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Woodstock

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Completed lean transformation of a retail restaurant and set in motion a lean journey• Created a no blame environment and continuous improvement culture• Reorganized the flow of product through the facility to achieve one directional flow of materials within the operation• Implemented a simple Kanban system for production and ordering of materials• Organized tools and materials by Time of Use and Point of Use priorities• Created max/mins to ensure 95% fill rate and reduced inventory by 80%• Achieved positive cash-flow in 5 months• Used Hydro grants to improve lighting and reduce electricity consumption, without use of any working capital• Implemented VOIP and reduced telecommunications costs by 35%• Implemented an employee Health and Dental benefits program to achieve 100% retention and eliminate employee turnover costs• Initiated, projects lead by employees to create a dinner menu to increase sales• Reduced insurance costs by 50% through careful vendor selection• Created a 3 year plan to double sales and improve margins by 14%• Implemented EH&S program to meet and exceed legal requirementswww.newyorkpita.com

Toronto, Canada Area

• Facilitated and followed up on monthly Strategy Deployment review sessions (Hoshin Kanri successfully used by: Dell, Nissan, Toyota, Crane Co. Etc.) helped sustain best ever sales results.• Work closely with Executive team to identify, plan and Kaizen the most impactful Continuous Improvement opportunities, increased sales and reduced costs, creating and sustaining bottom line results.• Facilitated Kaizens, then followed up with owners to ensure that results were attained and sustained.• Monitor KPIs and help branch managers action and eliminate factors that impact them (maintained: On Time Delivery above 98.5%, Fulfillment and quality above 99% from October 2011 to October 2012)• Selected and qualified critical vendors and negotiated new supplier contracts for utilities, GPS and facility equipment.• Performed internal ISO audits alongside branch representative to prepare for external audit and managed the internal ISO program.• Worked with CFO to find and implement cost saving measures.• Worked with HR Director to refine return to work program, orientation checklists and safety manual.

• Improved turnaround time for repaired devices from 17 to 4 days by using value stream maps to understand bottle necks, implementing visual management and cell structure.• Worked closely with OEMs, Engineering team, and tooling suppliers to prepare NPI line qualifications of smartphones.• Joint Health and Safety Committee management co-chair and Environmental Steering Committee member.• Worked as a supplier manager for an outsourcing partner.• Planned and lead daily production meetings, weekly staffing meetings and monthly materials demand planning.• Solid experience with Bill of Materials in SAP environment and Engineering Change Documentation.• Managed 175 individuals and six team leaders to deliver customer value at the Cambridge Center of Excellence.• Experience managing change, overall output tripled in eighteen months.• Coached team members for individual career development and promotions from within.• Working in a blame free team environment to promote change and adapt to continuously growing customer demand.• Interviewed, hired, performance managed, disciplined and terminated employees.• Managed a team of 24 technicians in a separate group, who acted as suppliers to the main production team.• Management champion for lean manufacturing and 5S.• Prepared teams for weekly 5S audits, annual internal and external ISO audits.

Translated documents between English, Danish & Tamil

• Day to day management of a team of 45 staff, to pick and pack orders for all of Ontario and eastern Canada.• Maintained strong relations with workforce, moved 2 machines, so they would not interfere and improved packing output by 20%• Pick/pack planning using proprietary software and SAP.• Scheduling of work force and planning daily activities to meet customer needs. • Joint Health and Safety Committee management member.• Maintained daily audits for GMP, HACCP and safety.

Mississauga

• Day to day management of a value added warehousing services supplier.• Responsible for hiring and training of new employees; rewarding and discipline/dismissal of 12-15 workers. • Experience working daily with customers to resolve complaints and improve relationships. Improved from the worst to the best turnaround time.• Worked with Health Canada to obtain Drug Establishment license (GMP.)• ISO 9001:2000 facility, responsible for improvements and documentation.• Responsible for maintaining facility licensing standards to handle TDG (Transportation of Dangerous Goods) regulated products, plastics, medical and food grade materials.• Review MSDS to ensure compliance with regulations.• Registered Seeds Establishment (RSE) with Authorized Importer and Approved Conditioner certificates.• Experience in working with OHSA & WSIB in a unionized environment.

Materials Science Engineering, Engineering

Thesis: Chemical Food Engineering. Electives: Mechanical Design. Significant courses: Management Accounting, Business Leadership.

Grade 9, Danish Language And Literature

Completed grade 9 in Horsens Denmark

Ossd, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Track & Field Cross CountryCore curriculum of math and sciences, with computer science and accounting electives.

Cook Basic, Cullinary Arts, Gpa 3.0

Activities and Societies: Menu development independent project.An introductory course to fundamentals of modern cooking, costing &.