5914 West Southgate Court

Phoenix, Arizona 85043

(602) 740-5601
bmgriffith55@hotmail.com

Brad Griffith

Objective

To obtain a position with a trustworthy and reliable company where I can utilize the skills I have learned
over the past 40 years and even learn some new ones.

Work History

1989–2008 Time Systems / Index, Inc. Phoenix, AZ

Owner / V. P. of MFG. (01 - 08)
My self and three other employees purchased Time Index, Inc. from Franklin/Covey in March of
2001.
Capital Budgets and purchasing all equipment and supplies
Manage all production, warehouse & maintenance personnel (45)
Maintain building and all equipment
Establish and maintain all production standards for training, quantity, quality & safety
Establish & meet or exceed all product production deadlines
Create & maintain production and raw material database & reports
Work with all vendors, salespeople and major sales accounts
The company was sold in October 2008 and we closed the facility in November 2008.

Production Manager (95 - 01)

Time Systems was sold to Franklin/Covey in 1995 and the name was changed to Time Index.
Manage four shift supervisors and 100 production, maintenance and warehouse employees
Maintain budgets as a percent of sales for direct labor at (29%), maintenance at (1%) & raw
materials at (33%)
Designed and supervised all tenant improvements for new 27,500 sq. ft. facility
Meet or exceed all product production deadlines
Manage building maintenance, security & safety
Liaison between production and sales departments

Shift Supervisor (93 - 95)

Supervise production shift personnel
Maintain production, maintenance & safety standards
Meet or exceed product production deadlines for my shift
Maintenance & Building Supervisor (91 - 93)
Supervise maintenance personnel on all three shifts
Designed and supervised all tenant improvements for new 50,000 sq. ft. facility
Supervised, moved and installed all equipment into new facility
Create & maintain maintenance schedules for building & all equipment

Maintenance Mechanic (89 – 91)

Maintain and repair the building and all equipment
Order and maintain all parts for all machinery
Install and train on new machinery as needed
1973–1989 Little Nickel Want Ads Lynnwood, WA
Production Manager / Commercial Printing Sales (85 - 89)
Managed composing room, stripping/plating room and press room and 25 employees
Sold commercial printing to fill extra time and expand all areas of production and increase overall
sales. We averaged $100,000 per month in commercial printing sales.
Budgeting and planning for all areas of production
Composing Room Supervisor (83 - 85)
Little Nickel was sold to Capitol Cities Communications and they brought in their own Production
Manager during this period. He moved on in 1985 and I was promoted back to Production
Manager
Supervised two shifts of composing room personnel
Budgeted labor, raw materials and new equipment needs
Worked with vendors and ordered all supplies

Production Manager (79 - 83)

Managed composing room, stripping room & web press room crews
Budgeted labor, raw materials and new equipment needs for composing, stripping and web press
crews
Worked with vendors and ordered all supplies for all areas

Web Press Operator (77 - 79)

Installed, ran & maintained a new 5-unit Goss community newspaper press
Shot & stripped film and burnt plates for Goss press
Ordered all supplies for newspaper press

Graphic Artist (73 – 77)

Layout & design advertising for customers
Layout & paste up three editions of want ads papers
Mark-up & typeset display ads for papers

Education

1973 Everett High School Everett, WA

Completed 12 years but did not graduate due to an illness that forced me to miss part of my junior
year. I believe I was 1 or 2 credits short of graduating. I had always intended to make it up but I
went to work as soon as school was out, and have been working ever since.

Interests
Designing and building things, golf, baseball, Movies, computers.

References
Furnished upon request