David M. Binz
   


Education

Universal Technical Institute, Automotive Technician Program, 06/09 – 05/10

GPA: 4.0 & Director’s List – Top Student of the Course in 75% of all Classes

University of Missouri St. Louis, Mass Communications, 1997-1999

St Louis Community College, General Transfer Studies, 1996-1997

Experience

09/13 - present Panasonic Avionics Corporation Lake Forest, CA

Reliability Analyst

+ Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Reporting for executives and external customers on all scopes of Reliability: Including MTBF-MTBUR-MTBR, FRACAS, Modification Implementation, Entry in Service and Warranty Status

+Create an MTBF-MTBUR Tool to encompass all aircraft in service and verify installed components with a cross reference to every repair incident and line removal

+ Write queries for implementation into custom-built and interactive reliability websites (internal)

+ Repair existing software tools and support sales staff with charts, documentation and recommendations

+ Graph data flow models for application development specifications and for future work instructions

+ Provide data collection assistance to team-members

+ Maintain and refine departmental intranet site to showcase monthly reporting results

 

07/10 – 09/13

Bombardier Transportation

Los Angeles, CA

Reliability Analyst

+ Collect and monitor defect information with a focus on process refinement and governance by utilizing customer's data collection system and company specific methodology

+ Audit FRA mandated documentation of daily servicing

+ Schedule periodic maintenance appointments and review preventive processes to improve fleet reliability by reducing time to first defect

 

Composite Mechanic

+ Responsible for servicing, maintaining, inspecting, troubleshooting, and repairing rail equipment including periodic inspections to ensure a quality experience for commuters.

 

08/08 – 06/09

Wachovia Bank NA

Los Angeles, CA

Financial Center Manager

+ Developed real-time sales tracking for the Los Angeles Market to reduce frequency and length of conference calls, allowing for maximum focus on sales management

+ Increased customer service scores by 90% in 90 days

+ Responsible for developing and disciplining sales and operational employees including annual assessment with compensation administration

 

03/03 – 08/08

The Home Depot

Los Angeles, CA

Operations Manager

+ Increased profitability to 114% of annual plan by reviewing daily categories that were within tolerance and offered the simple opportunity to reduce expenses

+ Captained the safety campaign to reduce customer liability claims and workmen’s comp claims by  training associates to adhere to all company guidelines and best practices

+ Launched an investigation into every cash outage and each receiving error to identify areas for training, as well as eliminating fraud and collusion

 

Specialty Sales Manager

+ Responsible for increasing contractor services sales revenue from 57% of plan to 138% of planned sales in under 9 months

+ Reorganized my five departments to maximize a diversity of talent and increase internal communication resulting in greater efficiency of customer service operations

+ Responsible for interviewing, disciplining and terminating sales/support staff

+ Performance assessment of supervisors and employees

+ Continual analysis of customer complaints to locate opportunities for improvement, then follow through with retraining associates to prevent future occurrences

 

Proficiencies

Advanced MS Excel, MS Access, SQL Editors, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Visio, XML Notepad, PDF Editors, MS Outlook, MS Lync-Skype, GoToMeeting, Lotus Notes,  MS Expression Web, Fleet Focus, Typing 50 wpm

 

Current Residence:

Los Angeles, CA

Since 2003

 

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