Ken Golaszewski

42 Treescape, The Woodlands, Texas 77381 (281)419-7690 kgeaf044@westpost.net

Professional Summary:
Results-driven Management Executive with multifaceted work experience within man
ufacturing and non-manufacturing environments. Strong general management qualifi
cations in sales, strategic planning, project management, budgeting/finance, hum
an resource/performance planning, process improvement and turnaround settings.
Fully computer literate in Windows, Green Belt (Six Sigma, Kaizen, 5S certified)
and in possession of dynamic group presentation skills.
Career Experience
Universal Technical Institute, Houston, Texas 3/05-Present
Campus President/General Manager
Assumed leadership role of the 3rd largest UTI Campus and within 16 months demon
strated significant business metric improvement in all key areas. This was acco
mplished by focusing the staff on impactful business agendas surrounded by imple
menting high performance behaviors and tools throughout the campus culture. Cur
rent achievements are:
* Achieved 2009/2010 Fiscal Margin Targets.
* Achieved 2009/2010 Graduate Employment Target (4th year in a row).
* Achieved 2009/2010 Persistence Targets.
* Achieved 10% increase in student customer service satisfaction sustained over
6 years
* Led the recovery of Hurricane IKE with no lost time to student attendance to c
lass
* 250 Employees, 12 Staff members
* $50 Million Dollar P/L annual
ATC Logistics/Auto craft Material Recovery, Oklahoma City, OK 3/02-3/05
General Manager
Initially hired as a Process Improvement consultant to turn the business around
due to dissatisfied Ford and GM customers. Within 6 months accepted the permane
nt Operations Manager Role and assumed the General Manager role in the last 10 m
onths of employment. Achievements were:
* Documented 15 process flow diagrams for facility in 35 days
* Reduced unidentified product inventory 90% in 7 months.
* 300% increase cell PPL (parts per labor hour) in 60 days
* Executed 5 new core processing/qualification programs in 90 days
* Implementation and tracking of cell downtime
* 8 Kaizen events executed in 10 months
* Consolidated 3 businesses to one location in 24 months (one shutdown).
* Implemented 3 stages of quality checks throughout the supply chain in first 10
months.
* Reduced overall headcount by 40% in 12 months.
* Implementation of operator shift meetings and 5S behavior
* Implemented internal auditing of shipping accuracies with action items

Nestle/Perrier Water Company of America, Dallas Texas-12/98 to 3/02

Plant Manager
Assumed the Plant Manager position for a small Nestle/Perrier bottling facility
in Houston area. Within 12 months of leading that facility up to all operating
standards, was assigned to represent the company with Deloitte & Touche on a Nor
thern America process improvement assessment of all bottling facilities. Upon
finishing that assignment was relocated to the Dallas fully integrated Nestle/Pe
rrier 24/7 bottling facility as the new Plant Manager in a turnaround setting.
* 20% Improvement on all internal quality and safety audits in 2000-2001
* 25% Improvement of efficiencies on PET lines 2000-2001
* 8%-20% Improvement of efficiency on Bulk lines 2000-2001
* $2MM dollar turnaround in controllable P/L after 2000-2001
* 20% CPU reduction 2000-2001
* Introduction of Pay for Skill at operator level 2001-2002
* Introduction of Performance bonus payout at operator level 2001-2002
* Implementation of weekly "CI" meeting 2001-2002
* Implementation of operator recorded downtime to floor computer(s) 2001-2002
Sara Lee Continental Coffee, Houston Texas-2/96-12/98
Operations Manager
Position responsibilities included the direction of all production and packaging
for Flavor Coffee, R+G Coffee, Tea and box printing at the facility. This was
a 7 day customer order period with 1300 orders per month, 300,000 cases shipped
per month encompassing 66MM lbs packaged per year in a Union Labor setting.
* Increased plant efficiencies in 10% over two years
* Reduced holds and consumer complaints first year 50%
* Reduced holds and consumer complaints in second year 15%
* Reduced overtime grievances 25% first 6 months
* Implementation of Absence and Lateness policy
* Implementation of computer inventory control for printed boxes
* Implementation of Quality Specifications with all printed schedules
* Implementation of weekly KPI publishing to the floor

Kraft Maxwell House, Houston Texas-5/85-2/96

After finishing College, I obtained my first job with Maxwell House as a project
engineer working on plant equipment and building installations. Quickly I esta
blished myself as someone who could work with operators and production employees
and was then directed into operations assignments over 10 years at 4 Maxwell Ho
use locations. Positions reflect upward mobility and were:
* Coffee Superintendent 12/1994-2/1996
* Packaging Dept. Head 12/1992-12/1994
* Assistant Dept. Head 12/1990-12/1992
* Boiler House Supervisor 9/1989-12/1990
* Maintenance Supervisor 2/1987-9/1989
* Project Engineer 5/1985-2/1987
Education:
Manhattan College, NY/NY
B.A. Political Science Cum Laude 3.4 GPA
B.S.M.E. Mechanical Engineering 2.9 GPA
Green Belt Process Improvement
Personal:
Married, two children, excellent health, willing to relocate
References:
Available on Request