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New York, Ny, Us

Kent, Wa, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Addressing complex cost and process issues of high engineered products in engineering, operations and supply chain management, working across the aerospace, automotive and industrial industries.

An independent consultancy providing operation and management consulting services and interim executive leadership to large and small companies.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Successfully transitioned from management consultant to Vice President and General Manager role with full P&L responsibility. Oversaw 500+ employee organization responsible for sales and marketing, product design and development, and production of high-end business jet seating products. Created dedicated program management organization with bi-weekly status reporting against program gates and financial objectives. Established monthly financial reviews and successfully managed P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow through unprecedented economic period, resulted in meeting or exceeding forecast monthly

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Created a multi-plant operations strategy approach for large, frozen food consumer product company.• Identified 30% commercial and technical cost reduction opportunities through global product design and cost benchmarking.• Improved initial product launch quality, by ensuring that critical functional objectives were identified early in the development process.• Managed IT-enabled long range sequencing project for an European automotive OEM to improve build scheduling and in-bound material coordination.• Evaluated and redesigned facilities and maintenance management organization, responsible for a 6.5M square foot office building, to improve customer service, reduce response time and minimize operating costs.• Identified 30% prototype cost savings for an automotive seating manufacture by leveraging key supplier relationships, consolidating prototype spend and competitive pricing• Developed next-generation manufacturing IT strategy for an automotive OEM, ensuring that manufacturing requirements were supported and enabled by the IT systems and applications

New York, Ny, Us

• Implemented a balanced scorecard system in product development organization that improved labor productivity by 15%, asset efficiency by 18%, and generated $35M in annual savings.• Identified $1.2 M in annual savings through organizational changes, work realignment, task elimination and layout changes for engineering testing laboratories.• Identified 14% labor reduction ($33 M annual savings) through division-wide manufacturing study. • Standarized preventive mainetenace practies across 6 manufacturing sites.

• Managed 28-person Engineering Services organization responsible for quality, maintenance, manufacturing engineering and process engineering for a Tier I plastic injection molding company.• Implemented formal Continuous Improvement Process with tracking to plant and customer objectives.• Reduced customer defects by 57% by implementing a defect tracking and resolution system.• Created engineering change management system, reducing implementation time and improving quality.• Developed cost estimation model and capacity planning model for injection molded components.• Managed plant consolidation and operations relocation for asset intensive manufacturing operations.

Detroit, Mi, Us

• Managed $211M engine development program to meet stringent emission standards.• Completed 3-year expatriate assignment at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart, Germany.• Led German engineering project team to develop horizontal derivative of an in-line six-cylinder engine.• Directed 13-member engineering department responsible for Series 60 product updates and derivatives.• Developed cost analysis model for diesel engines to identify material savings opportunities and priorities.• Patented use of ceramic coatings for diesel components, resolving warranty problems.

Mba, Finance And Strategy

Bs, Material Science And Engineering