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New York, United States

Rochester, Ny

Corning, Ny

Led continuous improvement initiative to enable additional $20M in annualized cash by identifying and addressing barriers via data analysis across several disparate systems. Designed dashboards to drive business focus.• Led cross-functional project to expand Supply Chain Financing as an enabler to an incremental $15M in annualized cash flow.• Managed US deployment of a Business-to-Business solution across all organizations and categories to ensure 100% alignment to agreements and reduce re-work and cycle time by 50%. This included managing vendor relationships, developing KPIs for measurement, and change management.

Corning, Ny

Led implementation and deployment of supply chain visibility tools to greatly improve identification, communication, and response time of supply chain disruptions. Increased incident creation rate 10x over first 3 years.• Oversaw vendor relationship to ensure agile approach to needed features and enhancements and successfully negotiated over $4M in cost savings.• Led cross-functional, worldwide team to deliver $40M per year in cash flow improvement over two years through focus on supplier spend. Developed dashboards, change management plan, software tool improvements, and improved negotiation strategies to engage supplier-facing roles.• Worked closely with Executive Leadership Team, Business Divisions, and support organizations on all initiatives to build strong relationships, communicate, and drive results. This ensured alignment with leaders and corporate objectives to enable maximum impact.

Webster, Ny

Established significant improvements to the productivity of and automation of Field Logistics processes in the equipment supply chain, improving several key metrics.• Tracked metrics with a dashboard that was used and accessed internally and by the field to evaluate performance and identify action plans to improve.• Led project to transform structure of US carrier network, leading to improved level of service and costs.• Led multiple projects to improve carrier efficiency, including automated freight bills and Bill of Lading, reducing completion time by 90%, faultless installs, and overall cycle time significantly.• Completed certification for Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Webster, Ny

Developed Change Leadership framework as an approach to ensure success of organizations and projects in achieving their goals, including executive overviews, and facilitated workshops with teams.• Led pro bono Lean workshops with the NY State government to significantly reduce complexity and duration of processes, from weeks to days.• Developed Continuous Innovation Framework to transform company culture.

Webster, Ny

Managed Design for Lean Six Sigma deployment across all businesses: curriculum, class scheduling, and cost management. Taught and coached hundreds of belt candidates.• Led several lean projects to reduce cost while maintaining high customer satisfaction.• Completed training in LSS (Black Belt), DfLSS Software (with Agile) (Black Belt), Electromechanical (Green Belt).

Webster, Ny

• Hired and led team to create program for tracking and managing all product development, companywide.• Created reporting dashboard for CEO and senior leadership team.• Led team in design and development of Systems Engineering application to facilitate teams through their design of complex systems. Received three patents.• Partnered with Lean Six Sigma organization at its inception to define, develop, and source the Design for Lean Six Sigma curriculum for the engineering communities, both electromechanical and software.

Penfield, Ny

• Led team of developers with focus on conversion of several hundred management reports.• Analyzed and devised a systematic approach to reduce overall conversion effort and streamline processes.

Rochester, New York Area

• Served as technical and team lead for 17 developers to deliver multiple applications to integrate several legacy systems to increase productivity and simplify manual processes.