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Providing specialized business or individual consulting in the areas of business process improvement, supply chain, manufacturing optimization, LEAN, mergers, acquisition integration and strategy development. Diverse experience across a variety of businesses, markets and manufacturing processes. Past responsibilities included, continuous and discrete manufacturing, industrial markets and big box retailers, ecommerce. Expertise in leveraging IT capabilities within ERP systems to advance business objectives within the supply chain from customer orders to production planning and logistics.Utilize systems and data analytics to drive systems thinking and results oriented process improvements. Facilitate development of the structure, strategies, cascading objectives, and business processes required to make a step change in business development and business performance.

Responsible for manufacturing, supply planning and distribution operations for the Commercial Business Unit

Develop business process that enable new acquisitions to grow through the established sales and distribution channels of the Timken Company. Develop and implement IT solutions appropirate for the new acquisitions leveraging the SAP enviorment within Timken. Implement supply chain processes to grow sales through OE and AM channels

Develop low cost / high customer service supply chains to support North American sales. Leverage new manufacturing technologies and low cost Asian supply chains

Global Project to improve Heat Treat Processes. Responsible for the development of new process introduction - New Capabilities in China, New Capabilities at the Global Technology Center, New Furnace in Poland, total Project Asset Spending - $20M

Drove the Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning for the global business, responsible for global customer service and logistics. Responsible for $2B in sales and $600M inventory

Lead the manufacturing team on design and implementation of SAP

Canton, Ohio Area

Responsible for leading 9 manufacturing facilities, US, Canada, Brazil, France, Poland, and China. These facilities were Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers.

Responsible for the technology advancement of the manufacturing operations and the capital budget $80M

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma