•Championed and delivered global Winner’s Circle initiative designed to promote, reward and recognize continuous improvement achievements throughout the organization. Annual implemented savings run-rate at over 15,000 ideas and $100M globally.•Designed and led Model Cell creation process in strategic mfg. sites to accelerate lean transformation and development of best practices for regional and global benchmarking (25%+ YOY improvement in process efficiencies, quality, and inventory)•Implemented a Best Practice program focused on standardizing and expanding manufacturing process excellence driven by a global KPI tool.•Developed and launched multi-language, instructor led and interactive online training curriculum designed to promote operations’ best practices for safety, quality, delivery, productivity and problem solving.

•Revitalized daily management and continuous improvement programs through standardized expectations, best practice sharing, and kaizen focus on model cell creation for alignment to True North.•Strengthened employee engagement and accountability through implementation and coaching on daily management and problem solving resulting in $900,000 in labor savings.•Created organizational alignment to key business objectives through the facilitation of a Policy Deployment process that helped deliver $11M in year y.o.y. total production costs. •Initiated site level COPQ War Room process resulting in almost $2M in annualized savings.

TPM Partners, LLC develops and implements customized solutions, from problem specific to complete tailored programs, crafted to capture value for our partners through the application of proven Lean and Six Sigma tools. TPM Partners, LLC delivers maximum value by rolling up our sleeves and partnering with our clients to drive the necessary changes at all organizational levels, relying heavily on our expertise in change management, waste elimination, process simplification, variation reduction, and visual management.•International manufacturing consulting firm focused on operational value capture through rapid identification and implementation of practical solutions (kaizen). Led firm through market analysis, core business service creation, and customer acquisition.•Developed kaizen process and multi-site funnel to drive focused cost reduction and lean transformation of client’s North American business platform.•Delivered $500,000 in annual savings through facilitation of SMED and Flow kaizen events.•Helped develop, train and coach client through implementation of Hoshin Planning process.

•Key responsibilities included strategic planning and communication, leadership in the implementation of the Danaher Business System, training of continuous improvement tools, planning, facilitation and implementation of Kaizen activities and auditing of key performance indicators to drive actions required for improvement.•Developed multi-site VSM to create Kaizen and project action plan to drive customer delivery from less than 70% to 96%. Delivered almost $1 million in penalty savings.•Developed Cost of Poor Quality metric and utilized a structured root-cause and countermeasure process to create improved quality standards and drive PPMs from 100,000 to less than 60,000 in 3 months resulting in $800,000 of annualized savings.•Led lean conversion of packing operations which resulted in $264,000 in annualized labor savings and a 16% improvement in productivity.

•Responsible for Packing Plant P&L, KPIs in safety, quality, delivery and cost.•Developed and implemented a new Operations, Distribution and Shipping organizational structure and layout that resulted in a 10% reduction in labor and variable overhead costs and a 30% improvement to schedule compliance.

•Responsible for mfg engineering, new product introduction, maintenance and facilities.•Rebuilt the technical organization from the ground up while using common metrics to align teams and promote Manufacturing Functional Excellence.•Developed core global mfg processes to meet the future needs of our customers.•Refocused plant strategic initiatives and drove the use of lean and Six Sigma tools to reduce product throughput time, double production capacity and improve assembly line balance.

•Developed strategic operations plan using Six Sigma and lean initiatives to increase productivity and meet the plants’ short term and long term improvement objectives.•Used capacity planning, 5S, setup reduction and job rotation to achieve a productivity increase of 12% and a 35% reduction in scrap (annualized savings of over $400,000).•Led efforts to reduce NCM and finished goods inventory by 25% and to help develop functional high performance work teams.

•Completed several CNC machining line projects significantly increasing rolled throughput yield resulting in over $200,000 in annual savings. •Completed maintenance project reducing departments’ annual labor costs by $400,000.•Led corporate wide projects on distribution that delivered over $1 million in annual savings.•Trained other Black/Green belts in the use of Six Sigma tools while coaching them through the DMAIC project phases.

•Key member of cylinder head new product launch teams responsible for the development of manufacturing processes capable of meeting the targeted costs and design specifications.•Assisted Operations Mfg Engineering in solving quality and throughput issues through optimization of tooling and machine programming.

•Design and installation of new CNC machining cells and key member in Standard Work process improvement RIPs (Kaizen events). •Implemented new turning cell layout resulting in a 35% increase in productivity and $75,000+ in annual savings.