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Carrollton, Texas, US

Cork, Ireland, IE

Cork, Ireland, IE

Cork, Ireland, IE

Wylie, Texas, US

Wylie, Texas, US

• Sanden Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a seventy year old organization with fifty three subsidiaries in twenty three countries. Sanden International (USA) is a leading supplier of automotive air.
• Manage Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Tool Crib Departments.
• Facilitate and lead kaizen team focusing on improving one of Sanden’s largest component supplier’s on-time delivery ratings.
• Facilitated kaizen team which was challenged with implementing innovation and process improvement directed at paper reduction.
• Facilitated kaizen team focused on improving negative OEE impact from coolant management program
• Led Kaizen team that implemented a laundered industrial rag, absorbent sock, mop head and air/coolant filter and glove program.

Wylie, Texas, US

• Sanden’s core group-wide management activity is known as STQM (Sanden Total Quality Management), and serves as the basis to corporate quality initiatives and continual improvement.
• Led hoshin kanri activities formulated around execution plan deployment across the organization.
• Responsible for quality management TS 16949 & ISO 9002 program including audit and training.
• Led STQM Challenge, a Sanden led initiative to ensure Deming Award principles are maintained.
• Facilitated over twenty cross functional continual improvement kaizen teams, one of which was selected as one of two teams from North America to compete in global competition in Japan.
• Negotiated national programs in office supplies and steel scrap recycling.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Tomkins BP was composed of four corporations (Air System Components (ASC), Ruskin, Hart & Cooley-Selkirk and Aquatic) with US HQ’s and over fifty manufacturing operations and distributions centers in North America. My.
• Standardized purchasing and accounting division wide reporting to increase spend visibility and enable KPI tracking and opportunity analysis.
• Developed and directed centrally led supply chain initiatives with realized $10.7 million 2011 savings with $5.8 million 2012 carryover and 2012 new projects savings in excess of $4.2 million.
• Metals Direct program leveraged purchase and CRU pricing.
• Non-Metals Direct program corrugated and lumber leveraged purchase and indices tied pricing.
• Indirect & MRO program resulted in $4.3 million savings through multiple personally led programs:

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Member of Division Lean Manufacturing team of five (3 of 5 were former Toyota employees) staff which provided Lean Manufacturing / Kaizen training to corporate and company level staff and operators.
• Assignment location and focus determined by Tomkins BP COO based on performance of operation; team would coordinate assembly of data and preparation for staff training/kaizen availability.
• Upon our arrival we would meet with the sites management team in the boardroom then immediately go to genba and conduct a waste walk and first hand review of the operation.
• Key site individuals would be identified and receive classroom / at genba training from our team.
• Value stream maps would be developed and PDCA plans focused on opportunities for improvement gathered during problem solving and review of the operation would be completed.
• Multiple two – twelve week kaizen activities conducted, my role was to support the kaizen activity but also work with procurement and EHS on identifying additional process improvement activities and share best.

Plymouth, MI, US

• An industry leader in design and manufacture of structures and frames for wheeled vehicles in the military, commercial and industrial markets. Stringent quality systems, registered QS9001, ISO 14000 and TS-16949..
• Developed and marketed quote packages to secure competitive pricing, on-time delivery and quality.
• Managed production steel releases on over 100 SKU’s in excess of 6,000 tons per quarter.
• Developed and implemented strategic coil storage, staging and kanban order program resulting in a 43% inventory reduction and enabled a just in time production environment.

Plymouth, US

Served City of Plymouth as an elected official; focus on downtown redevelopment and enhancement.

• Worked with E&E Manufacturing Co., Inc. as an environmental and industrial fluids consultant.
• Implemented systems which achieved ISO 14001:2004 certification for E&E Tennessee.
• Represented First Commercial Realty & Development (Southfield, MI) and Bacall Development (Farmington, MI) in property management and as a commercial real-estate agent.
• Represented over 10 million square feet of retail, mixed use and industrial space in multi US states.Numerous meetings on represented opportunities with national tenants and brokers at ICSC 2005-2008.

Plymouth, MI, US

• Hired Staff included Continual Improvement (CI) / Environmental Tech, CI Maintenance Tech, CI Maintenance Fabricator and facilities maintenance department (eight associates across three shifts).
• Procurement and budget responsibility for production fluids, liquid / solid waste, housekeeping / shop supplies, steel scrap and environmental and continual improvement budgets.
• Managed CI and environmental systems for three Michigan operations and one Tennessee operation.
• Launched and led lean manufacturing and six sigma programs, training and kaizen team development.
• Conducted daily departmental waste walks with 5-10 minute review and discussion of developed KPI boards focused on performance, quality and safety continual improvement.
• Designed six sigma fluids recycling systems that aided in reducing fluids consumption / fluid waste generation by 60% from 1,329,760 gallons / year in 2000 to 525,515 gallons / year in 2004.

Various levels of responsibility from swim instructor to swim team coach and lead lifeguard and swim program manager.

Master Of Science - Ms, Industrial Operations

Ms, Geology, Environmental Geochemistry

Bs, Geology, Hydrology, Environmental Science

General Studies