Troy, Ohio
Brian Cardinal
Helping Businesses Build Stronger Operations, Better Teams, and Measurable Results.
With nearly 30 years of experience leading operations and quality teams, I help organizations identify what is holding them back, improve performance, and build systems that support sustainable growth.
From operational challenges to leadership development, I bring practical solutions that turn complexity into clarity and strategy into results.
- 30years leading operations and quality teams
- 150quality professionals managed across North America
- 100+projects delivered across my career
Want to talk operations, leadership, or Troy?
Bio
A career spent leading people through the work
I started in manufacturing and quality. Directing production and inventory for a Honda supplier taught me how a manufacturing facility runs and how much depends on the people on the floor. I went on to spend about 12 years as Vice President of Operations at LeVeck Lighting Products, where our sign and electrical service division more than tripled its sales under my leadership, from $1.4 million to $4.6 million a year.
Today I run operations at Facility Innovations Group. I write the procedures and train the people so the work holds up when I am not in the room. Lately I have been putting AI to work on the repetitive tasks, so people can spend their time on the parts of the job that need a person.
Community
Born here. Raised here. Still showing up.
Troy gave me my start. I was born and raised in this county, went through Piqua and Troy schools, and graduated from Troy High School. My parents and the rest of my family are from here, and I raised my kids here so they could grow up with the same kind of community around them.
When most of your life happens in one place, you want to look after it. I have coached youth baseball and softball. For many years I have worked the Troy Music Boosters strawberry donut booth at the Strawberry Festival, first as a volunteer and later for two years as the booth's chair. As chair I was the Boosters' liaison to the festival, and I coordinated the booth's operations.
I served a couple of years on the Troy Strawberry Festival executive board, and for one of those years I was also Shuttle Co-Chair. Separately, I have been the festival's Adopt-a-Berry Chair. Each job was different. Each one came down to showing up and making things easier for the next person. Volunteering has always been a family thing for me. When my kids were part of something, I helped with it.
Campaign
Promote Troy DORA
I was a co-chair of Promote Troy DORA. A campaign has a lot of moving parts, so I took on the systems behind it: the website, the social media, and the print material. Getting volunteers meant reaching out to people through social media and putting in the work to bring them in.
Years of running operations taught me to build a simple system and get people pulling in the same direction. A campaign needs the same things. Voters upheld the DORA. That took a lot of neighbors working together, and I was proud to help lead them.
Why HandRaised
Founder, HandRaised
Why I started HandRaised
HandRaised is a national volunteer effort based here in Troy, Ohio. It started with something I saw over and over while helping out around town: it is hard to find volunteers.
Plenty of large organizations encourage people to get involved, and they do good work. Once someone follows them, though, nothing connects that person to a real opportunity nearby. Nobody had built that network at the personal level.
HandRaised sits in that gap. It works with people, with social media, and with those larger organizations to match someone who wants to help with a place that needs them.
People also get something back for showing up. They can log their hours and share their service. Many schools and businesses require service hours, and young people like to be recognized for what they do. That is worth building on.
If HandRaised helps one more person find a place to help, it is worth it. Raise your hand and join me.
- Community
- Family
- Leaving things better