David Corcio

I’ve held several positions of different capacities at a variety of industries. Most recently, I was working as an Accounting supervisor at a confectionary manufacturer in Azusa. Before that, I worked as an operations manager at an engineering company, and before that, a production manager at a 3M distributor. All my various management positions have helped me form a well-rounded management capacity that I have brought to our membership team and has helped us be very successful in obtaining and retaining members.

I am most proud of the foreign entity summary approval process that has been implemented. Prior to my ownership of the approval process, there was no set of procedures for the DOE to approve foreign entity companies joining our institute. I led the efforts to work with the DOE to produce an approval process that spells out all the possible deterrents for foreign entities that join our institute, as well as the steps they will take to ensure that their IP protection protocols are set in place and will be enforced.

I enjoy attending industry conferences and promoting the institute to new prospective members. I enjoy traveling to new cities and being able to explain to people what smart manufacturing is and how our institute is doing its part to help make US manufacturing more competitive on the overall global scale.

Perhaps the most interesting thing that I have learned this past year is that networking is the key to everything. Sometimes, certain “doors” are only opened by a specific set of individuals, and by networking and getting yourself out there, you may find yourself being introduced to someone that has an answer to your very specific problem. They may assist you in a very particular way that you may not have even thought of had you not had exposure to them. Therefore, its always a good idea to put on the charm, be polite, courteous, friendly, and helpful to others because you never know whom you will meet. There may be a possibility that the person you help with something small may end up helping you out with something big.

I would like to learn the trade of an automotive mechanic. I have always been interested in classic cars and would love to one day have father-son project to work on with my sons, fixing up and restoring an old 50’s car.

I am actually ambidextrous; I was born left-handed, but my mom didn’t want me to have a hard time later in life, so she taught me to do most things with my right hand (write, use a spoon, play the guitar, etc.) In fact, I didn’t even know that there were left-handed baseball gloves until I was in my teens. However, I still swing a baseball bat in the left-handed stance, same with golf, and I play tennis with the racquet in my left hand.

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