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Lexington, SC, US

Lexington, South Carolina, United States

We drive company efficiency through a disciplined yet agile approach. Increasing productivity, capacity, predictability, and customer loyalty via a proven operating system. Decreasing costs and worker dissatisfaction. We will fix your pain points.

Lisle, Illinois, United States

• Corporate Lead for digital transformation of global manufacturing operations including the establishment of Molex Operating System, Siemens OpCenter MES, Global QMS, DMS, and training for 26 global sites.
• Established “One Molex of the future”, the most complicated and largest initiative in Molex history.
• Deployed to 26 largest global sites, across all 4 divisions, during the pandemic.
• Designed, developed, and deployed 8 capabilities with over 300 design decisions creating the foundation to build upon for advanced capabilities connecting Product Development, Ops, Employee and Customer Experience.

San Jose, California, United States

• Oversaw significant strategic and tactical global projects for Communications and Enterprise Computing segment, the largest business unit for Flex ($10B), and focused energies on developing new business and onboarding.
• Led highly successful operational launches of Google phones, resulting in substantial operational efficiencies that increased production from 12K to 300K/day within an 3 month time period.
• Assumed leadership for a stalled Apple MacPro workstations production development project which, after 18 months remained unsuccessful. Identified and remediated key issues within 4 months leading to an Apple.
• Conducted extensive analysis of 3-year global business development plan, including performing a gap analysis ensuring operational capabilities could support future needs.
• Implemented the use of detailed P&L and activity-based costing models to better characterize expected P&L for all accounts and determined the need to increase OP at the account and site level for better fiscal.

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Expertly led all Nephron operations, including facilitating plant expansions and managing production and overhead costs to support financial targets.
• Slashed BFS equipment changeover time in half in 2 quarters and delivered record output and utilization by developing innovative new product strategies.
• Decreased secondary packaging equipment changeover time for vials by 80+% in just 2 quarters, leading to groundbreaking output levels during peak flu season.
• Saved $2M in CapEx by conducting thorough needs analysis and capably leading all vendor negotiations.

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

• Recruited by COO of Amazon to launch and manage new 1.2M sq. ft. fulfillment center, overseeing all operational functions.
• Successfully ramped up operations 5 months after breaking ground and reached 1.3M weekly shipped packages 2 months later.
• Oversaw recruitment and training of 1K+ staff of all levels to deliver productive 24/7 operations.

Walworth, Wisconsin, United States

Member of General Board as well as Compensation Committee. Focused on transitioning the company from a family run business to an outside professional executive staff. Successfully transitioned through the difficult automotive economic downturn in 2008-2009. Needed to resign from the board due to compliance with Amazon’s executive policies.

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

• Flextronics acquired Solectron in October 2007, gaining a business unit capable of producing $10B+ annually. Promoted from General Manager to VP role to lead Columbia operations.
• Grew revenue from $500M to $800M annual run rate by capturing business from 4 new customers.
• Overcame challenging economic environment to expand profit by focusing on ROIC maximization.
• Positioned site for successful launch in medical and automotive sector of economy.Guided all manufacturing and business operations for Columbia plant.
• Challenged and changed culture to one of growth through quality excellence, growing profits to record levels.
• Led plant to win ranking of Best Top Ten Plants in all of North America by Industry Week.

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Managed GE-Healthcare DFM Strategy
• Developed Business DFM Methodology and Metrics
• Implementing DFM on Premium New Product Programs for CT and MR businesses
• 10x improvement in Reliability
• 30% reduction in installation time
• 50% increase in First Pass Yield

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Managed Lean for GEMS $800M Global Supply Chain.
• Received “Top Plant” Lean training in Japan by Shingijitsu/Toyota executives
• Developed GEMS Lean strategy for GSC
• Achieved $70M in inventory reduction…featured in Fortune magazine article
• Moved 95% of eligible parts to Lean Methodology (Supermarkets, Kits, Returnable Containers) in China, US, Mexico, France, Japan, and India operations
• Helped change culture at all GEMS facilities to embrace Lean methodology…drove Global Production weekly linearity from 77% to 94%

