Experience

Perani's Hockey World

• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technology Systems and Integration Manager

  • May 2013 - Present

  Manage, maintain, and install networks as well as all hardware to include the installation of new servers, upgrading and migrating older servers to VMware. Network Security, Firewall Configurations, Switches, network monitoring and overseeing all network traffic. Web development and design, PCI compliance to ensure the company is up to date and follows the PCI guidelines, Maintain and install new Phone Systems, Install, Configure, and setup Point of Sale Systems and networks. Experienced with PHP, SQL, HTML, Microsoft, Linux, ESXi, Cisco, and much more.



AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing

• United States
• Automotive
• 700 & Above Employee

• Maintenance Manager

  • Jan 1996 - Jan 2009

  Managed five supervisors, one maintenance system analysts, and 37 skilled associates. Maintained a multimillion dollar budget for labor, maintenance materials, and equipment rebuilds. Tracked and maintained all maintenance continuous improvement measurables. Coordinated team meetings with production staff and engineering groups to ensure effective up time of over five hundred pieces of equipment to maximize production through put.Relocated, retooled, debugged, and successfully launched five different product lines consisting of 237 pieces of automated equipment without budget and minimal engineering support within a five day timeline requirement.Rearranged and installed over 500 pieces of new and used equipment in a 300,000 square feet Plant converting from a mass production layout to lean cellular modular layout.Coordinated the rebuild of over 100 pieces of equipment to include five carburizing furnaces with minimal start up issues.Reduced maintenance budget by an average of 7% a year over five years through the reduction of labor costs by efficiently restructuring the labor work force through communication, organization, developing and implementing maintenance work assignment pull systems.

• Senior Methods Analysts

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2005

  Maintained and tracked maintenance systems, prioritizing day to day supervisor duties, scheduling weekend and holiday projects making sure all parts and the right personnel were available to complete scheduled work on time.Increased overall equipment effectiveness by 5% a year for four years through the modification of preventive maintenance changes using data of equipment up time.Created over 75 reports using Crystal Reports to track component life cycle failures for all key critical and non critical equipment.Restructured and communized all spare parts by setting up a data base so that any associate could quickly find the correct part minimizing equipment down time.

• Maintenance Supervisor

  • Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

  Supervised 30 skilled and non skilled associates on a day to day basis prioritizing and ensuring that the right associate was working on critical down equipment. Assigned preventive maintenance work orders, and ensured that all associates had work properly assigned.Created and implemented a tool to remove bearings out of production parts saving the company in excess of $137,000 per year enabling parts to be repaired.Decreased cycle time on numerous pieces of equipment by changing processes and eliminating waste saving the company $500,000 per year.Set up auto lube systems on hundreds of feet of conveyors eliminating excessive down equipment.



CARPENTER ENTERPRISE LTD

• Journeyman Toolmaker

  • Jan 1984 - Jan 1996

  Started out as a machine operator, quality inspector, job setter and then entered the associate in training program where I earned my Journeyman Toolmaker certification.