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Painted Post, NY, US

Corning, New York, United States

Corning, NY

• Leading cost-reduction projects for purchase of indirect equipment and services.• Forecasting and managing a cost-reduction portfolio with potential savings of millions of dollars.

Corning, NY

• Forecasted 18-month cover-glass demand, contributing critical data & analysis to Commercial Planning, Finance, and S&OP processes.• Performed bottom-up forecasting using commercial, supply-chain, and market-intelligence data.• Applied statistical forecasting methods and trend analysis to reconcile with top-down end-market estimates.• Tracked forecast.

(initially On Contract Through PRO Unlimited)

Increased the value-proposition for new product platforms:• Developed understanding of customers’ manufacturing processes and how our products could be valuable to them.• Built manufacturing cost models to quantify the value of our products in the customers’ products and processes.• Performed value based pricing analysis, which has been used in early.

Contributed analysis and design to a Six Sigma improvement team, resulting in a more accurate forecast of manufacturing efficiency. Enabled increased sales by 4% without increasing installed capacity. This project won a Corporate Quality Award.Managed project to select, develop, and implement a long-term capacity planning system. Became division’s.

Designed assembly operations upgrade that increased capacity, reduced labor cost by 35% and material by 20%, with a payback of 1 to 1.5 years. Resolved a material incompatibility that was blocking implementation.Analyzed capacity of a glass plant, leading to annual cost savings of $100k and capital avoidance of millions. Built and deployed a user-friendly.

Ms, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

Bs, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: IIE

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