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Responsible for the overall operations of our Milwaukee facility.
Works closely with clients on production requirements and expectations.
Maintains communications and interactions among Sales, Customer Service, Estimating, Scheduling and Purchasing.
Works together regularly with Vice President of Operations Don Terkel and Operations Floor Manager Rob Moody to ensure client needs are being met at all levels..
Collaborates with Rick Nielsen, his counterpart at Openfirst's Fredericksburg, Virginia, facility, to share best practices.
Mike first began working with Openfirst in December 2006 when he came on board to help advance our scheduling system to give greater visibility on equipment availability and constraints. He became plant manager of our Milwaukee facility in June 2007.
Mike has a wealth of scheduling and customer service experience. Prior to joining Openfirst he worked for printer Quad/Graphics for 22 years, primarily in Scheduling. He performed short- and long-term scheduling for Press and Finishing equipment as well as executed long-term corporate scheduling. Scheduling systems software advancement and mentoring other schedulers were among his responsibilities.
Before joining Quad/Graphics in 1985, Mike was a successful business owner. He operated an Archway Cookies distributorship for 15 years that served retail outlets in the Milwaukee and Madison markets.
A native of Indiana, Mike attended Purdue University where he studied architecture. He was drafted into the Navy during the Vietnam War and served on the admiral's flagship. | 