Jim Walter Email & Phone Number

United States

National Grid is building a new team, Digital Acceleration (DA), to provide best-in-class digital delivery. The Digital Business Director role requires an analytical mindset with the ability to challenge the status quo, rethink current ways of working to create new value and communicate and influence at all levels.

Syracuse, New York Area

Responsible for creating a high performance organization within Customer Meter Service. Interfacing with the functions and jurisdictions in the US business for National Grid to develop efficient and effective processes, through the design and ownership of CMS related continuous improvement, budgets, and performance management.

Syracuse, NY

Coaching and Facilitating teams to deliver projects across areas in Supply ChainOrganizing and Facilitating Workshops to define issues and develop solutionsManage medium to large programs to deliveryDevelopment and implementation of the Supply Chain Performance Excellence Strategy

Expert in Lean Enterprise techniques, specializing in Kaizen, 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Cellular Workflow, Strategic Planning, etc.

Lecturer of Management and Marketing

North America

Drive initiatives in Operational Excellence for all North American locations. Focus on expansion of tools such as Project Management, Visual Controls, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, 5 Why and Root Cause Analysis, etc.

Cortland, NY

Full P&L responsibility for division specializing in consumer and industrial product testing for the HVAC, Renewables and Lighting products. Includes Warehouse management for full Supply Chain responsibility.

Full P&L responsibility for Cortland, NY based Manufacturing operation. Manufacture and assemble wide array of sport fishing and fly fishing products. Manage entire value stream of overseas and domestic suppliers as well as customers in mass merchant, private label and Cortland branded sectors.

Retail Furniture store with custom home furnishings

• Managed Design and Applications Engineers in the design of Fire Rescue vehicles and apparatus. Manager for Sales Administration team that developed and coordinated customer contracts for the build of Rescue vehicles..
• Reduced the Engineering backlog from (20) vehicles to (1) in 9 months
• Drove the reorganization of the Engineering and Sales Administration group which resulted in improved OnTime release of Engineering print packages to Manufacturing from 65% to 91% over a period of 9 months
• Facilitated the reduction of Engineering driven warranty expense by 31% through shop floor training and increased print package detail.

• Production Control Manager – Printing Systems Division (Apr‘98 – Oct ‘00)
• Improved the OnTime delivery of Spare Parts from 68% to 95% in less than (1) year
• Reduced the Spare Parts backlog to the field customer from $380K to <$20K through increased focus and objective settingStaff Engineer / Scientist - Printing Systems Company (Feb.‘96 – Apr.‘98)
• Work with Marketing to establish products for meeting customer requirements
• Liaison between manufacturing and design in managing High End printer production in Endicott plant

• Multinational Asset Recycle Engineer - Asset Recycle Management (Jan.‘94 – Feb. ‘96)
• Lead team in developing remanufacturing and recycling processes for previously landfilled assets, resulting in $7.1 million per year savingsProject Manager - Components Manufacturing Operations (Jan. ‘93 - Sept. ‘93)
• Instructor for 100 plus employees in plant wide rollout of leadership effectiveness program
• Lead Quality Improvement Team in material logistics initiative which saved over $1.0 million as direct report to the Plant Materials ManagerManufacturing Engineer - Components Manufacturing Operations (June ‘92 - Jan..
• Successful layout implementation and start-up of a $3 million panel production line Manufacturing Supervisor - Components Manufacturing Operations (May ‘91 - June ‘92)
• Increased Productivity of Welding group 20% in (8) months through Business Area Work Group (BAWG) meetings and goal setting.

Mba, Management

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Ba, Economics