David Elggren
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American Equipment Holdings
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United States
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of Quality
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Jan 2023 - Present
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States With a National presence we design and manufacture Overhead, Gantry, Bridge and Industrial Cranes, Hoists and Material Handling Equipment.
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General Manager
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Apr 2019 - Feb 2023
Greater Salt Lake City Area • Acorn Vans is the Mercedes Certified Expert Upfitter exclusive in the Greater Salt Lake City area specializing in commercial van upfits and soon to be recreational van builds. Upfits comply with Mercedes Body and Equipment Design Guidelines and have 3-yr warranties. • VanBuilders is a recreational van upfitter specializing in accessories, custom van designs, ProBuild van models and innovative commercial van upfits. • RVIA Certified shop. • A Volta Power Systems… Show more • Acorn Vans is the Mercedes Certified Expert Upfitter exclusive in the Greater Salt Lake City area specializing in commercial van upfits and soon to be recreational van builds. Upfits comply with Mercedes Body and Equipment Design Guidelines and have 3-yr warranties. • VanBuilders is a recreational van upfitter specializing in accessories, custom van designs, ProBuild van models and innovative commercial van upfits. • RVIA Certified shop. • A Volta Power Systems Partner. • A Winnebago Parts & Service Center. • Nomi Health, mobile van fleet • Caterpillar (CAT) mobile van fleet • ISO 9001:2015 QMS compliant companies, as a certified Lead Auditor. • Grown from a 3-bay facility to a 23,000 sq.ft. building, 10-bays (recreational) and 3-Fastlanes (commercial). • Delivering same day commercial upfits and fastest delivery of custom conversions. Show less
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COO - Quality Manager - Safety Manager
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Jul 2014 - Apr 2019
Greater Salt Lake City Area • Water reuse and produced-water treatment equipment mobile and modular systems. • P&L responsibility. • Budgeting, Forecasting, CapEx. • Capital Equipment, own and operate system at customer sites. • Behavior Based Safety integration and daily/weekly reporting. Site Safety Plans and training staff. • ISO 9001:2015 3rd Party Audit, QMS approved. • Introduced Economic Value Analysis (EVA) reporting into weekly internal detailed reporting with summarized reporting (CPI, SPI) to… Show more • Water reuse and produced-water treatment equipment mobile and modular systems. • P&L responsibility. • Budgeting, Forecasting, CapEx. • Capital Equipment, own and operate system at customer sites. • Behavior Based Safety integration and daily/weekly reporting. Site Safety Plans and training staff. • ISO 9001:2015 3rd Party Audit, QMS approved. • Introduced Economic Value Analysis (EVA) reporting into weekly internal detailed reporting with summarized reporting (CPI, SPI) to the client. Implementation with reports to client created in 7 days. • Created a Cash Flow tool integrating revenue and expenses across multiple projects. Show less
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SUEZ
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France
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Environmental Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Director - Quality Systems and Process - Industrial Solutions Group N.A.
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2010 - 2014
Greater Salt Lake City Area - ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System; Certified Lead Auditor; multiple locations; managed initiatives throughout Engineering and Manufacturing to achieve financial results. - QMS Tools included Lean, Kaizen, SCAR, QRQC, MSV, 5S, select SixSigma methods.
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Water & Power Technologies
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United States
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Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
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1 - 100 Employee
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Special Project Manager to CEO
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2004 - 2014
Greater Salt Lake City Area - ISO 9001:2008 Quality System implementation as Group’s Director of Quality Systems and Processes, as Certified Lead Auditor (+$100m), certification scheduled, training complete. - SAP - Business One (ERP) and MariProjekt (PM) ($60m) Project Manager, with multi-site implementation, delivered on time and on budget. - Created a new multi-location, Services Safety Program for WPT ($25M), while supporting the ongoing Manufacturing safety program as the Safety Manager. - Envisioned and… Show more - ISO 9001:2008 Quality System implementation as Group’s Director of Quality Systems and Processes, as Certified Lead Auditor (+$100m), certification scheduled, training complete. - SAP - Business One (ERP) and MariProjekt (PM) ($60m) Project Manager, with multi-site implementation, delivered on time and on budget. - Created a new multi-location, Services Safety Program for WPT ($25M), while supporting the ongoing Manufacturing safety program as the Safety Manager. - Envisioned and coordinated the programming and ongoing maintenance of a bill of material management system which integrated into the SAP ERP system. - - Organized and managed implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) initiative, which included 19 audit modules comprising 1200 audit questions with documentation, created by Deloitte & Touche, LLP. Also, fulfilled Lead Auditor role for SOx audit which resulted in one of only three entities within 120 Earth Tech locations that successfully passed the audit the first time. - Implemented comprehensive Tyco safety program, which resulted in a 50% reduction in OSHA RIR’s the first year and achieved a zero RIR the second year.
