Gary Eagleton, 66, is the Chief Operations Officer of the Company. Gary has more than 35 years of experience in operations, plant management, and modular building production of custom, residential, commercial, multi-family, schools, and specialty units, totaling 33,000 modules in his career to date. He is an established leader and professional in industrial production, design, engineering, problem-solving, customer relations, safety, quality assurance, human resources, and multiple location supervision. As Chief Operations Officer, Gary leads all of the Company’s factory setup and has already designed the factory layout and operational processes for the Company’s factory in Patterson, California. This process includes determining building requirements, production line needs, equipment and movement of modules, establishment of quality control processes, material storage, and offline fabrication areas. Gary has a comprehensive understanding of buildings and building systems and can quickly recognize potential issues that require prompt, innovative solutions.
Prior to joining the Company, Gary served as a business manager for Goodwin Knight/Key Structures LLC in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he established an offsite construction facility and developed specific manufacturing techniques, asset utilization methods, and communications systems for the facility. Gary also served as the production manager for Champion Homebuilders in York, Nebraska, where he delivered apartments, homes and commercial units for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. As a production manager for Champion, he increased production rates by fifty percent (50%).