Sr. Program Manager / Sr. Consultant with The Carnrite Group, a boutique strategic and operations improvement firm. Selected Accomplishments• Designed and implemented the Budgeting and Capital Management process for a major independent E&P company. Historically, company had never utilized budgets, nor integrated capital planning. Program included annual capital and budgeting planning cycles, re-forecasting, portfolio evaluation and prioritization, monthly and quarterly… Show more Sr. Program Manager / Sr. Consultant with The Carnrite Group, a boutique strategic and operations improvement firm. Selected Accomplishments• Designed and implemented the Budgeting and Capital Management process for a major independent E&P company. Historically, company had never utilized budgets, nor integrated capital planning. Program included annual capital and budgeting planning cycles, re-forecasting, portfolio evaluation and prioritization, monthly and quarterly reporting and integration into each regions operations management processes. Continued to the establishment of corporate and functional Scorecards that reinforced and measured success against the corporate strategy and objectives. • Established the Program Management processes at the initiation of a greenfield SAP ERP $200 MM implementation, with an independent E&P company that had never had an integrated IT system. Comprehensive program selected the critical vendors, established the program’s governance requirements and structure, resource (internal and external) selection and on-boarding, and high level and detailed project management. Client maintained Program Management Office responsibilities and processes allowed for effective integrated management of the 5 different major suppliers.• Reengineered oil and gas production management processes, institutionalizing attention and accountability for individual performance to the well level for independent Gulf of Mexico producer. LOE, downtime, production rates and declines and safety have all been achieving best ever performance for the company. • Designed and initiated a thorough program to analyze and streamline disparate E&P IT applications into an effective information management system, whose shortcomings were highlighted during the above production management process implementation.• Took a hiatus to transform operations of Swan Surfaces. ( Below, a Carnrite managed business.) Show less

COO/SVP Operations of Swan Corporation, a $40MM plus manufacturer and distributor of kitchen and bath solid surface products. Recruited by new investors to take over Operations of this historically family owned business as part of three person Turnaround Team (also including CEO/CFO and CMO/SVP Sales and Marketing). Within one year turned a $-2 MM EBITA into a $+2 MM EBITA, maintaining sales and without changing products, people or facilities.Operations improvements were focused around… Show more COO/SVP Operations of Swan Corporation, a $40MM plus manufacturer and distributor of kitchen and bath solid surface products. Recruited by new investors to take over Operations of this historically family owned business as part of three person Turnaround Team (also including CEO/CFO and CMO/SVP Sales and Marketing). Within one year turned a $-2 MM EBITA into a $+2 MM EBITA, maintaining sales and without changing products, people or facilities.Operations improvements were focused around long term profitability and included:• Strict attention to employee safety and regulatory compliance• Customer satisfaction, quality improvement and on time delivery • Reduced manufacturing lead time and inventory reduction• Outsourcing where appropriate (raw material procurement, shipping and logistics, legal, etc.) • Workforce management, employee retention and OT reduction• Facility and equipment maintenance, improvements and upgrades• Management development and teamwork across departments • Effective Union / Management relationship• Operations reporting and production trackingThe above improvements in EBITA and those in operations effectiveness and increased capacity resulted in an unsolicited buyout by a leader in the Kitchen and Bath Products market. Show less

