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Greater Detroit Area

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Usa - Western Europe - Asia

Coalition of C-suite executive consultants and interim managers with complementary industry, function and geographic expertise.Personal Project Focus:• Expert Witness - Auto / Aerospace; Commercial / Supply Chain• “Fractional CPO” ™ strategic leadership for small to mid-cap client companies• Private Equity- Diligence- Board of Directors; Advisory- “Bolt-on” / Add-on investment identification to enhance platform valuations

Midwest Usa

LHH is the global talent mobility market leader for Career Transition, Leadership Development, Employee Engagement and Change Management; with 300 offices in 60 countries. As the Midwest Region’s Practice Leader for Lee Hecht Harrison’s International Center for Executive Options (ICEO), I was responsible for expanding LHH’s career transition portfolio with new and existing client companies; and delivering tailored career and life strategy services for our client firms’ most senior executives. In addition, I served as one of the practice’s Private Equity Subject Matter Experts (SME) and as an Executive Coach in LHH’s Talent Development organization. As a coach, my “sweet spot” is optimizing cross-functional working relationships and improving bottom line results through strategy, process and performance objective alignment. I’ve led successful engagements with clients in the Industrial Manufacturing (Auto / Aerospace), Healthcare and Financial Services sectors; with a focus on departments that provide shared services across the enterprise (Ex. Purchasing / Supply Chain, Business Development / Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, General Counsel and IT).

Global automotive Tier #1 HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) and CRFM (Condenser, Radiator, Fan Module) supplier with engineering and manufacturing / assembly operations in North America (USA, Mexico), Asia (Thailand, China) and Australia. (Private Equity Owned)Transformed Purchasing by establishing a centralized organization structure and supporting processes; Integrated in-region operational teams; Leveraged global, functional performance. • Developed and implemented a lean Commodity / Category Sourcing Strategy process focused on improving supplier Quality, Delivery and Cost performance; Leveraged capabilities of top performing suppliers to improve New Business Pursuit competitiveness.- Achieved supply base consolidation of up to 80%; Piece price savings of 10 - 30%; and Component complexity reduction of 50 – 80% by category. New business developed with and allocated to top performing, “preferred” suppliers. • Designed, launched and led a cross-functional, cross-organizational Material Cost Reduction / Business Case Improvement process; Improved first year material savings by 106%.- Sustainable year-over-year savings of up to 4% of material cost achieved through focused activity in seven categories. • Improved working relationships with key suppliers resulted in aligned pursuit / new business development activities; dedicated on-site supplier technical support; and new technology offered by suppliers and launched with customers before competitors.• Purchasing value creation in a PE-backed company documented in a Supply Chain Management Review article published in November, 2013 ( “Private Equity’s New Proving Ground: Operations and Supply Chain” ).

Scottsdale, Arizona

Renewable energy industry start-up established in 1996 to commercialize concentrating solar power ( CSP ) technology for global utility-scale customers. (Private Equity Owned)Established and led a global supply chain organization and supply base capable of supporting SES’s aggressive engineering / production development and high volume commercialization business plan. • Capitalized on prior auto and aerospace supplier network insights to identify and source 23 high quality, lowest-total-cost Tier #1 suppliers. Implemented auto industry commercial practices. • Negotiated “full service supplier” agreements with key system suppliers that included on-site engineering and manufacturing support personnel to supplement SES’s in-house staff. • Reduced prototype-to-high volume SunCatcher and Balance of Plant system cost by > 50% with improved conversion efficiency.

Global Responsibilities

Global supplier of automotive components with annual sales of $10 Billion and 25,000 employees.Directed the $2.5 Billion commodity strategy, pursuit / program launch management and current model purchasing activities for the Climate Product Group; Office locations on three continents.• Improved total material cost performance through focused VA / VE activity. • Reduced SG&A costs 20% by migrating resources to offices in low cost / developing countries.• Integrated material cost and revenue forecasting through corporate business planning.

Derby, United Kingdom (International Service Assignment)

Global manufacturer of gas turbine engines with annual sales of $12 Billion and 35,000 employees.Led a global and cross functional team in the development and implementation of processes designed to deliver bottom line efficiencies through improved working relations with Tier #1 supplier partners; Established Roles and Responsibilities and aligned KPIs. • Created an extended lean enterprise business case for change; Managed deployment strategy. • Evolved project to improve external Customer relationships; and internal Employee satisfaction.

Global Responsibilities

• Achieved total cost savings of 6 – 15% per year by using technology to optimize lane sourcing efficiency; outsourcing process administration; and through negotiation.

Global Responsibilities

• Established a trade pact-focused organization to manage Ford's primary Purchasing interface with joint ventures and affiliated companies. • Exceeded local content commitments with lowest delivered cost.

Global Responsibilities

• Designed, launched and led the post Ford-2000 global organization.• Directed all activities of an outsourced purchasing and financial settlement process re-engineering team.• Ford 2000 Transition Team – Major contributor to the highly acclaimed, strategic team that developed the principles, processes, roles and responsibilities and organizational structure for Ford’s global purchasing function.

Dearborn, Michigan

• Information Technology; NA Construction; and Plant EquipmentIncremental Ford Purchasing Assignments: • Manager, Supplier Quality, Relations and Analysis Developed, implemented and administered global supplier quality ( Q1 / Total Quality Excellence ), Purchasing policies and procedures, and supply base management initiatives. • Manager, Procurement Planning Department Directed, developed and controlled procurement planning for domestic and foreign vehicle programs for Ford’s North American Automotive Operations. • Purchasing Supervisor, Mexico Programs – International Service Established Purchasing headquarters in Mexico and directed liaison operations between Mexico and U.S. in support of Ford’s Chihuahua Engine and Hermosillo Assembly projects.

Senior Executive Leadership Program, Global Business Strategy; Organizational Transformation

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