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Rochester, NY

Newark, New York, United States

Newark, NY

Rochester, NY

• Defined the Carestream Corporate 3 year roadmap to achieve Manufacturing and Supply Chain Excellence and led the execution of corporate level projects to remove waste and drive improvement, and harmonize planning.
• Delivered 50%… Show more Defined the Carestream Corporate 3 year roadmap to achieve Manufacturing and Supply Chain Excellence and led the execution of corporate level projects to remove waste and drive improvement, and.
• Delivered 50% reduction in customer facing order fulfillment defects
• Standardized in-bound warehouse receiving processes which resulted in $500K of inventory reduction
• Implemented corporate processes to comply with the FDA Unique Device Identification (UDI) requirements for medical devices
• Delivered Lean Six Sigma training to a variety of Sales Operations, Finance, R&D, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing teamsAdditional Skills: Management, Microsoft office, Minitab, Project Management, Customer Service.

➢ Implemented the “Eliminate Waste” program engaging all associates in the Americas Region to apply Kaizen and Lean Quality tools resulting in $1.4M annual savings➢ Led a team of Six Sigma Belts to apply Kaizen and Six Sigma tools to key projects across the organization delivering $250K in inventory reduction and $150K in productivity ➢ Implemented Hoshin.

➢ Led the design, development, and implementation of the Manufacturing Quality System for a new high volume Printhead manufacturing facility in support of Kodak’s launch into the consumer high volume ink jet business. ➢ Implemented real time process control and shop floor control charting processes to manage over 100 critical to function parameters. ➢ Led.

➢ Led lean transformation on a variety of imaging product manufacturing lines. ➢ Responsible for 16 kaizen events to implement pull, establish continuous one piece flow, and eliminate waste. ➢ Created supermarkets and material delivery systems employing kanban signals with suppliers eliminating $2.5M of material inventory.

➢ Leader of an operations team of 270 employees responsible for assembly, test, and delivery of $100M product annually. Products included professional digital cameras, thermal printers, slide projectors, Picture Maker Kiosks, and imaging components for medical devices.➢ Project leader responsible for relocating 275,000 s.f. of manufacturing space and.

➢ Transformed the digital camera assembly process from a “model shop” to a continuous process flow, incorporating Lean Manufacturing concepts.➢ Led a customer satisfaction initiative establishing a feedback and corrective action process to reduce product returns from 15% to less than 0.5%. ➢ Reduced assembly defects from 5.0 DPU to less than 0.5 DPU and.

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

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