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As
of May 2008, DSI employs over 60 people including
employees and subcontractors. Due to the diversity of
the product line the company has employed talented and
versatile people. To familiarize you with some of he
key staff members, individual biographies are listed
below.
Eddie Burgess,
President
Mr. Burgess has over
twenty eight years experience in the design,
manufacturing, service, installation, sales and
marketing of machinery for the Automotive, Textile,
Non-Woven, Film, Paper, and Plastics Industry. He has
also traveled extensively internationally while
establishing worldwide sales agencies and markets.
Since founding Diversified Systems in 1990, he has been
and is actively involved in its day to day operations as
well as customer relations. Over the years he has
developed several products that resulted in obtaining
U.S. Patents and many others that have improved the
quality of products while reducing labor costs and
waste. He has held several board positions with various
companies over these years as well as having steered
various committees for the Secretary of State of South
Carolina. He also has involvement in several
professional affiliations.
Murray
Davis
Mr. Davis is our Sales Engineer. He has over 35 years
experience in the textile industry. His expertise lie
in the nonwoven sector of the industry. He has
designed, mentored and assisted his customers with
automated their productivity over the years. He brings
a large customer base with him from his previous
employment. He knowledge lies in railway sewing
systems, rolls, conveyors and any type of integrated
machinery. Mr. Davis joined us in the beginning of
2008.
Carrie Medlin
Carrie is our Controller responsible for the financial
operations of the company.
She
oversees the accounts receivable & payable, payroll,
inventory valuation reporting, treasury, budgeting and
month end /year end financial reporting. In addition
Carrie responsibilities have increased to overseeing
production control and assisting with customer quoting
and purchasing. Carrie is a graduate of Clemson
University and has a BS degree in accounting. She has 13
years plus experience in accounting and business
financial management prior to joining DSI. She has been
with the company for over 7 years.
Michael Greene
Mike
is the Chief Mechanical Engineer. He has over 33 years
experience in machinery and system design. He is
responsible for overseeing the engineering department
and designing certain machines. He has been with the
company for over 13 years.
Bobby Quick
Mr.
Quick is the electrical engineering manager and
designer. He also is involved in the installation of
our machinery and manufacturing systems. He has
produced many designs for machines DSI has supplied. He
has been with the company for over 15 years.
Juan McCoy
Juan
is the Purchasing Manager. Juan is the Purchasing agent
and is responsible for planning, coordinating and
projecting production and delivery. He has been with
the company for 13 years. Juan’s background includes
many years in the machining industry. He is a master
machinist.
KennethW.Herman
Ken has over thirty-seven years experience in
design and manufacturing of machinery for the Textile
and other Industries. His background includes being
President of Sherman Machinery, Inc., manufacturer of
coating and web-handling equipment, Operations Manager
for Winsor & Jerauld, manufacturers of tenter frames &
coating machinery, and Vice President of Entec
Industries, manufacturer of web-handling equipment. He
has been with the company for over 8 years.
Vic
McCoy
Mr. McCoy is our Vice President of Manufacturing and
structural steel division at DSI. He has over 27 years
experience in the structural steel industry including
commercial and industrial building. In addition, Vic
has experience in the fabrication and erection of other
building components such as mezzanines, stairs,
handrails, and ladders. Additionally, under Vic’s
management is a full staff of steel erectors, riggers
and millwrights. Vic has been with the company for over
7 years.
Bob Tate
Mr.
Tate is our Senior Estimator and Project Manager for our
Structural Steel Division. He has over 25 years in the
steel industry. His expertise lie in design and build,
estimating, overseeing of projects both fabrication and
erection, negotiations and detailing. He has newly
joined our DSI team.
Michael Johnson
Mr. Johnson is our plant manager at DSI. He has over 30
years of experience in the machining and textile
industry. Michael has extensive knowledge in blueprint
reading, parts analysis and the overall running of a
production shop. His priorities are insuring quality
and delivery to our customers.
Frank Babb
Mr. Babb has over 35 years experience in design
engineering. His main expertise lies in finishing
machinery including tenter frames. He has worked with
chain and tenter frame rebuilding, repairing and new
designs for enhancing fabric production.
John Mickle
John Mickle has
over 35 years experience in mechanical design
engineering domestically and over 5 years experience in
engineering the full plant process of a plant
internationally in San Antigo, Chile. His expertise
lies in the design of textile, nonwovens, and
pick-n-place machinery.
Charles Dickson
Charles Dickson
has over 20 years experience in both mechanical and
electrical engineering. He has a BS degree in business
and engineering design. His main expertise lies in
automation, machinery design and controls.
Norris Carter
Norris Carter has over 15 years experience in electrical
engineering. His expertise lie in the programming,
installation and start up of machinery. His knowledge
includes the programming logic of Siemens Step 7 and
Allen Bradley. Mr. Carter has been with DSI for 2
years.
Barry Garrett
Barry Garrett has over 15 years experience in all types
of programming logic for automated machinery. He has
expertise in the programming logic for Siemens, Allen
Bradley and all types of Servo based applications. He
has been with DSI for 1 year.
Dennis Rice
Dennis Rice has over 35 years experience in textile
machinery. His expertise lies in application design and
engineering. His accomplishments include the design and
automation of bagging machinery, napkin machinery and
hemming systems. He has been affiliated with DSI for
over 11 years.
RhondaPitt
Rhonda is the assistant to the President of the company,
and Administrative Assistant.
She
also manages human resources. Rhonda has over 12 years
experience in human resources. She has expertise in
labor laws and employee benefits. She has been with the
company for over 8 years.
Production Staff
Our
production staff is made up of various labor men who
specialize in the fabrication, erection, servicing,
machining, painting, and assembling of our machinery.
We have approximately 35 production employees whose
experience is a combined total of a few hundred years of
expertise in the production of manufacturing machinery.
In addition, we have a quality control supervisor whose
job is to ensure all of our products that are made in
our plant are made to specification.
Drew Konnerth
Drew
is a professional engineer, sales agent and consultant
with DSI. Drew represents DSI in the Northeast Region
of the United States. Drew brings a valuable resource
of engineering knowledge and numerous years in the
manufacturing arena. Additionally, Drew has acted as
lead engineer on several projects. In addition, Drew
acts as a liaison for DSI and our customers. His
expertise lies in web handling machinery. |