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Mundelein, Illinois, United States

Rosemont, Illinois, United States

Led development, deployment, and evolution of continuous improvement and supply chain excellence across enterprise to drive short- and long-term strategic goals. Partnered with C-suite to front-line leadership, influencing strategies, initiatives, and building capabilities to drive shift in continuous improvement culture enterprise wide. Collaborated with and coached business leaders to establish standards, ensure effective problem solving, build internal talent capabilities, and show ROI on driving results in inbound, outbound, warehouse, and delivery operations.• Implemented Supply Chain Excellence teams to include Inbound Excellence, Outbound Excellence, Warehouse Excellence, Delivery Excellence, Customer Experience, and Enhanced Optimization. Aligned team’s structure and strategy with specific key performance indicators to drive improved supply chain performance.• Developed and launched standardized enhanced optimization process in collaboration with commercial excellence leadership team to drive multi-million-dollar improvements to distribution cost per case and market EBITDA with improved safety performance for underperforming facilities.• Designed, developed, and initiated deployment of cross-functional US Foods Market Operating System with leadership standard on work, processes, and continuous improvement mindsets, skillsets, and behaviors for company’s 70 distribution centers with four regional continuous improvement teams.

Oak Brook, Illinois, United States

Led snacking and beverages division, consisting of 17 manufacturing sites and 5,000 associates, across all operations functions, including continuous improvement. Worked with annual operating plan of $540M with multi-million dollar capital budget, generating $2B in revenue. Managed planning, directing, coordinating, and strategy to drive step-change performance improvement in people, safety, quality, service, and cost metrics.• Completed 90-day plant turnaround effort that yielded significant improvements including turnover reduction to below 5%, vacancy reduction to below 5%, zero recordable and quality incidents, schedule attainment improvement of 10%, volume adjusted conversion cost reduction of 20%, OEE improvement of 19 points, and Unplanned Downtime reduction of 40%.• Led COVID-19 Supply Chain Response and Supply Chain Task Force teams, resulting in continued operations through implementation of protocols and policies for masks, social distancing, shift start-ups, wage incentives, work from home / return to office, travel, production scheduling, and virtual tour visits for audits and customers.• Designed, developed, and deployed comprehensive TreeHouse Management Operating Structure with 75 cross-functional elements, including manufacturing, safety maintenance, human resources, food safety, and quality, deployed in 38 manufacturing facilities, with financial impact offsetting year-over-year inflationary costs. Received TreeHouse Founders Award.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Led development and global deployment of Lean Six Sigma Strategy with team of 100 professionals. Served as lead change agent for developing continuous improvement culture characterized by focus, discipline, transparency, and accountability. Partnered with executive business leaders and led global team to integrate Lean Six Sigma methods within operations and cross-functional environments.• Implemented corporate initiatives to accelerate financial impact in areas of material efficiency, claims and returns, indirect spend, and SKU reduction that yielded $80M in productivity savings over 12-month period.• Launched commercial performance initiative to reduce margin and pocket price erosion through price value capture.• Directed key improvement programs with senior leadership to improve efficiency and effectiveness, including expense management, accounts payable and receivable, financial close, contract management, supplier management, integrated business planning, internal recruiting, IT incident response, business integration after acquisition, and cost of poor quality.• Partnered with chief technology officer to integrate design for Lean Six Sigma stage-gate process across global applied science and technology group.• Delivered $200M in audited financial impact in reduced costs, increased revenue, and working capital improvement across North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, and EMEAI.

Miamisburg, Ohio, United States

Led Lean Six Sigma training and deployment across ten North American paper manufacturing facilities. Developed Champion, Process Owner, Yellow Belt, SCORE Kaizen, Green Belt, Green Belt Train-the-Trainer, and Black Belt training curriculums. Monitored and audited Lean Six Sigma performance in organization of 9,000 associates. Completed 105 projects with $39.5M in savings and oversaw 225 active projects with annualized savings of $74.2M. Trained 164 Champions, seven Master Black Belts, 29 Black Belts, 192 Green Belts, 12 financial representatives, and 1,450 Yellow Belts.

Cranston, Rhode Island, United States

Led Six Sigma deployment across business segment, serving as change agent and coach for associates and executives. Developed and delivered global training programs for Champions, Yellow Belts, Green Belts, and Black Belts. Managed Six Sigma performance encompassing 137 Black Belts and 472 Green Belts reaching into 41 countries and 33,000 associates. Oversaw 665 active projects with projected impact of $62M and 281 closed projects with actual impact of $42M. Led delivery performance Kaizen with emphasis on redesign of cell assembly operations to meet customer Takt time.

Harvey, Illinois, United States

Led cross-functional operational excellence implementation. Trained and mentored 106 Champions, 20 Black Belts, and 54 Green Belts, helping to prioritize, select, and charter high-impact projects. Led 31 projects to completion, delivering $3.9M, 70 active projects with projected savings of $7.9M, and 160 identified projects valued at $33.8M. Received Operational Excellence award in global Six Sigma project competition.

Harvey, Illinois, United States

Directed and coordinated salary and union department activities with related activities of other departments to ensure efficiency and economy of tube manufacturing process. Ensured operational conformance to ISO 9002 quality system. Developed Kaizen Blitz training program for 300 associates delivering $2M in savings.

Altus, Oklahoma, United States

Managed air traffic control functions to ensure safe and efficient operation of over 81,000 annual operations. Effected coordination within facility and between ten other airports. Recognized as USAF Air Traffic Control Trainer of the Year.

Altus, Oklahoma, United States

Ensured safe operations of $45.2M weapon system, including preflight, in-flight, and post-flight inspections. Performed cargo and midair fuel transfer to strategic nuclear bombers, reconnaissance, airlift, and tactical fighter aircraft. Assigned Top Secret Military Clearance.

Altus, Oklahoma, United States

Responsible for on-campus and off-campus classroom instruction of Personnel Management, Principles of Management, Small Business and Retail Management, Public Speaking, and Success Seminar.

M.B.A., Business

Distinguished Graduate

Dual M.A., Human Resource Development & Management

Distinguished Graduate

B.S., Workforce Education And Development

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societymagna cum laude