Curt Armstead, Mba, Certified Lean Master Black Belt Email & Phone Number

Portage, Mi, Us

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Marshall, Mi, Us

Team leader of procurement, material planning, shipping & receiving, warehouse, production control & master schedule, and material handling teams.

Marshall, Mi, Us

Team leader of manufacturing engineering, product support engineering, maintenance, and continuous improvement teams.

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Member of system Process Improvement leadership team. Sensei coaching of (6) regional hospitals including lean specialists, lean coaches, and hospital leadership and staff. Team leader of (6) lean specialists.Selected Accomplishment:• Established visual strategy deployment, executive steering council meetings, organizational metric alignment, and value stream metrics in mission control rooms. Coaching of executive leadership teams in strategy development, lean leadership and business metric alignment, providing clarity and focus for results.• Effective coaching of kaizen culture and managing daily improvement (MDI) team boards, value stream analysis, rapid improvement events, projects, and value stream improvements, resulting in demonstrated people development and increased employee empowerment culture scores.

Battle Creek, Michigan, Us

Leadership team member executing global transformation. Designed and managed global knowledge management center. Execution of projects consisting of strategic sourcing, category strategy development and execution, lean supplier collaboration, and design to value on global spend exceeding $10 B. Team leader of (5) international knowledge center lean managers.Selected Accomplishments:• Coached global sourcing project teams utilizing strategic sourcing process and should cost analysis on category spends up to $250 MM. Consistently delivered 5-10% savings on sourcing basis vs. historical 1-2%.• Led cross-functional teams in supplier lean six sigma diagnostic events with suppliers, including end-to-end assessments, Total Cost of Ownership, OEE and Value Stream Mapping analysis. Resultant end to end savings of up to 33% of conversion spend.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Contracted Lean/operations leader for transformation of facility with 250 combined salary and union employees.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Leader of division-wide lean transformation process with 700 combined salary and union hourly employees and annual sales exceeding $220 million. Team leader of (3) lean facilitators. Selected Accomplishments:• Spearheaded planning, training, and system development of e-Kanban pull system to external suppliers, reducing inventory by $1.6MM. • Led lean transformation for division manufacturing value streams, resulting in dock-to-dock lead-time reduction of 68% (22 to 7 days).• Facilitated lean manufacturing, quality, office, supply chain and product development projects consistently yielding reductions of over 75% lead-time and 25% cycle time. Directed supply chain lean efforts achieving annual targets of 10% productivity improvement and 50% reduction in RPPM. • Developed custom lean training material and flow simulation to train over 600 personnel.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Value stream leader of (7) salaried and (63) hourly operator team. Assembly, test, and machining operations including grinding, honing, and EDM.Selected Accomplishment:• Collaborated efforts of engineering and contracts implementing new test and product technologies across diverse mature models, saving over $500,000 annually. Highlighted as model project in Parker Corporation’s Leading Continuous Change training program.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Mba, Business Administration

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering