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Operations professional experienced in manufacturing resource allocation, procurement, inventory, facilities and financial management. Proven performance management, productivity and risk control skills with the ability to balance short and long-term views, assess facts and collaboratively motivate teams to meet commitments. Energetic leader focused on exceeding customer requirements through respectful cross-functional communications for overall operational excellence with increasing profit margins.

• Vista manufacturing factory site leader managing 155+ direct employees, facility support staff and a temporary workforce for flexible capacity.
• Planned and administered policies, procedures, budgets, and capital expenditures.
• Improved on-time delivery by 52% through bottleneck elimination and employee training.
• Achieved a 36% reduction in customer complaints by holding individuals accountable for results and increasing daily communication with staff and customers.
• Focused on employee engagement, established a respectful positive culture.
• Maintained internal/external customer service levels at an all-time company high by improving process first pass roll throughput yield (RTY) by 41%.
• Strengthen leadership/employee relationships through revitalized communications of expectations and daily review of key performance indicators.

Director of Operations

• Directed development and manufacture of prototype and scale WEC systems.
• Responsible for mechanical and electrical engineering teams.
• Published daily/weekly project status reports to leadership team.
• Managed all aspects of the material and outside process supply chain.
• Organized external testing and validation protocols.
• Responsible for transportation logistics, lab and resource scheduling
• Documented technology gate levels and generated grant proposals for external funding sources including Oregon Wave Energy Trust, US Dept. of Energy, PIER California.

• Managed 106 employees with an annual budget exceeding $20M.
• Planned manufacturing capacity, labor requirements and capital budgets.
• Established metrics reporting cost, quality and delivery to international leadership teams.
• Positioned manufacturing resources for 20% yearly revenue growth.
• Reduced average set-up time by 75% on high capital cost 6-axis CNC machines.

Sr. Manufacturing Manager

• Responsible for all purchasing and supply chain management.
• Outsourcing of domestic/international electronic instrument and cable assemblies.
• Managed six buyers and purchasing/supply chain support personnel.
• Managed internal machining operations including supervisor and production control.
• Resource allocation, coordination of new product development from R&D to production.
• Budget control, product cost reduction, manufacturing efficiency and elimination of waste
• Employee performance, coaching, reviews, teambuilding and results communication.
• Quality/on-time delivery ownership for all products.

Progressive roles, Supervisor to Operations Manager

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Matthew Houser

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