Daniel Barbu

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT DANIEL BARBU

As Vice President-General Manager, with more than 20 years of experience, Daniel plays a pivotal role in Tristan\'s fast-growing evolution. Daniel\'s Tasks: • Reviews, assesses, approves and implements the organizational plans which best support the corporations plan for growth and profitability.• Assesses, hires, selects and maintains qualified personnel in all subordinate management positions reporting the VP-GM. • Work closely with the President to understand business environment and corporate culture from shop floor, manufacturing operations and engineering, through to the OEM and Tier 1 customer base. • Establishes the annual objectives for all direct reports and ensure they meet assigned targets and personal growth objectives. Identify talent gaps and develop specific strategies to fill the gaps. • Oversees divisional budgets and key metrics related to the company’s human capital needs. • Manage overall employee communications, identify training needs and recommend appropriate development needs. • Develops operating plans and budgets including capital equipment purchases, facilities needs. • Help build and facilitate the development of strong relationships and synergies within all areas of the company including, key customers, suppliers and technical partners, in order to better achieve the corporation’s business goals and profit objectives. • Helps foster an environment that enables management and the technical staff to consistently perform with excellence, to set and meet both personal and team goals. • Analyzes and helps solve business problems and inefficiencies which impact organizational capabilities.(Works to continuously improve productivity, cycle times, pricing, costs, scheduling, and profitability). • Works jointly with the CEO t to help determine the longer term business goals for the company Key Performance Deliverables. • Works with current strategic plan for the die casting tooling business unit, taking into account emerging industry developments for alternate fuel technologies, etc. • Look for ways to continuously improve products, processes and services with out compromising quality or profitability. • Observes and analyzes current management team and business direction • Observes current purchasing, order backlog and PO Pricing strategies and processes. Helps determine least painful path of executive transition, to ensure customer comfort levels are maintained. • Ensure profitability is maintained