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Matthew Richmond

Cocoa,Florida

Summary

Results-driven executive professional with extensive experience in driving organizational success. Skilled in strategic planning, operational management, and fostering collaborative work environment. Known for reliability and adaptability in achieving business objectives and leading teams.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

President Klas Manufacturing Solutions & VP Ops

Klas Government
03.2024 - Current
  • Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols.
  • Increased customer satisfaction through continuous improvement initiatives and excellent customer service.
  • Managed crisis situations effectively while minimizing disruption to daily operations.
  • Enhanced company performance by implementing strategic plans and overseeing daily operations.
  • Prepared annual budget forecasts and monitored performance to meet organizational objectives.
  • Established a culture of accountability by setting clear expectations and holding individuals responsible for results.
  • Monitored financial performance and implemented measures to enforce compliance with budgetary standards.
  • Delivered operational excellence by optimizing resources, processes, and overall cost structure.
  • Reduced operational costs through strategic cost management initiatives.

Vice President of Operations (Interim President and CEO Sep 2022-Feb 2023)

ELTA North America
05.2017 - 03.2024
  • Execute ELTA North America (ENA) strategic plan consistent with short and long-term objectives.
  • Provide management and oversight to ensure that systems are in place and effective to support customer requirements for service, delivery, quality, and technical support. This includes staffing, capital expense, human resources, system qualifications and policies and procedures.
  • Understand overall ENA manufacturing capability and implement a plan to capture measurable savings while improving quality and delivery.
  • Responsible for manufacturing output to meet or exceed company targets such as on-time delivery, productivity, quality, safety, service, and other key performance indicators.
  • Establish and support the development of and in compliance with standard operating procedures and departmental processes that comply with ISO and AS9100 requirements (Ex. Manufacturing procedures, product traceability, equipment calibration, ESD/FOD procedures, etc.)
  • Responsible for ensuring the profitability of the company through efficient manufacturing best practices in coordination with Engineering, Program Management, and Finance departments.
  • Lead, coach and provide constructive feedback to direct reports through communication regarding performance, quality requirements and safe work behaviors. Responsible for supervision and oversight of assembly staff, technicians, engineering, program management, compliance, shipping, receiving and warehouse personnel to include hiring decisions, review and approval of project time charging, performance evaluations, and progressive discipline as necessary.
  • Implement Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing throughout ELTA North America.
  • Support business development activities, including potential acquisitions, manufacturing capacity/capabilities, and creation of new products.
  • Streamlined operations by identifying inefficiencies and implementing process improvements.

Operations Director

Elbit Systems of America
09.2013 - 04.2017
  • Report to the Vice President of Operations, in his absence I assume his duties and signature authority for approving corporate work transfers, purchase orders, capital expenditures, and also chair the weekly cross-functional sales forecast and production status meetings.
  • In charge of manufacturing for a $100M state of the art electronics manufacturing company containing 60,000 Sq. Ft. of manufacturing space and over 125 manufacturing personnel. On time delivery for products produced in Fort Worth over 99%.
  • Responsible for assisting with technology and production transfers from Israel including participation in production readiness and program reviews with the Israeli Defense Forces and other customers. Products successfully transferred from Israel include: VRC-120, VRC-121, and VRC-122 Radios for the IDF, PRC-149 Survival Radios and URT-140 Beacons for Spectralink, Common Intelligence Display II for the Bradley fighting vehicle, Super Tucano Multi-Function display for Embraer, and the Mission Processor computer for the Apache helicopter.
  • Responsible for assisting with technology and production transfers from Engineering including participation in production readiness and program reviews with customers. Products successfully transitioned to production from Engineering include: UHF/VHF Power Amplifier for the Joint Strike Fighter, DMR-100 Watt and DMR-200 Watt Power Amplifiers, TC-100LR Power Amplifier, TC-100D Power Amplifier, and the TC-150 Power Amplifier.
  • Participate quarterly in Operations Joint Management Council with parent company in Israel to streamline processes and eliminate quality issues. The results of this initiative has been a 20% reduction in the number of late and defective products being received as well as better communications between the facilities.
  • Selected by the Executive Leadership Team to participate in Elbit Systems of America high potential “Innovation Leadership Team” program that recognizes and grooms select individuals within the organization.
  • Drove a culture of safety including weekly safety walks with action plans, safety awareness during daily manufacturing stand up meetings, and “Time out for safety” messages on our monitors throughout the production floor. The enhanced focus on safety has resulted in 3.8 million hours worked without a lost time accident and 2.2 million hours worked without an OSHA recordable incident.
  • Operations lead for AS-9100 and Government compliance activities and external audits which resulted in no major findings.
  • Drove significant improvements in quality, on time delivery, and process improvements by automating data collection to allow real time data analytics. Created a visual shop floor layout that focuses on process flow and allows for minimal facility changes when one product ends production and another begins.
  • Review and approve all operational basis of estimates prior to submittal for pricing, some of these programs were in excess of $200M. These estimates included both recurring production and non-recurring efforts such as standing up test equipment, fixtures, tooling, production test, test plans, first article/qualification efforts, and travel as needed for transition programs.
  • Trained all of our assembly personnel to IPC-610 as well as J-STD making everyone responsible for the quality of our products. This has resulted in improved quality metrics internally with customer simulation audit yields improving from 90% to over 98% and externally with warranty returns improving from 2.64% to .87%.
  • Work with union committee members to resolve any concerns regarding the collective bargaining agreement. Part of operations team that worked with the union to resolve any unsettled grievances that went to arbitration. The result of fostering an honest relationship and abiding by the collective bargaining agreement was zero grievances in 2016.
  • Responsible for providing tours of manufacturing facility to all customers and VIP’s.
  • Manufacturing lead responsible for successful implementation of Manufacturing Execution System upgrade in 2016. The Manufacturing Execution System allows for real time shop floor data collection as well as: automated production file access from our configuration management data base, ESD verification, FOD acknowledgement, assembly traceability, ECO update, and shop floor planning module.
  • Employee of the year nominee 2015.

