General manager, sales, manufacturing operations, supply chain, plant direction

Sep.2021 – today	Current company in Zhejiang - China		
	Plant director 
● Company in brief:	POWER TOOLS, CONSTRUCTION, INDUSTRIAL.  Air Compressors, piston pump groups.


● Reports to:	General manager [Europe HQs]. 
● Responsibility:	Engineering, Production, Quality, Logistics, Indirect material purchasing, EHS, 
   	Direct material purchasing is shared with HQs.    Dot line: Finance, HR.
	China’s Engineering includes R&D.

● Detail:	1 plant, 6 direct reports.	Operational P&L responsibility.   
● Location:	Haiyan, Zhejiang, China
● Customers:    ROLAIR, PARKER, CPI, STANLEY BLACK&DECKER, LOWE’S, HEINELL, METABO, MECAFER, FUBAG.

● Achievements:  
- Joined the company with the target to solve a critical situation in the operations. The company was facing a fast restart in a new location with a lack of workforce, serious quality problems, a heavy backlog of products to rework delaying the shipping of full containers, and overtime double the legal limits.  Production is characterized by a high mix with small production batches and a demand increase. 
Action implemented:   Reinforced the Process Quality by re-defining the inspection scope to reduce the not conforming batches and the products to rework. 
Changed the workflow of the Quality Assurance final inspection, with a priority to inspect the first 4 machines of each production batch, implementing immediate corrective actions to secure the quality of the rest of the batch, hence reworking only the machines produced before the corrective action.
This method set free manpower to increase the production volume and reduce the OT from 55% to 25%. 

- High turnover: most of the new workers leave after just 2-3 weeks. They are agricultural workers not used to industrial work.  
Action implemented:   Changed the training procedure, from 8 days to one day, restricted to the basic safety instructions and the use of the tools. Moved the rest of the training directly to the production line for a single operation for each new worker, supported by the senior worker beside him.  Trying the real work already on the second day, those who cannot get used to it will leave immediately without wasting 8 days of traditional training, and 2-3 weeks of troubles in production.  With better quality control and more stable workers: zero findings at the customer inspections before delivery, and customer claims reduction of 60%.  

- Developed the high pressure, and silenced compressor versions.

Oct.2019 – Sep.2021	Taizhou VIR valve manufacturing Co. Ltd.（台州瑞兹阀门） [US-Italy]		General manager & Technical director
● Company in brief:	HVAC, OIL&GAS, CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL. Valves, solenoid valves, flow regulators, sensors.  Steel, brass, and polymeric versions.  Export to the U.S., Canada, Europe, HK, and APAC.                               

● Reports to:	President [RWV U.S. HQs];  CFO [VIR Italy HQs];	               
● Responsibility:	Sales/Project Mng, Procurement, Engineering, Production, Quality, Logistics,
			Finance, HR. 
● Detail:	1 plant, 8 direct reports.    P&L responsibility.    
● Location:	Yuhuan, Zhejiang, China
● Customers:    RWV U.S., CARRIER CHINA & EUROPE, M.A.STEWART CANADA, A.A.P. INDUSTRIES AUSTRALIA, FNA.

● Achievements:
- Re-organize the Sales Team by application for specialist support to the customers.   
- Implement traceability with the material classification tag and warehouse mapping.  
- Improve scrap management for each production batch, issuing tickets to the suppliers before payment.  
- Introduce automation in the assembling lines and production cells.  - Certifications: added ISO14001 Env., ISO45001 Health&Safety.   Started ISO50001.  Renewed ISO9001, RoHS, UL, CSA, etc.   
- Contain the costs of overcoming the Covid-19 lockdown and crisis in 2020 and 2021.

July 2018 - Oct. 2019	DRAEXLMAIER D.A.W. China, and DRAEXLMAIER D.I.S. [Germany]
	Plant director 
● Company in brief:	AUTOMOTIVE tier1 top100, ELECTRIC SYSTEMS, ELECTRIC VEHICLES MODULES, BATTERIES.        

