Johnny B. Rossi

J O H N N Y  B.  R O S S I 
operations manager | general manager | business development
“Spearheading startups and developing companies into the future in temporary and high impact projects”
Canadian / Italian Citizen | Born in Toronto, Canada
family in Supino (FR) Italy

Profile
Accomplished General Manager with a successful track record overseeing Business Development & Business localization in Romania, Italy, Spain, Poland and Slovakia. Proven expertise and successes in delivering significant operational improvements and cost- effective strategies, improving customer satisfaction by:
➢ Implementing best practices in department and process
➢ Leveraging operational expertise in manufacturing, assembly, planning, supply chain, and maintenance
➢ Implementing of robust actions plans (rolling), maintenance of client-oriented processes 
➢ Continuing organisational enhancement and review through procedural & ERP excellence
➢ Creating a quality culture and growing a skilled, healthy and motivated workforce
➢ Analyzing multi-million €uro monthly P&L
Personality: committed, hands-on executive capable of leading the trail of innovation and corporate's expansion'.
Ambitions: Join the leadership team of a company to drive its journey towards operational excellence by shaping the organization and business processes and energize leaders and teams to deliver continuously improving results.
Special interest in sustainability-driven products.
professional skills
Executive Team Leadership | Cost controlling & supply chain | Production & distribution site development | Client/vendor & public authority relations | | Market/production line development. 
ERP and HR implementations | Staff training policy implementation | Lean and Six Sigma
| ERP, SAP, ORACLE | Continuous process and structure improvements

Expertise areas and Key results
Business Development, guided the business grow with success over the years
● From an average of €. 200,000/month to max €. 6.000.000/month
● From 1 client to >10 clients 
● From 48 workers to approx. 480 workers
Facility
● Created a culture from rent to building and full utilization of many industrial buildings
Production Complicity
● Starting point mid 2008 (opening of the company)
● Press department, 3 mechanical presses (with transfer system) + 1 hydraulic press
● Tube processing department
Developed departments and involved processes
● Muffler Assembly Department;
● Metal Painting / Powder Coating Process Line;
● Pad printing & silk-screening Department;
● Gasketing Department;
● CNC Departments (6 specialties);
● Grinding / surface finishing departments;
● Metal Press departments (steel & aluminium);
● Tube Processing Department;
● Tooling Department;
● Injection Molding  Plastic Department;
● Assembly lines Department;
● Manual welding Department;
● Robotic welding Department;
● Production Laboratories;
● Metrology Department;
● All structural Office & Engineering Departments
● Defined the Protype Line, produced the all Product PreSeries, and launched the first Mass Production
Customer Satisfaction and identification of opportunities 
● Improved clients through product and internal process auditing, transversal group bench marketing for best practice
● Implemented robust actions plans (rolling), maintenance of client-oriented processes (APQP Development, Management of All aspects such as Product, client, Market and Quality, sustain FMEA and PFMEA, ….
● Opened to receive, and promote, those Procurement Scouters with intentions to explore the Romania Supplier Base in order to mutually explore new business opportunities.
Plant Profitability
● Controlled activity starting from a day to day basis; month controlling activity though correct P&L reading; monthly BRM; quarterly steering verification
● Productivity: OEE; complete overview of all material flow activities from system set-up to frame-agreement, procurement, incoming, invoice controlling, inventory control, reject and scrap control.
● Layout management of processes, material flows, emphasis on Warehouses and ERP data accuracy and simplicity “friendly” workers applicability.
● Controlled architecture implementation at Business unit level
● Implemented Cost controlling, analysis and monthly steering corrections.
Workers formation, prosperity & overall welfare
● Grown the company day-after-day to maturing and mastering over 14 departments and over 500 employees
● Created a skilled, healthy and motivated workforce and robust overall organization means.
● Planned organization structure, skills matrix, training, personnel valuation process, accurate incentive assignment, encouragement of the weak, discourage of the not-willing
● Introduced a positive process that  was central to the measurement and maintaining of personal individual performance, team performance, department performance, shift performance, business performance.
● Built a great place to work in: to be working for the BEST ORGANIZATION, for a BEST IN CLASS COMPANY, to feel SUPPORTED, to be PART OF and the company is part of HER/HIM.
To do this you must be among your workers and staff, as I was, because this is my belief (and proven achievement).
ERP excellence 
Continued organizational enhancement and review through procedural & ERP excellence
● ERP implementation (business module after business module)
● Bar code implementation
● s/n implementation, traceability 
● FiCo / implementation to ERP
● SAP, Oracle and other ERPs
Sustainability 
Environmental Enforcement Activities
● “GREEN MIND” – my attitude and deep belief Example: get Corporate Governance to finance the switch to geo-water heating (local resource) 
● Prepared the organization  to ISO 14001:2015
Implementation of Strong Local Relations and Partnerships, 
● City hall
● Local environmental authority
● Regional environmental authority
● Fire department authority
● Local and City Police Department
● Local Health and Safety office and authorities
● Local Work Department
● Local construction office and authorities
● Public utilities (water, thermal geo-water, electricity distribution)
Development of a Local Supplier Base
● Raw material supply base
● Powder painting
● Sheet steel bending
● Laser cutting
● Mechanical constructions
Ad hoc packaging

Professional Experience
Actual 
GENERAL MANAGER 
Facility in North Mississippi, United States of America
Details : Totally in line with my profile; 

01.2019  – 09.2022 
SOLAREDGE – ITALY & HUNGARY
GENERAL MANAGER (ex S.M.R.E. S.p.A.)
In January 2019    Internet.solaredge.c/us/SolarEdge-to-enter-e-mobility-market-with-acquisition-of-smre-Spa
At the time of the acquisition, I was the General Manager of S.M.R.E.. In May 2019 I was assigned back to the Electric Vehicle Battery Team (ex. TAWAKI activity). Major activities: defined the Protype Line, produced the all Product PreSeries, and launched the first Mass Production Activity in October of the same year in Italy.  Immediately after started the set-up of Production in Eastern European, of the same product, with a Contract Manufacture.  My contribution to this activity ended in April 2022.
12.2017 – 01.2019
S.M.R.E. SPA – UMBERTIDE
GENERAL MANAGER
S.M.R.E. SPA was a partner of the joint-venture that controlled TAWAKI (company that I was working for). The CEO of S.M.R.E. asked me to assist him as GM with the major activity to “bring the company back to profit” Major tasks: Inventory – define and restructure with external advisors. Defined and accomplished - Cost controlling implementation, analysis and monthly steering corrections. Defined and accomplished – New Business introduction: accomplished with over 20% of the 2018 turnover in new business where I personally developed the Supply Chain. 

06.2016 – 11.2017
TAWAKI – UMBERTIDE
SUPPLY CHAIN DIRECTOR
Assignment: Business and production Start-up of “lithium ion (nmc) battery application systems”:
Storage systems – Lithium-ion battery packs e-commerce – Development, production & distribution
Lithium-ion battery packs for small trucks and recreational vehicles - Development, production
Global supply chain development and set-up of above including power train conversions to EV

06.2008 – 06.2016
FAISTMETAL WORKING – ROMANIA
GENERAL MANAGER
Business growth in Romania
From a single 2000sm facility ( mono client, 2 departments, 49 Associates) to 12000sm facility, a dozen clients, 14 departments, approx. 500 associates

languages
Italian / English: bilingual

Hobbies 
Comfortable hiking, gardening, restoration of objects and VESPAs with my son
 

Education and Training
Lean six sigma training & projects
Lean production training & projects
1987 - Università “La Sapienza” - Rome – Italy (under graduate)