Independent Research & Technical Development - Independent Research & Technical Development - Dallas, GA
(2022-11)
- Conducted self-directed technical research and applied development focused on deterministic data modeling, systems architecture, and automated workflow logic.
- Authored and prepared technical documentation and updates for intellectual property filings with the USPTO.
- Researched advanced data structures, scripting, and analytics tools to model complex operational processes and equipment failure trends.
Senior Maintenance Manager - tru Cabinetry - Ashland, AL
(2020-06 - 2022-10)
- Directed plant maintenance and facilities operations across 2 shifts (16 hrs/day), managing 25 personnel including a Maintenance Manager and Custodial Manager while serving as the primary Company Safety Officer.
- Led greenfield implementation of MaintainX CMMS, establishing master asset hierarchies, tagging standards, and structured work management workflows to transition operations toward scheduled preventive maintenance.
- Shifted plant maintenance culture from temporary "band-aid" fixes to standard root-cause quality repairs, eliminating chronic recurring failures across continuous manufacturing lines (panel saws, rip saws, shaping, and finishing).
- Deployed an electrical thermography PdM program on aging plant infrastructure, identifying and correcting critical electrical hotspots before catastrophic failure occurred.
- Analyzed failure trends and parts consumption data to isolate bad-actor components, improve equipment reliability, and enforce supplier accountability.
- Directed a $4M paint finishing line replacement and plant reconfiguration, managing external contractors and coordinating with the local utility provider to engineer and install a new electrical service feed to resolve building capacity constraints.
Maintenance Director and Operations Site Manager - Amec Foster Wheeler, Environmental Services - Columbus, GA
(2019-03 - 2020-02)
- Directed five operational and technical functions—Plant Maintenance, Wastewater Treatment/Filtration, Process Cooling Water, Contracts, and Administration—ensuring continuous site operations and strict contract SLA fulfillment.
- Managed an $8M annual maintenance operating budget and instituted a streamlined capital project governance process to evaluate and execute facility upgrade requests.
- Restructured SAP work management workflows, standardized failure/activity work order coding, and established operational processes that reduced work order cycle and time-to-close metrics post-execution.
- Analyzed multi-store inventory data across facilities to eliminate duplicate SKUs, adjusting min/max thresholds and consolidating storeroom stock to reduce excess holding costs.
- Managed safety and environmental compliance reporting for industrial water treatment and process cooling equipment, maintaining adherence to strict regulatory standards.
Maintenance Director - Zamma Corporation - Orange, VA
(2018-07 - 2018-12)
- Directed maintenance operations across a 10-line manufacturing plant producing wood and extruded-plastic floor transition products involving extrusion lines, profile wrapping, and automated painting/staining processes.
- Implemented Fiix CMMS from scratch, building standardized work execution workflows and structured PM rounds that expanded plant-wide Preventive Maintenance coverage by 25%.
- Transitioned static time-based PMs to condition-based maintenance strategies using operating data, including leveraging boiler temperature trends to safely reduce cleaning cycle frequency by 50%.
- Improved technician utilization by 10% through structured shift coverage workflows, training technicians on high-integrity repair standards, and aligning plant leadership on root-cause repair quality over temporary fixes.
Maintenance Manager - American Woodmark - Orange, VA
(2017-01 - 2018-07)
- Partnered with Operations Leadership to establish Autonomous Maintenance rounds, transitioning routine cleaning and lubrication tasks directly to machine operators to free technician capacity for high-integrity preventive and corrective repairs.
- Maintained legacy wood manufacturing machinery (vintage ripping, framing, and panel saw configurations), leveraging breakdown tracking, time-to-fail data, and structured shift handoffs to increase equipment uptime by 3%.
- Increased technician effectiveness by 5% through updated work management processes, clear task definitions, and structured shift coordination.
- Reduced MRO inventory valuation by 7% through systematic obsolete item purging, duplicate SKU consolidation, and bulk-pricing renegotiations with primary vendors.
- Enforced strict Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) protocols across aging plant equipment and audited physical machinery safety, redesigning and reinstalling missing or decommissioned machine guards.
Senior Consultant - Emerson Reliability Consulting - Atlanta, GA
(2010-06 - 2016-09)
- Delivered Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) and operational readiness consulting across continuous and discrete industrial sectors, including oil refining, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing.
- Led formal Reliability-Centered Maintenance Analyses (RCMA), failure mode identification, and root cause workshops for high-consequence systems, including the complete RCMA for a major oil refinery Distributed Control System (DCS) in Saudi Arabia.
- Led matrixed technical teams cataloging and structuring master data hierarchies for 130,000 industrial assets to establish baseline equipment taxonomies and maintenance bills of materials (BOMs).
- Trained and coached client leadership and engineering teams on advanced maintenance principles, facilitating cross-functional workshops to resolve chronic asset failure modes and optimize PM/PdM technologies (vibration, thermography, lubrication analysis).
- Controlled project scope, billing, risk management, and client expectations for large-scale enterprise reliability transformations with budgets reaching up to $13M.
Senior Managing Consultant - IBM - Atlanta, GA
(1998-10 - 2010-03)
- Directed EAM(Maximo) and CMMS(MPAC UX) solution delivery across the full maintenance stack—encompassing asset registers, work order lifecycles, and storeroom inventory systems utilizing Indus International and Enterprise MPAC platforms.
- Directed and closed a $56M enterprise Work Management and EAM transformation for a major Indiana-based regional utility delivering electricity and natural gas across multi-state territories; structured project controls, coordinated multidisciplinary engineering workstreams, and executed system closeout within schedule and budget constraints.
- Served as lead architect for the Department of Defense (DoD), establishing maintenance lifecycle frameworks across a $600B real property inventory, while directing municipal asset management programs for major utilities including Detroit Public Lighting and San Diego Municipal Wastewater Department.
- Built and scaled an EAM consulting practice from a solo initiative to an active team of 10+ consultants within 12 months, assembling and directing subject matter experts (SMEs) across specialized maintenance and operations disciplines.
- Engineered interfaces connecting shop-floor maintenance data with enterprise administrative systems, transitioning operations from batch flat-file data transfers to modern integrated application architectures.
