• Leads and drives site Operational Excellence culture, including training implementing best practices/knowledge sharing, effective collaborative working, and synergies across Viant• Provide LEAN Six Sigma expert advice, support, coaching, and mentoring to leaders and their teams for the execution of the Operational Excellence Strategy• Formulates techniques for quality data collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy and legitimacy of data Support operations leadership in setting and achieving specific goals around Business Excellence initiatives• Maintains and tracks value improvement program (VIP) metrics and key performance indicators (KPI) in support of value stream teams• Works with plant leadership staff to ensure a continuous flow of project implementation and idea generation• Applies principles of world-class project management, lean manufacturing and six sigma and other Continuous Improvement methodologies to support manufacturing operations• Leads the transformation of the regional sites, including diagnostics, quantifying opportunities, and implementation of improvements across Operations Systems, Management Infrastructure, and Mindsets & Behaviors• Collaborates, mentors, and acts as a role model to Continuous Improvement leaders across Viant

Owner of Boutique Fitness Franchise• Manages unit franchise site selection and oversees construction build-out of sites.• Develops Quarterly Marketing Plans to increase location Average Unit Volume• Oversees & makes operations decisions for the company using Profit & Loss statements• Manages a staff of nearly 20 for each location

• Collaborated on the design and direction of our products. Communicated with customers to gain feedback on offerings and opportunities. Then, ensured the identification of features that take into consideration customers, end users, and internal stakeholders. Prioritized and negotiated to build the best possible set of features.•Led development during pilot efforts to build successful customer-facing data analytics and visualization products. Wrote and visualized requirements to ensure that we optimized our engineering time and efforts.• Managed product backlogs while interfacing with design, engineering, and QA teams.

• Supervised & developed Roadmap of continuous improvement projects for the Industrial Engineers in the Operating Room Department• Facilitated group teams to build continuous improvement and communications between the Operating Room staff and Central Sterile Processing staff.• Worked as Project Manager for deploying the Crash Cart Application throughout Michigan Medicine. Educated future users of the app with training in-services & presentations. Identified opportunities for improving the current application for future phase development. Maintained project deployment scope and handling additional requests. • Worked as the Co-Project Manager for Quality Initiatives (QI/QA) for Central Sterile Processing. • Facilitated cross-function group meetings to analyze data indicators and transform the data into trigger alerts and actionable process flow using the data we collected.• Created & maintained Qualtrics surveys, Wiki entries to define departmental reporting, and Tableau dashboards for more than 110 Operating Rooms & multiple Central Sterile Processing centers across 7 hospitals.

This position is the primary bridge between business operations and IS/IT solutions. I gain an understanding of business goals, strategy and requirements by communicating with all levels of the business. I also document requirements then designs and implements system solutions that help achieve business goals. I work in consultancy role that also helps improve the overall business systems for a company. Responsibilities:• Provide internal business process support on ERP systems to departmental leadership and end-users resulting in rationalized, documented, efficient business processes.• Provide ERP software support: Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing,Procurement & Inventory, and Logistics.• Solve business problems with IS/IT solutions ensuring timely resolution to issues minimizing the impact on others.• Coordinate application software fixes and upgrades - testing and integration.• Create ad-hoc reports utilizing various tools.• Work w/ end users and Department Leaders to define scope & requirements, identify key issues, review possible solutions, and present a recommendation.• Develop and document complex business processes and workflows.• Provide end-user training.• Evaluates and determine best tools and solutions to implement to provide automation, analytics & reporting, and systems integration.• Act as the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical direction and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.• Complete impact assessments that outline the technical impact of new functionality and enhancements.• Anticipate customer needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them.• Drive solutions across organization primarily Sales, Procurement, Logistics, Finance, Human Resources and Operations (Manufacturing).

Manages Logistics Coordinator, Logistics Engineer, Inventory Support Specialists, and Material Management Analysts1. Manage inventory quality and accuracy assurance programs, to include cycle counting implementation and maintenance of program. 2. Assist in implementation of MMAS compliant processes. Lead in developing, documenting Logistics processes, audits, metrics and presentations to support MMAS.3. Oversee all work package fulfillment operations to ensure effective and efficient processes are being used. Drive on-time and accurate delivery to meet production needs and internal customer satisfaction.4. Identify and lead implementation of ERP/WMS and other systems (Bizflow, MPE, Winbom, etc.) functionalities and support company-wide implementation of Material Requirements Planning (MRP). Conduct testing and rollout training to Logistics personnel. Act as system super-user to trouble-shoot issues, train new users and specify functional enhancements.5. Perform as IFS functional lead. Illustrate areas where IFS is not being utilized fully. Work with business integration to increase functionality and perform operational testing prior to deploying new functionality. As system super-user, trouble-shoot issues, train new users and specify functional enhancements.6. Responsible for developing and maintaining logistics and inventory metrics, including creation, data retrieval, communication, and automation/report writing.7. Oversee and ensure material transfer operations are efficient and compliant.8. Develops stock location and order picking strategies to optimize work flow and space utilization. Analyze material usage to improve material availability and inventory turns.

• Assist in implementation of material point of use deliver, kitting, kanban deployment and other lean logistics initiatives. Support adequate supply of kanban and min-max material by managing reorder points and requisitions.• Develop and maintain department metrics, collect data and perform statistical analysis. Collect, process, and maintain data for trend analysis with intent of maximizing material velocity and reducing excess inventory. • Support implementation of new technologies such as barcoding, RF scanners, document management software, etc. Provide technical and operational support as needed.• Develop and evaluate facility layout, operational data, and process flow charts to improve productivity and efficiency. Provide cost savings associated with facility layout changes.• Develop initial documents for new processes and procedures• Develop and modify existing Access database and develop new applications as required to assist in tracking work package fulfilment operations.• Support implementation and maintenance of inventory cycle count program. Manage Inventory Support Specialists and direct daily cycle count and discrepancy resolution activities.• Assist in managing material transfer process and record-keeping by ensuring inventory transfers are conducted accurately in accordance with MMAS standards and documentation is maintained to properly record each transfer.

• Assists in implementation of material point of use deliver, kitting, kanban deployment, and other lean logistics initiatives.• Modifies existing Access database and develops new applications as required.• Develops and evaluates facility layout, operational data, and process flow charts to improve productivity and efficiency. Provides cost savings associated with facility layout changes.• Collects data and performs statistical analysis

• Worked to develop and revise estimate at completion (EAC) based on scope of work and unforeseen events, while following Earned Value Management Guidelines (Government Standard EVMS).• Worked with Control Account Managers to develop and monitor baseline budgets for DDG, LPD, and NSC programs.• Contributed to development of manning plans and readjustments.• Retrieved and analyzed data and metrics weekly, to monitor cost and performance, and for Program Management’s needs.

• Proposed a new material handling route that included pitch and interval with specific loading and unloading zones for the material handlers. New methods of kitting the work routers were created, with reallocations of current job positions.• Designed a new plant addition with an initial budget of $2 million. Wrote specifications of the project for construction bidding. Created new facility layout to accommodate the new product flow from receiving to shipping. • Updated the Shipping Department to include a new layout and standardized packaging methods. Standard work for the employees was created to ensure timeliness and accuracy of all shipments.