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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Creating corporate strategy & global multi-site training in industrial and manufacturing organizations with outreaching interpersonal skills especially in training situations.
• Researching and helping Business Leaders Drive Performance Improvement
• Hands-on training in Problem Solving with LSS Techniques to improve operational efficiency & effectiveness, with TPS (Toyota Production System) Kaizen Leadership training & implementation, A3 Problem Solving.
• Participating in Compelling New Business Discussions and Strategies
• Sharing Strategic Connections by Business & International Professionals
• Directed global transformational change to an evolving organization

NC, USA

• ➢ Successfully enabled $5MM annualized bottom line performance cost reduction savings (2012) to grow to $12MM (2013) and $15MM (2014) annually.➢ Spearhead the integration and formalization of continuous operational.
• Provide quality support to the production support teams. Assist in developing, implementing and sustaining quality systems and practices. Manage cross-functional teams to improve products, processes, services, and to.
• Facilitate cross-functional teams in utilizing systematic process improvement techniques and support of lean six sigma implementation. Provide statistical process controls and design of experiments expertise to assist.
• Develop and implement continuous improvement programs for internal processes and throughout Coats’ supply chain. Provide feedback and employ corrective actions to enhance supplier partnerships and exceed quality.
• Monitor and regularly report on product quality and reliability; provide timely feedback to the appropriate functions for corrective preventive actions. Assist in new and modified product designs at the NPI stages to.
• Effectively redesigned and utilized an existing corporate project management system to follow the DMAIC methodology utilized on Lean Six Sigma projects and Kaizen events that enabled monthly project progress reporting.

Saigon, Viet Nam

• ➢ Created and delivered lean based training and support structure in both Vietnam & Cambodia.Successfully managed and led a small consulting staff in Vietnam and Cambodia to drive continuous performance improvement.
• Accountable for driving projects that delivered significant annual cost savings directly to the Tier-1/2 factories. Responsibilities encompassed capital projects, major manufacturing projects, kaizen activity and quick.
• Collaborated with the Footwear, Apparel, and Accessories & Gear Country managers for Vietnam and Cambodian factories and their operations staff to identify improvement projects and cost reduction opportunities.
• Coordinated DMAIC based training for supply chain maintenance, manufacturing, engineering and project managers within the factories to ensure their internal program goals and objectives were achieved.
• Worked closely with adidas’ quality department, materials sourcing supply chain to support overall performance improvements through quality, inventory & materials cost reduction goals and improvements.

China, Vietnam, Indonesia

Responsible for analysis, training, coaching and consulting activities to improve productivity and effectiveness of manufacturing and service companies throughout Asia. Worked with local consultants in countries to ensure best communications and minimize costs of services. Staffed in China, Thailand, & Vietnam.

China, Vietnam & Indonesia

• ➢ Achieved profitability within six-months of taking position➢ Provided counsel to department leaders for the development of training programs that supported the company strategy
• Successfully implemented private consulting partnerships to support Asian Corporate Social Responsibilities and Productivity Performance Improvement needs.
• Determined future avenues for administering learning and development programs such as eLearning and other computer-based systems.
• Facilitated change management control methodologies and worked with management teams to assess training and development needs and ensure the implementation of changes and resulting performance enhancements.
• Enhanced individual and team performances by creating a climate of continuous learning in support of the organization’s strategic initiatives.

Bangkok, Thailand

• ➢ Reduced staff turnover by 75% through a teamwork based approach with performance achievement reward system➢ Achieved 12% improvement in productivity and a 5% point improvement in profitability within one-year.
• Trained and managed a small 25 member staff of Continuous Improvement personnel and R&D staff to transform simple IE staff into a highly effective productivity and performance improvement staff, resulting in.
• Responsible for providing effective communications with business leaders throughout Sterling while promoting continuous improvement opportunities and change initiatives.
• Successfully promoted a healthy continuous performance improvement culture within Thai Silp Co. Led and administered multiple Kaizen and change acceleration events for various administration and production departments.
• Responsible for creating specific short term and visionary, long term improvement plans and implementation training for selected business departments.
• Redesigned change initiatives, provided leadership, and encouraged proper risk taking and willingness to make changes at all levels.

Region Americas (North, Central, & South America)

• ➢ Created and delivered lean based training and support structure in the Americas Region
• Created a successful liaison with Tier-1 apparel and footwear manufacturing contractors for both international and local sourcing throughout the adidas Americas sourcing theatre.
• Utilized Lean and Six Sigma tools to analyze data sets and uncover areas for improvement.
• Identified appropriate metrics to measure current state and measure process improvements for adidas and each supplier factory.
• Designed and implemented continuous improvement projects and plans and set action timelines.
• Drove projects forward and led cross-functional project teams to achieve long and short-term business growth objectives.

I was responsible to support 45 factories in Vietnam and Cambodia ensuring that they maintained viable self-supporting continuous improvement organizations internal to their operations. This effort was intended to help them help themselves take the pressure off of stagnant prices with inflationary pressures from their suppliers.

North American Region

• ➢ Used decentralized approach to create and deliver 12-15% productivity improvement by factory➢ Developed lean methodologies and tools to achieve > $2 MM cost savings in 80% of factories
• 17 years in Automotive related industry with ISO-9001, ISO 14001, OSHAS 18001, TS-16949 related deployment experiences in all five North American facilities.
• Led the facilitation for the development and execution of the functional areas continuous improvement objectives in support of the business unit’s operational goals for Freudenberg Nonwovens.
• Helped develop and sustain a continuous improvement culture in which employees were empowered to improve technical and manufacturing processes.
• Led a small corporate staff that was eventually decentralized to divisional / facility responsibilities to create and transform the culture and methodologies to sustain continuous improvement in five diverse North.
• Provided assistance as a resource to the functional areas focusing on identifying projects by value stream / critical metric events that were high value opportunities for improvement.

Greensboro, NC

• 1984-85-Accountable for growing general cGMP based Medical Nonwoven Fabric Finishing business 35% in 15 months
• 1983-Founding member of first Quality Performance Improvement initiative in Burlington Industries, where we assisted 3 divisions to make 3-7% improvement in bottom line profits in first 12 months.
• 1981-On-site Division QA Manager at largest finishing plant in Blended Fabrics Division and interim Division Quality Manager where delivered quality performance to customers improved 7% points.
• 1980-81-Promoted to Superintendent of Preparation support departments during introduction of new Rudi Air-jet weaving machines in plant modernization project
• 1978-Initial manufacturing opportunities to be a Supervisor in fabric weaving and quality performance department manager.

Sigonella, Sicily, Italy & Port Hueneme, CA

• 1975 - 1977 - US Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, IT
• Reduced dramatic utility failures for on-base housing and aircraft maintenance by 35% in 24 months through systematic preventive and predictive maintenance methodologies
• Reduced excess, obsolete & redundant equipment that drained maintenance and repair budget by 85% in first 12 months
• Surface transportation assets were 30% under allowance and with Theatre and Corps assistance in last 24 months this rose to within 5% of established allowances1972 - 1975 - US Naval Mobile Construction Battalion.
• Responsible for a maintenance and repair budget in excess of $2MM and 100 local civilians and US Seabees performing all utility, transportation and facility maintenance activities.
• Company commander responsible for 45-65 Seabees of various ratings during 9-month deployments to Okinawa, JP, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico & USMC Vieques Camp, PR accomplishing training, maintenance and operational.

Bsce, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: I was a co-op student gaining valuable work experience with the Indiana State Highway Department which allowed.

Mba, Operations & Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi - National Engineering Honorary Society; Chi Epsilon - National Civil Engineering Honorary Society.