Charles Naselli

Current

President at Global Recruiters of Greenville

Past

Senior Vice President & General Manager - Services Group at Guardian Building Products
VP - Operations, Plumbing Fixtures at Kohler Co.
Director - Operations, Sterling Plumbing Group at Kohler Co.

Director - Quality, Plumbing North America at Kohler Co.
Director TQM, Director Operations Planning at ITT Sheraton
Manager, Consulting and Development at ITT Total Quality Management Group
Manager, Advanced Engineering Programs at ITT Night Vision
Summer Engineer at IBM

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Education

University of Arizona
DePaul University

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Staffing and Recruiting

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Charles Naselli’s Summary

General Manager and Entrepreneur with technical education and leadership experience in both manufacturing and service businesses.

Before starting Global Recruiters of Greenville, I was General Manager of a $25 million, 18-branch installation services business. Prior to that, I led an international manufacturing organization of 8,000 people in the consumer durables segment.

Charles Naselli’s Specialties:

* Leadership of Large, Complex, International Organizations
* Manufacturing and Supply Chain Operations
* R&D, Product Development, and Manufacturing Engineering

Charles Naselli’s Experience

President

Global Recruiters of Greenville

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

May 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

I currently lead a search firm that recruits in Structural, Transportation, and Environmental Engineering, and across all functions for Industrial companies.

Global Recruiters of Greenville is part of the GRN franchise network.
Senior Vice President & General Manager - Services Group

Guardian Building Products

(Building Materials industry)

January 2006 — February 2007 (1 year 2 months)

P&L responsibility for Guardian Installed Services, a $25 million, 18-branch network serving builders in new residential and light commercial construction.

•Tripled Sales from 2005 to 2006. Expanded number of branches and product lines. Negotiated subcontractor agreements with national homebuilders. Upgraded sales organization and implemented pricing and process disciplines. Gained market share during 25% industry downturn in 2H2006.

•Improved year-over-year Operating Margin by 20 points. Improved selling margins, then minimized margin compression as market fell. Improvements in material usage, inventory control, labor productivity, and fixed cost absorption all contributed to the cost side.

•Reorganized and Restaffed for continued growth. Created and staffed regional operating structure. Upgraded branch managers and corporate staff. Improved organization by hiring for integrity, leadership, and promotability.
VP - Operations, Plumbing Fixtures

Kohler Co.

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Goods industry)

June 2000 — August 2005 (5 years 3 months)

Led an 8,000-person organization including twelve manufacturing operations (nine US, two Mexico, and one Canada), all Supply Chain functions (Purchasing, Materials, Forecasting, Consumer and Trade Customer Service, Distribution), and Quality for Kohler’s $1.5+ billion plumbing fixtures business. My team’s major accomplishments:

*Safety: Decreased OSHA Recordable Incident Rate by 47%.

*Quality: Decreased Kohler Brand Unit Failure Rate by 24%.

*Delivery: Increased Fill Rate by 23 percentage points and decreased Order-to-Ship Cycle Time by 12 days.

*Cost: Completed over 600 Lean and Six Sigma projects per year, delivering annual cost reductions of $30 million.

*Morale: Improved manufacturing work environment by developing and deploying Respectful Workplace training.

*Asset Management: Increased Inventory Turns by 46%.

*Aug-Dec 2005, Special Assignment helping to launch a global strategic initiative to improve quality and delivery.
Director - Operations, Sterling Plumbing Group

Kohler Co.

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Goods industry)

September 1999 — June 2000 (10 months)

Led a 1,000-person manufacturing organization with three plants and combined sales of $250+ million during the transition of Sterling Plumbing from a separately managed Kohler Co. subsidiary to its integrated operation as a Kohler Co. brand.

*Achieved consolidation synergies, standardized business practices, and improved operating performance by integrating manufacturing operations and product engineering into the Kohler organization.

*Launched implementation of JIT, visual pull, cellular manufacturing, and team-based production.

*Developed consistent organizational structure for three plants and recruited key leadership talent.
Director - Quality, Plumbing North America

Kohler Co.

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Goods industry)

August 1997 — September 1999 (2 years 2 months)

Led quality initiatives for Kohler’s $1.5+ billion North America plumbing business. Collaborated with Product Development and Manufacturing stakeholders to implement modern quality practices.

*Achieved ISO-9000 and QS-9000 Quality System Registrations in manufacturing plants.

*Led the development of the “Kohler Operating System” (Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma) and an operations-driven implementation roadmap.
Director TQM, Director Operations Planning

ITT Sheraton

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Hospitality industry)

November 1993 — July 1997 (3 years 9 months)

Director, Operations Planning, North America Div (Sep 1995 - Jul 1997)
Director, TQM, North America Division (Nov 1994 - Sep 1995)
Director, TQM, Sheraton Harbor Island Resort (Nov 1993 - Nov 1994)

Led TQM implementation at Harbor Island Resort, then developed TQM strategy for North America Division ($2 billion sales) and provided consulting and training to management at 60 North America Division hotels. As Director of Operations Planning, led the integration of Baldrige business excellence principles in all functions and levels of the organization.

*Co-recipient of the 1995 ITT Gold Team Quality Award for business unit TQM implementation and development of a divisional implementation model.

*Twice project-managed Sheraton’s “War College,” an annual 10-day intensive Executive Development forum with customized content developed to support current strategic initiatives.
Manager, Consulting and Development

ITT Total Quality Management Group

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ITT; Management Consulting industry)

January 1992 — November 1993 (1 year 11 months)

Manager, Consulting and Development (May 1993 - November 1993)
Manager, Quality Engineering (January 1992 - April 1993)

Training and consulting spanned a diverse range of technologies and organizational cultures in Automotive, Defense & Electronics, Fluids, Forest Products, and Commercial Finance, employing a variety of quality methods to achieve product and process optimization, cost reduction, cycle time reduction, and structured concept selection.

*Reduced product performance variability, unit manufacturing cost, and manufacturing cycle time for a family of flow regulator products using dynamic parameter design, a state-of-the-art Design of Experiments technique.

*Co-developed a workshop-based, computer-integrated course on Taguchi Methods for Design of Experiments.
Manager, Advanced Engineering Programs

ITT Night Vision

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ITT; Defense & Space industry)

November 1986 — December 1991 (5 years 2 months)

Manager, Advanced Engineering Programs (Feb 1990 - Dec 1991)
Member of Technical Staff (Feb 1988 - Jan 1990)
Staff Engineer (Nov 1986 - Jan 1988)

Led engineering work in new product development, manufacturing process improvement, and business development.

*Co-recipient of the 1991 ITT Gold Team Quality Award and four U.S. patents for invention and development of a non-contact method to measure and control the temperature of semiconductor layers.

*Led the development of the 25mm GaAs image intensifier and its integration into several military night vision systems. This work resulted in three U.S. patents, designs and prototypes for four different systems, and receipt and fulfillment of the first production contracts ever awarded for 25mm GaAs image intensifiers and systems.
Summer Engineer

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

1984 — 1986 (2 years)

During Graduate School, I worked three summers at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA.

Our research used optical methods to study the structural properties of ultra-thin multilayer organic films. This work resulted in the publication of six papers in refereed scientific journals.