Created Power BI and SAP BI dashboards. Created a statistical model to highlight opportunity for sales to reduce rebates and increase Timken's bottom line. Automated my transactional work by creating an intelligent spreadsheet that provides recommendations on accepting or rejecting a rebate proposal from sales. Developed a macro for this spreadsheet to run automatically and generate required information. First approver level for the industrial distribution rebate process that distributes $40… Show more Created Power BI and SAP BI dashboards. Created a statistical model to highlight opportunity for sales to reduce rebates and increase Timken's bottom line. Automated my transactional work by creating an intelligent spreadsheet that provides recommendations on accepting or rejecting a rebate proposal from sales. Developed a macro for this spreadsheet to run automatically and generate required information. First approver level for the industrial distribution rebate process that distributes $40 million in rebates a year. Automating this process saved 75% of my time in order to work on other pressing business issues. Building relationships with the sellers in order to gain trust and respect to implement process changes. Show less

Recently expanded my role to include strategic planning and recommending strategic manufacturing footprint changes through financial analysis.Driving change in a conservative culture by leading initiatives with diverse teams containing members from operations and corporate. Pulling from structured and non-structured data sources to turn data into information to generate actionable ideas to personally implement millions of US dollars in savings for the company.A few of my… Show more Recently expanded my role to include strategic planning and recommending strategic manufacturing footprint changes through financial analysis.Driving change in a conservative culture by leading initiatives with diverse teams containing members from operations and corporate. Pulling from structured and non-structured data sources to turn data into information to generate actionable ideas to personally implement millions of US dollars in savings for the company.A few of my responsibilities in this position are below:Define, analyze and implement major systemic changes for the company to reduce costs and increase the bottom-line. Identify opportunities using large data sets pulled into JMP, Excel or Access for in-depth analysis after customer buy-in. Lead an all-day data deep dive with the CI team to determine projects for 2017 within 1 month of joining the team. Responsible to manage multiple projects and deliver significant results while working to identify new opportunities.Promoted to Principal in November, 2017 based on performance and delivering cost savings. Show less

Responsible for all plant quality including: a two shift team of quality control (QC) auditors to ensure product quality is acceptable to industry and customer specifications, and ensure the quality management system is compliant to internal and external standards. Analyze non-conforming product trends, create and implement solutions to prevent quality issues. Key Contributions: - Daily management of quality control auditors to ensure completion of daily tasks and adherence to… Show more Responsible for all plant quality including: a two shift team of quality control (QC) auditors to ensure product quality is acceptable to industry and customer specifications, and ensure the quality management system is compliant to internal and external standards. Analyze non-conforming product trends, create and implement solutions to prevent quality issues. Key Contributions: - Daily management of quality control auditors to ensure completion of daily tasks and adherence to quality requirements. Monitor internal quality issues and provide the final disposition for the discussed issues. - Lead regional projects to standardize processes and increase understanding of business requirements. Includes standardization of MSA, creation of detailed visual standards on grey areas, improve training process, track and control changes through management of change process, drive completion of post-audit action plans, complete FMEAs and complete compliance audits. - Attend additional training and development to help reduce quality issues at the plant. Includes lean manufacturing, problem solving, quality manager training and bearing fundamentals class. Show less

Two year rotational program focused on providing a breadth of experience in a variety of essential business functions focusing on four six-month rotations in Supply Chain, Plant Quality, Lean Manufacturing and Supervision.Lean Manufacturing/Quality (Rotation 4) January 2014 to July 2014o Increased production by 37% for one line without sacrificing safety or quality. Standardized and rolled out to other lines.o Received, trained and mentored 25 other associates on 8-Step Problem… Show more Two year rotational program focused on providing a breadth of experience in a variety of essential business functions focusing on four six-month rotations in Supply Chain, Plant Quality, Lean Manufacturing and Supervision.Lean Manufacturing/Quality (Rotation 4) January 2014 to July 2014o Increased production by 37% for one line without sacrificing safety or quality. Standardized and rolled out to other lines.o Received, trained and mentored 25 other associates on 8-Step Problem Solving Process training.o Managed two separate projects to install new lines to increase capacity by 30%.Second Shift Supervisor (Rotation 3) July 2013 to December 2013 o Rewrote the training procedure and developed training tracking metrics.o Met shift goal 14% more often and decreased material cost by 3% with no safety issues or quality complaints.o Volunteered to travel to an underperforming plant to supervise and increased average production by 21% in three weeks.o Led United Way campaign for Knoxville Facility.Quality Manufacturing (Rotation 2) January 2013 to July 2013 o Identified root causes of the largest rework operation that was creating variance from standards and additional costs.o Developed metrics and processes to monitor quality compliance.o Saved $70k in a heat treat forging strategy project. Supply Chain (Rotation 1) July 2012 to December 2012o Optimized raw material inventory to increase the number of inventory turns by 66% with no negative impact to production.o Reduced the number of active steel bars (raw material) by 74% with no cost increase. Show less

Worked at Akzo Nobel on my Capstone project for Ohio State University. Lead the lean six sigma project with a team from Akzo Nobel. Increased batches staged per day in the staging area by using lean six sigma tools.

Completed Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training which included passing a Black Belt final exam from Moresteam.com and received a Black Belt certificate.Completed a Green Belt project using LSS methodology.

Reduced cycle time and increased guests carried (by 30%) on Toy Story Midway Mania, provided data collection support to operators and verified system accuracy through studies. Planned, implemented and conducted a benchmark time-study that consisted of 8 full-time Industrial Engineering Cast Members for two days and analyzed the data collected through creating macros using VBA in Excel.

I was responsible for planning, implementing and the training structure of the Ohio State Welcome Leader Program and all of the volunteers. I was in charge of about 1500 – 1600 volunteers to help make move-in day a success!

Provided quality customer service on a day to day basis; dealt with numerous customer complaints.Created work schedules for employees; performed cash register balancing; Managed 40+ employees