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Chief of Staff to the co-heads of McKinsey Transformation North America (MT-NA) and practice manager. The MT-NA practice is McKinsey’s corporate transformation and turnaround service line. Responsible for the full spectrum of business management activities (budget reporting; staffing; operations committee reviews; new business pipeline; and utilization of MT tools, infrastructure and support staff) for the MT-NA practice.• Managed the cost and schedule recovery program for nuclear steam supply components. Led a joint client / McKinsey team of consultants and design-to-value engineers to deliver a 12% cost reduction by leveraging a variety of cost engineering approaches (i.e., design-to-value, clean-sheeting, procurement best practices).• Managed the process optimization engagement to de-risk the cost and schedule of both the system integration and the flight test programs for a leading civil aerospace OEM. Led a joint client / McKinsey team of consultants, test engineers, and manufacturing engineers to recover six months of schedule and reduce testing and integration costs by 20%. • Ran the project management office for the direct-materials cost reduction project for a civil aerospace OEM, implementing new management systems (i.e., automated KPI tracking, target setting, accountability mechanisms) and capability upgrades against a $7B cost target.• Managed the operations transformation for a low-volume, high complexity facility that manufactured classified defense components. Eliminated a series of bottlenecks and reclaimed several months of schedule. Led a cross-discipline team of consultants, manufacturing technologists, and industrial process engineers.

1. Extensive experience in the modelling, analysis and valuation of corporate operations and cashflows2. Executed a complete spectrum of corporate finance transactions (IPO, Investment Grade and High Yield Debt, Leveraged Loans) as well as Mergers & Acquisitions3. Coordinated and directed multiple work-streams for multiple teams simultaneouslyWorked closely with a range of external parties, including legal, accounting advisors, client business development as well as other financial advisory firms