Guillermo Palos Email & Phone Number

Colton, California, United States

• Leads and Manages the plant’s Lean program and culture toward a robust Quality focused Continuous Improvement environment: Kaizen Events, Standard Work, Problem Solving, 5S, Visual Workplace and Work Balancing. • Facilitates and Coaches Lean Events – Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, Just-Do-it, Projects – toward results.

Fontana, Ca

Responsible to optimize, plan and drive Continuous Improvement and Lean approached for this startup business focused on servicing a large customer base within California’s Inland Empire area with photography, marketing and digital medias.

Pentagon, Washington Dc

• Strategic Thinker. Designed a strategic plan for long-term process improvement program impacting a 310,000 workforce for improving processes, workforce design, and business effectiveness.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• HR Manager (global multi-cultural enterprise). Managed the HR program in Afghanistan, supporting a 15 Nation (e.g. USA, Czech Republic, Romania, Italy and more) and 600 personnel workforce.

Pentagon, Washington Dc

• HRM Operations Manager. Managed 16 member Division operations and workflows for development of Air Force policy and requirements to sustain a 310,000 workforce with CI and Staffing requirements.

Brunssum, The Netherlands

• HRM Assistant Manager (global multi-cultural enterprise). Managed HRM operations supporting a workforce of over 600 members from 26 nations across a variety of business areas (e.g. aviation, logistics)

Denver Co

• Effective Team Leader. Led a team of 56 Continuous Improvement/Industrial Engineering professionals to on-time under-budget completion of over 40 CI studies resulting in over $18.5 million in savings

Monterey Ca

• Research in harnessing HR knowledge to improve organizational effectiveness and performance• Published Thesis: “Communities of Practice: Towards Leveraging Knowledge in the Military” http://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/3226

San Antonio, Tx

- Led 14 HRM professionals in developing and executing a human capital budget ($3.6 billion) for a 69,000 member workforce training and developing USAF military and civilians- Awarded HRM Officer of the Year for the command for exceptional performance

Pentagon, Washington Dc

- Managed a $7.5 billion HR budget for all USAF staffing needs in training, personnel support, and communication activities and programs- Awarded HRM Officer-of-the-Year (exceptional performance for a Company Grade Officer) for Headquarters Air Force

San Antonio, Tx

- Led 6 HRM professionals providing process improvement (Total Quality Management) support for organizational activities and a workforce of 5,600 at over 50 world-wide locations- Awarded HRM and Process Improvement Officer-of-the-Year (exceptional performance) for the Air Intelligence Agency

San Antonio, Tx

- Assessed, managed and Improved process and staffing requirements for organizational activities with for a workforce of 16,000 at over 71 world-wide locations

Sheppard Afb, Wichita Falls, Texas

- Assessed, managed and improved process and staffing (manpower) requirements for Aircraft Maintenance training activities for a workforce of 1,200 at over 45 world-wide locations- Led Business Process Reengineering team (manpower and process standards) for Aircraft Maintenance Training and Field Maintenance Training activities

Master Of Science, Information Technology Management, Knowledge Management & Communities Of Practice

Bachelor Of Science, General Studies (Engineering); Minor In Foreign Languages (Spanish)

Attended Freshman Year Before Transfer To Usafa

Activities and Societies: Army Reserve Officer Training Corp