Global quality leader for two $1B+ divisions within Safety and Industrial Business Group: Automotive Aftermarket Division and Closure and Masking Systems Division. Led deployment of global quality strategy deployment; manage two teams of quality engineers; serve on Divisional Operating Committees to drive policy, product and service improvements to address voice of customer and competitive opportunities for over 30 global production facilities and 80+ key global suppliers. Developed strategies and drove initiatives to improve KPI’s. Partnered with Sales and Channel leaders for development and implementation of key account service recovery and retention strategies and brand regeneration campaigns. Partnered with Legal, Sales and Marketing leaders on global risk mitigation strategies. Co-developed Quality job family talent development roadmap for deployment across seven divisions within business group. • Reduced global complaints by over 18% and claim dollars by over 20%.

Led development and deployment of process excellence system for start-up of greenfield "super plant" to produce specialty packaging and display products. Co-developed and delivered new employee assimilation program to build excellence culture. Coached and mentored management team members for reinforcement of core values. Partnered with global sales organization to certify plant to customer standards and on-board strategic FMCG accounts.

Divisional owner for quality management system across 22 operating locations. Leader of divisional executive quality steering committee. Champion of divisional continuous improvement initiative.

Principal architect and leader for deployment of quality management practices, lean improvement initiative and development and deployment of key strategic initiatives across supply chain.

Coached students teams on industry consulting projects in supply chain and operations at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Directed Six Sigma deployment across multiple operating units. Managed team of MBB's, BB's, BA's and PM's for implementing of process and technology deployments.

Director Corporate ProcurementDirector Procure to Pay Processes

Directed print production function for COF direct marketing operations. Led sourcing strategy to reduce print annual print and distribution costs by over $100 million.

Developed process improvement function for New Account Setup organization. Led process improvement to reduce time to market by 90% for new marketing campaigns. Lead technology development and deployment project for mission critical credit decisioning platform.

Led union-management sponsored initiative to deploy process improvement tools and concepts across major operating units. Manager for design and development of new aircraft maintenance facility.

Managed statewide distribution operations.

European distribution strategy analysis. Technology deployments for supply chain optimization.

Developed and deployed process and technology improvements for US Distribution operations.