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Libertyville, Illinois, United States

Libertyville, Illinois, United States

Responsible for implementing and driving a Continuous Improvement culture at Pharma Logistics. Lead CI projects Teach the use of LSS tools and techniques Mentor other project leaders in LSS approach Designed and deployed a CI certification program

Responsible for working with senior management in the Secure Power business to identify lean opportunities, lead projects and coach other managers to lead process improvement efforts resulting in annual savings of over $3 million.Led Kaizen events and process improvement workshops to remove waste from processes, conduct value add / non-value add analysis and project manage deployment of process improvements. Trained and coached lean practitioners to lead their own lean projects. Led lean projects which targeted organizational inefficiencies and span of control issues as well as business process improvements.•Saved over $3M by optimizing the training organization. Created standard processes for scheduling and tracking attendance, digitized training materials, and consolidating product training into 3 permanent sites.•Led a Lean project to optimize the service coordinator role improving mean time to repair by 65% and days to invoice by 43%

Led and supported continuous improvement projects across the North American Operations Division. Trained and coached Green Belts in Lean Six Sigma. •Led a Six Sigma project which addressed a top customer complaint by implementing process control programs at our battery vendors to dramatically improve battery shelf life•Led a project to deploy Hertzler Gainseeker, a common Defect Management System (DMS) across 9 ETO plants replacing home grown, disconnected systems.

Libertyville, Il

Senior PM supporting a rapid, worldwide deployment of Oracle R12. Led the acceptance testing for a worldwide deployment of Oracle R12, which consolidated and standardized 9 outdated ERP instances into 1 instance running the latest version of Oracle.• UAT Lead - Directed 40+ person team performing world-wide user acceptance testing (UAT) for 6 separate Oracle releases over a 2 year period.• Deployment Lead - Led the planning, execution, and business-wide communication plan for 3 Oracle release deployments with no impact to business operations.• Managed project plan, open issues, and risks for order management, supply chain, and finance Oracle deployment teams resulting in a 50% reduction in required applications, 30% cost savings, and worldwide reporting capabilities.• Led business-wide process mapping effort prior to the first release deployment which was used as a basis for redesign efforts in all subsequent releases.• Led cross functional team to define initial system requirements and dependencies, and managed requirement system throughout the life of the project.

Responsible for deploying Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) throughout the Product Design community. Worked closely with product design teams to introduce and deploy six sigma tools to make designs more robust as and compelling to the customer• Led a Lean Six Sigma project resulting in a 15% reduction in product development cycle time for color spins.• Improved supplier quality by using DOE and response surface methodology (RSM) at a vendor’s facility to optimize the performance of an EPD display on the Motofone F3.• Led an effort to define a process for systematically incorporating VOC data into product design.• Led an initiative which used Monte Carlo analysis to improve the accuracy of project schedules.• Trained and mentored product design teams in the implementation of the following DFSS tools on 10 different products; DOE, CPM, HOQ, FMEA, NUD analysis, KJ analysis, Kano analysis, Monte Carlo analysis, and Pugh Selection process.• Taught 25 Six Sigma courses in conjunction with a company-wide effort to increase the number of yellow, green, and black belts across the business.

Libertyville, Il

Managed 40 person factory quality assurance team supporting high volume cellular phone manufacturing and distribution operations. Team included engineers, supervisors, electrical testers, and process auditors.• Developed and implemented a worldwide process characterization program focused on the use of variable controls in manufacturing resulting in a 15% improvement in manufactured quality.• Changed the function of quality assurance auditors from product inspection to process monitoring resulting in a 20% reduction in rework.• Led Quality Systems Management sub-committee in preparation for a successful ISO9000 audit with no major findings.

Master Of Science - Ms, Industrial Engineering & Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Engineering