Plant Manager - 8 Direct Reports, +300 Employees, 24x5 Operation, Multi-Facility Responsibility, +$33MM P&L Responsibility- Led site through financial transformation by utilizing organizational restructuring and implementation of cost center management, resulting in a P&L turnaround of $600k per month after having lost $500k per month in prior years, making it the most profitable in the 50 year history of the site.- Led the implementation of lean sigma and manufacturing… Show more Plant Manager - 8 Direct Reports, +300 Employees, 24x5 Operation, Multi-Facility Responsibility, +$33MM P&L Responsibility- Led site through financial transformation by utilizing organizational restructuring and implementation of cost center management, resulting in a P&L turnaround of $600k per month after having lost $500k per month in prior years, making it the most profitable in the 50 year history of the site.- Led the implementation of lean sigma and manufacturing fundamentals to improve on-time customers orders from 83.2% to 99.6% in 6 months, reduced scrap from 19.0% to 9.5%, and increased utilization equipment effectiveness (UEE) from 29.5% to 51.3%. - Assessed and developed internal top talent to create a winning leadership team who were pivotal to the site transformation and creating a culture shift in the facility of accountability and teamwork.- Led all aspects of site closure including employee communications, customer transition support, supplier notification, and operational transfer to sister sites in Mexico and Honduras. Achieved service of +99% throughout closure process, maintained 99% retention rate of employees, and 0 recordable injuries throughout the year-long transition process. Show less

Plant Manager - 6 Direct Reports, 115 Employees, 24x7 Operation, Research & Development Center, +$31MM P&L Responsibility- Led emerging technology, Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID), facility to achieve $20MM EBIT turnaround year over year, resulting in receiving the “Top Performing Avery Dennison Division Award”- Provided critical leadership to a high growth business during its tipping point where we sold 2 billion RFID inlays within 1 year after taking 11 years to sell the… Show more Plant Manager - 6 Direct Reports, 115 Employees, 24x7 Operation, Research & Development Center, +$31MM P&L Responsibility- Led emerging technology, Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID), facility to achieve $20MM EBIT turnaround year over year, resulting in receiving the “Top Performing Avery Dennison Division Award”- Provided critical leadership to a high growth business during its tipping point where we sold 2 billion RFID inlays within 1 year after taking 11 years to sell the first 1 billion inlays.- Led the implementation of lean sigma and manufacturing fundamentals to improve on-time customers orders from 70% to +98% in 4 months and reduced scrap from 8.0% to 2.3%, resulting in $1.5MM in annual savings.- Reduced net inventory by 42% ($5.2MM) through optimized production planning, increased productivity, and negotiated consignment inventories with key suppliers. Show less

Global Enterprise Lean Sigma Manager - 1 Direct Report- Worked with US and Latin American plants to implement and sustain ELS/Manufacturing fundamentals around metrics, process standardization, 5S / visual controls, and MDI within their operations.- Led the implementation of RBIS’s Global Operational Metrics for RFID in Clinton, Juarez, and Panyu in order to start the integration of RFID into the RBIS division.- Supported the Next Generation Digital Finishing initiative… Show more Global Enterprise Lean Sigma Manager - 1 Direct Report- Worked with US and Latin American plants to implement and sustain ELS/Manufacturing fundamentals around metrics, process standardization, 5S / visual controls, and MDI within their operations.- Led the implementation of RBIS’s Global Operational Metrics for RFID in Clinton, Juarez, and Panyu in order to start the integration of RFID into the RBIS division.- Supported the Next Generation Digital Finishing initiative by providing ELS guidance through leading the value stream mapping of Digital’s current finishing processes and facilitating effective application of lean and system thinking for development of pilot and future state design.- Managed the development of RBIS’s Global Operations Metrics system, APEX- Led the development of QlikView, an executive level dashboard system, eliminating several manual reports at a site, regional, and global level. Show less

Global Organizational Leadership Development (GOLD) Associate – Global Project Engineer-Created and designed a robust data collection system for reporting and rolling up key operational metrics at the site, region, and global levels for monthly review by the RBIS Leadership Team. Implemented and trained 48 sites across 3 business units in 31 different countries in 5 months.- Trained colleagues in 13 sites across China and the US on the operational metrics system for… Show more Global Organizational Leadership Development (GOLD) Associate – Global Project Engineer-Created and designed a robust data collection system for reporting and rolling up key operational metrics at the site, region, and global levels for monthly review by the RBIS Leadership Team. Implemented and trained 48 sites across 3 business units in 31 different countries in 5 months.- Trained colleagues in 13 sites across China and the US on the operational metrics system for RBIS.- Led the transition of the RBIS metrics system from Microsoft SharePoint to APEX, a web-based ORACLE interface. - Developed and managed a global audit system increasing good data integrity from 19% to 97% in 2 months.- Led a kaizen to close gaps that existed between Business Intelligence and 25 sites on reporting service metrics. This event addressed the impact of transitioning the RBIS organization from measuring Reliability to Flexibility for service.- Led a cross-functional team to link the Global Capacity Model, Ops Metrics, and 2nd-Level Metrics into one system. Show less

Global Organizational Leadership Development (GOLD) Associate – Buyer/Planner- Managed 17 vendors while purchasing all the raw materials for the binders business with an annual spend of $30MM.- Achieved our service goal of 97.5% and inventory goal of $4.4MM by using a pull system for Planning and a kanban system for Purchasing.- Created and implemented a sustainable MDI process for both planning and purchasing by selecting key metrics to measure team performance as well… Show more Global Organizational Leadership Development (GOLD) Associate – Buyer/Planner- Managed 17 vendors while purchasing all the raw materials for the binders business with an annual spend of $30MM.- Achieved our service goal of 97.5% and inventory goal of $4.4MM by using a pull system for Planning and a kanban system for Purchasing.- Created and implemented a sustainable MDI process for both planning and purchasing by selecting key metrics to measure team performance as well as bridge the communication gap between both departments.- Led a project team that increased OEE in the sonic cells from 53% to 66% by reducing board feeder failures by 70%. Our team placed 1st out of 15 teams in the annual plant-wide “Re-Think Everything” competition.- Led a cross-functional PDCA team that reduced receiving errors by 87% and eliminated 184 hours of wasted labor annually. As a team we created a sustainable receiving process that continues to prevent an average of 54 receiving errors per month. Show less