Operations Manager

Elbit Systems of America
04.2011 - 09.2013
  • Managed 70 direct report employees including production assembly personnel, machine operators, test technicians, product line inspectors, and material handlers. Responsible for hiring and firing/reductions in force as necessary as well as performance reviews for all personnel.
  • Led IPT (Integrated Product Team) consisting of Manufacturing Engineers, Quality Engineers, Process Engineers, Sustaining Engineers, Buyers, and Production Planners that was responsible for all budgetary and performance aspects of 10 product lines representing $60M of shipments annually. IPT was responsible for conducting product failure reviews, quality circles with personnel from the production floor, working collaboratively through any issues to meet customer delivery dates, lean six sigma initiatives, and overall customer satisfaction.
  • Managed NPI (New Product Integration) line responsible for ensuring manufacturability of products that are being transitioned from engineering or another facility. Created production representative environment to vet out products and processes prior to release to production.
  • Worked directly with Defense Contract Management Agency to ensure all products are delivered on time, at projected costs, and meet all performance requirements. The results of continually improving the quality of our products and processes allowed DCMA representative to delegate inspection of select products to Elbit Fort Worth and reduce the number of shop floor process audits. Created an automated shelf life database that electronically keeps track of our chemicals and expiration dates on the warehouse and on the production floor, expired chemicals had been an issue that DCMA had discovered in the past. After implementation of automated tracking system zero findings have occurred.
  • Manufacturing lead responsible for successful implementation of Manufacturing Execution System in Tallahassee.

Operations Manager

Elbit Systems of America
08.2005 - 04.2011
  • Managed 70 direct report employees including production assembly personnel, machine operators, test technicians, product line inspectors, and material handlers. Responsible for hiring and firing/reductions in force as necessary as well as performance reviews for all personnel.
  • Led IPT (Integrated Product Team) consisting of Manufacturing Engineers, Quality Engineers, Process Engineers, Sustaining Engineers, Buyers, and Production Planners that was responsible for all budgetary and performance aspects of 10 product lines representing $60M of shipments annually. IPT was responsible for conducting product failure reviews, quality circles with personnel from the production floor, working collaboratively through any issues to meet customer delivery dates, lean six sigma initiatives, and overall customer satisfaction.
  • Managed NPI (New Product Integration) line responsible for ensuring manufacturability of products that are being transitioned from engineering or another facility. Created production representative environment to vet out products and processes prior to release to production.
  • Worked directly with Defense Contract Management Agency to ensure all products are delivered on time, at projected costs, and meet all performance requirements. The results of continually improving the quality of our products and processes allowed DCMA representative to delegate inspection of select products to Elbit Fort Worth and reduce the number of shop floor process audits. Created an automated shelf life database that electronically keeps track of our chemicals and expiration dates on the warehouse and on the production floor, expired chemicals had been an issue that DCMA had discovered in the past. After implementation of automated tracking system zero findings have occurred.
  • Manufacturing lead responsible for successful implementation of Manufacturing Execution System in Tallahassee.

Senior Production Planner

Talla-Com Industries
08.2000 - 08.2005
  • Responsible for scheduling material and discrete jobs to meet customers’ demands.
  • Responsible for updating management on possible material issues that may impact sales schedule and formulating contingency plans to meet customer demands.
  • Worked daily with supply chain to expedite material as needed and make sure that buyers were managing their Oracle MRP signals to support production requirements.
  • Set up Min/Max system for all General Purpose Material that is used throughout the shop floor eliminating the cost of manually monitoring and replenishing the supply.
  • Responsible for training new production planners.
  • Set up KANBAN system at surface mount reducing the waste of numerous inventory transactions and reducing surface mount down time by 15%.
  • Employee of the year recipient 2007.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Criminology

Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
06.1999

Skills

  • Leadership team building
  • Organizational leadership
  • Strategic planning
  • Operational excellence
  • Budget management
  • Process improvement
  • Cost reduction

Certification

  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified, Villanova University
  • Level Three leadership, Dr. James Clawson
  • OSHA 30 Hour General Industry Safety and Health Certification

Timeline

President Klas Manufacturing Solutions & VP Ops

Klas Government
03.2024 - Current

Vice President of Operations (Interim President and CEO Sep 2022-Feb 2023)

ELTA North America
05.2017 - 03.2024

Operations Director

Elbit Systems of America
09.2013 - 04.2017

Operations Manager

Elbit Systems of America
04.2011 - 09.2013

Operations Manager

Elbit Systems of America
08.2005 - 04.2011

Senior Production Planner

Talla-Com Industries
08.2000 - 08.2005

Bachelor of Science - Criminology

Florida State University

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