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Lexington, Ky, Us

Lexington, Ky

Newnan, Georgia

Lexington, Kentucky

Design and manage the program including providing educational opportunities in Continuous Improvement such as Lean and Six Sigma, proficiency in Project Planning and Execution, Supply Chain expertise, Negotiation, and Collaborative Event Facilitation. Champion the OPEX Program through teaching, coaching, and mentoring for the included functional areas (e.g. Supply Chain, Logistics, Order Management, Finance)

Develop and support Customer Satisfaction StrategyLed materials characterization efforts to establish linkage of objective mechanical results to subjective feel evaluations of mattress foam components and systems. This work resulted in recognition by a 2011 CEO Award.Process design, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for proprietary performance coatings on foam and textiles.Led work in failure analysis resulting in supply chain improvements for foam material quality.

Kingsport, Tennessee

Led and directed efforts of 3 technicians to support spinning, lubrication, and scrubbing of acetate fibers.• Led Six Sigma project that optimized product throughput and resulted in a $400K contribution.• Managed Process Waste Reduction Team for spinning harsh waste that resulted in a $275K contribution.

Led and directed efforts of 5 operation technicians to support development of acetate fibers technology.• Led development of processes, equipment, and solutions implementation for flexible packaging that reduced defects by 30%.• Developed analytical tools in Excel/VBA for statistical process analysis to direct troubleshooting efforts which improved process control primarily through multi-variable, P-charting, and Chi-Square analyses.• Developed novel method of fusing acetate fibers that avoided $30M loss of product sales.• Led Six Sigma project for improving vacuum packaging process and materials, resulting in $982K in savings.• Actively coached and mentored area Six Sigma belts and team members in tool usage.

Controlled and facilitated Quality Function Deployment for WUCS products resulting in expansion of portfolio.• Facilitated global best practice sharing/implementation resulting in increased productivity of 10%.• Technical liaison in key joint venture product development.• Taught Voice of the Customer/DMAIC tools in Six Sigma for Sales and Customer interface classes.

Led 60 person facility with daily operations/engineering/quality decision responsibility.• Led process for $3M technology transfer to the NEPTCO JV, LLC - Granite Falls, NC facility resulting in:o Established and validated process conditions in new facility averaging a 20% Productivity increase.o Established Product Quality Capability at a statistically significant increase.• Managed successful plant shutdown in parallel with process transfer and exit facilitation for operations employees

• Manufacturing and Process Engineering support:o Flexible product defect reduction savings of $56K annually and increased throughput by 25%.o Improved rigid product control, increased throughput by 15% and reduced employee workload 13%.o Reduced raw material quality cost by 10%, inventory by 25% and improved throughput by 12%.• Quality Assurance Leader – developed/implemented process and product specifications resulting in $68K in moisture defect reduction.• Led as ISO Facilitator and Management Representative for ISO 9001:2000 upgrade and implementation resulting in a successful system audit.• Increased annualized product sales through new process/product industrialization by $345K with a contribution margin of $192K.• Engineering Leader who provided guidance, development, and mentoringo Developed control charting for Critical Customer Acceptance Standards establishing process improvement strategy. o Guided process improvement projects to eliminate product quality issues.• Led process development of additions to product portfolio resulting in an increase of $300K contribution margin on $1M sales.

Provided process support for fiber optic cable processes for extrusion and stranding and process/product development for extrusion of thermoplastics.• Team leader for process improvements to newly developed extrusion process for optical cable buffering processes reducing material cost by 15% resulting in $640k contribution.• Utilized statistical analysis and DOE to eliminate buffering defects in long length orders.• Team leader for fiber break defect rate reduction of 80% resulting in $800k contribution.Directed UV coating improvements in the Pilot Plant to decrease material cost while increasing productivity. • Utilized DOE and statistical methods for root cause analysis of optical fiber ribbon quality issues• Established control methods to eliminate fiber twist defects and avoided multi-million dollar lost sales.• Directed international plant startup for optical fiber ribbon products in Alberta, Canada enabling a 50% increase in manufacturing capabilities in North America. Implemented process improvements to increase productivity by 45% and used QA/QC procedures to monitor on-site product quality with FT-IR. • Developed products optical fiber and optical fiber ribbon (UV curable acrylate chemistry, process design, etc.) including qualification, validation and industrialization of unique, patented colored ribbon products (US Patent 6,678,449).• Planned, executed, and evaluated trial work for materials from several vendors to establish a new product which achieved a 15% material cost reduction and improved productivity by 100%.• Improved printing method resulted in productivity increases of 100% for mono-unit and 275% for multi-unit product.

Improved processes with daily technical support to Production areas (surface treatment - electroplating & immersion cleaning), heat treatment, phosphate coating, and powder coat.); use of Lean Tools, TQM, QS-9000.• Led $1.2M capital project designed with DOE that eliminated a product defect.o Developed scope and equipment specifications to eliminate product safety hazards, preventing major recall. o Established relationship with the vendor to develop a novel method of high quality plating and surface finish. • Led equipment improvement projects including reducing electroplating downtime by 25%, improving productivity of lab methods by 50%, and eliminating heavy lifting safety issues.