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Kennewick, Washington, United States

Lead projects with $1M-$4M budgets through new product development life cycle:• Develop and execute project plans and schedules to deliver technical and business requirements on time and within budget according to the stage gate review process.• Drive project teams to develop action plans, assess & mitigate risks, elevate issues, and push for timely decisions.• Engage senior business leaders to ensure alignment throughout development process and to provide recommendations to aid in business decisions that drive revenue.

Strengthen Construction, Telecom, Solar, and Industrial segments by developing employees’ balance of high level understanding and deep contextual knowledge in the Services Procurement Team:• Developed and implemented services supply chain strategies to support growth and reduce costs.• Drove 11% reduction in ATS minor materials spend through supplier contract negotiation and consolidation.• Create operational tools to reduce errors and refine user experience increasing PO throughput 27%.• Creation/management of interactive business intelligence dashboard to educate and drive business decisions.

Everett, Wa

Planned/procured materials for high-mix low volume factory of biomedical testing solutions:- Engaged in pricing activities to optimize service and reduce costs for raw materials with supplier base.- Expedited part shortages to resolve future line down issues and resolve their root causes.- Performed routine reporting functions to upper management on factory health and inventory action plans.- Monitored inventory levels for material reduction opportunities and service level harmonization.- Point of contact between factory and suppliers to facilitate contracts, engineering materials, and certifications

Industry-designed education that blends a traditional business degree with operations management curriculum and engineering technology with foundations in physics and chemistry.

Lean consulting internship in health system including five hospitals, twenty-three primary care clinics, and a variety of specialty clinics:- Coached teams of providers, surgeons, nurses, and executives on lean methodology both on the job and in lean workshop environments. - Utilized existing experience in lean tools and communication as lean practitioner at Dri-Eaz and leveraged communication and management skills to facilitate successes toward critical to quality metrics system wide.

Burlington, Washington

Lean practitioner internship in water damage restoration company production facility. Implemented Lean concepts across Dri-Eaz' facility using time studies, cycle observations, and standardized operating procedures:- Performed cost analysis on plastic scrap causing a 12% reduction.- Time Studies resulted in 28% cycle time improvement.- Designed and manufactured production boards that resulted in pace increase of 20%.