ROYELL - Key Persons
Chris holds a degree in Industrial Technology from Washington State University. He worked for over 12 years at the Boeing Company. Chris brings to our team extensive lean manufacturing and production experience. He served in many leadership roles; as project manager, manufacturing engineering supervisor, shop supervisor, and lean manufacturing implementation manager. His leadership will greatly enhance our abilities to implement lean and expand our production capabilities.
Jamie is a college graduate of Washington State University. He is second generation in a family owned business, with over 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry. Responsibilities include strategic planning, cost and expense policies, financing, organizational and management development. Jamie believes in management by objectives and has worked diligently to form an experienced, dedicated, proactive management team to achieve the company's strategic initiatives.
Job Titles:
- Certified Public Accountant
- Chief Financial Officer
Joe is a Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of experience in the accounting industry. As Controller, his responsibilities include supervision of daily accounting processes, managing cash flow, and preparing and analyzing financial information. Joe is especially interested in reducing costs and increasing productivity. He graduated from Central Washington University where he majored in Business Administration and Finance.
Job Titles:
- Int'L Sales & Business Development
As an Apprenticed toolmaker and graduating from the UK in mechanical engineering, Robin started his aerospace career building tooling on the prototype A300 Airbus wing program. Working under Contract in Canada, Robin designed and built tooling for an aircraft modification program and developed a training program in aircraft structures and assembly. Robin has held positions including Production Manager and Marketing Director and has owned and operated a Boeing and Bell approved CNC machine shop which was recipient of a Canadian Export Award.
Steve is a graduate of Cleveland Institute of Electronics. He has spent approximately over 25 years in Quality Engineering, Management, and Consulting. He has managed, developed and implemented ISO 9000, QS 9000 and AS9100 based quality systems in the electronics, silicone rubber, composites and metallic industries. Responsibilities include directing the activities of the inspection, quality engineering, vendor assessment and risk evaluation and cost of quality metrics.
Job Titles:
- Site Manager, Assembly & Shipping Facility
Since joining the Royell team in 2000, Tom has filled a number of roles critical to the company's development; Trainer and Organizational Development specialist is support of our Supplier Certification, Lean Manufacturing and Safety initiatives; Production Manager, helping bring standardized processes to our shop floor that set the ground work for our current Manufacturing System; Manufacturing Engineer and New Part Project Manager, which lead to his role as Manufacturing Engineering Manager where he pulled Manufacturing Planners, CNC Programming, Tool Design, and Tool Fabrication into a single department supporting new part implementation and stabilization of existing work.
Tom's current role at Royell is Facilities and Maintenance Management, including project management for new site and equipment development and installation.
Tom came to Royell from Boeing Commercial Airplanes in Everett. He was involved in factory management, training development and delivery, and Boeing's Lean Manufacturing activities, participating in major projects in the 747 factory and managing projects in the 777 factory. His efforts produced savings in standards and material costs and established a complete point of use delivery and replenishment system for assembly mechanics.