Adam Watson, Cssbb, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Greater Philadelphia Area

▪ Consulted on operational and improvement strategy for 5 surgical divisions participating in the U.S. News & World Report annual survey. Developed performance summary reports and identified areas of improvement for CHOP executive leadership.▪ Served as a liaison between executive leadership and senior leadership by maintaining ongoing and direct communications related to operational improvements, challenges and performance.▪ Served as a leader on the Performance Improvement team with a focus on coaching, mentoring and building improvement capability across over 40 Improvement Advisors and hundreds of team leaders within the Perioperative Complex. Oversaw multiple project portfolios within the perioperative complex and assist senior leadership with identifying and prioritizing quality improvement (QI) initiatives.▪ Supported regulatory and accreditation activities, including participation in Joint Commission and Department of Health surveys and accreditation readiness.▪ Lead office onboarding program and provided mentorship for new team members. Successfully hired over 20 improvement professionals.

Greater Philadelphia Area

▪ Promoted organizational transformation by advising on the planning and execution of clinical improvement efforts throughout the Department of Surgery. Worked with executive leadership to develop and execute QI infrastructure and implementation strategy. Guided division chiefs on building improvement capability across the enterprise. Developed change management plans to execute agreed upon interventions.▪ Developed and implemented a surgical QI committee to assist with project prioritization and selection. Provided QI consults to individual clinicians when requested that included problem statement identification, project scoping and root-cause analysis.▪ Successfully supported over 10 project teams and initiatives. Assisted clinicians, clinical leaders and administrators to manage and understand improvement measures and performance dashboards in order to use data analysis to drive fact-based decision making.▪ Facilitated workshops focused on teaching clinicians how to apply various Continuous Improvement (CI) and QI tools/methodology such as Kaizen events, affinity diagrams, process/value stream mapping and cause & effect diagrams.▪ Created/managed opioid prescription reduction project portfolio focused on streamlining prescribing practices, aligning providers and standardizing care. Reduced postoperative opioid use by over 50% in multiple projects with various specialties and patient cohorts. Two projects were accepted for publication.▪ Saved 50 bed days by streamlining communication processes regarding postop feeding protocols within the division.▪ Reduced the average time between chemotherapy drug release from the pharmacy to drug administration by over 30% and reduced hospital length of stay for patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment by 23%.

Greater Philadelphia Area

▪ Responsible for managing, supporting, training and coaching the deployment and implementation of CI processes and systems across 6 locations with a combined operating budget of over $80M and over 3,000 employees. Processes and systems included loss analysis, strategic planning, metric stratification, change management, DMAIC and dailymanagement routines/standard work.▪ Confirmed that CI objectives were cascaded appropriately and comprehended by all levels of management. Facilitated line of sight of the implementation of CI pillar teams, systems, and leaders linked to the corporate strategy.▪ Cultivated KPI dashboard for CI progress. Measured, analyzed and reported CI performance to executive leadership in corporate and field locations.▪ Increased employee retention rate by 30% through the facilitation of DMAIC tools resulting in savings of over $100K over the course of 3 months.▪ Improved operating cost per case by 20% through the implementation of loss analysis tools and cascading key performance indicator (KPI) reviews, resulting in savings of over $1M over the course of 1 year.▪ Bolstered outbound productivity by 20% through the implementation of knowledge sharing tools and strategic planning milestones focused on reducing damaged products and increasing the amount of ready-to-ship inventory.

Greater Philadelphia Area

- Partnered with Regional Vice President and local leadership teams to develop CI results and capabilities. Ensured that CI objectives were passed down and understood by all members of management. - Linked CI pillar work groups to prioritized business opportunities and performed regular and periodic validation of each CI project/initiative with each project team. - Coached and trained “Champions” for each CI pillar at multiple locations across the east coast and supported the management teams in using all levels of CI problem solving and tracking tools.

Bethlehem, Pa

- Led and managed 8 warehouse Supervisors and over 400 hourly associates in the efficient and safe operation of warehouse activities in a 1.2 million square foot facility. Developed and implemented improvement initiatives resulting in greater efficiency, improved profitability, improved employee satisfaction and reduced expenses. Conducted annual performance appraisals and career development plans. - Trained management team and associates on DMAIC tool and led site “Focused Improvement” pillar. Increased productivity by 1 pallet per hour every month using DMAIC methodology, resulting in a $100K average yearly savings. - Adjusted slotting of items and improved load quality, resulting in a lower direct cost per case and over $400K in savings.

Bethlehem, Pa

▪ Assisted in writing an operating budget of $20M for a facility that employs over 600 associates and ships out over 1 million cases per week. Worked hand-in-hand with General Manager and Regional Vice President to formulate budget based on volume projections and corporate initiatives.▪ Identified, distinguished and analyzed multiple components of internal warehouse damage and made recommendations for business change, resulting in a reduction of expenses in our top damage locations.▪ Developed cascading KPI process to identify areas of improvement. Created a KPI process for site managers to attack top areas of improvement. Efforts resulted in a 30% improvement and $250K in savings compared to previous year.▪ Assisted in designing and developing models and analytical reports to evaluate and track current state operations and simulated future state operations to identify improvement opportunities. Helped plan and roll out the transition of going from a two-shift operation to a three-shift operation.

Bethlehem, Pa

- Trained in a rotational program focused on learning and performing each individual job function in a distribution center.

Tried out for the Carolina Panthers

Bachelor'S Degree, Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, Delta Upsilon National Fraternity, Lehigh Football: Starting.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Bergen Catholic Football: Co-captain in 2004; team was the 2004 State Championship.