Took a sabbatical to support my daughters' virtual learning and created this business for real estate consulting and to freelance in Product Development, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Operations Strategy focused on Women and Black owned businesses looking to improve their operations.Projects:- Established an inventory management system including evaluating, vetting and establishing requirements for an ERP system for a diverse growing startup in an emerging cannabis market. Established the S&OP process, and improved the relationship and performance of 3PL partner.- Located and secured commercial real estate for a small cannabis startup.

- Program Manager for a supply chain control tower implementation at a major medical device company. - Key contributor to building MedTech supply chain practice strategy.- subject matter expert for major MedTech supply chain projects

Responsible for the development and execution of strategies to leverage relationships within and across International suppliers to achieve best total value. Represents the supply chain and logistics function throughout the design, development and launch of new products while working closely with Engineering, Marketing, Procurement and external manufacturing partners. Performs complex and time sensitive tasks, both strategic and tactical, with a high degree of skill based on technical knowledge and skill, knowledge of trends in the market, and high ethical standards. Drives improvements and best work practices early in the product development phase to improve new product introductions into manufacturing.

Organize the team around standardized best practices for project management, including schedule development, resource and budget estimates, requirements generation, cost/benefit analyses, design and development milestones, priority and task management, and meeting facilitation.- Mentor team in areas of engineering expertise, constantly moving the team towards improvements in technical skills and system knowledge.- Work in cross-functional teams that span global operations.- Contribute early in the development process, influencing the product specification to achieve the best quality,cost and cycle time.- Lead design for manufacturing (DFM) reviews to ensure manufactur-ability, inspect-ability, test-ability,maintain-ability and repair-ability.- Leads supply chain integration for new product designs

Actively engaged, passionate, motivated and innovative leader with an entrepreneurial spirit who strives for excellence.Responsible for all aspects of production, from budget to execution, for a subdivision of the facility.Demonstrates strong leadership, mentoring and coaching of a team of 30+ hourly and salary employees across a three shift operation.Champion process improvement initiatives throughout the facility.Work effectively within cross functional teams to improve productivity, efficiency and minimize waste and losses.Ensure the highest level of safety and quality while maintaining an efficient operation and develop strategies and objectives to maximize employee engagement and productivity.

The Manufacturing Technology Engineer provides input to the capital budget plan; reviews all new or modified procedures for technical adequacy; assists with training programs as necessary; assists in safety, quality, environmental and unusual incident investigations; supports team empowerment.The Manufacturing Technology Engineer interacts with the commercial team to resolve Customer Complaints/Failures.  Develops improved process instrumentation and control strategies, process safety, yields, capacity and uptime performance.  Serves a first response to plant technical issues and assists in trouble shooting process or equipment issues.

Responsible for identifying process optimization, improvement and cost reduction opportunities for the East Region using Lean/Six Sigma tools and methodologies. Technical analysis and modeling of air separation equipment, including but not limited to air compressors, heater exchangers, and distillation column operation.

Recruit and develop candidates for Praxair’s high school intern diversity program with a team consisting of the VP of Operations and the HR director. Manage and coordinate the activities of the interns during their 6-week internship. Provide career and technical guidance and mentoring as well as training opportunities. Solicit company sponsors for the interns to serve as mentors and supervisors for our intern class.

Under the direction of the Area Manager, responsible for the supervision and performance of 10 non-exempt service technicians, and the operating budget, maintenance, and reliability for small production plants installed on customer sites. Ensuring adherence to cost and quality expectations and standards of our customers. Identify and implement new ways to increase organizational efficiency and reduce costs.Responds to daily operational issues; manages projects and turnarounds; provides technical support and solutions for facility needs.Evaluate preventative and corrective maintenance programs.

Provided technical support to field service technicians. Identified and managed multiple cost reduction and process improvement projects simultaneously worth varying dollar under budget and on time. Provided sales and business support contract renewals and analysis of future business opportunities.

Successful completion of Praxair's Leadership Training Program whose curriculum included exposure to all expects of the North American Industrial Gas business through a structured training curriculum involving experience in management, sales, business, customer service, logistics, and the overall Praxair organization.

• Conducted component tests and data analysis to ensure specifications were met for power plant integration.• Configured a program to efficiently monitor high voltage limits and alarms to enhance fuel cell vehicle safety.• Assessed the position of UTC Fuel Cells in the billion dollar fuel cell transportation market by tracking the technological development of competitors.• Assessed the patentability of newly developed fuel cell technology, which determined the feasibility of scaling up.