A team oriented business executive with a highly successful track record . More than 20 years of progressive experience as a hands-on, inspirational leader driving P&L results at both strategic and tactical levels in all phases of Operations and Plant Management. Outstanding understanding of lean manufacturing techniques, one-piece flow, made to order manufacturing, Kaizen, and Kan ban systems. Committed to creating a culture of change and innovation around a shared vision. Demonstrated ability to deliver short term results and long term sustainable impact. -- CAREER SUMMARY: CONSISTENT TRANSFORMATION APPROACH & RESULTS --**Strategic Planning. Generate corporate-wide strategic plans that address critical business issues, integrated multiple functions and optimized resources to achieve long term business objectives. Develop annual plans detailing critical initiatives and capital investments to drive the progression and achievement of long term goals. Establish an executive operations scorecard with key metrics to effectively manage business operations. Drove initiatives with a special focus on, efficiency, supply chain relationships and the customer partnerships.** Team Building. Led multi-functional teams to leverage functional expertise, break down silos, drive accountability and collaborate to achieve shared vision, goals and strategies. ** Change Leadership. Transformed and aligned the organization and employees to drive improvements in new and challenging directions. Energized cross functional leadership teams to align with business direction.** Profitable Growth. Determined the relationship of costs and customer value, then reduce waste and align manufacturing capacities to business opportunities. ** Sustainable Success. Leveraged a metric driven approach to drive business decisions and achievement of business goals. Achieved lead time reductions of 65%, safety improvements of 20%, and productivity increases of 15% in a 3 year period.