Keystone Drill Services

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• Lead and mentor a team of engineers to design and deliver products that are safe, reliable, and innovative while consistently meeting or exceeding customer requirements.
• Direct cross-functional teams through all phases of new product development, from concept and design to testing, validation, and launch, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and customer expectations.
• Develop and implement strategic plans for new product production, including evaluating infrastructure, workforce capabilities, and tooling requirements to optimize efficiency and scalability.
• Collaborate with operations, supply chain, and quality teams to align engineering initiatives with production capabilities, cost targets, and delivery timelines.
• Champion a culture of continual improvement and innovation by leveraging industry best practices, lean principles, and Six Sigma methodologies to enhance product quality and process efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership and decision-making in critical project milestones, ensuring risk assessments, safety compliance, and long-term product sustainability.
• Partner with executive leadership to assess organizational needs, allocate resources effectively, and prepare the business for future growth and evolving customer demands.

Accountable for developing standard work processes and documentation for entire production/service lifecycle to enhance safety, quality, and efficiency. Design and create drawings for custom components and fixtures used in production. Manage and monitor SAP processes for Material Master, refurb/work orders, production orders, inventory management, and purchase orders.

• Designed and introduced fixture for compressor rebuilds to increase remanufacturing efficiency and provide a safer equipment for shop personnel.
• Led teams across three branches to conduct inventory, with resulting average variance of 0.5%

Accountable for solicitation/contract compliance for defense customers, develop and implement best

practices for process improvements, coordinate production processes across all departments, and supervise packaging and logistics to ensure flawless delivery to customer.

• Accountable for continual process improvement: created a method of calculating government solicitation bids that yielded an increase in revenue by $2.8 million.
• Led a team to streamline the procedures with a goal to increase product visibility and product awareness within the company.
• Team leader to implement data analytics with a goal of cost reduction analysis achieving $2.5 million in savings.

Corporate program that develops its future leaders by identifying and nurturing strong-performing and high-potential employees who meet “best-in-class criteria” and are willing to accept the challenge.

• Technology Working Group Chair accountable for corporate-wide initiative to understand and evaluate the implementation of technologies/applications of value to enhance employee knowledge and training, and help define corporate improvements.

Accountable for testing procedures and equipment to obtain performance data and validate product

reliability, evaluate and improve upon existing product designs to increase performance while

considering cost, and develop solutions relative to customer requests.

• Co-inventor of a shelving concept, supplying over 80,000 units to the USPS, in order to efficiently utilize the cargo area of the postal vehicle. Patent No: US20150183360A1
• Leading high performing group of individuals accountable for test of prototype and production parts;
  • The Air Brake Test Stand was designed to comply with SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Standards on all components of a Class 8 vehicle’s brake system. The test stand provided a return on investment in just 6 months.
  • The Water Pump Test Stand offered the ability to establish life-cycle and performance improvements, leading the start of production. QA/QC to optimize performance and cost-effective manufacturing with selected supplier.

Reverse engineer new products and generate drawings for manufacture, design test fixtures to evaluate prototype and production parts for life-cycle assessment, and evaluate prototypes and pre-production parts for proper form, fit, and function.

• Accountable for creating new and legacy parts for the USPS. Includes life-cycle assessment and manufacturing cost effectiveness.

Nominated in 2011 for the Lieutenant General Milton G. Baker Non-commissioned Officer

Leadership Award.

Successfully led sniper teams while being deployed to Ar Ramadi, Iraq. Awarded the Purple Heart and Army Commendation Medal, among 11 other awards for service.

Accountable for all sensitive items and weapon systems at the Company level.