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Lead the CT Operations to record financial performance and the fastest New Product ramp in GEMS history
• Launched GEMS’s premium product H2 3-times faster than previous record NPI ramp, enabling the Global CT business to reach $1B in sales for the first time.
• Decreased System Trouble-shooting time from 67 to < 1.6 hours/systems. Team won Six Sigma project of the year for GEMS
• Record Operational output (52%V), while simultaneously beating Base Cost and Variable Cost targets.
• Delivered $2.9M in Conversion Cost Productivity (150% of goal)
• Drove Lean into fabric of CT business, including 10K and 100K clean room operations. Achieving increased production flexibility, inventory control, reduced OT Costs, and not a single incomplete system shipment the last.

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Leveraged Business acumen, Customer knowledge and process improvement excellence to grow Business Solutions into larger strategic Healthcare Solutions growth engine for GEMS.
• Received US Patient 6,401,055 for Method and System of Measuring and Quantifying Inefficiencies in a Healthcare Facility
• Member of executive staff that grew Solutions business from inception to $35M in 2 ½ years, 4 to 190 employees, and over 800 customer projects
• Expanded business scope from Radiology into growth areas of Mammography and Cardiology

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Used Six Sigma experiences to start and build Business Solutions unit of GEMS for Sales and Service.
• Taught CAP, Workout, and Six Sigma to GEMS external customers
• Developed short and long-term business strategy for and with Hospital executives and physicians by incorporating GE CAP, Workout, and Six Sigma tool set with customer focus.
• Realized outstanding improvements in customer’s key business metrics including Costs, 60% improvement to exam report cycle time, patient satisfaction, 80% reduction in medical exam order errors, and 30% increased.

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• First Black Belt with GE to be promoted to Master Black Belt.
• Leader in designing Six Sigma training material for GEMS and GE
• Hand chosen to train Jeff Immelt (CEO of GE) in Six Sigma methodology, in addition to training most of GEMS corporate officers, senior executives, and over 600 GEMS employees

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Picked by Company to be in the very first wave of Six Sigma Black Belts within all of GE.
• Chosen by Jeff Immelt to received 1996 Quality Leader Award for GEMS
• Projects consistently chosen as company Best Practices, eliminating defects by 85+%, costs by $100K-$1M.
• Strategized Six Sigma application with GE Leaders including Jack Welch and Gary Reiner
• Received first Six Sigma Black Belt certification within GE.

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Responsible for managing Quality Programs for CT business.
• Optimized resources to drive strategy with new product development, installed base, current production and supplier base.
• Lead the implementation of internal and external quality systems/measurements for business in a drive towards continuous improvement…dropped Gantry DPU by 63%, closed 375 quality issues, increased capacity by 50% w/o.

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Leader of technical support for the Gantry production line in the CT business. Team was in April 1995 Fortune magazine feature on state-of-the-art manufacturing teams in US.
• Designed supplier selection and development process identified by CEO as business’ best practice.
• Lead cost reduction projects, with engineering and marketing, resulting in $2MM saved in two years.
• Managed all manufacturing product, process issues for entire Gantry line, this line is the main production line for G.E. Medical Systems’ $1.6MM HiSpeed CT System.
• Project leader of key redesign efforts for gantry (60+ design issues), leading to record production output.

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Managed 35 union assemblers in eight different production areas for the $350MM Computer Tomography business.
• Responsible for payroll, personal training and coaching, facilitation of daily production meetings, and resource allocation.
• Set up DFT in all areas and met all 1992 production goals.
• Lead XC return program. This program saved the CT business $1,250,000 in direct inventory costs.

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Responsible for quality control for GEMS machining, stamping, and fabrication supplier base.
• Performed numerous formal supplier audits and audits of specific processes.
• Controlled quality measurements, SPC training, and certification of supplier base.
• Developed programs to expand GMP, including design producability reviews.

Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

• Responsible for ordering and scheduling $11MM worth of piece part inventory for production needs of all modalitites.
• Developed inventory levels and order parameters to support JIT delivery.
• Worked to improve supplier’s processes, which lead to reduced production bottlenecks.

Master Of Science - Ms, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: In process, all course work complete.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering, Honors