Ray Stewart

Vice President in charge of operations, manufacturing and distribution for Everlast Worldwide from its flagship manufacturing and distribution facility. Responsible for Everlast's entire non-licensed product line worldwide from this vertically integrated facility, with complete machine shop, assembly, cut/sew/stuffing manufacturing operations and distribution operations as well as the indirect operations departments of customer service and sales, clerical accounting, purchasing, IT, quality control, safety, human resources, and facility maintenance.

Manufacturing lead for Timesavers making industrial woodworking and metal working abrasive sanders.Responsible for North American operations to include plants in Kansas and Minnesota and service operations centers on east and west coasts. Tasked with improving the operations of this world leader in industrial abrasion and grinding machinery.

Manufacturing Manager for an electronics production unit of this prime contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy in its 3.2 million sq ft secure facility. Most details of production and my position are classified.Six-Sigma Quality Trained with a Green belt certification pending. Made intense use of Process Mapping, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Activity Based Manufacturing, Lean Enterprise, and Visual Workplace techniques on a day to day basis. The production facility was ISO-9001 and ISO-14001 compliant.

Architecutural Millwork and Casework manufacturing. Recruited by executive management to provide overall leadership for the turnaround of this seven department, high-end millwork company. Mandated to make necessary changes to effect the bottom line in the smallest timeframe possible as part of a mission critical plan to restructure the company and bring it to profitablility.,

Kitchen Cabinetry and Millwork. Plant Manager for one division of a five division wood products manufacturing company providing wood components to cabinet and furniture manufacturers nationwide. Responsible for profit and loss at this 20 million dollar a year OEM production facility.

Manager, production and inventory control, and the shipping and receiving departments for this international Teir 1 OEM supplier of plastic components to the automotive industry worldwide. Directed production control, order entry, inventory control and purchasing. Supervised the direction of the shipping and receiving departments. Primary plant contact for daily contact with customers and suppliers worldwide. Global contacts included Morton Thiokol, Bendix, Chrysler, Ford, Diamond Star Motors, Yamaha, Mitsui, and Sumitomo. Working environment was MRP based, JIT and kanban controlled. Production was Toyota Production System (Lean Manufacturing). Company liaison representing TG (USA) to its customers and suppliers from numerous countries around the world; Japan, Mexico, Canada, Germany and France. Calculated and purchased ½ million dollar buys with overseas vendors in Japan, Mexico and Canada.