Typical clients have been executives facing significant challenges and needing improvement in competitiveness, cost, EBITA, revenue and/or regulatory compliance. James Leadership was founded in 2002 and has been my primary focus (with the exception of full time opportunities with Swan Surfaces and Marx Consulting).Selected Accomplishments• Led and coordinated a global effort of a $10B division of a major chemical company to remove $235MM in operating cost. Leverage the entire… Show more Typical clients have been executives facing significant challenges and needing improvement in competitiveness, cost, EBITA, revenue and/or regulatory compliance. James Leadership was founded in 2002 and has been my primary focus (with the exception of full time opportunities with Swan Surfaces and Marx Consulting).Selected Accomplishments• Led and coordinated a global effort of a $10B division of a major chemical company to remove $235MM in operating cost. Leverage the entire suite of Lean tools (pull, kaizen, waste elimination, etc.) to develop the program and attack the opportunity over 4 continents, and 10 countries.* Designed and implemented an S&OP Executive Decision Making process at a $6B chemical company as the company was emerging from bankruptcy and needed to demonstrate commercial viability; used classic Sales and Operations Planning techniques coupled with optimizing manufacturing capability in bottleneck operations and drastically improving integrity of product demand forecasts to balance supply with what was actually demanded in ways that resulted in an increase of $25-35MM in EBIT.• Designed and initiated a Lean program within a 6 Sigma structure, to attack a 33% shortfall in capacity of a $1B third party logistics provider; growth and budget constraints mandated attacking cycle time reduction, facility and network design and capacity, maintenance, direct labor, support resources, procurement, inventory and warehouse management; changing the processes to eliminate waste, streamline material flow and utilize pull replenishment enabled the needed 33% capacity increase without significant capital or facility expansion. Show less

Marx Consulting provides value by working with leaders faced with transformational problems and projects requiring cross functional, cross cultural and/or cross level expertise and alignment. This means working jointly with C-Level executives and their direct staffs including division Presidents and Vice-Presidents along with appropriate team resources drawn from all ranks of the organization on their most pressing strategic issues.Selected Accomplishments• Created and… Show more Marx Consulting provides value by working with leaders faced with transformational problems and projects requiring cross functional, cross cultural and/or cross level expertise and alignment. This means working jointly with C-Level executives and their direct staffs including division Presidents and Vice-Presidents along with appropriate team resources drawn from all ranks of the organization on their most pressing strategic issues.Selected Accomplishments• Created and institutionalized a strategic Alliance between a $1B natural gas transmission company and an engineering and construction services firm including the design and implementation of joint project management processes and controls to effectively manage a $400MM/yr. capital budget against the company’s priorities of safety, reliability, compliance and profitability; overall, reduced $10-15MM in operating expenses and took projects to “On Time-On Budget” from historical performance of 25-50% over budget and behind schedule and the client went from industry regulator’s “worst” performer in reliability to the top industry collaborator in 24 months. Show less

Gemini Consulting was the premier strategy and implementation consulting company of its time. Jointly attacking strategy, results delivery and technology all organized around a best in class change management framework to assure sustainability of results.My role as Principal was Project and Account leader with significant responsibility for growing the business and assuring client satisfaction and generating references. My particular areas of emphasis were process reengineering, lean,… Show more Gemini Consulting was the premier strategy and implementation consulting company of its time. Jointly attacking strategy, results delivery and technology all organized around a best in class change management framework to assure sustainability of results.My role as Principal was Project and Account leader with significant responsibility for growing the business and assuring client satisfaction and generating references. My particular areas of emphasis were process reengineering, lean, supply chain optimization and operations and maintenance.Selected Accomplishments• Created a manufacturing management system covering all of the major manufacturing functions for an international chemical producer; included in the system were the business processes of production forecasting and scheduling, day-to-day operations management, maintenance, engineering support, and in-plant and ex-plant distribution; implementation at the major plants resulted in $70-90mm in benefits.• Implemented systems enhancements, supplier/contract management practices and improved visibility tools to monitor and manage material purchases to support the lean enterprise at the $6B division of a big-three automaker; implementation, in addition to cash flow, realized a net cost benefit of $25-30MM; overhauled historical and obsolete purchasing practices utilizing demand from their above lean manufacturing and distribution process eliminating $150-$200 MM in excess material purchases per year. • Redesigned the supply chain and production management processes of a major ($600 million) nylon producer with resulting benefits totaling $39 million in cost, margin, yield, and quality improvements; the project eliminated waste and reduced costs at the manufacturing facilities, rationalized the product line and the customer base against profitability (product family analysis), and refocused and streamlined the sales and marketing processes. Show less