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San Jose, California, United States

Lean leader, promoted to manager for the Global KPO at Lumentum, responsible for deploying a culture of continuous improvement across the company’s multiple offices, factories, contract manufacturers, and design centers. Led a team of 5 direct reports and 20 indirect reports responsible for promoting a Kaizen culture through project execution, thought leadership, and training for a $1.5 Billion companyOversaw small and large scale Kaizen events comprising 20+ total projects and realizing over $25 Million in hard savings. These projects ranged in focus but included factory efficiency improvements, addressing quality problems, improving business processes, and embedding lean principles into the design of new products and processesEstablished the foundational elements necessary for a lean deployment, including project selection and execution methodology, creating training content and programs, establishing company-wide communications platforms, developing site level maturity assessments, deploying a company wide-strategy methodology (Hoshin), and creating company platform for project tracking, best practice sharing, and training delivery

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Lean leader for the KPO within HPE Supply Chain, responsible for factory focused Kaizen events, lean maturity, worldwide best practice deployment, and communications. • Partnered with worldwide factories to prepare and execute six Shingijutsu kaizen events, resulting in the successful execution of 56 kaizen projects, delivering improved quality, cost, and delivery to both companies and their customers• Developed and deployed worldwide best practice deployment program, bringing together 15 manufacturing sites across 4 companies to share best practices and accelerate improvements• Oversaw the lean maturity development and assessment of 6 manufacturing sites worldwide, assisting with improvement projects, education, and coaching to increase performance • Responsible for team communications. Developed the Lean Portal, which acted as the single reference point for lean education, kaizen documentation, best practice sharing, and more for the entire supply chain. Developed the monthly newsletter, which was delivered to over 4,000 customers each month.

Austin, Texas Area

Program Manager for the CIC team at HP, responsible for embedding a culture of Continuous Improvement into the DNA of HP. Team developed and delivered trainings and engagements to over 42,000 employees in a 15 month period. • Personally delivered Lean Six Sigma training to over 1,700 employees face-to-face, and over 4,000 employees virtually, consistently receiving above 4/5 average in all categories on post-course learner assessments• Project manager for multiple global events, including an organization wide-event which reached over 18,000 employees in a 48 hour period • Received Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification for leading a process improvement initiative for the team that impacted and improved a process impacting multiple organizations• Developed new engaging training methods that reached over 5,000 employees and ensured team exceeded yearly goal

Fort Drum, Ny

Second in command of a Light Infantry Company of 140 employees, responsible for all logistical operations and processes for the company. • Responsible for equipment worth over $7.5 million; developed processes and systems which ensured equipment was consistently ready to deploy anywhere in the world within 96 hours• Managed multiple teams, with responsibilities including counseling, evaluating, and team-building; on multiple occasions, assumed command of the company for weeks at a time in the commander’s absence, ensuring mission completion without incident every time• Coordinated all logistics, including supplies, medical support, transportation, and food for 10 large scale training exercises, resulting in the Company being selected first to deploy

Fort Drum, Ny

Plans officer and chemical officer in the operations center of a Light Infantry Battalion of 785 employees. • Planned four major battalion level events, including project plans and risk assessment, resulting in operations being completed on time and under budget with zero safety incidents • Managed the battalion’s chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense training, creating and implementing a new training program resulting in over 700 employees receiving valuable training

Afghanistan

Infantry Platoon Leader of a 39 individual rifle platoon, responsible for the health, welfare, and morale of the entire platoon while deployed to Afghanistan. • Partnered with multiple international agencies and stakeholders to directly oversee the training of over 4,200 Afghan basic trainees and 1,000 Afghan officers, greatly increasing the Afghan Army’s independence and readiness• Led numerous convoy operations travelling throughout the greater Kabul region, ensuring mission completion every time with zero safety incidents• Mentored multiple Afghan officers during deployment, helping the officers improve the processes and systems within their units; this resulted in increased accountability, accuracy of data, and less turnover within the unit