John J Black Email & Phone Number

Summertown, Tn, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

Global experience working with teams in Asia & Europe. Caterpillar 6-Sigma Black Belt embedded in the Advanced Planning (AP) Group for ACM. Serve as the Team Lead with responsibilities for defining lowest cost flexible assembly system processes to match operational capacity to customer demand. Recent highlights include: Trained European engineers in methodologies for right-sizing the number of operators, resulting in a significant reduction in required workforce. Project lead for a major portion of a restructuring project worth $60M NPV & $350M OPACC positive; developed new assembly line concepts to greatly improve the process. Self-taught VBA programming language, designed and built software to accurately balance underperforming assembly lines resulting in a significant ($1.8M over 3 yrs) cost reduction. Developed an AP travel recording tool for executive management; greatly reduced travel recording errors. Served as a SME on data analytics for line optimization and dashboard projects.

Irving, Texas, Us

Spent a good portion of 2012 setting up a new plant in Wuxi China to assemble medium wheel loader transmissions. The project involved all aspects of defining tooling and equipment, attaining tooling, setup, training and pilots of each of the particular transmission arrangements.

Responsible for reducing internal costs for legal operations and call centers.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Program Manager between the Scholarship Awarding Group and the Computer & Information Technology Groups. Project entailed taking a manual awarding process and developing software and workflows, removing wasteful practices, creating computer simulation models of the before and after processes, analyzing best practices against benchmarking data, developing the business requirements documentation and following the project through software development, testing and implementation.Side projects included process mapping and computer simulation development for both Under-graduate & Graduate Admission process optimization.

Consulting firm focused on driving continuous improvement in business, engineering and manufacturing.• Lean, six sigma, statistical analysis, process & value stream mapping, simulation and reliability modeling projects for defense, machine tool, automotive, and engineering companies.

Global consulting firm targeting lean training, engineering and management services.• Managed client engagements to implement lean enterprise integration and process management.• Authored training materials and other supporting documentation.

Rochester Hills, Mi, Us

Top-ranking automotive containerization, logistics, supply chain and material flow company.• Leveraged lean methodologies to reengineer and consolidate internal processes and attain ISO9000• Established and trained personnel on material flow analysis processes within regular operations.

One of the world’s largest machine tool manufactures & system integrators. (now part of Mag-Powertrain.)• R&D Industrial engineering specialist, training, and new software development and evaluation.• Achieved recognition in the Oxford Journal of System Safety and Reliability by playing an integral role in the development of an industry-landmark computer reliability modeling tool.• Developed an enterprise-wide process map that clearly outlined business processes, weaknesses, and waste in support of global workforce integration. • Drove diverse continuous improvement initiatives across internationally distributed manufacturing plants.

Journeyman toolmaker & machinistINDUSTRIES• Defense – General Dynamics Tank Arsenal• Machine tool building including: metal cutting, assembly and balance equipment• Plastic rim & injection molding

Msie, Industrial Engineering

Mlssbb, Master Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt

Bset, Engineering Technology

Aas, Special Machine Design