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* Greenbrier - Gunderson Concarril (Bombardier Joint Venture) June 2000 – June 2002 World wide designer and manufacture of Railroad Cars Production Manager * Responsible for multi production line ‘greenfield’ facility development and start-up * 1000 plus employees * Successfully initiated production start-up of Automax and Husky Stack Multimodal Cars production lines on schedule at required output rate. * Major Customers: General Electric, GATX, BNSF, TTX

* Bombardier Transportation. June 2002 – May 2006 * Multi-Billion dollars company designing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing products ranging from snowmobiles to airplanes within the global market. Bombardier specializes in manufacturing high end products while controlling cost through implementation of Lean Six Sigma philosophies. * Business Unit Leader (Manager) * Accountability for Manufacturing Profit and Loss statement management * Responsible for locomotive and LRV frame manufacturing business unit * Reduced manufacturing cycle time (synchronizing takt time) by 10% through lean manufacturing tool * Major Customers: General Motors EMD, Metro Transit, Long Island Railroad.

* Trinity Industries de Mexico. May 2006 - Present * Design and manufacture tank cars and rail freight containers, large capacity LPG storage tanks, wind tower structures, and highway guardrail systems, 9000 plus employees in Mexico with revenues exceeding $90 Billion USD. * Director of Operations * Responsible for Huehuetaca manufacturing operations * Multi facility responsibility consisting of 1000 plus employees * Diverse product manufacturing portfolio: LPG Storage Tanks, Tank Cars, Wind Towers, Truck tanks, Bobtails, Domestic tanks and Cylinders. * Increased daily production in Tank Car Division by 50% * Reduced idle time and implemented WCM through implementation of team drive Lean Manufacturing tools * Managed $4.5M in CapEx project implementation * Increased throughput by 133% in LPG division * Major Customers: GATX, Texas Trailer, Bitumar, Coastal Petroleo, Koch, Loders Croklaan, Acciona Wind Power, Iberdrola…