Brad Rouse
Clayton,NC
Summary
To obtain a job within my chosen field that will challenge me and allow me to use my education, skills and past experiences in a way that is mutually beneficial to both myself and my employer and allow for future growth and advancement.
Professional with strong background in regional management and strategic planning. Proven track record of driving operational efficiency, optimizing resources, and enhancing customer satisfaction. Highly adaptable team player focused on collaboration and achieving results. Skilled in data analysis, project management, and stakeholder communication with reputation for reliability and flexibility in dynamic environments.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Area Specialist
Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals
06.2022 - 08.2025
- Trained and mentored junior team members, fostering professional growth and development within the company.
- Utilized advanced analytical tools to generate actionable insights from raw data sets, guiding future business decisions.
- Increased regional sales by developing and implementing targeted marketing strategies.
- Audited and vetted technologies set for rollout, verifying performance and generating organization-specific documentation to assist employees through systemic transitions.
- Utilized SAP to review and finish up work orders completed by technicians.
- Guided and supported technicians with equipment repair and maintainance.
- Worked with technicians to come up with gameplans for underperforming equipment and communicated plans to required parties.
- Coordinated crosstraining across areas for maximum efficiency.
- Coordinated and organaized preventative maintainance with equipment.
- Ordered needed tooling for technicians.
Process Maintenance Technician
Novo Nordisk
03.2016 - 06.2022
- Improving Systems and Equipment Reliability on assigned processes, reducing system/equipment downtime on assigned processes, and supporting operation of assigned process.
- Obtaining knowledge on SCADA systems to help minimize system downtime and maintain maximum production.
- Increasing and maintaining my ability and experience with automated records systems such as SAP, schematics, wiring diagrams and other technical documents.
- CLEAN 1-star certified
- 4P trainer
- Worked as an original project member to bring in a new product and equipment to the company.
- Equipment validation, new spare parts setup, testing and writing new processes for maintenance and repair.
Commercial Manager
Autozone
08.2013 - 10.2015
- Assigned tasks to associates, staffed projects, tracked progress and updated managers, partners and clients as necessary.
- Started a new Commercial program in Garner NC which included reaching out and acquiring new customers.
- Coordinated training with all employees to ensure all members were trained properly and safely.
Service Manager and Technician
Meineke
06.2012 - 06.2013
- Responsible for many various tasks including but not limited to: Ordering parts Quoting repair jobs for customers, coordinating work for mechanics, coordinating payroll for commission, answering phones, organizing workflow, coordinating commercial accounts,taking payments for retail and commercial customers and setting up commercial accounts.
- Provided quality work for customers with basic and advanced vehicle repairs, including but not limited to: Oil changes, brake jobs, motor mount replacement, electrical troubleshooting and quoting future repair issues.
Product Quality Technician
Caterpillar
06.1999 - 12.2008
- Supported the assembly line with quality related issues.
- This ranged from reading prints and routings, troubleshooting problems, sorting parts for conformance, documenting problems and issues on online based programs and communicating known and found issues to other responsible parties.
- Root cause analysis - determined exact causes of quality related issues, whether it be supplier related problems, engineering design flaws.
- Communicated and documented known issues and coordinated to proper parties in order to get issues resolved.
- Coordinated and structured rework processes to resolve quality issues - Including but not limited to replacing faulty parts and reworking machines to conform to engineering specs. Maintained necessary level of communications between shifts.
- Responsible for achieving production requirements. Monitored product standards and quality-control programs.
Education
Associate in Liberal Arts -
Mount Olive
Mount Olive, North CarolinaSkills
- Certified Green Belt CQIA
- SAP utilization
- Equipment maintenance
- Process optimization
- Technical documentation
- Team collaboration
- Electronic repair and modification
- Software development and testing
- Adobe Photoshop and graphic modeling
- Computer hardware and software repair
- Root cause analysis
- A3 problem solving
- SAP proficiency
- Microsoft Excel expertise
- Systematic problem solving
- Training and mentoring
- Effective communication
Timeline
Technical Area Specialist
Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals
06.2022 - 08.2025
Process Maintenance Technician
Novo Nordisk
03.2016 - 06.2022
Commercial Manager
Autozone
08.2013 - 10.2015
Service Manager and Technician
Meineke
06.2012 - 06.2013
Product Quality Technician
Caterpillar
06.1999 - 12.2008
Associate in Liberal Arts -
Mount Olive