● Reports to:	COO;  CEO [China Regional HQs];		
● Responsibility:	Engineering, Production, Quality, Logistics, System Quality/EHS, CPI (Continuous
		Process Improvement), Maintenance, Plant Procurement, Plant Finance, Plant HR. 
● Detail:	1 plant,  10 direct reports.    Operational P&L responsibility.   
● Location:	Anshan, Liaoning, China.       Brownfield startup.
● Customers:  	BMW, DAIMLER BENZ, TESLA.

● Achievements:
- Lead the product relocation. New products engineering/industrialization and production ramp-up.
- Customer plant audits and PPAP green results.  
- Operations procedures and Quality System implementation as for IATF16949.  
- Relocation and ramp-up of 4 car platform projects: G08 BMW X3, G38 BMW 5, BX8 BMW engines;  M264 DAIMLER 4-cyl engines, one new platform BMW G2X.   - Introduce Kanban in production.  
- Implement Just In Time JIT, and Just In Sequence JIS with the customer. - Implement Kaizen, increasing quality.  - Implement the digital factory: phase 1 project, Manufacturing Execution System (MES); phase 2, implement MESQA, overlapping the quality data on production flow. 
- Implement  Risk analysis, Emergency plans, and Escalation process definition.  - Plant “zero” accidents.

Oct 2017 – July 2018	East West Associates - SeaLink Manufacturing (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.  [US Group]
SeaLink Die Casting (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
                             Ad-interim General manager  [9 months replacement]
● Company in brief:	AUTOMOTIVE tier2, LIGHTING, DIE CASTING, METALLIZATION, INJECTION MOLDING, LED. 

Two plants:  1) Aluminum pressure die casting and CNC machining;  2) Polymers injection molding, aluminum vapor metallization in the vacuum chamber, oil painting; Light module assembly.
Assembling of light modules and headlights;  Assembling of closures with friction hinges, torque inserts, and electric clutches with precision torsion spring. 

● Reports to:	CEO [U.S. HQs];					             	
● Responsibility:	2xProduction/Maintenance, Engineering/R&D, Quality/EHS, Procurement/Logistics,
		Sales/Project Mng., Finance, HR. 
● Detail:	2 plants, 8 direct reports.	 P&L responsibility.   
● Location:	Shanghai and Kunshan, China.
● Customers:	AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING N.A., FCA N.A., GENERAL MOTOR N.A., HELLA N.A., 
		HARLEY DAVIDSON, MAGNA N.A., REELL, STANLEY, VALEO.  
● Achievements:
- Move back the Aluminum pressure die casting process from the supplier.
- Drive the new LED technology project.    - Purchasing dept. procedures improvement.
- Certify the new line (LED fog lamps) and the compartment according to ANSI/ESD S20.20.
- Grow up the team to obtain IATF16949 certification for the 2 plants.
 - Audit green results for both the plant and production process by FCA and Harley-Davidson.
- Start the business with FCA, Harley-Davidson, and Valeo. 

Febr 2017 – Oct 2017	ELDOR Corporation China （艾尔多）  [Italy]	
	General manager
● Company in brief:   AUTOMOTIVE tier1, POWERTRAIN, EV VEHICLES.   Mechanics, mechatronics, electronics.

Ignition system, ABS brakes, emissions control, ECUs, DC-DC converters. Traditional, Hybrid, E.Vehicles. 
Two plants: 1) Polymer injection molding, and tooling;  2) Metalworking, sub-assembling, and automatic final assembling.   - Internal department to design and build production and packaging lines integrating 100% quality check. 

● Reports to:	Asia CFO; Group President  [Italy HQs]			      	
● Responsibility:	2xPlant manager, 2xEngineering/R&D/CPI, Quality, Procurement, Logistics, EHS, 
		Finance, HR.    Dot line:  Sales, Project Mng.
● Detail:	2 plants    10 direct reports.		P&L responsibility.   
● Location:	Dalian, China
● Customers:   AUDI, BENZ, BMW, CONTINENTAL, FCA, FORD, GEELY, JAGUAR, PORSCHE, VOLKSWAGEN, VOLVO; ..

