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Belews Creek, NC, US

Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

Lead Smurfit Westrock label production facility in lean manufacturing, waste reduction, and process improvements to boost productivity, cost savings, maintain or improve safety and improve job satisfaction.Same plant and same job as before but new corporate entity and modified position title.

Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

Lead performance improvement and cost savings projects for label printing using tools like Lean and Six Sigma for the Pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.

Lexington, North Carolina, United States

Lexington, NC

• Quality Manager
• Leader of 1 salaried Supervisor and 10 hourly Quality Technicians
• Lead for problem-solving activities at Lexington, NC facility
• Manage Customer and 3rd Party Audits
• Administrator for Q-Pulse QMS Management SoftwareMajor Achievements
• Reduced Cost of Quality metric from 1.7% of COGS in March 2018 down to a steady 0.44% in July 2020.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Lead 3 Supplier Quality Engineers in the Electronics and Electromechanical Commodities
• Support Purchasing and Operations in Supplier Evaluations, Supplier Selection and Part Qualification activities.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Responsible for Cable and PCA suppliers for Gilbarco Manufacturing in Greensboro, NC
• Taken responsibility for Detention processes within the Greensboro Manufacturing FacilityCurrent Projects
• Creating processes for eliminating wait time and improving inventory control throughout the floor rejection process
• Leading project for moving Detention area from current location to caged location to improve security, have Detention at Point-of-Use for the Encore line which accounts for over 70% of the rejections in Detention
• Creating methods of collecting better data for analysis of supplier rejects of electronic components by having Board Repair personnel perform diagnostics on failed boards before returning them to suppliers
• Teaching PPAP methodologies (PFMEA, Control Plans, Gage R&R, etc.) to suppliers to improve qualification submissions

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Contracted by Aerotek to fill in for another departing contractor. Contract 2 months in length. Contract completed successfully.

Cary, IL

Leading one salaried manager and 9 hourly inspectors in incoming inspection and mold audit/first article activities. Responsible for measuring and maintaining supplier quality for all Cary Campus vendors. Creating supplier risk assessment and supplier development programs to be used at Aptar NA sites. Performing supplier risk assessments for becoming an.

Des Plaines, IL

Manage the Schneider Electric Supplier Quality Management program for Juno Lighting. Manage 8 salary non-exempt QC Technicians for incoming inspection, tooling and first article inspections. Manage the Six Sigma program for Juno Lighting.

Des Plaines, IL

• Perform risk assessments of internationally-located raw materials and finished goods suppliers
• Initiate, evaluate and control all supplier corrective action requests
• Use Six Sigma skills for internal transactional projects
• Create and maintain all department ISO documentation globally
• Monitor and report supplier performance to on-time delivery, quality and responsiveness metricsMajor Achievements
• Created and managed Supplier Workplace project, an online tool for suppliers to view Littelfuse data from SAP to include performance metrics, order acknowledgement, view and request modifications to raw material lead.

Northbrook, IL

• Design and implement process improvement changes using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma principles for the Household Products Value Stream.
• Teach Lean principles to salaried and hourly employees.
• Work closely with Quality Department to plan and implement corrective actions from customers.

Geneva, IL

• Manager of 19 hourly personnel in Final Inspection area and the Plant 1 Metallurgical Laboratory over 3 shifts.
• Led special teams towards achievement of Plant 1 Strategic goals using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Methodologies.Major Achievements
• Successfully led and sustained 5-S initiative to Final Inspection work area that improved product flow through to our internal and external customers.
• Successfully led and instructed teams never before exposed to the Six Sigma process.

Wichita, KS

• Identified and worked Six Sigma projects.
• Taught Malcolm Baldrige, Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise techniques to suppliers to improve performance and financial health.
• Implemented Value Engineering program for Commodity Team, saving $340K (YTD Oct 2002). Major Achievements
• Identified and worked a Six Sigma project, coordinating Cessna Tooling Engineering, an equipment vendor and a machining supplier, for potential cost savings of $500K - $1M annually.
• Developed Lean Manufacturing implementation training material to be given to 70 aerospace machining, sheet metal, and composite detail suppliers.
• Implementation of Value Engineering program for Fabricated Components netted $340K in hard cost savings, 81% of total savings over six Commodity Teams.

Skokie, IL

• Transformed a Unionized traditional manufacturing business with poor customer satisfaction to a more customer-oriented and less wasteful enterprise.
• Implemented a supermarket pull system for fulfilling customer orders, increasing on-time delivery and overall customer satisfaction. Major Achievements
• Led seven kaizen events with management and union personnel resulting in reclamation of around 2000 sq. ft. of manufacturing floor space and reduced the number of necessary personnel from 12 to 4.

East Chicago, IN

Supervised 30 union laborers in 80" Hot Strip Logistics.Daily Resource Planning for #3 Cold Strip.

Fort Hood, TX

• Attained rank of SGT/E-5
• 64th MP Co, 720th MP BN, 89th MP BDE (Active)
• 410th MP Co, 720th MP BN, 89th MP BDE (Active)
• 399th MP Det (CID) (Reserve)
• 814th MP Co, 327th MP BN (Reserve)
• Led U.S. Army peacekeeping patrols in hostile areas of Bosnia/Herzegovina over 9 months without a single civilian or military casualty.

Master Of Science, Manufacturing Engineering Systems

Activities and Societies: WIU Veterans Club/Peach Blossoms Graduated Summa cum Laude

Bachelor Of Science, Law Enforcement Administration

Activities and Societies: WIU ROTC program, Color Guard Commander Graduated Cum Laude