William Patrick McDonnell 6220 West County Road 200 North * Frankfort, Indiana, 46041 * (765) 296-7809 wm1173000@westpost.

net Plant Manager Manufacturing Manager * Heading Manager * Engineering Manager * Operations Manag er * Tool Room Manager * Tool Administrator * Technical Services Business Unit M anager * Tool Coordinator ________________________________________________________________________ Experience Technical Services Business Unit Manager 9/20041/2011 LEP Special Fasteners- 3281 West County Road 0 NS, Frankfort, In, 46041 (765) 656-4381 I was recruited to this facility as a Manufacturing Manager to help resolve engi neering and productivity issues pertaining to the boltmaking and secondary opera tions. This company is a manufacturer of fasteners for the automotive, off-road, farming and construction industries. Assignment: Decrease the past due and increase manufacturing efficiency. Machine operation efficiency was 35% at the point in time I was hired. Upon hire the fa cility was 10,000,000 lbs in product, $11,500,000.00 in dollars past due to thei r customer base. Achievements: Our past dues have been decreased to under 200,000 lbs since Augus t of 2006 and our machine efficiencies have increased to 60% overall. Assignment: Decrease our down time on production equipment. Achievements: I have my engineers now completing Bills of Materials on all jobs completed from the heading schedules, including tool layouts, progression sequen ces and any special features, which will eliminate down time searching for tooli ng that has already been proven out and in stock. Infrared Consultant 2/2004- Present ProActive Consulting.-5954 Secluded Court, Sylvania, Ohio, 43560, (419) 724-2339 Infrared thermography is a process where a thermal image is taken by a high defi nition camera to detect temperature measurements that relate to electrical short s, overloads and more. A business associate and I went to training classes in Bu rlington, NJ to learn and evaluate the use of infrared technologies in our indus try. Upon completing our first week of training classes we purchased a camera an d decided to open a business together. Achievements: We are currently working this business on the side and have six cu stomers who we make annual surveys for.

William Patrick McDonnell Plant Manager 11/1992-2/2004 Bollhoff- Rivnut(R) Engineered Products, 2705 Marion Drive, Kendallville, In, 46 755 (260) 347-3903 I was recruited to this facility because of the competitive result achieved by A tlas Engineering in acquiring added business from the BF Goodrich Rivnut(R) dist ribution network. This facility was a manufacturer of internally threaded fasten

ers which supplied the automotive industry, farming industry, aerospace industry , and the military. Assignment: Improve decreasing deliveries, quality and profitability records. Achievements: I took a $5,000,000.00 dollar purchased company and owner sold 5 y ears later for $13,000,000.00. I evaluated the equipment, people, process, work flow, and all outside operations and vendors. Assignment: Make the transition between the old Rivnut(R) culture to the new own erships culture and philosophies. Achievements: Over a two year period we changed the gross margins of our top 45 products by 2.6% which converted to $360,000.00 of savings Assignment: Retrieve small run business lost because of lack of service. Achievements: In the first 8 weeks we shipped $75,000.00 worth of product and de creased our small run orders by 70%. I implemented a short run center to improve our deliveries from 12 weeks to 4 weeks or less. Assignment: Increase lack of sales and retain current workforce. Achievements: The President and I transferred 11,000,000 pieces of product to ou r facility from our sister companies and added $682,000.00 to our sales and met all customers' expectations. Heading Manager 5/1991-11/1992 Atlas Engineering- Tallmadge, Ohio I found this position while out of employment, this facility was in competition with BFG-Rivnut(R) division, they manufactured most of the small run orders that BFG would overlook. Atlas manufactured the same products as above, an internall y threaded fastener Assignment: Design and engineer tooling for a 4 die Waterbury progressive header that the owner had purchased but had no one to run or tool up. Achievements: Project was completed in 3 months and during my short stay I incre ased productivity by 15%. I also trained new employees to run our heading equipm ent. Operations Manager 3/1990-12/1990 G&G Header Die, Inc. - Maple Heights, Ohio I left SPS Technologies to help start up a tool and die shop with a friend. We m anufactured tooling for the fastener industry using tool steel and carbide blank s. Achievement: Help start up a new business. Was only here long enough to help sta rt the business and when the industry was in a slump was asked to step down beca use salary was too high William Patrick McDonnell

Tool Administrator 2/1973-2/1990 SPS Technoligies-4444 Lee Road, Cleveland, Ohio, 44128, (216) 581-3000 I started at SPS as a boltmaker operator and worked my way through the organizat ion up to the position of Tool Administrator. SPS is a manufacturer of special f asteners for automotive, off road equipment, construction and others. Assignment: Convert excessive obsolete tooling into usable tooling for consumpti on. Achievements: In a 2 year span I reduced our tooling inventory by $1,500,000.00 converting tooling in our own tool room. Assignment: Reduce spending any way possible in our tooling purchases. Achievements: Reduced our spending to local vendors by $750,000.00 per year. I w orked with our sister company in Shannon, Ireland; we struck a deal where they w ould manufacture tooling at 1/3 of the U.S. cost, along with the added benefit o

f keeping that money in the corporation. Education 3/16/04 - 3/19/04 6549 Certified Infrared Thermographer / Level - **, Card No. Infraspection Institute Burlington, New Jersey 2/03 Leadership and Supervisory Skills University of Wisconsin 9/90 - 12/90 Cuyahoga Valley Vocational School (Ohio) 9/76 - 2/77 Kent State University (Ohio) 9/71 - 1/73 Huntington College (Indiana) 9/66 - 6/73 Walsh Jesuit High School (Ohio)

Core Skills Boltmaker Operator * Turret Lathe Operator * Infrared Thermographer, Level ** * Engineering design & troubleshooting * Sales experience * Purchasing experience * Hands on machine experience * CNC programming experience * QS9000 background * TS16949 background * Leadership & Supervisory training * Engineering level 1&2 training *MRP training * SPC training * Boltmaker Trainer