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Spring Lake, Mi, Us

Muskegon, Michigan, Us

New School is a West Michigan Web Design and full-service marketing and advertising agency headquartered in Muskegon, MI. We specialize in digital marketing, web design, print design, and video production. Our talented team has many years of first-hand experience working day in and day out with clients who are part of the fabric of the West Michigan community. Each member of our team brings his or her particular skills — whether public relations, graphic design, social media and so on — to the table for dynamic results for our clients.

EHIIP Consulting is focused on providing Lean Consulting and other Operational support services to businesses across multiple industries. EHIIP Consultants are trained directly from Toyota and utilize the TPS approach (Lean Manufacturing) to accelerate the performance of client companies.EHIIP Provides:1) On-site Lean Consulting for organization culture change.2) Temporary Lean Operational Leadership 3) Operational Due Diligence during M & A activitiesTemporary Executive Leadership Roles for PE Clients have included:PresidentVice President of OperationsGeneral ManagerDirector of Operations

College Planning Advisors is a boutique college servicing firm providing strategic counseling support to families and students throughout High School preparing for college applications. Proving many services tailored to your student including: ACT/SAT support, career exploration, college resume guidance, CSS applications, Common App Applications, Essay writing, Appeal letters, and many other services.

Responsible for front end customer interactions, design, and engineering for OEM and custom furniture partners.

Active Board member providing Operational and Strategic guidance.

Zeeland, Mi, Us

Director of HMPS (Continuous Improvement) - HealthcareManufacturing:Director of Continuous Improvement for 5 plant 100 million dollar operation. Focus is on creating a stable and efficient manufacturing environment to enable future growth with existing resources. Sales:Focus is on connecting Healthcare product offering to operational improvement in multiple healthcare environments.

Zeeland, Mi, Us

Senior HMPS (TPS) Team Lead: Supply Management: HMPS coach for Senior VP of Supply Management and his work team for development and implementation of current supplier strategy. Manage a work-team of consultants to implement HMPS in a supply-base of $500 million. Develop long term relationships with suppliers to help ensure strategic plan for the supply chain. Focus on cost reductions, through elimination of waste, engineering changes, and new design/development for entire supply chain. Strategy is currently providing over $3million cost savings per year.Sales/Dealerships: Work with dealership owners and their leadership teams to remove waste and improve profitability within their operations. Improvement focus has ranged from design and invoicing, to installation on end product. Develop strategies to improve value to the end customer through problem solving. Focus on Dealers has resulted in standards that are doubling profitability for implemented dealers. Current strategy on track to save $100 million dollars a year for the dealer network.Distribution:Coach Senior leadership to develpe comprehensive strategy for facility resposible for logistics and distribution. Focused on minimizing internal labor cost, external freight cost, and maximizing the connection to the customer

Zeeland, Mi, Us

Day to Day coaching of site management teams of how to lead a manufacturing site through a TPS transition. Together with the General Manager, or Supplier Management, developed lean strategies and plans for each assigned site or supplier. Implemented Continuous Improvement activities to achieve each site’s improvement goals. Responsible to Coach/train, upper management and Continuous Improvement leaders on all aspects of HMPS. Developed and conducted Continuous Improvement workshops/training as needed. Evaluated new product and processes for appropriate HMPS applications.

Zeeland, Mi, Us

Meridian (Herman Miller) (99’-00’). Along with operations, lead improvement efforts within the finish, fabrication, and assembly departments. Efforts included focusing on productivity, cost, quality, and throughput time, through day-to-day problem solving.

Zeeland, Mi, Us

Integrated Metal Technology (Herman Miller) (97’ –99’). Supervised finishing department with 50+ employees. Interviewed, hired, and developed production employees and peers. Developed internal training plans to maintain safety, quality, and production standards. Worked side by side with Toyota consultants to impliment HMPS (TPS) throughout the organization.

Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Jp

One of only three HMI (Herman Miller) employees (out of 6000) commissioned to spend time with Toyota in order to strengthen Herman Millers TPS learning *Expectation: To develop high-level understanding of TPS and bring the learning back to Herman Miller. Use TPS knowledge to develop strategies for an accelerated pace of implementation at Herman Miller. Worked as a Toyota Supplier Consultant to gain deeper understanding about the Toyota Production System. Developed strategic plans for Toyota suppliers based on their business needs while keeping the customer’s expectations in focus. Developed deep thinking around TPS and implemented at all levels of an organization.