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Homosassa, Fl, Us

Nashville Metropolitan Area, Tennessee, United States

Findlay, Oh

Responsible for teaching, facilitating, and coaching identified employees in Lean improvements.• Developed, trained, and facilitated “Pit Stops” (an internally branded downtime reduction technique) to reduce the duration of outages causing production and economic losses. Achieved reductions in downtime from 20% to 70% that created approximately $25 million in value during my last 3 years. • Taught overview classes in Lean Systems using an interactive simulation and hands on application then mentored and coached numerous improvement initiatives in refining, transportation and storage to achieve $15+ million in value over 10 years. • Facilitated Six Sigma Green Belt training and mentored Green Belt candidates to achieve their certification. Taught interactive Continuous Improvement Overview classes to over 1,000 attendees.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Responsible for teaching and developing certification courses for the Lean Systems Certification and Lean Systems Master’s Program. Taught two of six required courses to become certified in Lean Manufacturing from the University of Kentucky. In addition to public courses offered to industry clients including Boeing Defense Systems, Tyco Healthcare, Dana, Marathon Petroleum, and Rolls Royce Aerospace.

Greater St. Louis Area

Consulting in Lean Systems and Transformation. Clients included Duke Manufacturing, Missouri Baptist Health Center, and University of Kentucky - Center for Manucturing - Lean Systems Group

Greater St. Louis Area

• Developed materials and facilitated training in Lean Manufacturing for over 600 people throughout Tyco Healthcare, worldwide, leading to ongoing process improvement in their respective facilities. • Generated over $2 million in cost reductions and over $30 million in inventory reductions through facilitating lean improvements in waste reduction, product flow improvements and pull systems.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Cut global IT spending by 20% by negotiating a contract using RFP’s and a collaborative team resulting in savings of $1.8 Million.Led team of planners to reduce inventories by $20 million (approximately 20%) over one year period through implementation of a Master Planning Process and applying Just-in-Time methods while identifying and minimizing the accounting impact on the site financialsPart of team that achieved plant goal of $20 million in cost savings by improving the manufacturing work systems for an 1100-person plant.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Developed on-line forecasting and budgeting system improving financial understanding and forecasting for department managers at pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility. Responsible for presenting site budget and analysis to plant leadership.

Spent three years in the United States and two in Europe implementing an on-line accounting and commercial system for multiple company locations throughout Europe headquartered in Belgium.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Certified Public Accountant – Auditor with focus on manufacturing, banking, and healthcare. Beta tested a computer-based audit documentation to improve audit efficiency

Bachelor Of Accounting, Accounting

Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Cornell Soccer