Janet Wood

OBJECTIVE

A challenging career in engineering, industrial relations, management, human resources, or marketing for a progressive firm that expects and rewards excellence.

EXPERIENCE

Advanced Production Manager Magnolia Finishing Plant, Milliken & Company, Blacksburg, SC

· Responsible for the management of the production of spun industrial and cotton products.

· Supervised two professionals and 38 production associates.

· Served as customer liaison for quality assurance.

Product/Process Improvement Engineer Magnolia Finishing Plant

· Responsible for efficient operation of nine apparel-manufacturing machines.

· Reduced off-quality product to levels below target values and maintained higher standard.

· Installed a new face-finishing machine.

· Implemented Statistical Process Control for critical machine parameters.

· Promoted to Advanced Production Manager after 10 months of employment.

Internship Milliken & Company 1998

· Team based summer project that resulted in implemented design changes of dye services area with net monetary savings of $50,000; and process mapping that resulted in a 58% reduction in downtime losses on the cotton dye range.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science – Textile Engineering North Carolina State University May 1999

· 3.88 G.P.A. (Magna Cum Laude)

· Successfully passed the Fundamental Engineering Exam. (Formerly E.I.T.)

COMPETENCIES / SPECIAL TRAINING

· Dale Carnegie management training program.

· Group presentations / Microsoft Power Point.

· Causal analysis training.

· Leadership Orientation Program with Milliken & Company.

· Spanish language skills.

· Statistical process control training.

VOLUNTEER SERVICE

· Martha Rivers Park construction captain.

· Tutoring of at-risk high school students in mathematics.