● Achievements:
- Funding & execution of the investments for the capacity expansion of +60%, to serve new customers (Daimler, Jaguar, Geely) and other increased demand. 12Meuro for the final assembling line, a total investment 18Meuro.  Target to minimize the exposure to external credit.    
- Coordinate the new line project, improving the concept design with Industry 4.0 features.
- Capacity expansion in time to raise the 2017 output by 15%.  
- Improve the process quality with vision systems also on the 2 older lines. - Introduce a 3D CT scan for the certification of the high-voltage ignition coils after the resin impregnation process.   
- 2017-10 YTD NCs at OEM’s assembling line is 0 PPM (Audi, Ford, Volvo).  
-  Pass the audits with new Customers Daimler and Jaguar.  
- Periodic analysis of the indirect costs vs budget. Identify two cases in need of change management:  
1) Indirect materials purchasing: new procedure with layered random checks not only for big orders. 
2) CPI team, conflict resolution engineering vs maintenance, new CPI belongs entirely to engineering moving resources permanently, with an autonomous budget.  
 - 2017-10 YTD Maintenance cost reduction -4%, after the indirect materials control procedure upgrade.  
- Safety result: zero accidents. - Team building: Family day, Home safety day. The turnover is down to 4%.

Dec 2012 - Feb 2017	MEVIS China （迈威斯）  [Italy]	
	General manager,  executive member of the Board
● Company in brief:   AUTOMOTIVE tier1/tier2,  HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES,  ELECTROTECHNIC. 

Metal stamping parts with traditional, progressive, and in-die transfer stamping;   Springs.
Lightweight solutions replace the steel wire forming with pipes;  Production of stainless steel pipes.  
- Chassis Body In White parts (BIW).    - Coil springs, flat spring (stamping + heat treatment). 
	- Projects: Design and construction of production machines to integrate stamping and fastening, with robot handling, 100% quality checks by sensors and vision systems, and packaging.  
- Tooling design and manufacturing workshop.  - Equipment for optimized use of the rolled material.


● Reports to:	Corporate Account director for General Motors;  CEO [Italy HQs];             	
● Responsibility:	Sales/Project Mng, Engineering/CPI, Production/Maintenance, Quality/EHS,
		Logistics, Procurement, Finance, HR.    (R&D in HQs)
● Detail:	1 plant  8 direct reports.    P&L responsibility.   
	Logistics outsourced to 2 main consignment stock providers (3PL).
● Location:	Yangzhou, China.	Greenfield startup.
● Customers:  	GM, OPEL, SGM, FCA; BROSE, EBERSPÄCHER, FAURECIA, LEAR, TENNECO, FIAMM, JCYM,
VALEO, NEXTEER, DELPHI.  BOSCH/BSH, ELECTROLUX, WHIRLPOOL, LITTLE SWAN,  ABB, SCHNEIDER.

● Achievements:
- China plant investment project.  Management Team selection.  Budgeting and resource allocations. 
  Capacity and material strategy and planning.
- Greenfield startup with timely SOP and green audit results for the platform D2XX SGM.
- Procedures and Quality system setup.  - Quality performance 0ppm at 0km for 3 years.  
- Contract JCYM, JC JV, for co-development of the seat “latch” for China & North America’s product lines. 
- Won 3 SGM nominations, 2 global and 1 local program, for stamped steel parts, after 1 year at 0 ppm.
- Production of parts and components for export to the HQs.
- Gain a logistic 10% net saving for a high-volume commodity (12Mpcs/year) from headquarters to China customer’s plants.  - Implemented the cost-value analysis, and cost drivers identification in purchasing.
- Coaching, and mentorship at different levels in the organization: personnel turnover below 3%. …

Oct 2007 - Nov 2012	DinamicOil China （ 戴纳密克） & DinamicOil India  [Italy]	
	General manager China & Asia Operations

● Company in brief:   MOBILE, INDUSTRIAL, MECH.POWER TRANSMISSIONS, MARINE, OIL&GAS, GREEN ENERGY. 

