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New York, NY, US

Cuyahoga Falls, OH, US

Perfectly placing great talent and great companies together.

Cary, North Carolina, US

Bayport, Minnesota, US

• Oversaw all aspects of operations management for a facility, driving the successful production of window units each year and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales volume.
• Revitalized a culture of safety and compliance, realigning the facility with a strategic value stream management structure that dramatically curtailed the incident rate (IR).
• Obtained substantial amounts of grant funding related to employee learning and development programs, facilitating professional development for the workforce in Lean methods, languages, and leadership.
• Augmented hour-by-hour production tracking by enacting a frontline management system informed by Lean manufacturing principles, bolstering the accuracy and reliability of operational metrics.

Fort Collins, CO, US

• Directed numerous functional areas, including Finance, Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain, managing the organization’s Center of Excellence and overseeing a team of high-level engineers.
• Reduced aftermarket product turnaround time, utilizing voice-of-the-customer (VoC) feedback to identify and respond to areas in need of improvement.
• Leveraged subject matter expertise in Lean Six Sigma (L6S), quality management systems (QMS), and CI, designing and executing initiatives that augmented processes and safeguarded product quality.

• Implemented turnaround strategies, process improvements, and other quality initiatives, employing Lean methodologies to reduce overhead, streamline operations, and facilitate organizational expansion.
• Championed a major facility rationalization project, coordinating the design, relocation, and consolidation of five different plants to improve facility flow and eliminate redundant and unnecessary expenditures.
• Overhauled several processes to enhance product turnaround time, instituting new workflows such as material Kanban processes and value stream mapping (VSM) that streamlined operations.
• Trained employees on various Lean manufacturing concepts and other processes, including 5 Whys, root cause and corrective action (RCCA), and define, measure, analyze, improve, and control (DMAIC).
• Secured AS9100 certification while passing multiple consecutive audits with zero commercial airline customer issues by establishing quality programs and controls, safeguarding brand reputation.

Irving, Texas, US

• Managed hundreds of employees across multiple facilities, overseeing profit and loss (P&L) and coordinating all production and facility operations for the company.
• Obtained a substantial improvement in variable labor, a noteworthy fixed cost enhancement, and ultimately saved millions in expenditure, incorporating Lean Six Sigma (L6S) concepts while rolling out the Caterpillar.
• Enacted a material Kanban system that curtailed new material content, helping drive incremental revenue at the height of the economic recession.

Springfield, MO, US

• Oversaw profit and loss (P&L) for seven discrete subsidiaries within the company, supporting efficient operations for logistics, packaging, manufacturing, and consulting.
• Championed the design, sales, and delivery of training programs targeting C-level executives, establishing the Great Game of Business as an industry-leading employee engagement consulting firm.
• Directed a Lean deployment initiative at the company’s largest facility, carrying out value propositions and Kaizen events that fostered a culture of continuous improvement (CI).
• Boosted employee engagement for the company to an all-time high.
• Reduced inventory, improved on-time delivery, and cut standard hours by implementing value stream maps (VSM), redesigning workflows, and enacting a scheduling system.