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THOMAS McDIERMON 455 Hunt River Way, Suwanee, GA 30024 (770) 277-7157 home. (770) 722-7157 cell. Email: tmacd50@bellsouth.net
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE / SUMMARY—I Have:
EXPERIENCE
Home Depot Suwanee, GA 2006-2008 Appliance Sales Specialist, responsible for appliance dept. sales, inventory, displays and customer service. Best in department in Sales volume and Customer service.
Independent Insurance Agent Suwanee, GA 2005-2006 Self employed Insurance Agent. Georgia Licensed Agent. Contracted with variety of Life and Health companies. Focus on the Senior Market selling Medicare Supplements and Prescription Drug plans. Also marketed Long Term Care, Final Expense, Life, Health, Mortgage, Annuity and Disability Insurance. Marketed Pre-Paid Legal Plans and Identity Theft protection plans. Sold to individuals, groups and businesses. Mission: great customer service.
Merrill Lynch Duluth, GA 2004-2005 Financial Advisor. Full service firm. Marketing of financial services to individuals and business. Registered Representative since 11/04
American Signature Furniture Buford, GA 2003-2004 Retail Furniture Sales. Difficult sales environment unsupported by advertising or promotion, but successful for over a year. - Trained and mentored new store associates. - Highest customer satisfaction rating in store. - Won several sales contests.
New / Used Vehicles Gwinnett County, GA 2001-2003 Sales and Leasing. Did not like this type of sales. Worked for several dealerships. - Very high customer satisfaction score.
Factory Automation Systems Atlanta, GA 2000-2001 Outside Sales Engineer. Not a “fit” in this position. Dir. of Sales is a reference for me.
The Coca-Cola Company Atlanta, GA 1997-2000 Senior Engineer, Global Sales Equipment Development, Corporate Engineering. Provided innovative engineering, project management skills and leadership for development of “next generation” cold drink dispensing and vending equipment for Coca-Cola Corporation. - Managed supplier development projects and relations. - Personally identified and implemented revolutionary new technologies profitable to Coca-Cola. - Rated highly for my technical, detail, and problem solving skills. - Effectively interfaced with other internal and external groups, providing training and direction. Supervised, enforced and coordinated Supplier Purchase Agreements, Development Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements and Created Economic ROI of Projects and Proposals. - Key Man for water treatment applications for Point of Use/ Entry systems. Created global supplier performance standards in conjunction with Corporate QA. Was the Company “subject matter expert” on issues of drinking water treatment and safety. International point of contact for ALL water purification issues. - Single-handedly refined and advanced development of the concept of advanced ‘Air Mix’ multi-flavored fountain nozzle. Nozzle will make the company at least 4 million USD / year by ROI estimates. - Led team that finalized design parameters for ‘Global Tower’ dispenser. Led suppliers to agreement on dimensions for harmonization of parts. Thus creating a highly attractive and desirable fountain dispenser to increase market share of over-seas sales volume and cost reduction for distributors. - Conceptualized and initiated the development of an Advanced Electronic Locking System for vending systems to eliminate illegal entry of mechanical vending machines. Estimated to reduce vending theft losses world-wide by at least 20 million USD with enhanced bottler employee and product traceability.
Nabisco, Planters Division Suffolk, VA 1995-1997 Project Manager, Division Engineering. Multi-plant responsibility. Planned, directed, consulted, and led all major design engineering and constructions projects for plants, offices and warehouses. - Team leader for project staff of 3 engineers. - Reviewed/ prepared/ and submitted requests for capital expenditures and contracts. Ensured all contracts conformed to organization requirements and verified completion fulfilled contractual obligations. - Single-handedly provided prudent and responsible project control and direction that saved the company over $300,000 (from capital budgets) on projects within first year of service. - Took initiative and identified new supplier that improved cooking oil refining operation - saving $120,000 per year chemical costs and a 15% reduction of labor. - Designed process to remove un-filterable contaminants from cooking oil. (Patentable) - Managed plant portion of new product introduction projects and trials. Provided excellent R&D interfacing and assistance. All schedules kept on time. - Initiated and completed investigation of application of thermal technology for process control and preventive/ predictive maintenance. Would yield estimated annual savings of $180,000. - Selected as the engineering participant of 10 member Planters Division Quality Team that was made-up of managers from all functional areas - Solved structure problem with shipping cartons that eliminated 32% of all damage complaints at an estimated annual savings of $75,000 in re-handling charges.