In the last 3 years, responsible for China (2plants), India (1plant), the Asia operations in India/S.E.A., support the logistics/sales center in Singapore, and coordinate with the HQs, and Italy/US plants.

-Automotive tier1 commercial/off-highway vehicles transmissions components, & functional equipment. 
-Industrial equipment/machinery: mechanics, electro-mechanics, oil-hydraulics, electric drives.
- Series production of power transmission components and groups: gearboxes, gears, wheel drive, winch drive, tracks, hydraulic brake, hydraulic motor (radial pistons and vane), vane pump, gear pump.  
- Design/engineering and construction on a project base for special equipment/solutions, with installation and commissioning.  Customer Service.

- Applications:  industrial heavy metal, metallurgy, power plant, mining, mobile commercial and off-highway heavy-duty vehicles (construction/ earth moving/ crawler cranes), agriculture, railway, marine, oil&gas, green energy  (wind, solar), tunneling, bulk materials transport, wastewater treatment, process industry cooling, and filtering systems. Under-carriage and specific application functional devices.


● Reports to:	Global COO Operations&Sales; President [Italy HQs]; 

● Responsibility:	Sales/Project Mng, Engineering,  Production/Maintenance, Quality/EHS, Logistics,
		Procurement, Finance, HR; India GM, India Finance mng,, India Supply chain mng.;
		Dot line:  Ningbo Joint Venture’s operations and finance managers.    (R&D in HQs)
● Detail:	3 plants China-India  11 direct reports.    P&L responsibility.   
● Location:	Shanghai, Ningbo, New Delhi. (China, India)
● Customers:  	BAOSTEEL, LINQI, SANY, ZOOMLION, XCMG, MANITOWOC, POTAIN, JCB, MANODRILL, 

● Achievements:
- Control the WOFE company in Shanghai, and the JV with the local partner in Ningbo (radial pistons hydraulic motor business) supporting the improvement in the operations. India plant.
- Started up successfully the gearbox series production, the winches project base construction, and the special equipment projects in China and for the 3rd year also in India.
- Shortened the delivery time from 6-9months to 8-12weeks.  - Implemented the local supply chain with suppliers scouting, selection, qualification, and management to eliminate the import of key components.
 - Outsourcing of the sand casting of spheroidal and gray cast iron to local suppliers with a cost reduction of 15% in addition to the shipping and import duties.  - Sourcing strategy using cost analysis techniques and VAVE (Value Analysis, Value Engineering).   - Organization of the sales team according to the application segments for more competent support to the projects, with a better presence on the territory.  - Grow up the revenues in China with over 50% of local production in the 3rd year, entering more projects and deploying technical sales in 5 regions. At the same time added new Agents and Distributors to reinforce the distribution network.  - Improvement, of the Customer Service team.  
- Reduced customer claim escalations by introducing quick support/ repair at the OEM’s sites. 

Jan 2005 - Sept 2007	Olimpia Splendid China （欧菱宝空调）[Italy]	
	Plant manager & Technical director (focus on R&D/ Operations/ Supply chain)
● Company in brief:	HVAC, AIR CONDITIONING, HOME APPLIANCES	 

Design, production, and sales of appliances, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, air filtration, and heating, B2B with European OEMs and Asian importers, and export to HQs for Olimpia’s sales network in Europe.
Polymers injection molding and tooling design in-house, for the fans, airflow parts, and aesthetic parts.

● Reports to:	CEO;  Corporate Technical Director [Italy HQs];	
● Responsibility:	R&D, Engineering, Procurement, Production/Maintenance, Quality/EHS, Logistics,
		Asia sales.    Dot line:  Finance, HR.
● Detail:	1 plant  7 direct reports.    Operational P&L responsibility.   	   
● Location:	Qingpu, China.     Brownfield startup.  
● Customers:  	OLIMPIA’s sales network in Europe; INDESIT, and other OEMs, importers in Hong
		Kong, Vietnam, and South Korea.

