Support manufacturing areas in successful site start-up, technical transfer, process validation and product launch activities. Lead and implement initiatives that add value to operations and drive cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues using root-cause analysis tools such as Kepner-Tregoe. Position requires an in-depth understanding of how process engineering relates to upstream and downstream operations. Key enabler of site-wide Operational Excellence within the framework of the Shingo "Discover Excellence" guiding principles. Channel site information systems data into descriptive & predictive data analytics supporting strategic business intelligent decision making, lean manufacturing, KPI dashboard visualizations and product/process quality system compliance.

Does your business lack identification of key insights, trends & patterns originating from a variety of data sources?. My career has been largely about data manipulation and statistical science. I am proficient in the use of R which is an excellent statistical data programming and data mining software package. High-quality scientific data analysis will help you discover patterns or insights within your data simplifying your everyday business challenges. My goal with every project is to provide organizations with clear and intuitive detail that helps with the decision-making process. Multiple years of experience working with data tools like Excel Power Query, Power Pivot & Power BI enables me to deliver basic tasks like data cleansing & preparation of data structures to more advanced challenges like descriptive statistics and predictive modelling in R.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer & Six Sigma Black Belt within Capsules Filling Business Unit with shared reporting across maintenance and process. Engaged in parsing, analysing and interpreting system data to find actionable insights that streamlined the preventative maintenance programme. Used predictive analysis techniques to support proactive decision making within the organisation reducing unplanned downtime. Inspire and empower the organizations to achieve sustained scale up capacity through the delivery of Six Sigma Black Belt projects. Automation of Blending (AOB) seen scale up activity increase by 150% with downstream capsule filling capacity increase by 100%+ without resource investment. The role scope extended to cross functional site wide training delivered to 260 employees with targeted mentoring delivered to Six Sigma Green Belt practitioners. This initiative enthused and energised others within the organisations to continuously improve their performance and achieve sustained excellence with ongoing accountable cost savings.

Project managed a team of engineers, technicians and production operatives that successfully delivered Six Sigma methodologies site wide. Acquired Level 1& 2 Process Control internal compliance Certification, enabling foundations for ISO9001 Quality Systems Certification. Engaged Value Stream Mapping supported by process simulation in Print Head Assembly manufacturing. Developed a Resource Planning Model to assist with monthly Capacity Management at local and worldwide level. The integration of the simulation models with MS Excel Tools generated an effective operations tool to assist with product & resource planning/scheduling and maintenance management.

Drive Effective Sales & Marketing Operations - Applied Data Analytics to the Microsoft US & EMEA sales and customer demographic profiles to adapt their business model based on optimum marketing campaign management. The analytical efforts were instrumental in developing new markets by enhancing the performance of sales reps to make better & faster sales & marketing decisions. In this role, the ability to interpret data skilfully & communicate findings clearly carried a lot of responsibility for informing company strategy.