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Omaha

Established industrial engineering function for Ceres Group, which creates custom engineered-to-order capital equipment solutions for the railroad and construction industries. My work focused on scaling the organization from a job shop to standardized manufacturing, while accommodating a workforce increase of 30%. Robotic Implementation: Led hiring, training, and adoption of a new robotic welding process using a Fanuc robot with a positioner totaling 9 axes of movement, which saved Ceres approx. $30k in consulting fees.• Created programs to automate welding processes by as much as 50%, which reduced manual labor 60 hours per month, while increasing manufacturing quality.• Developed scripted automation to reduce nesting time for laser and plasma cutters by 40%.Safety-first Management: Active participant in the 15 person safety committee. • Wrote Ceres Group’s OSHA-mandated emergency action plan and equipped evacuations bags, for each team’s safety coordinator, to prepare for potentially dangerous scenarios.• Developed traffic lanes, signage, and routes to safely move heavy equipment around operators.• Established procedures to increase visibility of first aid kits and fire safety equipment as well as ensuring their monthly inspection and upkeep.Inventory Flow: Implemented strategies to enhance part availability, resulting in a reduction of inventory pulls by up to 20% per build. Implemented new inventory systems and 5S for manufacturing processes.Quality Control: Analyzed quality issues to develop plans for minimizing them and improving the manufacturability of complex parts. Manufacturing Flow: Led a kaizen event to optimize production for flagship products. The results improved inventory flow and minimized work-in-progress inventory, reducing takt time from 6 weeks to 2 weeks.Process Modeling: Automated organization of an engineering bill-of-materials into pre-assemblies for just-in-time release to streamline manufacturing and procurement.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Co-founded industrial engineering team in software development, then expanded to manufacturing facilities. Employed six sigma methodologies to increase machine efficiency by 20% and achieved ongoing cost savings of $800,000 monthly.Innovative Process Optimization: Identified process gaps and developed standardized work including ergonomics and quality management.• Created physical models to help operators and management visualize sophisticated concepts of print orientation and machine registration to arrive at the most efficient solution through all departments. • Communicated needs and limitations of physical manufacturing to the software division to optimize job tracking and visibility to clients.Relationship Building: Fostered trust and established feedback channels, from ground level operators through directors, to strengthen ideas and create unified strategies.• Met with an operator who noticed a 1% variance in production which led to 5% cost-of-material savings.• Developed a continuous improvement feedback program, which accommodated every shift of the 24 hour work cycle.VBA Application Development: In the first 6 months of role, developed a customized application for identifying redundant activities to optimize time management.Quality Improvement: Minimized process failure points, reducing external quality issues by more than 50%.

Telephone Communications, Sales, Managing Fraud, Communications, Training, Coaching, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Leadership

Economized number of vendors to minimize costs of parts and shipping.Developed inventory control management system to reduce warehouse losses.Achieved overall cost savings of approximately 15%.

Assisting Customers, Stocking Product

Calling customers, Scheduling appointments, Sales, Marketing