Mark Sessumes has 30 years of progressive operations management experience in diverse manufacturing and production environments. Mark has worked in fabrication, assembly, remanufacturing, refurbishment, and processing plants for small companies and branch locations of large, multi-division firms to increase productivity, lower costs, and improve profits. He has experience in both union and non-union shops. In addition to manufacturing, Mark also has experience improving healthcare, construction, and office related operations.
Prior to TMAC, Mark was Operations Manager for Spring Engineers, a family-owned metal fabrication business producing metal springs, stampings, and assemblies for oil tool and heavy truck applications. As Senior Branch Manager for Greyhound Lines, Mark was responsible for operations and had profit and loss responsibility for a multi-facility, multi-state bus refurbishment operation. Most recently, as Plant Manager for a division of National Linen Service, Mark engineered and led the financial turnaround of the operation.
Since joining TMAC, Mark has worked with companies ranging in size from 3 to several thousand employees. They include operations in all types of manufacturing environments such as job shops, repetitive manufacturing, and batch processing/blend and fill operations. Industries he has worked with range from low-tech/no-tech such as foundries and metal fabricators to very high tech integrated chip and medical device manufacturers. In addition, non-manufacturing industries include hospitals, nursing, administrative, office, field service, power generation, mining, and construction.
Mark has trained hundreds of people in lean enterprise techniques and has completed numerous lean deployments resulting in millions of dollars in impact. His special interest is working with leadership teams in adopting the necessary management and support system changes necessary to support lean. He is a certified Shingo Prize Examiner, Texas Award for Performance Excellence Examiner, Lean/Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and Training Within Industry (TWI) Certified Instructor. Mark received his Master of Business Administration at The University of Dallas and his BBA in Production / Operations Management from North Texas State University in Denton, Texas.
Contact:
sessumes@arri.uta.edu |
