Experienced Manufacturing Leadership.

Right When You Need It.

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Interim & Fractional Manufacturing Executive

I step into manufacturing organizations during leadership transitions, operational challenges, startups, and periods of rapid change — bringing hands-on executive leadership without waiting months for a permanent hire.

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How I Can Help

  • When a VP, operations leader, or plant leader position is unexpectedly vacant, the business can't simply wait several months for a search to finish.

    I can step in quickly to provide experienced leadership, stabilize the operation, maintain accountability, and prepare the organization for the permanent leader.

    Best fit for:
    Leadership vacancies • Executive searches • Transitions • Organizational change • Turnarounds

  • Not every manufacturer needs another full-time executive.

    I provide ongoing senior manufacturing leadership on a fractional basis — helping leadership teams establish operating priorities, improve plant performance, develop their teams, and execute critical initiatives.

    Best fit for:
    Growing manufacturers • Founder-led businesses • PE portfolio companies • Small manufacturing networks

  • Sometimes the issue isn't a leadership vacancy. The plant simply isn't performing.

    I work directly with plant leadership and frontline teams to identify the constraints, establish operating discipline, and build a practical path toward improved safety, quality, delivery, cost, and reliability.

    Best fit for:
    Underperforming plants • Startups • Capacity ramps • Reliability issues • Operating-system gaps

Call Me When…

Your organization need results, not just plans.

 

Your VP of Manufacturing or Operations leader just left — and the search could take months.

A plant is consistently missing its commitments and you need experienced leadership on the ground.

A new line, facility, or major capacity expansion isn't ramping the way it should.

Your plant manager is overwhelmed and needs experienced operational support.

Growth has outpaced the systems, structure, and leadership capability of the organization.

Your leadership team knows performance needs to improve, but execution keeps getting lost in day-to-day firefighting.

You're acquiring, integrating, or evaluating a manufacturing operation and need an experienced operator's perspective.

You don't always need another consultant. Sometimes you need someone who has actually run the operation.

18+ Years

Manufacturing Leadership

$7M+

Documented EBITDA Impact

Global

U.S. • Mexico • Brazil

Plant → Network

Single-Site to Multi-Site Leadership

Results

Representative outcomes from manufacturing leadership and operational improvement work.

  • Improved throughput and operating performance through stronger management systems, loss elimination, frontline capability development, and more consistent execution.

  • Drove approximately $7M in EBITDA impact through productivity improvement, labor optimization, waste reduction, reliability, and operational discipline.

  • Stabilized performance by clarifying priorities, strengthening daily management, building accountability, and focusing teams on the few constraints that mattered most.

Proven Manufacturing Leadership

Experience across the operating challenges that most often require experienced leadership and focused execution.

Plant
Leadership

Leading complex manufacturing sites with full accountability for safety, quality, service, cost, people, and performance.

Startup &
Ramp-Up

Supporting new lines, expansions, and facility startups from commissioning through capability development and sustained performance.

Multi-Site Operations

Managing performance across multiple facilities while aligning priorities, operating systems, resources, and leadership expectations

Operating Systems & Performance

Building practical management systems around OEE, productivity, waste, labor, daily accountability, and continuous improvement.

Turnaround & Stabilization

Bringing structure, accountability, and operating discipline to underperforming or high-pressure manufacturing environments.

Maintenance & Reliability

Strengthening preventive maintenance, technical capability, asset reliability, spare-parts discipline, and maintenance leadership.

I’ve been the one responsible for the number, the people, and the results.

My career has taken me from plant-level manufacturing leadership to responsibility for complex operations and multi-site organizations across the United States, Mexico, and Brazil.

I’ve led turnarounds, startups, productivity improvement, operating-system implementation, maintenance and reliability, frontline capability development, and large manufacturing teams.

That experience shapes how I work today: get close to the operation, understand the real constraints, establish clear priorities, strengthen the team, and create practical systems that sustain performance.

Real Talk Business Services gives companies access to that experience without requiring every challenge to become another permanent executive hire.

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Lets talk about what you're working on

Have a leadership gap, an underperforming operation, or a manufacturing challenge that can’t wait?

Tell me what’s going on. We’ll have a straightforward conversation about the situation, what you need, and whether I’m the right person to help.

 
 
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