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Amelia, Oh, Us

Blue Ash, Ohio

• Lead and motivate a team of 17 quality professionals, providing guidance, coaching, and support. Foster a collaborative and empowering work environment that encourages innovation and accountability. • Multi-site responsibility. Supporting problem solving and building standard work.• Drive a culture of continuous improvement by identifying areas for enhancement and implementing corrective and preventive actions. Use tools and techniques such as root cause analysis, process mapping, and statistical process control to identify and address quality gaps. • Revised Quality Standards, defining and establishing quality standards that align with customer expectations and industry best practices. Along with developing quality policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure consistent adherence to these standards. • Utilize data analysis tools and techniques to monitor quality metrics, identify trends, and generate reports. Present findings and recommendations to senior management to drive decision making and strategic initiatives. • Implement quality assurance processes and methodologies to monitor and evaluate the quality of products or services throughout the entire production lifecycle. This includes standard work, conducting inspections, audits, and tests to identify and address any quality issues. • Champion a customer-centric approach by understanding customer needs and expectations by building valued relationships with the sales team and customers. Making frequent visits to customers and job sites to understand their needs and concerns. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as engineering, manufacturing, and customer support, to ensure a holistic approach to quality management. Utilize Daily Management Boards to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels to promote a shared understanding of quality goals and strategies. • Reduction in warranty cost by 10% year over year since 2021.

Blue Ash, Ohio

• Responsible for a team of 6 engineers. • Deployed lean manufacturing principles with Engineering team with utilization of Daily Management boards to drive process improvements. • Continuously monitor and evaluate manufacturing performance to identify opportunities for cost reduction and process improvement. Coaching the team on how process opportunities are linked to Value Stream metrics and associated expected improvements.• Collaborate with cross functional teams to identify and resolve manufacturing issues. • Analyze production data and metrics to identify areas for improvement. • Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory standards. Measured through the Engineering Daily management board.• Project Manager leading successful implementation of new equipment projects, working with collaborative teams to deliver on time and at or below budget. o New line layout. Right sizing the process, reducing 3 days of waste from the process and reallocation of 8 people ($600K savings)o Mazak laser, which reduced customer issues to 0 per month since start-up. • Successful launch and utilization of project documentation for all process-related changes, driving clear communication of project and expected results linked to Value Stream Mission Control activities.

Blue Ash, Ohio

Support the Value Stream in implementing lean transformation and daily management across the value stream including:• Implementing tactical strategies to achieve the desired vision• Executing against long and short-term objectives to support the value stream’s goals• Working with necessary site personnel to identify, address, and eliminate process related obstacles• Assisting in the change of systems/processes as required in support of the Lean initiatives• Utilize value stream mapping techniques to design optimal information, material, and production flow methodsBring about improvements in the manufacturing process through the active support, participation and leadership of Rapid Improvement Events; including:• Owning pre and post standard work• Participating in, co-facilitating or facilitating projects, events and “just do-it’s”• Participating in gemba walks and coaching employees on continuous improvement, standard work development/modification/adherence, flow, takt time attainment, and problem solving abnormalities causing takt misses• Providing necessary training specific to Lean Transformation tools and methodology.• Helping update and maintain visual performance tools, including mission control and MDI boards• Following up on action plans• Assisting all teams as needed to ensure improvements are made and sustained.Executing key activities as part of Lean Transformation and daily management including tasks such as• Conducting value stream analysis/mapping• Conducting cycle time analyses, time studies, line balance improvements, work place analysis and improvement• Creating and implementing standard work, and teaching/coaching line leaders to do the same• Obtaining required fixtures, tools, work aids, poke yokes to support work place changes• Implementing / coaching the use of cell control boards and other visual management tools.

Blue Ash, Ohio

- Responsible for 42 Union employees. Responsibilities included job training, employee performance, wage and contract administration, employee discipline, policies and procedures, attendance and vacation schedules, labor reporting, and inventory accuracy.- Developed visual standardization to distinguish normal & abnormal situations geared toward Quality. Preventive Maintenance, Safety Work Orders, and Back Up machines- Lead department in Operational Excellence for door value stream transformation. Operations lead in each Rapid Improvement Events and lead implementation and sustainment for each project. - Utilize MDI process daily to run the business and lead problem solving activities. Understand the Pareto's and initiate A3's & JDI's to the occurrences that lead to the most TAKT misses.- Increased TAKT attainment 37% from 9% to 46%- Increased Units per Man-hour 16% from 3.0 to 4.0- Promote employee development through effective work instructions and standard work. - Manage and communicate cross functionally within the organization and with suppliers and service providers to support site-specific shipping functions.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Associate'S Degree, Hospitality Administration/Management