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Marietta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Bannockburn, Il

Developed and deployed BioLife’s strategic plan, using X-Matrix and Hoshin Kanri methodologies. Led a team of Business Excellence partners who mentored, coached, and were mutually accountable to plasma centers’ performance. Integrated environmental sustainability into daily Tier 1 Processes, resulting in improvement with waste-to-landfill, and co-led sustainability Tier 3 improvement team, focusing on diversion to landfill and carbon neutrality in over 200 centers.● Conceptualized and… Show more Developed and deployed BioLife’s strategic plan, using X-Matrix and Hoshin Kanri methodologies. Led a team of Business Excellence partners who mentored, coached, and were mutually accountable to plasma centers’ performance. Integrated environmental sustainability into daily Tier 1 Processes, resulting in improvement with waste-to-landfill, and co-led sustainability Tier 3 improvement team, focusing on diversion to landfill and carbon neutrality in over 200 centers.● Conceptualized and delivered an extensive digital performance management system, which drove improvement to KPIs in over 200 centers and alignment to the business and long-range plan.○ Engineered flexible processes and tools that empowered people to connect their performance to company standards, yielding more effective problem solving and improved site efficiency.○ Leveraged expert facilitation and public-speaking skills to deploy numerous company initiatives on calls and in person to thousands of colleagues. ● Drove a culture of continuous improvement through the design and execution of a strong learning program.○ Created in-person and remote training platform to train and certify hundreds of team members, including a “train the trainer” program.○ Coached and mentored colleagues to proficiency in DMAIC methodologies.○ Coordinated Yellow Belt program that delivered 1000s of site and organizational level improvement efforts, leading to lower costs and higher efficiency.● Executed several departmental and business level problem solving efforts to meet milestones and budgets. Diagnosed problems and focused on critical few obstacles to produce an aligned vision of success. ○ Influenced leadership to adopt new lean methods that resulted in faster turn-around time, while strictly adhering to regulations.○ Utilized skill set with data bricks, Microsoft Power BI, and other data visualization applications to track and control all improvement efforts. Show less

Biolife Testing Lab - Covington, Ga

Leader of performance improvement initiatives for all laboratory departments focusing on improvement and sustainment of safety, quality, delivery, and cost measures. Responsible for the development and facilitation of the laboratories strategic planning session, resulting in effective policy deployment and consistent goal attainment. Responsible for the development and facilitation of Yellow Belt and Lean Green Belt training to laboratories and plasma center team members.● Facilitator of… Show more Leader of performance improvement initiatives for all laboratory departments focusing on improvement and sustainment of safety, quality, delivery, and cost measures. Responsible for the development and facilitation of the laboratories strategic planning session, resulting in effective policy deployment and consistent goal attainment. Responsible for the development and facilitation of Yellow Belt and Lean Green Belt training to laboratories and plasma center team members.● Facilitator of strategic improvement projects using proven improvement methodologies to drive down testing turnaround time, reduction in level 1 deviations and CAPAs, and decrease in material variable costs. ● Coached and empowered team members at all levels of the organization to identify obstacles and solve problems through the creation of the Laboratories’ Management Control Systems. ● Managed the execution and continued improvement of the MCS/OMT process resulting in an increase of 60% to the MCS BOS Assessment Score. ● Effectively deployed lean through effective utilization of Lean tools such 5S, Value Stream Mapping, DDFP, Kanban, and Kaizen resulting in a 30% increase in the Lean BOS Assessment Score. ● Coached and mentored approximately 20 Lean Green Belts on appropriate application of Kaizen and effective change management strategies (i.e., Change Acceleration Process).● Managed two part time Lean Coordinators to support operational excellence activities more effectively at both laboratories. Show less

Dekalb, Il

• Directed all areas of plasma center operations to ensure a positive donor experience and compliance to all regulatory and safety standards. • Collaborated with center leadership team to develop processes to enable the center to achieve all metric goals including processing time, CPL, volume, and yield.• Acted as the center’s Lean Green Belt and lead numerous Kaizen events resulting in improvement in yield, new/repeat donor processing time, a new donor conversion.• Performed the… Show more • Directed all areas of plasma center operations to ensure a positive donor experience and compliance to all regulatory and safety standards. • Collaborated with center leadership team to develop processes to enable the center to achieve all metric goals including processing time, CPL, volume, and yield.• Acted as the center’s Lean Green Belt and lead numerous Kaizen events resulting in improvement in yield, new/repeat donor processing time, a new donor conversion.• Performed the investigation and development of corrective actions for the majority of the center’s non-conformances• Supported center manager in human resource management including supervision of over 40 team members, hiring, performance evaluation and disciplinary action.• Assisted with effective deployment of complex projects through prioritizing demands of numerous functional groups and maintaining a seamless transition to new IT and regulatory processes. Show less