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Industrial General Manager
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1999 - 2009
Greater Salt Lake City Area - Managed the design and build-out of a new 95,000 square foot manufacturing facility with offices, for the consolidation of three manufacturing locations; Results: exceeded profitability goal for the year, on budget for projected consolidation and transition costs, and less than 1 day down time for manufacturing production. - P&L responsibility for Business Segment. - Facilitated Operational Excellence projects (OpEx) using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. - Certified ISO 9001:2001… Show more - Managed the design and build-out of a new 95,000 square foot manufacturing facility with offices, for the consolidation of three manufacturing locations; Results: exceeded profitability goal for the year, on budget for projected consolidation and transition costs, and less than 1 day down time for manufacturing production. - P&L responsibility for Business Segment. - Facilitated Operational Excellence projects (OpEx) using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. - Certified ISO 9001:2001 Lead Auditor. - Managed Sales Application Engineering group with a 45% win rate and managed the Software Programming activities.
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Anderson Water Sys, LTD / Water & Power Tech., Inc a Degremont Technologies company
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Oil and Gas
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Operating Officer
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2009 - 2011
Toronto, Canada Area - Two-year assignment in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as Chief Operating Officer increasing net margins by 4% as reported by the CFO, improving on-time deliveries from 30% to >95%, and integrating a new design platform. - P&L responsibility for custom engineered equipment company.
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President, CEO
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1997 - 2004
Greater Salt Lake City Area - Start-up company, raised capital, sales manager. - Entrepreneur, co-founded Engineering 4D, a process equipment design company for industrial water treatment markets worldwide, which provided leading edge 3D modeling design, engineering, costing and proposal integration services, which produced same day, complete, general arrangement and custom manufacturing drawing packages, purchasing data and operation/maintenance manuals in all international material standards. - Cost and schedule… Show more - Start-up company, raised capital, sales manager. - Entrepreneur, co-founded Engineering 4D, a process equipment design company for industrial water treatment markets worldwide, which provided leading edge 3D modeling design, engineering, costing and proposal integration services, which produced same day, complete, general arrangement and custom manufacturing drawing packages, purchasing data and operation/maintenance manuals in all international material standards. - Cost and schedule savings produced 90% reduction in standard production labor, 100% proposal and costing accuracy, use of all international material standards, final outcome of 0% warranty claims. Show less
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WesTech Engineering
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United States
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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300 - 400 Employee
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Sales Manager
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1991 - 1997
Greater Salt Lake City Area - As Worldwide Sales Manager, ensured the support of 67 sales representatives in municipal, industrial and water markets. Sales doubled over the planned growth for the period, managed trade shows and Representative Counsels. - While International Sales Manager, appointed to manage newly licensed technologies. Working with the General Managers of Microsep (Canada) and S.P.ECO-WAMGroup (Italy), for product introduction into the United States. - As a certified Internal Auditor for the… Show more - As Worldwide Sales Manager, ensured the support of 67 sales representatives in municipal, industrial and water markets. Sales doubled over the planned growth for the period, managed trade shows and Representative Counsels. - While International Sales Manager, appointed to manage newly licensed technologies. Working with the General Managers of Microsep (Canada) and S.P.ECO-WAMGroup (Italy), for product introduction into the United States. - As a certified Internal Auditor for the company’s ISO 9001 program, supported a successful first time certification audit and contributed to three-year successive program maintenance. - Created and managed Northeastern States and Canada sales network, selected representatives and negotiated agreements, which achieved the regional sales goals each year. Show less
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Education
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University of Utah
BS, Mechanical Engineering -
Brigham Young University
Sociology