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New York, United States

East Aurora, New York, United States

East Aurora, NY

Responsible for the strategic deployment of Lean throughout Moog Aircraft Group. Our focus has been on maturing the overall LMS (Purpose, Process, and People) by aligning our lean transformation with strategy deployment, identifying high impact value streams and improving them using lean tools while developing our people's ability to problem solve.

East Aurora, NY

Responsible for Lean transformation within the East Aurora Aircraft Group manufacturing site. This role was a key site leadership team member and acted as coach and facilitator for the lean transformation at that level. Guided the maturity of a lean management system as well as the more tactical value stream transformations within the site.

Orchard Park, New York

Responsible for Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Repair departments. Currently implementing PPAP throughout the entire Supply Chain of ITT Enidine, a major addition to the QMS, with the goal of making a major step function improvement in terms of reduction of defects delivered. Leader of "Mini Kaizen" effort, which is used to identify waste and take.

Responsible for all day-to-day operations of 130+ person manufacturing facility (Manufacturing, Purchasing, Planning, Quality, Continuous Improvement, engineering). Led major lean conversion of the manufacturing operation. The main focuses being culture change, organizational structure (Cells, Cell Leaders, Supervisors), problem solving, +QDIP management.

buffalo/niagara, New York Area

Site Lean/DBS champion for $40M manufacturing operation. Worked hand in hand with site executives to plan and executive strategic lean vision. Lead kaizen management process which included planning, facilitation and sustainability measures. Trained associates on lean manufacturing methodology. Fluid in kanban, standard work/flow, SMED, TPI, visual.

Managed $30M focus factory consisting of 40 direct labor associates, Manufacturing Engineer, Buyer and Planner. Fully utilized lean shop floor management techniques to improve on-time delivery, quality and productivity.

• Quality Engineer for 30 Million dollar electro-mechanical manufacturing business.
• Address all supplier, customer and manufacturing quality issues within manufacturing facility.
• Used statistical tools such as designed experiments, gage r&r studies, capability studies and control charts to monitor, improve and sustain high first pass yields of manufacturing lines.
• Utilized leadership background to solve complex production problems.
• Worked closely with automotive and agricultural customers leading several PPAP certification efforts for new and existing product lines.

• Manager of all field return units returned to facility, which represents over 1M of annual revenue.
• Responsible for all production planning and coordination of the return goods repair process.
• Worked as Supply Chain Continuous Improvement Specialist on multiple projects.
• Created and Executed enhancements to the RGA process reduce the TAT from 90 to 20 days.

• Managed multiple, diverse continuous improvement projects simultaneously.
• Utilized lean manufacturing philosophies to improve manufacturing and business processes.
• Perform strategic capacity analysis of manufacturing facility, driving the capital decisions used to match customer demand and capacity.
• Implemented use of statistical process control and six sigma tools within high volume electronic manufacturing environment.

Chandler AZ

In this position I was a functional area industrial engineer responsible for ensuring that the capacity of the tool sets in the areas I was responsible for were able to meet anticipated ramp rates. This was done through in-depth study of the tool set and capacity analysis. In this position I was also responsible for operational analysis of all [preventive.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Worked on team to plan the start up of a Regional Distribution Center.
• Created and implemented final warehouse layout and procedures for the shipping and receiving of inventory on a day to day basis.
• Supervised distribution center employees and scheduled all inbound and outbound transportation for the distribution center.

Orchard Park, NY

• Worked in a medical device manufacturing environment, solving production problems using Six Sigma and Lean Initiatives.
• Traveled to titanium supplier to analyze the production process, identifying and placing controls on crucial production variables improving product specs to an acceptable level.

Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Industrial Engineering

Mba, Mba, 3.7

Graduated with High Honors. Focused on Finance and Entrepreneurship to enhance my already strong background in Operations and Supply Chain.

Masters Of Engineering, Industrial Engineering, 3.8

Bs, Industrial Engineering, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Webmaster of RIT Institute of Industrial Eningeer's Chapter

Education record

Varsity Lacrosse Team Captain and MVP Senior Year