck Marks 032515

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  Charles H. Marks 1080Worthington Mill Road, Wrightstown PA, 18940 Ph: 267-767-4310 Email: [email protected] Professional Profile I have excelled in many different business disciplines, the management of people and the development of processes. I have the ability to build processes and personnel that meet the required business objectives with full P&L responsibilities. I have successfully created a working environment in which coworkers feel empowered and successful in the roles assigned to them. I have held a variety of leadership positions in my career. Each position has contributed to my ability to develop and implement processes and systems that meet corporate objectives, servicing the aerospace, medical, and industrial controls industries. • Vice President Operations • Engineering Manager • Project Manager • Logistics Manager, Purchasing Manager, Materials Management. • Production Manager Professional Accomplishments Management • Managed multi plant operations responsible for up to 225 headcount in production, material handling, quality, process engineering and test engineering supporting company sales of $30+ million. • Routinely interfaced with business development, sales and new product development to ensure that capital and manufacturing expense plans for each manufacturing facility that would meet company objectives. I managed equipment selection, negotiated costs and implemented approved capital investments ($350,000 to $1.2 million annually). • Developed annual goals and tracking matrix for direct and sub-tier reports. Led direct reports and developed operational processes that achieved metrics goals (95% OTD; 99.5% first pass yield and continuous improvement of $ sales/headcount). • Recommended and implemented plant consolidations from improved manufacturing efficiencies without any Customer disruptions and captured significant cost savings ($1.9 million annualized). • Developed quality and customer satisfaction matrix, continually monitored, and reported results to senior management team along with the continuous improvement team. • Established a quality management strategy and implementation team that led to acquiring an ISO9000:001 certification. • Implemented quality system upgrade that led to acquiring AS9100 certification, the most stringent certification in the aerospace market. Operations: • Evaluated chose and implemented a fully integrated ERP software system. Acting as the management advocate for the implementation, I built an implementation team responsible for training staff and establishing the processes for system operation. • Lead the development and implementation of vendor managed and consignment
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  inventory programs thatintegrated key suppliers with the ERP system, allowing them access to MRP information enabling them to implement long-term material planning strategies in order to meet one week inventory replenishment goals and reduce the company’s balance sheet inventory investment by over $3 million. With the implementation of the ERP, Vendor Consigned and Vendor Managed processes enabled us to consolidate our Purchasing and our Program Management teams (8 headcount to 4 concurrent to 4x spend increase. The result was an increased accountability and customer advocacy, and subsequently improved our customer satisfaction scores. • Evaluated chose and implemented a fully integrated Shop Floor Management software system. Acting as the management advocate for the implementation, I built an implementation team responsible for training staff and establishing the processes for system operation. The implementation of this system increased productivity through the development and refinement of existing processes eliminating activities that had no or limited value. • Built an ERP overlay that reduced the Company’s Cash-to-Cash cycle to 68 days from over 100 days by better aligning Customer Orders to JIT inventory receipts. Quality Control • Evaluated chose and implemented a fully integrated Quality Management software system. Acting as the management advocate for the implementation, I built an implementation team responsible for training staff and established the processes for system operation. • For AS9100 and ISO9000 quality system certifications led a team that developed and implemented all of the necessary SOPs and Work Instructions required for certification. • Established a continuous improvement strategy, utilizing data outputs from the Quality Management software to trend customer complaints and in process rejections. Identifying and prioritizing the process issues having the greatest impact on quality reduced customer returns to less the .05% and an overall reduction of scrap and rework cost. Work History VP Operations DA-TECH Corporation, Ivyland PA 2006-2014 Logistics Manager DA-TECH Corporation, Ivyland PA 2003-2006 Engineering Manager DA-TECH Corporation, Ivyland PA 1997-2003 Education Electrical Engineering Tech Temple University, Philadelphia Pa 92-99 Mechanical drafting and design Bucks County Community College 81-92 Special Interest Problem Solving, Working in a Successful team environment, process evaluation and improvements. Home building and repairs, Equestrian Sports, Skiing, Biking, Hiking, Boating, Photography