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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%

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.

• 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.

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.

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 &.