● Achievements:
- Drive the startup of the production facility in China, the setup of the local supply chain (suppliers scouting, qualification, management, negotiations, and contracting) for the product BOM localization, product re-engineering, production ramp-up, and logistics. 
- New assembly lines, locally made, with an inline thermal test chamber, and a double chamber calorimeter for the laboratory.  
 - Set up the R&D laboratory, and R&D Team coordination to develop new product versions for the Asian market, and new models.  
- Being the reference point also for the two local salesmen for China and the rest of Asia.
- Localized 70% of the company products in 1.5 years (3 families, 5 main models each).
- Re-engineering of the products, changes to the assembling cycle, instructions, and quality control plan, to allow the use of China’s purchased components in a short time.  
- Yearly revenues follow strictly the increase of capacity in production, with excellent marginality.
- Material costs cut of 20% at production start localizing part of the BOM; savings of up to 27% in 12 months completing the localization.
- Quality system implementation. Certification ISO9001, ISO14001. Product marking CE, CCC, RoHS, etc.
- Introduced Visual Management to transfer the basic manufacturing principles to the local workers beyond the language barrier.
- Opened and managed the R&D office, selecting talents and developing new products.
- Technology innovation.  Fan and airflow, noise reduction.  Adopted advanced equipment; developed the know-how internally and through the hiring of new Talents. 
- Developed product’s new versions for China, Hong Kong, Korea, and Vietnam. Obtained product,  process, and system certifications [CE, CCC, RoHS, ISO9001, ISO14001] for export sales.
- Covered 100% of the European Olimpia’s market needs for delocalized products within 1.5 years.

Dec 1998 - Dec 2004	SITRA Spa - Gambari Group    [Italy]	   
	Plant director & Procurement head
● Company in brief:	LIGHT METALS, HVAC, CONSTRUCTIONS, AUTOMOTIVE, CHEMICAL.

In the first 3 years,  Gambari Group Corporate	             Operational Excellence manager & Quality head

Gambari Group is active in non-ferrous metals, HVAC, chemical, ecological recycling, and plastics.  
- Brass foundry;  Aluminum and brass pressure die casting;  Steel and Brass CNC-machining.   
- HVAC components (fittings, valves, manifolds) for water, oil, chemicals, air, and gas.  
- Electric cables for civil construction.  Glazed copper wires for low-voltage motors and winding.
- Drive Group’s operational excellence and innovation projects, Continuous Improvement (CI), LEAN.  

● Reports to:	President/Owner;	7 plants,  direct reports according to the project.

SITRA spa starts to specialize in:   - Floor heating and cooling.  - Composite pipes PEX-AL-PEX, with extrusion and co-extrusion.  - Stainless steel pipes (water, gas, air, chemicals). - Water and gas fittings, valves.   - Process:  roll-forming, automatic welding (laser and TIG); CNC multi-axes, lathes & transfer.  Heat treatment, Surface treatment.
Feasibility study (product, raw materials, process technology); business plan, and project management for the implementation.  Greenfield plant startup.  
● Reports to:	Owner;  Co-founder;     
● Responsibility:	Engineering, Production/Maintenance, Quality/EHS, Procurement/Logistics,
		Sales support, Finance, HR.
● Detail:	1 plant   6 direct reports  	Operational P&L responsibility.    
		(capital intensive, continuous process, automatic lines)
● Location:	Brescia, Italy.    Greenfield startup (16Ksqm)  

● Achievements:	
- Many improvement projects in the group’s plants.
- Successful startup of the plant and certification of the products.

Feb 1992 - Dec 1998	Oilgear Towler Gmbh & Oilgear Towler Srl   [US, Germany]		
	Automation manager & Sr.Project mng./Sales manager
Design&Application Engineer  >  Project manager  >  Sr.Project mng. & Sales mng.  > Automation mng.


