Gregory Tomlins Email & Phone Number

Irving, Texas, Us

• P&L and R&D Budget | Product & Value Chain Portfolio• Currently leading the Cat bulldozer Value Chain organization. In this role, my teams are responsible for the operational performance of hundreds of external suppliers and the quality, velocity and cost metrics for internal and interplant factories to drive world-class quality and variable margin for this flagship business.• Championed a deep, machine-level, product quality program to improve initial quality across Caterpillar’s mining product organization. The pilot program delivered >81% improvement in factory quality, initial customer satisfaction, and multi-millon dollar value chain improvements in the first six months of production.• Completed a supply chain turnaround, eliminating 95% of the past due orders, resulting in a $XMM profitability improvement for the bulldozer business.

Irving, Texas, Us

• R&D Budget | Integration Workshops | Simplification/Commonality/Modularity• Budget Management | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Change Leadership | Cost/Value Analysis• Teardown / trade-off and simplification: 20%+ Average Part Number Reduction• Led global Design for Manufacturing Organization for Caterpillar’s mining and earthmoving products. • Led the creation, development and co-taught Caterpillar’s Product Value Management (PVM) program. Employed PVM best practices and approaches.• Orchestrated successful launch of the largest initiative across 5 VPs to drive adoption of LCP II methodology in product development collaboration, thus improving customer and shareholder value.• Delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings across the company that continue to be utilized to deliver products that provide market-leading customer value at the lowest possible total cost.• Executed LCP events spanning Earthmoving and Mining, supporting process partner divisions, including procurement and supply chain.• Collaborated with Bradley University to launch a company-wide curriculum aimed at all of the participants in the Caterpillar value chain.Selected Highlights:• Trained over 400 PD Practitioners across the company.• Planned and implemented 13 Integration Events (2012) leading to multi-million dollar annual savings.

Irving, Texas, Us

• Managed multi-million dollar high-tech manufacturing R&D portfolio• Led M&A consulting for business operations and manufacturing, including due diligence on deal pipeline.• Developed the standard work for operations and manufacturing due diligence for M&A pipeline.

Irving, Texas, Us

• Led multiple multi-million dollar complex automated assembly and test equipment installations, on-time and under budget.• Led complex global manufacturing capacity analysis for components facilities, resulting in recommendation in location and scoping specific BOM to align with global consumer demand. The new multi-million dollar factory was built in place following team's recommendation.

Irving, Texas, Us

• Developed and commercialized new engine technologies and components for on-highway trucks and Tier 4 emissions machine engine programs, resulting in over $12M in annual margin improvement and several patents.

Munich, De

• Developed 30% improvement in electrical life through iterative testing, analysis and performance development.• Managed electrical and performance testing laboratory for solid oxide fuel cells to evaluate new cell chemistries, leading to significant improvement in cell output.

Cranberry Township, Pa, Us

• Developed new interconnect technologies to improve electrical performance 10-20% leading to dramatic improvement in reaching cost targets.• Designed new performance tests and accelerated life routines to scale testing and improve test throughput 300%.

Designing And Building Ai Products And Services, Artificial Intelligence

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