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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

• Manage implementations and create analytical tools to assist Ascension Borgess meet goals
• Lead discussions with key stakeholders across 25+ local savings opportunities, purchased services, implementations and discontinuations to assist Ascension Borgess meet goals
• Utilizes knowledge of end-to-end process from receiving to clinicians when communicating and implementing initiatives and providing necessary analytics/data to support the initiatives
• Meet regularly with C-Suite and department leaders to build relationships and provide updates for ongoing implementations

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

• Manage implementations and create analytical tools to assist Ascension Borgess meet goals
• Lead discussions with key stakeholders across 25+ local savings opportunities, purchased services, implementations and discontinuations to assist Ascension Borgess meet goals
• Utilizes knowledge of end-to-end process from receiving to clinicians when communicating and implementing initiatives and providing necessary analytics/data to support the initiatives
• Meet regularly with C-Suite and department leaders to build relationships and provide updates for ongoing implementations
• Led the creation of several tools including a standardized local savings tool showing nationalized savings potential within 3 minutes, SQL toolbox for simplified data pulls and Off-Contract tool for locating additional.
• Joined the National Savings team, responsible for data integrity and implementing requested changes at FY changeover by stakeholders along with creation of new monitoring tools

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

• Providing analytics and creating tools for Ascension Michigan to make informed business decisions to drive implementation and realization of savings
• Helped facilitate the multimillion divestiture of a subsidiary business by coordinating meetings, data collection, providing analytics (including potential savings) and document management
• Developed a standardization tool, with input from the organization, to compare hospital commodities usage nationally and within a market to identify opportunities for savings and to eliminate item outliers
• Created and maintained an Office Depot item formulary to educate requesters on the best priced items and through monitoring compliance, has led to $200k+ in savings
• Responsible for maintaining the tracking list and leading the weekly discussion on local supply savings for Michigan to hit our goal
• Streamlined several tools including: 1) Local Savings 2) Implementation Packets, which have allowed the analyst team to increase efficiency and accuracy

Benton Harbor, Michigan Area

• Managed a global effort across multiple business segments to create a part governance system to limit the creation of new parts and remove obsolete parts
• Led discussions of core team members to help shape the direction of the part governance process
• Worked with technical team to update the current systems with new requirements for locking down new part creation to specialized users leading to a reduction of 50% part creation
• Helped engineers create an initial shelf of parts to limit selection of new BOM creation
• Worked with component/raw material engineers to determine critical component attributes to help determine part uniqueness and locate relevant data for each part
• Fostered discussion among managers, procurement, engineering, analysts, global design, marketing, quality and competitive intelligence by running complexity workshops

Benton Harbor, Michigan Area

• Worked with Global Strategic Sourcing (GSS) to help understand the current state of global complexity and help map out savings opportunities for 18 Material Value Teams (MVT).
• Led global complexity reduction analysis/workshops for Hoses/Gaskets, Glass Shelves and Foam & Insulation finding opportunities for $2+ million-dollar savings
• Enhanced and maintained the MVT Knowledge Center, a website created to help foster team collaboration with a single live version of documents for team members across 18 different commodities
• Led discussion on updates for analytics tools to increase efficiency and accuracy of 5+ MVT analytics (Similar Parts/Cost Drivers/ LPP) and creation of complexity trees

Auburn Hills, Michigan

• Supported client Fiat Chrysler Automotive (FCA) with the review and implementation of two global common systems including Yard/Warehouse Management and Global Issues Management (GIM)
• Evaluated the Click system, (yard, warehouse and inventory management tool), by leading discussions with key FCA members, creating design documents and visiting four sites to comprehend current processes of yard and.
• Researched local needs for four FCA regions to discern challenges for a common solution where unique environments exist
• Constructed 3 inventory counting processes based on needs of plants and supply depots
• Ensured the GIM website functioned properly in all environments where 12 reports were displayed correctly and accurately
• Trained 800+ FCA employees on the GIM system by designing materials to use to help users understand basic functionality

Toronto, Canada Area

During my first summer, I was tasked to create a comprehensive database of 5000 parts to increase the efficiency of the sales staff during part selection for order building. Functionality included updating part numbers and helping create links between updated parts and what parts used to be sold. This also included getting images of every part so the sales.

Master’S Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management, 3.74/4.00

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Industrial Engineering