● Company in brief:	INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION, HYDRAULIC  POWER TRANSMISSIONS, CONTROL SYSTEMS in
		 METAL INDUSTRY, AEROSPACE, AUTOMOTIVE, OIL&GAS.

Engineering/co-development of the capital equipment for metal and composite materials with the major European machine builders, from the oil-hydraulic power to the electronic control of the process technology algorithms. Construction, installation, service.

Oil-hydraulic axial piston pump variable displacement, axial piston hydraulic motor, electro-valve with solenoid or motorized cartridge, high-pressure manifolds, piping systems, tank, auxiliaries, etc.

Applications: “Turn-key” projects in systems automation:  presses, special machinery, and full plants in:
- Steel forging plants.  - Light metal extrusion plants.  - Aluminum pressure die casting.  - Thermoplastic & thermoset glass fiber and carbon fiber reinforced compounds making, and compression molding (SMC), 


● Reports to:	Technical Director in Germany (Frankfurt Am Main HQs);  General Sales Manager (Italy)	
● Responsibility:	Project teams.  Service team; Automation office.
● Location:	Frankfurt Am Main (Germany), Brescia (Italy), Milwaukee (WI-USA)
● Customers:  	AGUSTA, ALENIA, ALUSUISSE, CANNON-AFROS, DIEFFENBACHER, TCS, BREDA, DANIELI, DSM, FIAT, FINCANTIERI, FORONI, HYDRO-NORSK, IVECO, Mannesmann, PRPI, REGLAR, ROVETTA, SCHOELEMANN, SMS-HASENCLEVER, DANGO&DIENENTHAL, GLAMA, OMAV, PRESEZZI, TECNOPRESSE, TURLA.

● Achievements:
- Growing from technician to manager, taking care also of the product management for the customized systems, developing the offer of the company implementing the market and Customer’s requirements. 
- Technical project management, requirement analysis, cost analysis, solution proposal, resources planning, and functions coordination, monitoring the time plan and performances.  
- Several successful projects including open die and close die forging plants [Union des Forgerons France, DANIELI, Foroni, Italy], aluminum extrusions plants [Hydro Aluminum Nenzing, ALMER, Metra, Novellini Italy], composite compression molding (SMC) [FIAT, PRPI, REGLAR, DSM].

Jan 1989 - Jan 1992	ICOMATIC Spa  [Italy]				  
	Design & Application Engineer  
● Company in brief:	AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS, INDUSTRIAL, AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTION & TEST SYSTEMS 

EMS and machinery automation, process control, automotive Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS).
Sensor technic in temperature and pressure control for the metal and chemical industry, machines for the process industry, test equipment (vessels, boilers, cylinders, valves), and packaging in blisters. 

● Reports to:	Automation department director;
● Responsibility:	FMS projects
● Employees:	3 technicians (mechanic, electronic hardware, software).	 
● Location:	Brescia, Italy.
● Customers:  	ALFA ACCIAI, METRA, TRAFILERIE CARLO GNUTTI, VALBRUNA STEELWORKS,  ABB, BAYER,
			 SIEMENS RADIOLOGY, VEGLIA BORLETTI (FIAT), ...

● Achievements:
- Power switches ABB, automatic assembling line project.
- FIAT UNO cockpit, automatic assembling line project.

EDUCATION:

● Master of Science in Electr. Engineering	Polytechnic of Milan, Italy.   100/100  Summa cum laude
   Specializes in business management engineering and automation engineering.
   
● Lean Manufacturing (MIP, Milan)          ● ISO/TS16949 (ANFIA, Italy)	      ● HSE (D.L. 626) (ISFOR BS)    
● Supply chain management (ISFOR BS)  ● Project management (ISFOR BS)   ● Problem Solving (ISFOR BS)  ● Motivational sales.  (St. M.Silvano, Milan)    ● Sales Team management      ● Light metals (ISFOR LUME)          

Master of Science in Engineering, oriented to Industrial automation and Engineering management.

Degree: Doctor in Engineering