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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

TBM is a global operations and supply chain consulting firm that works with manufacturers, distributors, service organizations, private equity firms and their portfolio companies to accelerate value creation and solve their toughest operations, supply chain and human capital challenges.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

SA Partners is a leading provider of Business Transformation Consultancy with offices in the USA, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia supporting global companies in their journey to Enterprise Excellence.

Raleigh-Durham North Carolina

Responsible for rapidly assessing opportunity for improvement with large scale clients, preparing business transformation plans and leading clients through the transformation to achieve dramatic improvement.

Owatonna, MN

Manufacturer of industrial engineered-to-application desiccant dehumidifiers and critical process air handlers for industries such as food, pharma, automotive, healthcare and space exploration.Key Accomplishments:- Reduced our OSHA Total Recordable Incident Rate by 64%.- Improved on-time shipping from <30% to 95+%.- Led the implementation of Strategy.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina

Contract assignment leading the resolution of a major in-the-field quality issue, implementing quality systems and providing Lean implementation guidance for a $200 million Canadian manufacturer.

Savage, MN

Led the implementation of Lean management systems across one of N. America's largest designers, manufacturers and erectors of precast concrete wall panels with over 1,000 employees operating from sites in PA, OH, KS and MN. Guided leadership teams to significant operational and financial performance improvement through hands on coaching and utilization of.

Owatonna, MN

Led the development and implementation of Lean and Continuous Improvement strategies and tactics in order to achieve significant and sustainable performance improvement for this global provider of high-performance architectural glass products with operations in MN, GA, UT and Brazil.Taught, coached, and mentored others in the organization regarding Lean.

I assisted my clients to achieve dramatic organizational improvement through the application of Lean principles and rapid continuous improvement methodologies.

Kenyon, MN

Redeployed to focus on Supply Chain development upon elimination of the Executive Leadership Team due to self directed work team implementation.

Kenyon, MN

Shared responsibility for the financial results of Foldcraft Company as part of its Executive Leadership Team.- Led the Operations functions responsible for order fulfillment including Engineering, Purchasing and Manufacturing at multiple sites.- Led the Lean Enterprise transformation of all Foldcraft functions.- Served as Trustee for the Employee Stock.

Kenyon, MN

Promoted to serve as Foldcraft's Lean Champion at the Executive level, driving the conversion of a batch and queue manufacturer into a flow and pull producer.Key Results:- Reduced manufacturing lead-times from 6+ days to 1 day by converting a traditional batch and queue facility into 22 dedicated and 5 shared resource one-piece flow manufacturing cells..

Kenyon, MN

Promoted to Foldcraft's Management Team in order to bring a greater emphasis on quality to the business.Key Results:- Launched Foldcraft's Lean Transformation Journey in 1998.- Established Foldcraft's Kaizen Promotion Office (KPO) to provide internal consulting resources that drove kaizen events company-wide.- Insourced metal chair fabrication to retain.

Kenyon, MN

Hired to establish quality systems.Key Results:- Implemented a closed loop corrective action system and standard problem-solving methodology to reduce customer claims.

Lakeville, MN

Hired by, and reported to the President to implement quality systems.Key Results:- Developed and implemented an ISO 9001 compliant quality system.- Trained and facilitated company-wide problem solving teams that reduced chronic quality problems by 50%.

Marshfield, WI

Promoted into this newly created position to drive process improvement.Key Results:- Pioneered U.S. usage of urea-formaldehyde resin substitutes derived from pulp-mill waste liquor to save approximately $160,000/yr.

Marshfield, WI

Led a 21 member unionized production and finishing/shipping team.Key Results:- Facilitated quality improvement and process development efforts that enabled the team I led to break 20 years of facility production records.

Marshfield, WI

Master Of Science, Manufacturing Systems

Bachelor Of Science, Forest Products Production Management

Activities and Societies: Forest Products Research Society (FPRS)