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Decatur, Illinois Area

Develop and implement performance criteria and critical customer requirements for strategic Caterpillar suppliers.

Decatur, Illinois Area

Develop and implement critical customer requirements for strategic suppliers to ADM.

Decatur, Illinois Area

Global Purchasing responsibility for Off-Highway & Articulated Trucks and Wheel Tractor-Scrapers. Manage team of buyers located in USA, UK and India that are accountable for annual spend of $650M and to deliver defined quality, cost and on-time delivery metrics.

- Responsible for five New Product Development programs budgeted at $360 million dollars for two Caterpillar product lines: Quarry and Construction Trucks and Earthmoving Scrapers.- New Product Development programs are recognized as a benchmark within the corporation in terms of schedule, target cost and planned quality levels. These world wide programs meet Emerging Market price points with cost reduction, component localization and through rigorous cost/value analysis. Key deliverables… Show more - Responsible for five New Product Development programs budgeted at $360 million dollars for two Caterpillar product lines: Quarry and Construction Trucks and Earthmoving Scrapers.- New Product Development programs are recognized as a benchmark within the corporation in terms of schedule, target cost and planned quality levels. These world wide programs meet Emerging Market price points with cost reduction, component localization and through rigorous cost/value analysis. Key deliverables within each program include: - Execution of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP). APQP is the driving force for significant quality improvement within the product development cycle. Aggregate APQP conformance score for all programs is 96 out of 100%.- Supplier Product and Process Development: Development and execution of strategies to bring suppliers into the product development process during the concept phase, resulting in higher quality and best cost components. Aggregate cost reduction for all programs is 40% in Emerging Markets and 20% in developed markets.- Virtual Product Development and Production Engineering: Utilize detailed prints from solid engineering models to create manufacturing strategies and plans for new products as they are being conceived, influencing existing production processes. A 20% aggregate margin improvement related to focused manufacturing strategies is projected.- Collaborative Product & Process Development: Professionally facilitated process that brings designers, process planners, procurement specialists, quality engineers and change management specialists together to develop products on schedule, at target cost, and to world class quality levels. Show less

- Delivered $94 million dollars in annual cost reduction benefits through approximately 90 Six Sigma projects, conducted by a team of 13 Black Belt project leaders.- Managed Black Belt team responsible for coaching and teaching 400 employees the principles of Lean Manufacturing.

M.S. Industrial Technology, Manufacturing

Grad student at EIU while working full time at Caterpillar, Inc.

B.S. Business Administration, Marketing

Full time student at Millikin and worked full time at Caterpillar, Inc.

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