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Greendale, WI, US

Racine, Wisconsin, United States

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

• Provide strategic leadership and management across the entire operational value stream. Responsible for driving measurable, meaningful, and sustainable changes throughout the organization that directly improves safety.
• Leads a cross functional group that includes all hourly employees, production supervisors, production engineers, and quality engineers.

Racine, WI

• Managed the assembly and testing department. Assembly department consisted of ten product lines to include marine transmissions, Arneson surface drives, heavy-duty stationary and vehicular transmissions, hydraulic.
• Led 35 direct report production line personnel across three shifts.
• Created an accurate assembly headcount/capacity model that increased the planning departments production forecast accuracy and improved headcount planning for highly variable production rates.
• Drove Kaizen events that increased production by 64% with process improvements and waste elimination.
• Developed a quality program that systematically collects first pass yield rates, failure modes, test failure and corrective action data to identify and systematically eliminate failures through root cause analysis.
• Reduced rework labor hours by 77% over a twelve month span by utilizing proven RCCA methodologies and process improvements.

Kent, Washington

• Engineer and technical process owner responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting assigned projects, and customer facing programs.
• Developed standardized quoting process that reduced process time and increased accuracy 15%.
• Implemented Root Cause Analysis methodologies and increased product yield from 22% to 89%.
• Effectively generated cost-effective manufacturing plans from customer drawings and specifications.

Kent, Washington

• Managed seven operational programs focused on Lean manufacturing, process improvement, quality and delivery across value-chain activities such as logistics, operations, and customer service.
• Led an assembly team of 45 direct report personnel with five area leads on multiple shifts. Administered Union contracts, established working relationships with employees and provided coaching, counseling or discipline.
• Fostered a safe work environment that increased employee driven safety improvements by 84%.
• Spearheaded Kaizen process improvements that reduced production costs $112K annually through waste reduction, standard work practices and increased product throughput.
• Built KPI dashboards that improved communication and transparency of performance reporting.
• Increased finished goods inventory by 48% while simultaneously reducing head count by 17%

San Diego, CA

• Responsible to the Commanding Officer for meeting mission-driven production requirements while optimizing utilization of human, fiscal and facility resources. Supervised 155 active duty military members.
• Incorporated Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement derived solutions into production management practices, which improved production lines and reduced production backlogs by 56%.
• Developed a process for tracking and maintaining $20.8M in capital equipment, tooling and facility data, enabling production schedules to be coordinated around required periodic maintenance.

San Diego, CA

Served as aviation electrical systems quality assurance representative, subject matter expert, and principal advisor to senior management in matters pertaining to scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on 12 rotary wing aircraft. Provided operational testing and troubleshooting services on: power systems, power generation, conversion, and distribution.

Executive Mba, Global Strategic Leadership

Project Management

Project Management Certificate Program

Bachelor'S Degree

Activities and Societies: Sigma Phi Epsilon

Associate'S Degree, Cad/Cadd Drafting And/Or Design Technology/Technician

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Drafting Technology