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Des Moines, Ia, Us

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Lead a team of 4 people in the Business Process Management (BPM) component for the Risk & Control Self Assessment (RCSA) for Strategy, Digital and Innovation Division that encompassed 22 different services.Assisted with the process improvement for the Customer and Employee Accommodations based on compliance with ADA reguations.

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Lead process design for PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loans as well as design and improvement of eSign and DocuSign processes. This included risk analysis in the form of FMEA as well as development of KPIs.Lead process design for the Product Switch online tool, an award winning self serve function for switching between credit cards. This included risk analysis in the form of FMEA as well as development of KPIs.

Huxley, Ia

Being the Engineering Manager for Kreg Tool, I partner with a team of high performance industrial engineers to navigate new product launches, continuously improve our processes and install automation for future growth.I came to Kreg Tool with the desire to hone my skills for leading a team through major change like moving the company to a new campus and executing major product launches.

Rockleigh, Nj

As a member of the Industrial Engineering group, I managed and drove the continuous improvement and use of our multi-site electronic manufacturing systems that ultimately improved the yield and quality of our products. I joined Crestron Electronics to further my interest in electronics manufacturing at the leading innovator in media, control and automation technology. To date, I have been successful at stabilizing, maintaining and enhancing our electronic manufacturing execution system (MES) across 3 sites. I have deployed a new label software at our 3 sites that improves operator usability and reduces overhead and maintenance. I coupled a self-built intranet website for reporting with a new third party ticket managements system to centralize and archive how Industrial Engineering, Quality Engineering, Product Engineering and Test Engineering serve the Production Floor. Before leaving, I was nearing completion on development and testing on an ASP.NET based Audit capture system to help our audit group capture and report on audits across the plant.

Ames, Ia

I was accountable for developing and executing an increased profitability strategy focused on lead time reduction and on time delivery. I worked with the president, CFO, application engineers and development leads to drive custom solutions for our customers.I linked with Proplanner during a business downturn when customers where experiencing financial difficulties and new business required significant overhead.Successes have included quote to development lead time reductions, a stable P & L during a wide spread economic downturn and process improvements for invoicing and licensing requests.

Marshalltown, Ia

I was responsible for the technical design and management of all connections in/out of Oracle to systems like Proplanner, TRAXX, PeopleSoft and IBM Mainframes.At the time of my transition, the global Oracle team was tasked with switching 27 interfaces from the old IBM mainframe to a vendor's slightly newer IBM Mainframe with no changes in business continuity.I effectively executed design and testing of all 27 interfaces, led the installation of Proplanner at a plant in France and implemented a database migration project from JDI to Oracle.

Marshalltown, Ia

I was tasked with leading the engineering team through the successful implementation of the engineering module of the Oracle ERP system.When I joined this group the plant was in the first steps of kicking off a project to convert the entire plant to the Oracle ERP system. I worked with the Global Oracle team and site subject matter experts to overcome many barriers including desperate unorganized data, extensive complex workflows and considerable resistance in change management.I was successful at fully implementing the ENG module of Oracle and implementing two instances of Proplanner in the US and Mexico resulting 1 week lead time reductions.

Marshalltown, Ia

I was responsible for improving the ease of manufacturing for specific product lines as well as direct a project for replacing the manufacturing functions of the IBM mainframe with a modern extensible platform.I joined the New Product group in a difficult time where we faced many challenges to releasing a newly improved line of products.Successes included designing and building a new test fixture, SQL database analysis reporting transactions for lead time reduction and solidifying a direction for the IBM mainframe replacement.

Marshalltown, Ia

I was accountable for directing a team of 17 programmers that provided 24/7 manufacturing support for the plant as maintain throughput to support new business.During my tenure, the plant weathered a significant financial set back and then an uptick in business requiring me to execute a lay-off as well as hire and train new team mates.I effectively executed a LEAN initiative that improved key metrics by 14%, enhanced and stabilized CAM software for improved productivity and managed the programming and prove-out process for 9 new machines.

Marshalltown, Ia

My primary responsibilities included maintaining, designing and inventorying hydro-static test equipment and implementing the JobPack paperless manufacturing system in the tool room.I moved to this position after the previous employee retired from this position of 10 years. They left a wealth of information that required verification and consolidation.In addition to a perfect safety record, I successfully executed the transition of 16 users to JobPack, developed a SQL based inventory system for hydro-static test equipment and completed the plant-wide transition to 3D CAD software.

Marshalltown, Ia

I was accountable for ensuring the safety of shop floor employees during hydro-static tests and led a group of co-ops to investigate a replacement manufacturing data system. I worked closely with the manufacturing engineering manager, shop floor operators and supervisors and IT personnel. I climbed aboard Emerson during a time of tremendous expansion and faced many challenges with balancing scale with an objective commitment to safety.Successes included 0 accidents and near-misses for hydro-static testing, transitioning the manufacturing department to 3D CAD/CAM tools and proposing a new paperless manufacturing system for the Tool Room.

Ames, Ia

I was responsible for assisting in maintenance of PCs and servers for a 150 user network. My duties required me to interact with the President to the engineers and marketing staff regularly.CTRE was in the process of migrating to a new server platform on Novell and required my assistance to troubleshoot problems, educate users and respond to new PC needs.I was given the freedom to implement an OS imaging system that saved many hours setting up hundreds of PCs, setting up a system for mass deployment of Windows patches and migrating existing deployments to Windows XP and Windows 2000.

Lincolnshire, Il

I was accountable for ensuring successful back-up and restoration of data on a weekly basis. I worked closely with the IT manager and users to meet their historical data needs.I joined PDT when they were a expanding company and faced significant challenges scaling their business to meet market demands.I was successful at building and maintaining PCs, troubleshooting PC problems on the shop floor and office and installing an entire new network including Ethernet lines, switch panels and networking hardware.