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Fishers, IN

Led 140 employees located in Fishers, IN and Clemmons, NC through implementation of Lean Manufacturing Practices beginning with a strict 5S of manufacturing facilities. Mentored 8 team members through Green Belt training and certification through Purdue MEP program. Assisted in the implementation of 6 Green Belt projects, resulting in increasing.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Led $750M inventory movement to 79 Target stores in mid-western US, including detailed daily labor planning of 220-320 labor hours for most tenured team in the distribution center. Raised team's performance to top.
• Improved priority product supply to retail shelves by critical stocking period to 99.6% by collaborating with Inbound team to resolve conflicts previously preventing success.

Whitestown, IN

• Led, motivated, and supported 60-150 full-time and temporary associates in the largest night shift of Amazon's highest-volume fulfillment center, packing 150-200K units per shift, consistently exceeding productivity.
• Enabled promotion of six high-performing associates within a year and improved team environment by mentoring a broad pipeline of associates in leadership and technical skill development and focusing on team culture.
• Achieved 99% fill rate during critical peak season by collaborating with peers to define responsibilities and expectations and coordinate associate cross-training for essential roles.

Whitestown, IN

• Rotated through all department leadership functions (receiving, storing/stowing, and inter-FC shipments), overseeing all areas of safety, quality, and productivity in each.
• Led 80-200 associates in largest inbound shift at IND1, storing 200-250K units per shift and meeting rising productivity goals.
• Created and implemented peak season plans for critical role cross-training and critical equipment management to prevent operations disruption. Led efforts reducing unresearched inventory defects by 33% during peak.
• Reduced peak season attrition 5% by building positive team culture and motivating and supporting 40-120 temporary associates.
• Coordinated and led capacity definition and audit of fulfillment center's 1.6M storage locations with 99% accuracy at validation.
• Improved storage strategy for high-throughput inter-FC shipments, improving productivity to 110% to goal, achieving 98% SLA success, and improving outbound picking productivity.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Reassigned to $25M business unit specifically to change the manufacturing culture and increase efficiency. Initially led nine associates directly; added 35 additional associates during high-uncertainty corporate.
• Increased production efficiency 47% and production output per labor hour by 22% within two weeks by designing and implementing a production scheduling process to align manufacturing outputs with downstream operations.
• Drove a variety of innovative solutions by building a team culture to improve communication, collaboration and team-oriented problem solving. Increased team members' sense of ownership by illustrating their impact in.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Managed P&L responsibility, reporting to VP of business unit, and managed employee performance and development.
• Reduced average manufacturing lead time from 14 days to five days, increased monthly revenue 21%, increased on-time in-full shipments from 33% to 82%, and reduced customer complaints 84% in first nine months of.
• Led sustained process and behavior changes and goal alignment efforts to break silo barriers between sales and manufacturing.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Led a 16-week project achieving 3 FTE-equivalent in cost savings, 66% downtime reduction, and 4% throughput increase by changing physical layout to reduce associate movement and reduce cycle times between critical job.
• Partnered with process engineers and directed, guided, and supported 15 long-term associates to embrace and support Lean Processing concepts through associate inclusion and engagement during process reviews.

Crawfordsville, IN

• Management and technical responsibilities for the development, fit-for-use testing and implementation of new product offerings to the world market.
• Built an effective R&D product pipeline to meet changing customer requirements by coordinating between Technical Service, R&D, Sales & Marketing, and Production teams.
• Authored and implemented effective quality processes in accordance with ISO 9001:2000 Quality Standards resulting in increased manufacturing efficiency and fewer product failures on competitive market entry.
• Increased response and resolution to customer complaints 15% through the coordination and reorganization of department systems across US, UK, Singapore and China sites through information transparency and communication.
• Accelerated time-to-market by 10% for complex, high-margin products by organizing a four-member team to research, design and implement an onsite reliability test lab.
• Authored an F.01 ASTM test standard published in June 2011.