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Deerfield, Illinois, Us

Responsible to provide leadership to manufacturing personnel to produce high quality products. Drive continuous improvement projects. Oversee the daily activities of manufacturing operators and Leads. Develop and sustain the manufacturing team with a quality minded, culture driven customer service focus, compliance to procedures, and continuous improvement activities that support business objectives.

Supervise night shift (145 associates).Organize a new shift and associates to operate ten lines for production and equipment validation. Developed team for leadership and roles including trainer, in-process testing, documentation review.Developed and improved production processes including line clearance, label-printing and training.

Playhouse Childcare Center in Daly City is a private preschool program serving children ages 2 years old through 5 years old. Established preschool from scratch. Earned state childcare license along with city and county school-facility approvals. Selected and hired director and teachers.• Started with initial license for 24 children and later expanded facility to 36.• Grew enrollees to 97% of capacity with 35 children.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Supervise 3 production lines (30 assemblers).Maximize productivity and operating efficiencies. • In 15 months increased standard shift output 58%Ensures production performed in full compliance with Quality System and procedural requirements.• From 1 product- introduced 4 new products without product mix-ups in last 13 months.Created a training and development process to sustain improvements.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

We save lives (simply stated).Medtronic is the world's largest medical device company. Our mission is to be the world leader in stroke care. We're doing this by reducing pain, restoring health, extending life and rapidly transforming ideas into innovative stroke solutions. I’m part of a team that develops and manufactures these devices. Continuous process improvement demands that we be disciplined and relentless at eliminating waste. And it takes the committed people that I serve, develop and lead to skillfully produce these powerful devices. After all, we save lives.

Austin, Texas, Us

Thrive in a start-up company environment producing a new high-tech product. Build a strong motivated team of 30 production assemblers capable of consistently delivering high quality products against aggressive production targets. Collaborate with engineering to improve product manufacturability and line productivity. Continuously improving the process to reduce wasted time and effort. Develop training programs & standardized work instructions for assembly team members. Ensure quality standards are being met throughout the entire production process. Support issue resolution including root cause investigation & corrective action tracking.• Increased shift output from 4 to 110 cars per week over three years.

Alameda, Ca, Us

Responsible for personnel related activities including hiring, terminating, training, motivating, and developing to meet production capacity goals.Participated in cross-functional teams to introduce new products and processes.Assist in the effective interface between production, management and support groups to highlight significant issues or drive timely decisions.

South San Francisco, California, Us

Ensured resources were available for team to produce on-time, quality products. Developed team maturity –coach and counsel. Represented department in organization-wide activities. Trained and led team in complex problem solving. Applied Lean Manufacturing techniques. Managed projects and multiple project teams. Participated in product launches and information system implementations. Responsible for safety, development, and performance of staff. Motivated team to achieve daily and long-term goals •Completed validation of automated vial inspection machine contributing to decreased employee ergonomic injuries while increasing annual production 2,166% from 600,000 product vials to 13 million•Represented department in new product launches including packaging and shipping Lucentis within two days of FDA approval•Participated in SAP implementation (wave-1) in department resulting on-schedule project completion and zero negative production process impact

Masters Science, Project And Systems Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Pmp Certification

High School Degree