Maxwell P.

Averill
Maxwellaverill@yahoo.com ■ 831-818-4906 ■ Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/maxwell-pa/

Production Manager and MBA Student

EDUCATION

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, San Jose, CA (2019-Present)

Masters in Business Administration, expected graduation May 2021
Overall GPA: 4.0/4.0

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA, Goleta, CA (2006-2010)

Bachelor of Science Degree in Microbiology awarded 2010
Overall GPA: 3.06/4.0

COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO, San Mateo, CA (2014-2015)

Certificate of Achievement in Electrical Power Systems and Instrumentation awarded 2015
Overall GPA: 3.80/4.0

WORK EXPERIENCE
ANAEROBE SYSTEMS, Morgan Hill, CA 9/13-Present
Production Manager (10/16-Present)
 Lead and manage a diverse nine-person production team in the manufacturing diagnostic medical
supplies.
 Work closely with all departments including quality control, customer service, shipping and receiving,
accounting, regulatory affairs, and engineering to meet and exceed customer expectations while
achieving company goals.
 Continually work to improve and make more efficient company processes, saving the company tens of
thousands of dollars annually on over-time pay, lab supply usage, and raw material waste.
 Responsible for all steps of product manufacturing from raw material acquisition to finished product
packaging.
 Forecast using past data and current trends, along with new orders, to create the weekly production
schedule.
 Schedule production personnel based on the product schedule, strengths and availability.
 Maintain appropriate levels of stock items to prevent backorders, while keeping the discarding of finished
products due to expiration at a minimum.
 Work with account managers and sales representatives to source, maintain, and purchase raw materials
and lab supply inventory at minimal costs, while maintaining the quality our customers expect.
 Supervise the production floor, to ensure efficient and correct production practices according to
established SOPs, as well as, act as backup to all production positions when necessary.
 Write, alter, and review controlled documents including SOPs and Manufacturing Records in accordance
with ISO:13485 guidelines.
 Exercise effective communication with employees to resolve any needs, issues, or conflicts that may
arise.
 Address non-conformities and other issues in the production process by investigating, often with other
department personnel, the root causes and creating solutions to ensure future improvement.
 Hire and train new production personnel, as well perform competency checks and evaluations.

Research and Development Technician/Microbiologist (9/13-10/16)

 Work in a team to design, fabricate, wire, and install fermentation and sterilization, reactors and controllers.
 Install, program, and establish connections between a variety of PLCs, HMIs, PCs, relays, pumps, agitators,
electric motors, pH meters, temperature controllers, pressure transducers, and other instrumentation.
 Programming of Siemens S7 PLCs, including ladder logic.
  Use, program, and wire analog and digital input and output modules to monitor and control company
systems.
 Assemble, wire and partially fabricate Gloveless Anaerobic Chambers.
 Work with people of diverse cultural backgrounds in the production and quality control of microbial growth
media and biochemical testing reagents.
 Isolate, characterize, and identify environmental microbes to find highly efficient fermentative, hydrogen
producing, organisms.
 Perform various chromatographic and spectroscopic analyses on unknown gas and chemical samples.
 Work closely with others to innovate, improve and make more efficient company procedures.

RADIOLOGY MEDICAL GROUP, Santa Cruz, CA 7/12–9/13, 6/05–9/05, 6/04–9/04

Customer Service and Data Entry Clerk/ Courier
 Enter patient data into data-base, and sort, retrieve, and replace patient medical records.
 Utilize excellent customer service skills in contacting patients and referring offices,
 Act as the company operator to direct calls, answer questions, and problem solve with patients, referring
offices, and other inquiring parties.
 Provide courier services for medical records to local offices, as well as courier deposits to the bank.

CONCRETE WORKS SANTA CRUZ, Santa Cruz, CA 8/10-7/12

Concrete Laborer
 Work in a team to prepare, form, pour, and finish concrete structures, including foundations, walkways,
pool decks, pads, bulkheads, and retaining walls.
 Configure and install irrigation and drainage systems.

CARILLO DINING COMMONS, University of California Santa Barbara 6/09-10/09

Dining Commons Assistant
 Serve and prepare food for dinning common guests.
 Clean and prepare dinning rooms and kitchens for service.
 Receive and stock food inventory.