Best Foods Company Asheboro, NC 11/92 - 8/95 Process Engineer: Analyzed and optimized processing functions of Food Manufacturing Plant. - Selected for, and attended advanced processing and process development training in Switzerland and Germany. Developed and maintained close and effective relationships with counterparts world-wide. Effectively acted as liaison between Asheboro plant and European counterparts. - Implemented process controls procedure that reduced mix department scrap-loss to an average 0.5% (A reduction of 75%). Saving $ 73,000 annually. - Improved mix department maximum operational capability by over 20% via PLC system modifications. - Filled-in as Team Leader on all shifts when needed, directly supervising as many as 45 hourly employees per shift from all production and shipping departments. - Created O & M documentation of critical systems and operations where none had existed before. - Successful as project manager for installation and start-up of new mixing system and 11 million pounds of production transfers to plant (increasing plant output by 122%). Without increasing staff or packaging time. - Initiated, standardized and implemented SPC/ TQM production and packaging quality control measurement system that eliminated over/ underweight issues and insured regulatory compliance.
Lockheed Space Ops Co. Titusville, FL 1987-1992 Senior Technical Specialist, Advanced Technology Division: Performed analysis of advanced technology theories, engineering proposals, and projects. - Created technical reports and provided cost/benefit estimates for senior management. - Assumed Project leader/manager position on $8 million effort. - Promoted to this position and assumed leadership of a study which was over 30 days behind schedule. Wrote/ published the report for this significant project that saved an estimated $ 1.2 million in launch processing duplication procedures. (continued)
Systems Engineer, Facility Field Operations (Lockheed). Effectively performed design, modification, operations and maintenance of electronic/electrical instrumentation/ process control systems for Facility Field Operations Dept. - Created and revised operations and maintenance instructions, as well as directed planning, troubleshooting, and supervision of technicians. - Programmable logic controller (PLC) programming and maintenance - Functioned as single point of contact departmental liaison between Facilities Department and NASA. - As project leader recommended and presented two new, state-of-the-art electronic control systems for improved efficiency, reliability, flexibility, and operational capability. - Developed and installed the systems two weeks ahead of schedule. - Received Shuttle Processing Contractor “Team Award” for exceptional contribution to launch processing and quality control efforts. - At management request devised method to reduce excessive “open” work orders. Identified process restrictions and closed 70% of the unnecessary paperwork in two weeks time. - Highly praised by management and asked to train other departments in the methods I developed for the streamlining of work orders.
EDUCATION
MBA – Management -- 1991 Florida Institute of Technology BS EET – (Electrical/ Electronic Engineering Technology) 1986 McNeese State University
CONTINUING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Statistical Process Control - GMP’s - Total Quality Management - Advanced Project Management - Business Management - Production and Operations Management - Economic Valuation of Projects and Proposals - Water Quality Management - Refrigeration Technology - Conflict Resolution - Supplier Management - Personal Computer Software and Systems - Writing and Presentation - PC Software Experience (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, IE, Outlook and various software products for production and Maintenance applications) - Lean Manufacturing and Bottleneck Elimination - Professional Selling Skills - Many other selling and motivational courses - Certified Lock Out Specialist
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND CERTIFICATIONS
Water Quality Association EPA (Universal) Certification to work with Refrigerants FAA Certified Private Pilot Licensed and Bonded Locksmith
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