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Global Operations Leader with over 24 years of proven results in driving cost-saving innovations and profitable strategies as a COO and the Lean Leader/Champion for key industrial clients in durable goods, consumer goods, medical industry and aerospace. Striking success in turning around and revitalizing acquired companies. Lean/Six Sigma/Shainin certified with an exceptional ability to analyze business systems, identify bottlenecks, create effective solutions and execute corrective actions. Lean leader/coach with excellent communications skills, able to motivate cross-functional, multi-level, geographically dispersed teams to effectively implement organization goals.

Mentor, Oh

Implementer of Lean-Methodology for New Products and Processes (aka 2P/3P); focusing on project management and developing new technologies using Kaizen and Lean.

Elite Lean Consulting group with each partner having over 20 years of successful Lean Transformation experience demonstrating our "skin in the game" when we lead our clients step-by-step through their strategic plans. Lean Consulting strategy has been proven over and again to ensure each client's success.

Joined Blount to execute defined plans of change for the Forestry Equipment Division and returned to a consulting relationship upon completion. Used Kaizen Methodology to rationalize product lines moving major products in nine weeks from one factory into multiple sites...reducing overhead and production costs recouping $1.4 million to the bottom-line in a $100 MM company in 12 months.

Walked clients through the step-by-step implementation of Lean Thinking and Process Innovation. Major clients included St. Gobain, Caterpillar Remanufacturing (noted in Business Week 2005), Invacare (Winner of major Lean Production award), Hubbell (international work in product innovation), and multiple, private investment companies.

Experienced in the tools of Managed Creativity and created a repeatable methodology for teams to implement product innovation based upon the principles of Designing products for Lean Implementation.

Turnaround operations opportunity.

Automotive 1st Tier Supplier and Aerospace (Bearings) Quality Systems

Engineer on Gas Turbine Propulsion Destroyer. Specialties in firefighting training, chemical warfare defense, and communications technology. Top secret security clearance. Trained reservists in chemical warfare defense during Desert Storm.

B.S., General Engineering/History

Activities and Societies: Olmstead Scholarship, German Focus Foreign Studies

M.S., Manufacturing Management/Technology

Advanced Diploma, Finance