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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A global leader in long-duration energy storage, pioneers technology to scale carbon reduction with a dedicated professional team.

Houston, Texas, United States

Operations, Strategic Sourcing, Quality and Lean Consulting for clients ranging from Global Industrial Manufacturers, Energy to Local Diverse Startups.

Deerfield Beach, Florida, United States

Built two Additive Manufacturing facilities as startup, including managing procurement, facility layout, permits and equipment installation & commissioning. Launched the operation and set up a production management systems for aero-derivative gas turbine and aviation parts.

Houston, Texas Area

Business development and sales for Americas region. Leading opportunities at BECHTEL - Oil & Gas, Mining & Hydrocarbon & Power businesses for CIMTAS. Managing marketing and sales activities with other EPC, OEM, Distributors and Investors for Large Fabrication, Pref. Piping, Machining, LSAW Pipe and Fittings.

Houston, Texas Area

Sourcing Leader for control and safety valve products at GE Oil & Gas. Responsible for product cost-out, deflation, fulfillment and supplier quality at 17 global manufacturing sites. Managing global sourcing team of 90 employees.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Leading entire Sourcing team including New Product Introduction for heavy duty gas turbines managing team of 25 commodity leaders and sourcing specialists. Responsible for product cost-out and fulfillment for $1.2B.
• Develop global strategy for each commodity and manage global supply base
• Lead product cost out initiatives and drive deflation
• Identify, negotiate and develop new suppliers
• Manage supplier contracts
• Track supplier performance with score card

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Responsible for global supplier quality for heavy duty gas turbines managing team of over 20 Supplier Quality Engineers.
• Developed and improved quality processes and procedures
• Led supplier qualifications by working with engineering and manufacturing
• Performed product, process and quality system audits
• Quality issue resolution by performing RCA & CA at suppliers
• Tracked supplier quality performance

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Responsible for introducing, implementing and leading Lean Manufacturing Initiative for Global Sourcing Organization. Managed a team of nine Six Sigma BB’s and four contractors.
• Developed standard process to implement Lean across GE Energy utilizing DFSS
• Integrated Six Sigma and Lean improvement methodologies
• Prepared training materials, trained GE employees and suppliers
• Managed suppliers’ lean projects and lean events
• Organized globally over 40 manufacturing and transactional lean events at 20 suppliers

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Managed productivity projects for $700M volume with Sourcing, Manufacturing and Engineering
• Developed Productivity Realization Process (Idea Generation, Evaluation, Implementation and Financial Closure) and trained team members for project tracking e-tools
• Generated 150 ideas with the team and achieved 15% savings
• Evaluated & implemented productivity ideas with Engineering and Manufacturing

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Managed $200M annual volume of piping raw material, pre-fabricated piping, bellows and flex hoses. Led supplier selection and qualification activities, negotiations including contracts, cost out initiative.
• Increased annual savings from 6% to 15%
• Re-negotiated supplier payment terms and improved
• Developed and migrated suppliers in China
• Drove the settlement of several challenging supplier contracts, resulting cost avoidance
• Completed 8 Six Sigma projects achieving cost out, cycle reduction and quality improvements

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Managed $100M piping commodity volume for Greenville Gas Turbine Plant
• Implemented key initiatives to improve quality and fulfillment performance of the suppliers
• Identified and qualified North American and East European Suppliers
• Finalized long-term agreements

Istanbul, Turkey

• Established Sourcing Organization and managed all sourcing activities in Turkey. Grew GE’s supply base in Turkey for entire GE Power System businesses.
• Identified and audited over 70 suppliers for different commodities, such as electrical, fabrication, piping, casting, fasteners and machining
• Qualified 10 suppliers for piping, machining, electrical and fasteners
• Economic Assessment in East Europe to determine areas for lowest total cost
• Improved logistics process and execution for export to US and Europe
• Increased Sourcing export volume from $1M to $20M

Istanbul, Turkey

• Managed turnkey Co-Gen power plant projects.
• Project erection and commissioning
• Led international project team
• Sourcing and fulfillment activities
• Project schedule
• Managed budgets for entire power plant projects

Augsburg Area, Germany

• Managed co-generation power plant sales activities for Turkey.
• Identified potential customers and power plant projects in Turkey, including short and long term sales forecast
• Led multi discipline global team and built strategy for each project
• Prepared complete customer bids for co-generation power plant projects according to the customers’ specifications and needs
• Led feasibility studies, technical specification reviews, cost calculations and project scheduling.
• Led customer negotiations

Istanbul, Turkey

• Responsible for marketing and sales activities in Greece, Italy, Germany and France.
• Managed major accounts activities including working with engineering, manufacturing and regional sales representatives
• Managed customer projects, including on-time delivery and technical fulfillment
• Led negotiations and long term agreements
• Tripled export volume to Europe

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Played basketball at Lutzel Vfb in the 2nd German Premier Basketball League

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Played Basketball in the University Basketball team and won the National Championship in 1985.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Played Basketball in the University Basketball team and won the third place during the National Championship in.

Business Administration Program