Consultant for Building and Warehouse Space Development Utilization

Consultant #1539

Strategic planning for building and warehouse space development and space utilization.
Warehouse planning and functional requirements design.
Building capital projects and project management.
Project management for facilities and equipment design build startup.
Building plans for fabrication, assembly, packing, storage and shipping.
Development of flexible, high speed, packing machines.
Packaging line maintenance and automation.
Equipment and facilities services; maintenance scheduling.
Pilot line development to custom automation.
Green project consulting for existing buildings.

Independent Consultant, 2008 - Present

QVC, Inc., 1996 - 2008

Vice President Facilities/Planning

Managed capital building and systems projects, building maintenance and services and budgets.
Added over 3 million highly flexible square feet of call centers, distribution centers, data centers, and corporate office space, and sophisticated systems to support sales growth exceeding 12% per year.
Managed maintenance and internal services for 6 million square feet of assorted buildings.
Developed power systems with perfect uptime supporting the Broadcast and Corporate Data Center.
Applied best practices to fire and environmental health and safety systems for exceptional safety record.
Implemented a "Green Program" including trash recycle, a one megawatt solar PV system, major warehouse lamp replacements with 10 month payback, and other power conservation.
Maintained and upgraded jewelry distribution equipment to assure cost effective quick shipments.
Consulted to international divisions for facilities technical standards and cost benchmarking.

Manager Industrial Engineering

Managed the design, specification, budgeting, purchase, and implementation of warehouse and distribution equipment to support company sales growth and developed the first practical applications of automation into packing and shipping for labor savings and capacity growth.
Provided equipment and automation for major expansions in Suffolk, VA (250k sf) and Lancaster, PS (600k sf).
Provided four custom automated jewelry autobaggers.

Jade Corporation, Director of Engineering and Technology, 1989 - 1996

Design and engineering of high precision fabrication of manufacturing and inspection automation and assembly systems for pharmaceutical, biomedical, semiconductor, telecommunication and other uses.
Developed automation concepts at competitive costs with customers.
Manage the process development, design, fabrication, debug, qualification, and implementation of machines or systems up to $1,500k each.
Supplied new contact lens production lines that included major upgrades for improved uptime reliability, quicker maintainability and process enhancements.
Developed six flexible, high speed, suture assembly and packing machines for contact lens manufacturing.
Developed first advanced high speed, flexible, connector assembly machine for AMP, Inc.
Developed a flexible assembly machine for multilayer circuit boards with precision alignment for IBM.
Developed a high speed, flexible terminal strip assembly machine for Raychem.

Vistakon, Johnson & Johnson, Manager Process R&D; Senior Project Engineer, 1985 - 1989

Developed the pilot line processes and first two large capacity production lines for 'Acuvue" contact lenses.
Provided support documentation for FDA compliance.

Pandrol, Inc., Director of Engineering and Plant Manager, 1978 - 1985

A British owned company that sold patented railroad track fastening systems in a worldwide market which used a continuously welded rail for heavy freight and high speed train travel.
Design, build, and manage the operation of the first US facility to produce over 10 tons of forged and heat treated spring clips per shift.
Perform all domestic engineering for manufacturing, product development and testing for product application engineering.
Successfully opened and managed the US manufacturing and QA facilities.
Created and altered new products to win contracts and maintain market leadership.

Franklin Mint, Franklin Center, Program Engineering Manager, 1972 - 1978

A manufacture of collectibles in precious metals and other materials that provided their own marketing.
Extensive simultaneous engineering management and design for product and manufacturing development of numerous products with very high speed turn-around.
Extensive tooling and high speed developments.

Scott Paper Co., Senior Project Engineer, 1971 - 1972

Tuned an existing "air lay" paper web process for a new product "Job Squad," with wood pulp and polymer bonded fibers, and further develop the equipment and process.
Implemented humidified machine enclosures for better quality and ergonomics.

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