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Doraville, Ga, Us

Doraville, Ga, Us

Doraville, Ga, Us

Sint-Baafs-Vijve, Belgium, Be

Re-organized US division bringing customer service, material management, warehouse operations, and customer program management under Supply Chain. Initiated customer Collaboration, Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR) efforts with top 3 accounts resulting in key POS insights that will reduce excess & obsolete inventories by 50%.Implemented physical inventory and cycle count programs.Facilitated Product Management Strategy and Pipeline session in support of 80% growth target.

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Centennial, Co, Us

LEAN: Assessed continuous improvement methods used at ULA, analyzed industry best practices, proposed and implemented a new process focused on direct leadership engagement with operators. Coordinated improvement projects and lean six-sigma green belt & black belt certifications for site. Represented ULA production operations on Corporate Black Belt Core Team for lean deployment. PRODUCTION LEADERSHIP: Assigned work, followed-up, and reported status of 12 technicians for Atlas V structural builds. Managed schedule and labor hours. Steadily raised poorest performing dept. performance in hours and quality. Initiated and coordinated reduction in required inspections across entire factory. Restarted and led training/engagement program for technician specialist job classification. Created kanban for consumable racks and reorganized floor space for point of use. Developed team performance reporting to capture and revise hours for builds.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Coordinate and lead efforts to realize program affordability and performance goals through education, identification, action plans, and subsequent evaluation.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Reinstated and led Risk and Opportunity Management (R&OM) Program for Navy program. As Continuous Improvement (CI) Lead, created team, schedule, and budget resulting in over $1 million in savings, surpassing goals by midyear. Created integrated schedule and detailed budget as proposal lead for multimillion dollar annual proposal effort. Tracked status and briefed progress to Program Manager weekly. Supported government assessments and company audits by pulling together compliance information. Co-facilitated 4 Root Cause Analysis events for non-conformance findings – 3 of which were briefed at the VP level. Created senior customer and management presentations for Program Manager (PM).

Bethesda, Md, Us

Required to find new stretch position every year as part of an engineering leadership development program. Positions have touched design, systems engineering, systems test, and program/engineering management.

Executive Mba

B.S., Mechanical Engineering