Primary ownership and responsibility to develop, build and maintain profound trusted advisory relationships with senior leaders. Select, deploy, develop and support high-functioning advisory teams. Work collaboratively with the leadership team, and other group and engagement leads on cross-business matters

Sales leader for eastern half of the United States. Responsible for spearheading campaigns, including technical element optimization, marketing strategies, research & writing, and relationship management and attending national conferences. Established and developed client relationships and nurtured existing accounts by providing a professional corporate image while ensuring coordinated and timely deliveries of quality marketing campaigns. Identified key decision-makers in medium and large-sized businesses, established contact, built rapport, and secured new accounts to contribute to the bottom-line profits. Won Presidents award two out of five years for generating new business. Contributed to team and customer success by creating and delivering engaging client-facing presentations to communicate benefits of process improvements, customer solutions, technical solutions and tangible returns on investments.

Subject Matter Expert for New client launches. Responsible for launching 80% of Simpler’s new clients with a focus on Healthcare, which includes creating strategic visions, determining where to start at the enterprise or site level the development of metrics and rollout plans. When working as a Simpler Sensei within specific Business Sectors it is critical a Sensei knows and understands some basics about the sector specific business. I am responsible for creating and delivering The basic Healthcare sensei developmental process which provides the Sensei with Simpler Healthcare Sector specific understanding including: a foundation of information, knowledge, insights, and techniques. Responsible for maintaining two Healthcare clients, one a large physician group practice and a community hospital.

Initiated and champion Tenneco Automotive continuous improvement activities, with a focus on creating a culture of operational excellence. Created a vision for operational excellence across the enterprise and translated that vision into clear, meaningful goals, timelines and metrics at the site and functional department levels. Responsible for fostering and enlarging the CI culture within the company, which includes selecting and planning improvement projects, establishing training initiatives, standardizing processes and metrics and monitoring the progress of these projects for the Exhaust and Ride Control business units. Utilized skills of influence in order to get direct and non-direct reports mobilized and their CI strategies implemented in an effective and timely manner.

Provided manufacturing and operations leadership and direction. Responsible for P & L and overall budget for the facility. Formulated strategies to achieve annual operating plans and objectives. Created cross functional teams to ensure efficiency and productivity levels were achieved. Responsible for the successful implementation of assigned new programs after they were awarded. Overseen the development and introduction of all new programs to ensure delivery to our customer’s, high quality, competitively priced products in a timely manner. Established operations standards for continuous improvement, cost control, waste reduction, quality and safety. Developed and executed manufacturing policies and controls in the areas of lean manufacturing methodologies, materials usage, capacity planning, production scheduling, employee relations, and performance measures. Developed measures and controls to keep informed of inventory levels, schedule status, and delivery dates. Accountable for achieving improvements in key manufacturing metrics. Strong emphasis on meeting customer service goals for quality and delivery. • Lean Champion, over 7.5 million in savings due to lean activities.

Responsible for managing the overall production workforce. Performed production planning, raw materials management, budget management, P & L accountability and managed the data collection system for line efficiency reporting and downtime tracking. Managed the preparation of bi-weekly and monthly calls. Responsible for New Program Introduction. Maintained constant interaction and team relationships with management and colleagues. Created monthly and quarterly reports, designed and maintained presentations for operations meetings. Determined organizational requirements to insure appropriate staffing levels, both short and long term. Exercised strong emphasis on meeting customer service goals for quality and delivery. Evaluated, planned and recommend capital expenditures for all manufacturing and facility needs. Implemented lean manufacturing and lean enterprise improvements and principles throughout the manufacturing organization.