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Lake Forest, Il

Promoted to direct the successful execution and delivery of transformation initiatives that enhance top line growth and improve operational efficiencies by utilizing program development frameworks, Lean Six Sigma methodologies, functional knowledge, program/project management skills, and change management principles. Leading a team of 2 direct reports.

Lake Forest, Il

Hired to direct the successful execution and delivery of transformation initiatives that enhance top line growth and improve operational efficiencies by utilizing program development frameworks, Lean Six Sigma methodologies, functional knowledge, program/project management skills, and change management principles. Led a team of 2 direct reports.• Led three work streams to develop, pilot, and deploy solutions to address hourly turnover challenges across all manufacturing plants• Led the development of a staffing model for 16 manufacturing plants to identify staffing needs and assist with staffing assignments

Riverwoods, Il

Hired to direct the Lean transformation in Corporate Risk Management and be the lead advisor/coach for the Chief Risk Officer and his leadership team.• Led the design and implementation of their transformation reinvigoration to create a more friction-free approach for engaging their business partners and evolve the Compliance Management System

Riverwoods, Il

Hired to direct the Lean transformation in Human Resources and Corporate Communications. Led a team of 3 direct reports.• Led the identification of transformation opportunities, design of transformation strategy, and execution of transformation activities to develop a process-focused improvement culture• Coached Executives, VPs, and Directors in leveraging the Shingo principles/behaviors and a Lean Management System to deliver business results

Riverwoods, Il

Hired to deliver the Lean transformation in multiple headquarters areas. Led and coached 3 DMS Change Teams as a Lead Change Agent through the initial deployment of a Lean Management System.• Coached VPs, Directors, Senior Managers, and Managers in leveraging the Shingo principles/behaviors and a Lean Management System to deliver business results in Marketing, Analytics, Business Risk, Operations, and Human Resources• Led the design of an operating model and request intake process to pivot the mix of initiatives from reactive to proactive during the deployment to the Marketing Analytics organization• Achieved a business impact of $1M of cost avoidance through improving the Restructuring Process during a deployment in Human Resources• Led a Community of Practice for People Leadership and a Technical Forum for Rapid Improvement Events to standardize critical processes and share best practices

Riverwoods, Il

Promoted to manage and improve a Lean Six Sigma, Quality, and Analytics organization to evolve the Lean and Six Sigma implementation at 2 locations, the quality validations and reporting for internal and outsourced resources, and the reporting and analytics capabilities. Led a team of 3 direct reports and 3 indirect reports.• Achieved 7% efficiency improvement in completing quality validations and reporting• Mentored 12 Lean Change Agent candidates with a certification success rate of 100%

Salt Lake City, Ut

Hired to direct the implementation of Lean and Six Sigma at 2 locations. Added the responsibility of managing and improving the quality validations and reporting for internal and outsourced processes in December 2012. Led a team of 2 direct reports and 2 indirect reports.• Achieved 6% efficiency improvement in completing quality validations and reporting• Co-led production shift change initiative resulting in reductions of $400K in costs and 77% in safety incidents• Mentored 17 Lean Change Agent candidates with a certification success rate of 100%• Led assessment of 6 mail rooms across the corporation and identified performance and standardization improvement opportunities for handling inbound customer correspondence• Received President’s Plate Award for Leadership Excellence in 2011

Salt Lake City, Ut

Hired to direct and design the initial implementation of Lean and Six Sigma at 4 locations. Added the responsibility of managing and improving operational reporting (led 1 direct report) in 2010.• Developed training materials for Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen Events, 5S, and Value Stream Mapping• Led development and implementation of a performance metric program for production and support departments to increase performance transparency and the quality of performance discussions• Facilitated multi-disciplined teams in Kaizen Events to improve performance of production and administrative processes• Developed enhanced capacity analysis tools to enable predictive delivery performance and resource analysis by production areas• Conducted production capacity and staffing model analyses to support the decision to consolidate locations and eliminate redundant production capacity• Developed and implemented an employee safety observation program to increase production ownership in safety performance

Salt Lake City, Ut

Hired to represent business unit on a global project to define common business processes in manufacturing and introduce new application software to support these processes.• Documented functional specifications for programming and tested development of enhancements to new ERP system (Microsoft Dynamics AX) for customer-facing activities• Designed improved processes for vertically-integrated internal supply chain

Pottsville, Pa

Hired to manage and improve all production and production control activities at a plant with annual sales of $26M. Led an organization of 7 direct reports and 125 indirect reports. • Improved on-time delivery from an average of 80% to an average of 92%• Reduced average monthly late orders by 85% and average monthly scrap dollars by 38%

Casa Grande, Az

Hired to direct and design the initial implementation and integration of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. Built and led a team of 4 direct reports that delivered improved performance of manufacturing cells and business processes. • Developed structure and systems for implementing Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma• Facilitated multi-disciplined teams in Kaizen Events• Led Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma projects with suppliers and customers• Implemented a 5S Workplace Organization program with all shop floor and office areas achieving a Level 4 rating (out of 5 levels) within 13 months of implementation

Phoenix, Az

Procurement Specialist - International ProgramsProcurement Support - Strategic SourcingIndustrial Engineer - Office of Continuous Improvement