Key Responsibilities:• Drives and supports focused continuous improvement processes and capabilities; supports the sites during implementation process.• Provides coaching and develops leaders to develop their Lean expertise, moving sites to self-sufficiency on lean principles, cultural transformation, development, and the lean leader mindset.• Deploys and teaches various tools at organizational levels to support goals.• Accelerates productivity and efficiency throughout the value stream.• Monitors key performance indicators, analyzes cost-to-serve performance data, and coordinates cross-functional work teams to increase effectiveness of CI Engineer initiatives.• Manage and mentor a CI Engineering team.

• Leader of continuous value stream change standardization and knowledge sharing, improving overall Engineering response, support and project implementation and planning• Extensive project experience in large scale, high-impact project implementations across value-streams• Successfully led team integration with value stream engineering • Experienced in proactive identification and implementation of high impact engineering improvements• Continuous provider of Engineering support to QA departments • Actively conducting cross-plant quality event and CAPA discussions• Manager of site-wide change and forward-focused improvements as a member of various leadership committees• Proactive identification of future equipment upgrades and budgetary needs • Safety focused mindset to identify, communicate and correct safety concerns

• Performed high level internal and external deviation root cause and CAPA analysis impacting cGMP manufacturing, packaging, product testing verification and validation across value streams • Process, equipment, deviation investigation, and CAPA determination subject matter expert• Provided sound and justifiable quality dispositions for highly complex and impactful investigations• Supervised Technical Operations direct report • Supported Technical Operations team member on-boarding: trained and mentored investigators in Technical Operations practices and guidelines• Leader of Global CAPA meetings and a Quality Coordinator representative• Drove effective and efficient CAPA task development between Engineering, Operations, and QA departments• Extensive quality project management experience: implemented plant quality equipment improvements to reduce quality event generation by 90%• Mentored MSU Student Engineering group on senior engineering project

• Lead engineer in a two engineer product/machine cell (2.5 million annual in sales) that incorporates all aspects of a functioning manufacturing business model (i.e. material ordering and price negotiations, incoming material quality inspections, product development, daily production responsibilities, customer quality insurance, shipping, and business finance experience). • Continuous improvement machine and process development.• 8D/root cause, machine efficiency, FMEA, and MTBF (mean time between failures) focused. • Design and implementation of large project experience.• Line die experience (i.e. preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, improvement).• Business finance experience (i.e. profit/loss reports, monthly balance sheets, and quarterly supplier and product price adjustments).

• Personally responsible for developing and maintaining all production manufacturing procedures throughout the facility, including product preparation, filling procedures, testing and quality control limit samples and guidelines• Thoroughly trusted to update all engineering and production documentation and detailed manufacturing instructions in accordance with ISO 9001:2008 certification standards and guidelines• Extensively research, develop, and implement innovative manufacturing procedures • Continually improve existing manufacturing procedures to insure maximum efficiency and product yields are maintained or surpassed • Carefully monitor all available manufacturing data and statistics on a daily basis to identify potential problems that may arise, allowing personnel the ability to sidestep upcoming production issues • Effectively and efficiently troubleshoot numerous problems that arise daily in the product preparation, filling, testing, and quality control departments, insuring maximum product yields are met • Conduct equipment qualifications on all new production machinery prior to releasing to production, e.g., pneumatic and peristaltic ink filling, ink evacuation, and computer numerically controlled drilling machinery • Effectively communicate with production managers and personnel to insure maximum efficiency and yield rates are maintained without sacrificing the quality of the products • Conduct quality control lab tests to insure products will meet and surpass OEM and customer requirements prior to releasing to production • Supervise Engineering Technicians to properly conduct, analyze, and interpret lab tests and results

Conducting failure prevention and predictive maintenance research for the facility Conducting process control lab tests (hardness, alkalinity, chlorine, fluoride) on facility treated water samples in accordance with The State of Michigan Safe Drinking Water ActRead and record hourly Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)

Designing and fabricating a Mars rock-retrieving robot for an ASME/Boeing joint competitionEfficiently completing a real-world engineering project Effectively leading a team to complete a year-long engineer project that includes concept designing, schematics, bills of materials, budgets, and formal written reports/presentations

Performed water analysis testing (Nitrite/Nitrate, Chloride, pH, conductivity, TDS, and turbidity) on all known water sources usedProperly collected and performed bacteriological testing on all known water sources using 3M Coliform Tests and field incubatorsSetup and recorded GPS coordinates of all known water sources and village perimeters Involved in an on-going engineering design project to be further implemented in summer 2009