Manager, Operational Excellence for a Global Leader in emergency life-saving auto injector medicines. These combination Drug and Device medical counter measure products are used for the military, emergency personnel and healthcare professionals in the civilian market.• Manage a statistics team that provides timely regression and trend analysis, and statistical support in experimental design, risk management and investigations.• Manage a team of Yellow, Green, and Black belts that perform projects while taking advantage of teaching and coaching moments with site colleagues.• Manage a cross functional Process Monitoring Team that provides a proactive risk based approach of trending and monitoring manufacturing and packaging processes to identify potential trends which may lead to production nonconforming product.• Manage a cross functional team of educators that deliver to site colleagues Lean Six Sigma principles through classes, projects, workshops, coaching and mentoring.• Coach, Facilitate, lead large project teams to resolve critical quality issues.

• Lead a team of managers to implement communication boards which facilitated shift, daily, and weekly review of performance and defined what winning looks like. This created a cultural and performance transformation. • Created and implemented an improvement idea prioritization matrix and a project tracking process which focused project selection to improve the most critical processes of the business.• Facilitated and lead teams for major investigations such as Aseptic Operation Sterility Failure, and Device Critical Defects which resulted in the resumption of manufacturing operations. • Lead an improvement team increasing autoclave right the first time loads from 69% to 82% in two weeks.

Managed the Continuous Improvement Journey in the Central Division, providing leadership at five Manufacturing, Distribution and Sales sites which provided a competitive edge for this low margin market. Dean Foods has developed into one of the largest dairies in the United States by acquiring small dairies throughout the country to create a Manufacturing, Distribution, and Sales network.• Implemented a Management Operating System at each site which provided a mechanism and structure for reviewing past performance and strategically planned improvements.• Coached and trained division level managers, on a Management Operating System which cultivated cross site and cross functional relationships and a unified direction for the central division to land the lowest cost and highest quality product for our customers.• Planned and coordinated training to support Continuous Improvement initiatives, providing the Lean Six Sigma tools and skills necessary for the strategically selected improvements.• Lead discovery activities throughout the Central Division to identify sales, manufacturing, and logistic solutions to deliver the lowest landed cost. Savings opportunities identified for a single location were $1.2 million for conversion cost and 0.8 million for MIP.• Lead, define, and develop continuous improvement glide paths to drive results. Improved safety lost time accident rate from 1 in 4 months to greater than 2 years, increased plant OEE 4.3% in 6 months, increase plant throughput from 3.1 to 3.8MM gallons milk per month while maintaining quality and compliance with FSMA.• Managed refrigerated warehouses with a staff of 28 union employees and a distribution company with 68 employees to provide perishable dairy products throughout the Midwest region of the country.

Managed the Quality Assurance and Quality Control Departments. Particle Dynamics International provides microencapsulated particles of drug and dietary supplements as well as finished oral dose prescription prenatal products. The company supplies markets in the United States and Europe.

Managed activities for the technology transfer of products from R&D to commercialization in a FDA cGMP Pharmaceutical regulated environment.

• Developed and implemented the six sigma master deployment plan.• Lead team effort to assure smooth transition of cascading objectives to corporate goals and vision.• Utilized Change Management to create acceptance and buy-in for improvements to meet project objectives, and maximize return on investment.• Identified and successfully executed lean six sigma projects using (DMAIC). Saved $446,000 on manufacturing process improvements while reducing product cycle time 14 days.Identified and removed waste activities using Value Stream Mapping. 38% of the total tasks were identified as non-value added, resulting in an 84% increase in productivity.• Mentored and coached 6 Black Belts to achieve their certification and continued mentoring with project execution.

• Successfully executed lean six sigma projects.• Lead investigations for laboratory Out of Specification results, and other performance indicators.