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At Daily Enhancements we truly understand the unique challenges you face, from operational inefficiencies and unpredictable supply chains to the complexities of integrating new technologies and ensuring regulatory compliance. These issues can drain your resources and hinder your ability to stay competitive and deliver consistent quality.Imagine a world.

United States

• Championed a culture of data-driven continuous improvement by disseminating Key Performance Indicators and facilitating Gemba Board discussions, empowering associates across all levels to collectively focus on safety.
• Strategically drafted and implemented nine digital warehouse facility layouts, optimizing spatial configurations, enhancing safety measures, and improving operational efficiency for the company's success.
• Spearheaded safety enhancements, including elevated visible management practices, optimized forklift traffic, and strategic space reallocation, collaborating with industrial professionals to introduce essential PPE for.
• Analyzed and documented processes, leveraging frontline insights of operators within 10 feet of the job to implement sustained enhancements, resulting in a remarkable reduction in customer complaints and corrective.
• Simplified intricate product reconfiguration processes, boosting bandwidth, and achieving significant cost savings, enhancing operational efficiency, and positioning the team for exceptional value delivery and client.
• Contributed to three successful facility startups, showcasing exceptional project management skills in orchestrating digital facility layouts, process development, documentation, team training, and logistical planning.

Barnardsville, NC 28709

• Applied lean strategies to develop new production processes, work instructions, safety procedures, training programs, cell layouts, 5S implementation, as well as any other investigations requiring my attention.
• Designed required workspaces, fixtures, and gauges for the implantation of new production lines and upgrades to existing product lines.
• Managed the upgrades, replacements, and additions of the facility’s machinery and test equipment.
• Designed custom machinery and worked with outsourced companies’ engineering teams to automate the custom needs of the product’s production.
• Created and executed Strategic Deployment Plans for the manufacturing team.
• Increased communication and accountability through daily GEMBA meetings reviewing routine production KPIs with consistent metric management and improving root cause analysis.

Barnardsville, North Carolina, United States

• Facilitated a Transactional Process Improvement event decreasing the past due by 42% in 32 working days, decreasing the work-in-progress inventory by 30%, and increasing production by 191% over the previous year.
• Developed Rapid Response Safety Team to quickly address all safety incidents to include any required medical attention, proper reporting and documentation of the incident, root cause analysis, and corrective action.
• Redesigned epoxy extraction system to provide safer conditions for the operators by minimizing epoxy dust spread in the area, providing safer ventilation from other machines creating epoxy dust throughout the facility.
• Served an intricate role in the development and implementation of the company’s new ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics D365, for production and engineering processes.
• Designed new wire coiling machine to drastically reduce machine down time, reduce scrap, and increase the machine’s capabilities allow for growth of new customers.
• Facilitated a Kaizen event to analyze, redesign, and implement a new assembly cell design resulting in a 44% reduction of process time, 50% reduction in travel time, and a 61% reduction of overall cell footprint.

Barnardsville, North Carolina, United States

• Supervised and maintained all production throughout the facility to include but not limited to personnel, day -to-day operations, operator training, working directly with operators to problem solve and improve.
• Interviewed and selected candidates that applied for a production operator position.
• Built interpersonal relations with co-workers allowing for free flow communication, trust, loyalty, and ability to directly improve their quality of life.
• Participated in the development and writing of new procedures for new and current product lines as well as company employee polices.

• Developed diverse and challenging training events to drive familiarization of standard practices and equipment, adaptability to changing circumstances and build unit cohesion in adverse situations.
• Provided various classes to audiences of hundreds ranging from strategy, proper usage of equipment, and unit movement to safety, leadership, and basic instruction.
• Lead Marines through difficult challenges with intuitive, fact-based decision-making, proper execution of training, and devotion to the members of the team.
• Proved to be an extremely valuable liaison between the Marine Corps and private contractors on the design and employment of the next generation of communication system equipment resulting in several changes and.
• Received several awards for hard work, attention to detail, punctuality, leadership, and proving to have an understanding above and beyond the required knowledge for my pay grade.

• Worked in several departments around the production plants to ensure well roundness in my understanding of the process.
• Worked in Quality Control developing my attention to detail and ability to quickly make necessary corrections.
• Worked in the corrections department learning how to best correct any deficiencies in the assembly process.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering