Deborah Chalak, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

-Spearheaded and embedded Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives into business strategies while establishing a centralized Climate and Circularity governance structure using best practices that drove progress across the value chain. Established practices and employed a strategic framework of corporate RASCIs, strategic plans, timelines, and quantifiable KPIs. -Co-authored and led the publication of the 2023 Sustainability report while overseeing input from multi-discipline internal and external teams.-Developed core ESG PowerBI reporting metrics and achieved on-time Global submission reporting including SBTi, CDP, Automotive and reseller sites. Team achieved full compliance.-Provided specialized expertise on the GHG protocol to senior leadership, facilitating the establishment of a base year and action plan to achieve a 42% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030, and a 25% reduction in Scope 3 emissions with communication sustainability progress.-Chaired global sustainability steering committee team of ESG ambassadors increasing membership, broadening awareness, and engaging over 400 participants in STEM. -Managed the Quality Management Systems for Automotive and ISO13485 for Medical devices while managing staff, auditing and coaching internal auditors.-Managed, and maintained Quality Management Systems that supported the ongoing medical device business and automotive division while leading ISO certification processes and ensuring compliance with US, EU and International regulations while managing team, leading audits, and coaching technical functions.-Oversaw standards, procedures and guidelines while maintaining regulatory compliance and customer requirements-Managed the Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) system for product nonconformities, complaints and safety handling-Enhanced and audited risk management across departments for medical device and automotive divisions for compliance

Successfully project-managed automotive and regulatory requests on climate change, circularity, and Life Cycle Assessment requirements, resulting in the implementation of GHG and sustainable material options. -Chaired an environmental sustainability resource group partnering with executive leadership on small - and large - scale climate change improvements for the company and community through engagement, awareness, and activities.-Initiated and led a sustainability initiative executive sponsorship eliminating 600k single- use plastic cups annually.-Proactively drove engineering cross - functional process changes in the Project Management Office achieving global standardization and influencing team adoption and stakeholder alignment while concurrently overseeing internal audits.-Coached and supervised short - term assignments achieving project completion with ADKAR, Agile, and Engineering Ops.-Enhanced decision-making and streamlined processes through Power BI analytics development and dashboard results.-Facilitated global Value Stream Mapping workshops that identified gaps and improved 30% response time to customers.

Led interdisciplinary, global teams, managing workloads and priorities, and achieved alignment at key Phase Gates to drive results, while collaborating on roadmap planning and development across product categories and new technology for resellers.

Led team, designated responsibilities, provided coaching, and managed projects reaching goals within fast-paced, global display programs from cradle-gate of 6 months to launch with 97% on - time and under budget.

•Managed global multi-discipline Automotive system programs of $50K to over $2 million from the design phase through mass production also partnering with JDMs and executing continuing engineering changes with new and carry-over components. •Interfaced directly with automotive customers and led programs in collaboration with Engineering, Marketing, Quality, Design Assurance, Business, Operations, and Manufacturing. Customers were Renault/RSM, Ferrari, Maserati, Fiat and GM.•Guided customer and internal requirements and generated Team Feasibility Commitments outlining project scopes, budget creation with cost and spending allocations, program risks, change controls, and resource planning for executive approval.•Achieved zero findings on a TS 16949 Audit of QMS requirements with a solid Design Controls, and planning tools.•Ensured effective project completion utilizing detailed project plans. Achieved 100% on-time project completion with R&D spending averaging approximately 91% with standard costs at 93% of budget including design and process validation.•Managed change controls on design and process. Received approvals for cost recover exceeding $850k in R&D impact.•Generated improvement processes with Kaizen, Lean, 8D, and Launch Readiness with design reviews, FMEA, FEA and studies.•Developed a global, EU and Korea customer team RASCI for key stakeholders and prototype tracking process.

•Led cross-functional water filtration team and development products within 6 months. Designed, FMEA’s, rapid prototypes and urethane molds. Tested to UL, NSF, TUV standards and regulatory requirements. Filed 6 utility and design patents.•Created a cost reduction system with cost reduction. Achieved green belt certification with cost savings exceeding $750,000.

•Designed and produced medical devices, led focus groups, conducted bench and biocompatibility tests for clinical trials within 6 months. Assisted vet with animal surgeries. Created lot release packages including drawings, specs and instructions. •Managed clinical trials with physicians. Initiated clinical sites, wrote protocols for hospital ethics boards and received approval